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[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On Friday, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court made public a heavily redacted April 2022 opinion

[PDF] https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/05/22/2021_fisc_opinion.pdf

What is in all those redactions? Specific cases and instances of FISA uses/abuses....but what else?

One can easily tell that it has many references to Laura K. Donohue 's submitted Wikimedia Foundation Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief, which accuse the US government of abusing its security privilege laws to protect from being sued on several instances of abusing people's Constitutional Rights for decades. Her brief details a legal opinion that the government what purposely confusing two different legal precedence to protect its Constitutional abuses from review, gulling Judges to dismiss cases completely, when it only had the legal authority to prevent certain state secrets privileged evidence.

[PDF] https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-190/242125/20220929160726768_22-190%20Wikimedia%20Foundation%20v%20NSA%20Amicus%20Curiae%20Brief%20in%20Support%20of%20Petitioner.pdf

[–]smsfree 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

surprise to see this on reddit