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A comment on October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional. Parent comment

Re:October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unc... by sitkack on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @04:24PM (#6253089)
It is also my understanding that the ruling was sealed as top secret by executive order, please someone confirm this. By doing so they proved/showed a ridiculous loophole in the system, that the court is a total puppet. It can declare verdicts, but the verdicts can be silenced by executive order, disappearing them.

Executive orders of secrecy can and will make everyone guilty of espionage at some point. 2 + 2 == 4 is now declared "TOP SECRET" to reveal it is an act against the US.

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Re:October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unc... by hamiltonkibbe on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @05:37PM (#6253461)
Antonin Scalia, dissenting in part stated:

"The document's failure to adequately specify binary operator precedence and associativity was a deliberate choice on the part of the author(s) and the court should hold the value of "2" [2 + (2==4)]as TOP SECRET as well. The failure to do so sets a dangerous precedent of strict adherence to ANSI C operator precedence regardless of context"

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