From EFF:
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, July 26, at 11 a.m., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue for the release of court orders that supposedly authorize the government’s highly controversial electronic domestic surveillance program that intercepts and analyzes millions of Americans’ communications.
The White House first acknowledged the surveillance program’s existence in 2005, claiming that it could be conducted without warrants or judicial authorization of any kind. But in January of this year, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) had authorized collection of some communications and that the surveillance program would now operate under its approval. EFF filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with Department of Justice (DOJ) for the FISC orders and other records concerning the purported changes in the program, but when the DOJ did not comply, EFF filed suit in federal court.
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[tags]EFF, Domestic Surveillance, Justice Department[/tags]
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