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The Secret FISA Court: Rubber Stamping Our Rights
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Feb 13, 2006 02:36pm |
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| News Date | Monday, November 27, 2000 08:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Seven judges on a secret court have authorized all but one of over 7,500 requests to spy in the name of National Security. They meet in secret, with no published orders, opinions, or public record. Those spied on May never know of the intrusion. Now, Clinton has expanded the powers to include not only electronic, but physical searches.
The aftershock of the Oklahoma City bombing sent Congress scurrying to trade off civil liberties for an illusion of public safety. A good ten weeks before that terrible attack, however with a barely noticed pen stroke President Bill Clinton virtually killed off the Fourth Amendment when he approved a law to expand the already extraordinary powers of the strangest creation in the history of the federal judiciary.
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