- “While the Fisa court isn’t formally bound by the second circuit’s ruling, it will certainly have to grapple with the second circuit’s interpretation of the ‘relevance’ requirement. The [court] will also have to consider whether Congress effectively adopted the second circuit’s interpretation of the relevance requirement when it passed the USA Freedom Act,” said Jameel Jaffer, the deputy legal director of the ACLU, which brought the lawsuit the second circuit decided.
This is extremely frustrating... as a thirty year old in the Cleveland area, what the heck can we do about this? I don't want to accept rolling over and letting the NSA continue to monitor our private lives, especially when this program and practice has proven grossly ineffective and insanely expensive.
The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop. It's hardly surprising, but it's still shocking that this is how the system works.The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.
Maybe he misses snooping on sexts and dirty emails.