{"id":8572,"date":"2013-04-03T12:36:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:30:42","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8572","title":{"rendered":"BLT: Justice Dept. Asks Court to Dismiss Suit over Secret Court\u2019s Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLT: <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltimes.typepad.com\/blt\/2013\/04\/justice-dept-asks-court-to-dismiss-suit-over-secret-courts-opinions.html\">Justice Dept. Asks Court to Dismiss Suit over Secret Court\u2019s Opinions<\/a> by Mike Scarcella. The FISA court found the government violated the law, but the government doesn&#8217;t want it ever released:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington operates largely out of the public spotlight, issuing secret orders that are not generally available for public review. In a pending lawsuit, the U.S. Justice Department is fighting to block the disclosure of information about a case in which the court determined government surveillance activity violated the law.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, the advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the department in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to try to get any written order or opinion from the surveillance court about that case. The lawsuit followed the release of information from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) about once instance when the secret court found the government&#8217;s implementation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had &#8220;circumvented the spirit of the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government said it declassified four statements and permitted Wyden to disclose the information &#8220;in an effort to strike the right balance between government transparency and the protection of critical intelligence activities.&#8221; The Justice Department on Monday night filed court papers asking a judge to terminate the case, saying that no more information about the apparent transgression can be, or should be, revealed to the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourthamendment.com\/blog\">Back to blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8572\">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-8572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572","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=8572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}