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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, @06:45AM
Runaway is an unabashed racist and an authoritarian.
If the guy was even slightly brown and he's now dead, Runaway *knows* the guy was a criminal.
Your "evidence" changes nothing.
I'm proof that -some- overcome the influences of their upbringing. [metrolyrics.com]
Many simply never do.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 01 2015, @09:48AM
And, you are unabashedly ignorant. I cited not one, but TWO young black males who were outright MURDERED in Ohio. I've argued long and loud on many forums that Trayvon Martin was murdered. The REAL racists, with whom you have me confused, just automagically ASSume that Zimmerman had some kind of a "right" to "stand his ground" against the black guy in the mostly white neighborhood.
I am discriminating. I can discriminate between a wannabe cop, a bad cop, and a good cop.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.