Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Surveillance Court Declines to Release Secret Opinions

"In a rare publicly issued opinion," reports The New York Times, "the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said Tuesday that it would not release documents related to the National Security Agency's program of wiretapping without warrants." According to the report, "The American Civil Liberties Union had asked that secret court to release the opinions detailing two rulings it issued this year on the legality of the agency's eavesdropping program, which President Bush authorized after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."