Anonymous ID: 12b5bb May 29, 2018, 8:33 p.m. No.1583481   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, it included a system for bypassing state secrets claims. FISA's section 1806(f) allows a presiding judge to consider secret evidence and determine whether or not it is legal โ€” without making that evidence public. If practical, the judge could allow the defendant's counsel to participate in arguments

Anonymous ID: 12b5bb May 29, 2018, 8:36 p.m. No.1583507   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3556

But when Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, it included a system for bypassing state secrets claims. FISA's section 1806(f) allows a presiding judge to consider secret evidence and determine whether or not it is legal โ€” without making that evidence public. If practical, the judge could allow the defendant's counsel to participate in arguments, though Tien notes this rarely happens. "The point is that under the FISA procedure, the government has to submit documents that the judge can consider." Without the FISA option, the EFF notes, "the government could potentially violate the law and Constitution as it sees fit, andโ€”just by stamping 'STATE SECRET' on the top of their actionsโ€”those injured by their actions would be denied justice." In many cases, it's done essentially that.

 

The court's decision doesn't mean that the next step is judicial review of the evidence of NSA wiretaps in San Francisco. The government can challenge it, for example. And both sides will return to court in August to answer questions posed by the judge.

One of which is how the government wants to proceed. Following the Edward Snowden leaks, after all, it's in an awkward position. "Every time there's a new leak," Tien said, "the world changes as far as the level of secrecy around a particular thing, and there are all these ripple effects." When evidence of PRISM was revealed, for example, the government had to assess if it would acknowledge details of the leak, which other components of its electronic surveillance was at risk, and so on. "Even though something is out, they haven't figured out what they have to say โ€” what the logically have to say, what they politically want to say."

Which is one of the reasons that yesterday's legal determination that the NSA's surveillance processes can't rely on state secrets claims probably won't itself have immediate, broader legal implications.

Anonymous ID: 12b5bb May 29, 2018, 8:46 p.m. No.1583630   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Oh shit, its about to get good!

 

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

 

Proceedings before the FISA court are ex parte and non-adversarial. The court hears evidence presented solely by the Department of Justice. There is no provision for a release of information regarding such hearings, or for the record of information actually collected. The USA Freedom Act (Section 402), however, requires the government to declassify and publicly release "to the greatest extent practicable" each order, decision and opinion of the court if it contains a "significant construction or interpretation of law."

Anonymous ID: 12b5bb May 29, 2018, 9:38 p.m. No.1584079   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4088

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Cohen is loyal to Trump. IDK about Stormy but she seems like mostly a distraction for the MSM. I think we are exploiting the Cohen situation. They raided his office for 'info about paying Stormy', oh whoops what is all this other evidence sitting hereโ€ฆ.ah shit now we have to do something with it.