Group wants special court to release ruling on unlawful U.S. surveillance
Source: Washington Post
A civil liberties group is set to file a motion Thursday asking a special federal court to allow the release of a classified opinion that found the government engaged in unlawful surveillance on Americans.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is turning to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court after the Justice Department refused to release the court’s opinion under a Freedom of Information Act request.
The opinion’s existence was revealed in July by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who disclosed, with federal officials’ permission, that on “at least one occasion” the court had ruled that the government’s surveillance violated the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.
The opinion involved the government’s collection of communications under a 2008 amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which broadened the government’s authority to collect e-mails and phone calls of foreign targets in the United States.
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