The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, also called the FISA Court) is a U.S. federal court established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal law enforcement agencies. Such requests are made most often by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Congress created FISA and its court as a result of the recommendations by the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee. Its powers have evolved and expanded to the point that it has been called “almost a parallel Supreme Court.”
Since 2009, the court has been located in the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C. For roughly thirty years of its history, it was housed on the sixth floor of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building.
In 2013, a top-secret order issued by the court was leaked to the media by Edward Snowden. It required a subsidiary of Verizon to provide a daily, ongoing feed of all call detail records – including those for domestic calls – to the NSA, and sparked considerable public controversy.
A federal court has again extended the U.S. Government’s authority to collect information on virtually all telephone calls placed to, from or within the U.S., Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office said in a statement Friday evening.
“DNI Clapper has decided to declassify and disclose publicly that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking renewal of the authority to collect telephony metadata in bulk, and that the court renewed that authority,” Clapper spokesman Shawn Turner said.
Last month, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court publicly released a court opinion authorizing the so-called bulk data collection to continue through 5 P.M. Eastern Time Friday. It’s believed that the program, revealed publicly in June by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, has been reauthorized by judges on that court roughly every six months since 2006.
Obama administration officials and some members of Congress have said the program plays an important role in investigating potential terrorist attacks, but other lawmakers have said that evidence of the program’s effectiveness is lacking and that the legal rulings authorizing it go beyond what Congress intended when it passed and renewd the Patriot Act—the law used to justify the call-tracking effort.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy reacted to the announcement by saying he welcomed the transparency, but will push forward with efforts to rein in the program.
“While I appreciate the recent efforts by the Court and the administration to be more transparent, it is clear that transparency alone is not enough. There is growing bipartisan consensus that the law itself needs to be changed in order to restrict the ability of the government to collect the phone records of millions of law-abiding Americans.”
BR 13-109
Amended Memorandum Opinion and Primary Order
http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/br13-09-primary-order.pdf
U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Public Filings
http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/index.html
United States Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/
United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court
The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, also called the FISA Court) is a U.S. federal court established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal law enforcement agencies. Such requests are made most often by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Congress created FISA and its court as a result of the recommendations by the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee. Its powers have evolved and expanded to the point that it has been called “almost a parallel Supreme Court.”
Since 2009, the court has been located in the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C. For roughly thirty years of its history, it was housed on the sixth floor of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building.
In 2013, a top-secret order issued by the court was leaked to the media by Edward Snowden. It required a subsidiary of Verizon to provide a daily, ongoing feed of all call detail records – including those for domestic calls – to the NSA, and sparked considerable public controversy.
Court extends call tracking program
by Josh Gerstein
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/10/court-again-extends-call-tracking-program-174892.html
A federal court has again extended the U.S. Government’s authority to collect information on virtually all telephone calls placed to, from or within the U.S., Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office said in a statement Friday evening.
“DNI Clapper has decided to declassify and disclose publicly that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking renewal of the authority to collect telephony metadata in bulk, and that the court renewed that authority,” Clapper spokesman Shawn Turner said.
Last month, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court publicly released a court opinion authorizing the so-called bulk data collection to continue through 5 P.M. Eastern Time Friday. It’s believed that the program, revealed publicly in June by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, has been reauthorized by judges on that court roughly every six months since 2006.
Obama administration officials and some members of Congress have said the program plays an important role in investigating potential terrorist attacks, but other lawmakers have said that evidence of the program’s effectiveness is lacking and that the legal rulings authorizing it go beyond what Congress intended when it passed and renewd the Patriot Act—the law used to justify the call-tracking effort.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy reacted to the announcement by saying he welcomed the transparency, but will push forward with efforts to rein in the program.
“While I appreciate the recent efforts by the Court and the administration to be more transparent, it is clear that transparency alone is not enough. There is growing bipartisan consensus that the law itself needs to be changed in order to restrict the ability of the government to collect the phone records of millions of law-abiding Americans.”
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進駐軍の命令で黒く塗りつぶされた戦後の日本の教科書のことを思い出した。
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黒く塗りつぶすのはアメリカの政府で働く人たちがふつうに持つ発想なのだろうか。
もっとも昔々日本の税関も、輸入された雑誌の中の写真に下半身の毛が写っていると、ご丁寧に黒く塗りつぶしていたし。。。
役人の考えることは、国が違っても同じ。。。かもしれない。