Secret Court Documents
Apr 25, 2014 22:56:35 #
A series of top-secret court documents released Friday reveal the extent to which private companies have been powerless to protect customers against government invasions of privacy via National Security Agency spying.
The documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reveal that a phone company whose name was redacted in the documents challenged an NSAs request to hand over telecommunications data in bulk. The company petitioned the court to vacate, modify or affirm the current production order in January after a District Judge ruled that the NSAs phone records program was likely unConstitutional a month earlier.
Judge [Richard] Leons Memorandum Opinion introduces, for the first time, a question about the legal validity of an order issued by this Court, the company stated.
In light of Judge Leons Opinion, it is appropriate [redacted] inquire directly of the Court into the legal basis for the records request, the petition continued.
FISC Judge Rosemary Collyer issued a ruling denying the companys request in March, deciding that the telecommunications company provides no basis for vacating or modifying the production order. She also defined the previous Circuit Court decision questioning the Constitutionality of the NSAs actions unpersuasive.
The unknown phone companys challenge of the bulk data collection represents the first such fight against the NSAs data collection efforts.
http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/br14-01-petition-140425.pdf
http://personalliberty.com/new-documents-show-company-tried-protect-customers-nsa-shot-secret-court/
The documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reveal that a phone company whose name was redacted in the documents challenged an NSAs request to hand over telecommunications data in bulk. The company petitioned the court to vacate, modify or affirm the current production order in January after a District Judge ruled that the NSAs phone records program was likely unConstitutional a month earlier.
Judge [Richard] Leons Memorandum Opinion introduces, for the first time, a question about the legal validity of an order issued by this Court, the company stated.
In light of Judge Leons Opinion, it is appropriate [redacted] inquire directly of the Court into the legal basis for the records request, the petition continued.
FISC Judge Rosemary Collyer issued a ruling denying the companys request in March, deciding that the telecommunications company provides no basis for vacating or modifying the production order. She also defined the previous Circuit Court decision questioning the Constitutionality of the NSAs actions unpersuasive.
The unknown phone companys challenge of the bulk data collection represents the first such fight against the NSAs data collection efforts.
http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/br14-01-petition-140425.pdf
http://personalliberty.com/new-documents-show-company-tried-protect-customers-nsa-shot-secret-court/
Apr 25, 2014 23:30:24 #
bmac32 wrote:
A series of top-secret court documents released Fr... (show quote)
This is what happens when governments become too big and let run unchecked. :hunf:
Apr 25, 2014 23:50:03 #
This crap should never happen, there is NO balance of power. I would dislike this as much if it were from the other side.
Elwood wrote:
This is what happens when governments become too big and let run unchecked. :hunf:
Apr 25, 2014 23:50:50 #
bmac32 wrote:
This crap should never happen, there is NO balance of power. I would dislike this as much if it were from the other side.
Yup.
Apr 26, 2014 13:30:56 #
bmac32 wrote:
A series of top-secret court documents released Fr... (show quote)
FISC Judge Rosemary Collyer needs to Look at the 10th Amendment to the USA Constitution:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
NOWHERE in the USA Constitution does it allow a Federal Agency to blanketly collect and store a Private Company's or a Private Citizen's Information...
THUS the NSA's Actions ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION DOESN'T SAY THEY CAN...
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