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Secrecy News: "FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On the Secrecy News blog: FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules, with many links to rules: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The proposed FISA Court rules (pdf) provide new procedures by which telecommunications companies can petition the Court to modify or dismiss a court order or a directive from the Attorney General or the DNI requiring them to assist in electronic surveillance, to provide “any tangible thing,” or to adhere to a nondisclosure requirement concerning intelligence surveillance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).