Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

[Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government by Carol D. Leonnig, Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman]: "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..." Full text: Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government

Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "...Nobody advocates on the side of the people..."

The people are overrated (Ex 23:2, Lk 23:21).

Response to comment [from a Catholic]:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan