The Justice Department will release "hundreds of pages" of declassified
documents related to the legal justifications for its domestic spying
program tomorrow.
Tuesday's reveal comes two weeks after the Electronic Frontier Foundation won its challenge under a Freedom of Information Act for access to a 2011 opinion in which the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found some of the National Security Agency's surveillance unconstitutional.
The foundation won another concession last week on the heels of that victory, with the government agreeing to release hundreds of pages of documents related to the government's secret interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which it uses to justify its spying on millions of Americans' phone conversations.
Newly disclosed documents will contain "significant documents, procedures, or legal analyses incorporated into FISC opinions or orders and treated as binding by the Department of Justice or the National Security Agency," government lawyers said in a Sept. 4 status report.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/09/09/60965.htm
Tuesday's reveal comes two weeks after the Electronic Frontier Foundation won its challenge under a Freedom of Information Act for access to a 2011 opinion in which the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found some of the National Security Agency's surveillance unconstitutional.
The foundation won another concession last week on the heels of that victory, with the government agreeing to release hundreds of pages of documents related to the government's secret interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which it uses to justify its spying on millions of Americans' phone conversations.
Newly disclosed documents will contain "significant documents, procedures, or legal analyses incorporated into FISC opinions or orders and treated as binding by the Department of Justice or the National Security Agency," government lawyers said in a Sept. 4 status report.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/09/09/60965.htm
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