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In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. (almost a parallel Supreme Court)
nytimes ^

Posted on 07/06/2013 9:00:30 PM PDT by chessplayer

The 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, was once mostly focused on approving case-by-case wiretapping orders. But since major changes in legislation and greater judicial oversight of intelligence operations were instituted six years ago, it has quietly become ALMOST A PARALLEL SUPREME COURT, serving as the ultimate arbiter on surveillance issues and delivering opinions that will most likely shape intelligence practices for years to come, the officials said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; eschelon; fastandfurious; fisa; fisacourt; govtabuse; impeachnow; irs; nsa; projectechelon; rapeofliberty; scandals; starchamber; tyranny
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To: dynachrome
“Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court”

OK... the acronym doesn't fit the source description. Is there a reason ?

Is Moscow, do they have the same 'court' and do they call it the FISB ?

21 posted on 07/06/2013 9:45:51 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: UCANSEE2

N.S.A. = No Such Agency


22 posted on 07/06/2013 9:48:07 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Steely Tom

>> Remember how the Democrats in congress were constantly making an issue of the FISA court

An example of how Congress has the legal, financial, and political means to affect the outcome of the controversial activity.


23 posted on 07/06/2013 9:51:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: gotribe
I can’t imagine anyone dumb enough to think we need a FISA to fight terrorism.

Yeah, people can't be that stupid.


24 posted on 07/06/2013 9:52:41 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: dynachrome

FISA started in the 70’s I believe..


25 posted on 07/06/2013 9:53:35 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I don’t even know why anyone would serve in the military, anymore. Yeah, they swear an oath to defend the Constitution, but in reality they are defending a dictatorship.


26 posted on 07/06/2013 9:54:29 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Where does it say all that in the Constitution?


27 posted on 07/06/2013 9:54:30 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: dynachrome

Maybe even not so wee an understatement.


28 posted on 07/06/2013 9:57:04 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Orange1998

F.I.S.A = Federal Internet Screening Authority


29 posted on 07/06/2013 9:57:53 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: cardinal4

The younger dynachrome starte majoring in booze and other drugs about then.


30 posted on 07/06/2013 9:59:04 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: Standing Wolf

Hey, if it weren’t for this heroism, Bin Laden and his gang would be riding their camels down Constitution Avenue and we’d all be speaking Eye-Racki. Oh ... 9/11, 9/11, 9/11!

What are you, some kind of DU dope smoker? Or libertarian tinfoil hat in his Mom’s basement .... blah, blah ...

Giuliani in 2016!

/megasarc


31 posted on 07/06/2013 10:01:34 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: chessplayer

“I don’t even know why anyone would serve in the military, anymore.”

To learn as much as you can of course.


32 posted on 07/06/2013 10:06:58 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I catch hell from my friends for not condemning Snowden.


Those “patriots” would be all too happy to report you to the nearest commissar if we had them.


33 posted on 07/06/2013 10:07:09 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Ray76
Maybe we can have a secret court for each of the other Amendments in the Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech or religion? We’ve a secret court for that. Second Amendment? We’ve a secret court for that. All your rights have been revoked. Don’t like it? There’s a secret court for that.

OK.

How about a secret court court?

It would be a double secret court court comprised of commuting homeowners picked randomly off the street to serve 30 day terms determining which xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx and xxxxxxxx will be subject to xxxxxxxxxx leading to xxxxxx and xxxxxxxxxx with xx xxxxx xx xxxxxx.

(redacted for reasons of double secret court court national security)

.

34 posted on 07/06/2013 10:15:48 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

But but, they are catching terrorists, so it`s ok.

USA isn`t a Constitutional Republic anymore. Hasn`t been since Lincoln and certainly gone since FDR. It`s akin to a 3rd world banana State with reserve currency status. Once it loses reserve currency status, the Statist dystopia collapses.


35 posted on 07/06/2013 10:20:14 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Happily in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians.)
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To: dynachrome

I thought I knew about most of this stuff (well, that’s public), but I had never heard of that court until recently (like the last month or so).


36 posted on 07/06/2013 10:26:12 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: chessplayer

secret courts are g-d unconstitutional.

there is so much wrong with fedgov, it must all be stopped, and rebuilt fromthe ground up.


37 posted on 07/06/2013 10:37:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: sickoflibs
A secret court that rules in secret and only hears the government’s side.
This is why we are not a dictatorship. We have openness and accountability.

This made me laugh, though only to keep me from screaming in rage. Justice is important to me, see the tagline.

38 posted on 07/06/2013 11:17:02 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: chessplayer

And more and more they have to hide any Christian beliefs they have, and they have to be careful to not offend the sodomites.


39 posted on 07/06/2013 11:25:06 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Bumping that to the top!


40 posted on 07/06/2013 11:28:16 PM PDT by Ken H
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