by Derrick Broze
On Wednesday the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion with the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court asking the court to release 23 legal opinions related to the U.S. government’s classified interpretation of surveillance law.
The ACLU partnered with Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic for a motion calling on the FISC to release all opinions that contain “novel or significant interpretations” of law issued between 9/11 and the passage of the USA Freedom Act in June 2015. The FISC court, also known as the FISA court, was created as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to approve warrants against spies. However, since the 9/11 attacks the U.S. government has used the court to secretly interpret surveillance law for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This allows the police and government bureaucracies to operate in the shadows when monitoring the clueless public.
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