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from the exempt-from-the-law-of-the-land dept.
TechDirt reports:
[...]the FISA Court has the reputation as a rubberstamp for a reason--it almost never turns down a request.
However, in the rare instances where it does, apparently, the DOJ doesn't really care, knowing that it can just issue [a National Security Letter] instead and get the same information. At least that appears to be what the DOJ quietly admitted to doing in a now declassified Inspector General's report from 2008(PDF). EFF lawyer Nate Cardozo was going through and spotted this troubling bit:
We considered the Section 215 request for [REDACTED] discussed earlier in this report at pages 33 to 34 to be a noteworthy item. In this case, the FISA Court had twice declined to approve a Section 215 application based on First Amendment Concerns. However, the FBI subsequently issued NSLs for information [REDACTED] even though the statute authorizing the NSLs contained the same First Amendment restriction as Section 215 and the ECs authorizing the NSLs relied on the same facts contained in the Section 215 applicants...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 01 2015, @12:52AM
If the page you have found contains the text Next page, that is a really shitty page to link to.
Find the link that says View as a single page and use THAT link. [alternet.org]
(It will contain the parameter paging=off.
Note also that page=0%2C1 and current_page=1 are just noise.)
N.B. Alternet's techies are idiots--and, though that site has gone through several sets of those, things, while they have *changed*, have NOT **improved** significantly.
It also doesn't hurt if you append #main-content to the link.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by dcollins on Thursday January 01 2015, @03:44AM
The one-page view was intentional, so as to draw attention to the section of comments from police chat sites.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 01 2015, @09:14AM
{Roseanne Roseannadanna voice}
Oh. Well, that's different. Never mind.
-- gewg_