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It's too bad the president led people to expect fireworks in a speech that was far from un-serious

Down With Tyranny - 2014-01-18 - Original post - Cached copy

by KenHere's what I think about the president's speech: I don't know why he made such a big production about it. That set it up fora big whuppin', and decreased the amount of attention likely to be paid to what he actually said. The people who thought he's "soft on security" will still think so.

The FISA court, our supposed guardian against abuse of national-security surveillance, sez "Who, us?"

Down With Tyranny - 2013-08-18 - Original post - Cached copy

Judge Walton says: "The FISC is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is provided to the Court. The FISC does not have the capacity to investigate issues of noncompliance."by KenYou want a good laugh?You know the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the one created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to issue surveillance warrants in cases too secret to go through normal court channels?

Chief Justice Roberts does everything he can to see that the FISA court remains a trusty tool of the national-security state

Down With Tyranny - 2013-07-30 - Original post - Cached copy

So you think you have a right to know something, anything, about the workings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court? Maybe we need to, um, discuss this at greater length in, you know, secret."[The members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] all seem to have some type of a pretty conservative bent, I don't think that is what the Congress envisioned when giving the chief justice that authority.

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