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Secret U.S. court takes four months to release opinion permitting secret warrantless searches in the name of national security.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.)  One day when I appeared in the U.S. District Court in D.C. before a judge who also is on the FISA trial-level court, I was dying to ask the judge about that thirty-year-old court, but knew that at best my questions would receive no answers, whether or not with a glare.  This week, we got a further glimpse of the workings of the secret U.S. Foreign Intelligence court system, through the release of a redacted August 22, 2008, opinion from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, which acts as an appellate court over the trial level U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. This appellate case is so full of redactions that even its case title is redacted: In Re Directives [redacted text] Pursuant to Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).