If the government employed Superman, Flash, or someone else capable of superhuman speed, to secretly search through your “papers” in the blink of an eye, has your Fourth Amendment right to be secure against unreasonable searches been violated?
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Unlike most court proceedings, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) only hears one side — the government’s side — of any case. The public almost never learns about the rulings from the “secret” FISA court.
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U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the former chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, was so frustrated with the way she has been portrayed as wielding a rubber stamp of approval for the NSA’s dragnet surveillance, that she made public statements to the Washington Post.
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On Friday, a federal judge in the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that gag orders accompanying National Security Letters are unconstitutional!
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