The Department of Justice must respond to ProPublica’s...
The Department of Justice must respond to ProPublica’s push for the release of court records on government phone metadata surveillance by Dec. 10, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Wednesday (http://1.usa.gov/1cZ0xeV). Replies by ProPublica to Justice are due Dec. 23,…
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the court said. ProPublica, an independent nonprofit news organization, had requested the release of any opinion that underlies the phone metadata collection program, in a filing posted earlier this week, citing a First Amendment right to view the opinions. “Although numerous FISC opinions regarding [Patriot Act] Section 215 have now been made public, the FISC’s ultimate authority for the bulk collection of records remains secret,” ProPublica said (http://1.usa.gov/17wD4iD), urging the court to potentially use its own discretion to publish the opinions due to public interest. Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Staff Attorney David Greene was counsel for ProPublica and filed the request.