Top Democrats pushed back Tuesday against a federal judge’s ruling that the NSA’s phone-records collection program violates privacy rights, asking for higher courts to quickly get involved and bring legal certainty to the murky world of intelligence
gathering.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Judge Richard J. Leon’s decision, released Monday, contradicts a secret intelligence court that has upheld the National Security Agency’s phone program 35 times, and contradicts a federal court in California that said the program doesn’t infringe on privacy.
“There are differing opinions now. That’s the state of play. And the assumption is that it’s going to be appealed and the Supreme Court will eventually make a decision, which is really the appropriate thing,” Mrs. Feinstein said.
But she also said part of the problem is that the administration has been operating the programs on the basis of secret legal memos that it refuses to turn over to Congress, making it difficult for even the lawmakers specifically cleared to oversee the intelligence community to know what is occurring.
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7 comments:
The judge probably did'nt know about a "secret intellegence court"or anyone for that matter.
Man when is that woman going to croak
She might be the dumbest most closed minded flaky in office. She serves no one but herself.
she's 80 now! it won't be long!
Sorry, deflection at its best. Obama endorsed all their spying or they would not be doing it.
We have no idea what spying is going on, so it's just fine. Is that what you're saying as billions of calls a day are downloaded to a central vault in Utah that you know about?
okay.
we know too, Nancy.
You need a bu---- to the head ASAP, Nancy.
screw the Democrats! /.....crap, just wasted too much time bothering with democrats!
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