Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state?

Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS... by gasull on Friday July 05, 2013 @02:21PM (#5996068)

I am certain that federal agencies have all sorts of whacked out "secret" interpretations of the laws of Congress.

And because John Roberts apoints FISC judges, he chooses those who secretly interpret the law.

That's pretty much like deciding how to interpret the law. And in secret. What it's actually deciding the law itself. And, again, secretly.

Your latest comment contradicts your OP "No, he doesn't. This is a directly, overtly inaccurate claim."

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Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS... by tptacek on Friday July 05, 2013 @02:24PM (#5996086)

FISC is an instrument of Congress. It was a way of punting on finicky rulemaking for foreign surveillance by appointing an independent review board. No matter what NSA's "interpretations" of the law are, that discretion is enabled --- deliberately --- by Congress, and can be eliminated by Congress.

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