http://www.scribd.com/doc/152378942/US-Opposes-ACLU-at-FISA-Court
Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing — Tech News and Analysis: " . . . The Obama administration, in a new court filing, urged the nation’s surveillance court to throw out a request by civil liberties groups to disclose its secret rulings about the scope and legality of the Patriot Act. In the filing, embedded below, the Justice Department quotes with approval the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s own view of its power, expressed in 2007, that “[t]he FISC is a unique court … [o]ther courts operate primarily in public, with secrecy the exception; the FISC operates primarily in secret, with public access the exception.”. . . "
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