On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:40 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of the things that they have been reported to have been doing are > clearly not legal (or at least, not legal in ways that anyone outside secret > courts understand to be legal), but how much of what's been reported is true > is _very_ questionable.
ObClarification: SCOTUS was given a chance to overturn some of the FISA court's behavior in similar matters and chose not to (Clapper v Amnesty Int'l). So despite what you or I may feel about its legality, SCOTUS had the facts of a case in front of them regarding it, and specifically chose to not accept the case, and let the current status quo continue on. One might speculate that their denying cert in that case may have been one of the contributing factors to Snowden's realization that nobody was going to do anything about it, but he has not to my knowledge mentioned such himself. D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
