October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional

Re:October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unc... by revelation on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @06:30PM (#6253728)

Well, isn't this a wonderful analogy:

http://i.imgur.com/APhAVKE.png

In a sea of blacked out information, our government censors have given us this tidbit, when apparently no other sentence on these pages was deemed fit to be released.

It is pure travesty. The courts had to tear this document full of legalese from the governments hands, and they still allow these muppets to censor according to political agenda?

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Re:October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unc... by toufka on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @07:02PM (#6253890)

I thought that was some kind of construction rather than a screenshot. That's actually from page 27. For those who don't want a good imgur click:

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[[...redacted]] It likewise raises no Fourth Amendment problem. [[redacted...]]

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Re:October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unc... by MWil on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @07:35PM (#6254032)

that could just as well be a portion of the text describing an alternative the NSA COULD be taking and hasn't. That alternative providing no 4th amendment problem.

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Re:October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unc... by gizmo686 on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @08:08PM (#6254176)

I don't think so. As toufka pointed out, that screenshot comes from page 27. I will reproduce the surrounding context of that quote:

" 3. The Amended CIA Minimization Procedures

The CIA minimization procedures include a new querying provision [redacted] The new language would allow the CIA to conduct queries of Section 702-acquired information using United States-person identifiers. All CIA queries of Section 702 collection would be subject to review by the Department of Justice and the Office of the DNI. [Redacted], the addition of the new CIA querying provision does not preclude the Court from concluding that the amended CIA minimization procedures satisfy the statutory definition of minimization procedures and comply with the Fourth Amendment.

[footnote: The Court understands that NSA does not share its upstream collection in minimized form with the CIA]

[new paragraph]

The amended CIA minimization procedures include [Redacted] raises no concerns in the context of the CIA minimization procedures

[new paragraph]

[redacted]

[new paragraph]

the government has also added [redacted] It likewise raises no Fourth Amendment problem. [redacted]

[new paragraph] Finally, a new provision [redacted] The court likewise sees no problem with the addition [single word redacted] to the CIA minimization procedures.

[end section]"

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