| In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation's surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the NSA the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyber-attacks. [Also peace activists, environmentalists and any journalist who tells too much of the truth.]
The rulings, some nearly 100 pages long, reveal that the court has taken a much more expansive role by regularly assessing broad constitutional questions and establishing important judicial precedents with no public scrutiny....The 11-member FISA court was once mostly focused on approving case-by-case wiretapping orders. But it has now quietly become a parallel Supreme Court. |
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