{"id":1342,"date":"2007-09-10T14:44:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:44:21","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: Court Cloaked in Secrecy Shows a Hint of Openness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYTimes.com has this column today: <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/tsc.html?URI=http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/10\/us\/10bar.html&amp;OQ=_rQ3D1Q26refQ3Dus&amp;OP=658e9664Q2F9Q25XJ9-Q5Bxkk-9hQ2AQ2AQ519Q2An9KQ2A9iQ5B9KQ2AJQ3CxQ22!-g7\">Court Cloaked in Secrecy Shows a Hint of Openness<\/a> (sub. req.). It is on the ABA Journal&#8217;s website as: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/wiretap_court_flexes_judicial_muscle\/\">Wiretap Court Flexes Judicial Muscle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court that considers foreign intelligence wiretap applications is showing hints of an independent streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has operated in secret, even as federal officials disclosed that the court had limited the government\u2019s ability to conduct warrantless wiretaps of overseas communications that are routed through the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent weeks, however, there have been signs of a new independence, perhaps prompted by the administration\u2019s selective disclosures of aspects of the court\u2019s orders,\u201d Adam Liptak writes in his Sidebar column for the New York Times (sub. req.).<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the intelligence court asked the government to respond to a request for release of its secret rulings limiting wiretaps. And the court took the further step of asking the Justice Department to make its responding brief public absent court permission to file under seal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}