Truth hurt doesn't it...deal with it. The fact is the FISA is not doing your job protecting the American people and cannot be trusted.
Posted on 06/30/2013 6:38:57 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Recent leaks of classified documents have pointed to the role of a special court in enabling the government’s secret surveillance programs, but members of the court are chafing at the suggestion that they were collaborating with the executive branch.
A classified 2009 draft report by the National Security Agency’s inspector general relayed some details about the interaction between the court’s judges and the NSA, which sought approval for the Bush administration’s top-secret domestic surveillance programs. The report was described in The Washington Post on June 16 and released in full Thursday by The Post and the British newspaper the Guardian.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the former chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, took the highly unusual step Friday of voicing open frustration at the account in the report and court’s inability to explain its decisions.
“In my view, that draft report contains major omissions, and some inaccuracies, regarding the actions I took as Presiding Judge of the FISC and my interactions with Executive Branch officials,” Kollar-Kotelly said in a statement to The Post. It was her first public comment describing her work on the intelligence court.
The inspector general’s draft report is among the many documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, touching off a roiling national debate about the proper balance between the government’s reach into Americans’ lives and the effort to protect the nation in the Internet age.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Throw a rock into a pack of dogs.....
H/T to the Drudge Report.
“Hey sheeple, that stuff you know nothing about - and the heavily redacted and still top secret report about it, they got it wrong, that’s not the way it works and you should just trust me on that.”
The two faces of government is nothing new move along.
Kellar-Kotelly gets her panties in a bunch because she is seen as collaborating with government and then where does she go? The Washington Post, who ISN'T ever seen as a collaborator of another sort, is it?
The truth is that she and the rest of her ilk are just rubber-stamps for dubious requests by privacy-invading government officials who are averse to doing their job the right way.
A judge who never rejects a government request is not “judicial review” but a rubber stamp of approval.
And they’re not collaborating?
Boohoo.
A: "Your Honor."
Q: What do you call a judge who failed on the bench?
A: "Congressman"
“U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.”
She is 70 years old and a Bill Clinton appointee. No way can she figure fact from fiction in an NSA snow job. Why they need a FISA court order from her to surveil millions of Americans. She looks like a rubber stamp to me
This is clearly a June 2013 article but I found no date....perhaps it was not published in the paper that some of the public sees.
They don’t like it because their rubberstamp operation and whole body of top secret case law has now been exposed.
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PAPER: NSA has secret data collection agreement with European countries...
EU demands explanation...
Germany compares to 'Cold War'...
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The lat link is also to a Washington Post article that seems not to be available now....
If they just approve, they are adding no value. If on the other hand, like a building inspector, they identify defects that are corrected and then approve - that might add value. Until they tell us more we only have the approval rate to go on.
Truth hurt doesn't it...deal with it. The fact is the FISA is not doing your job protecting the American people and cannot be trusted.
The judges who preside over America's secret court
For secretive surveillance court, rare scrutiny in wake of NSA leaks
Yeah, that's real legal oversight all right.
It was published yesterday, June 29. Be sure to get a screenshot in case it disappears too.
“Collaborating” - that’s a good word. It comes freighted with a lot of historical perspective that helps one know what to do with the “collaborators”. We should use it more.
Even if you assume (big assumption) that the FISA court orders the NSA to comply with certain safeguards, the court is then dependent upon the NSA to self-report whether those safeguards are in place and followed.
Court: “You won’t snoop around things you shouldn’t, right?”
NSA: “Of course not and we’ll tell you if we do.” (Hiding smirk)
Court: “OK, Approved.”
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