Obama orders secret surveillance court to ignore lower court decision and spy on Americans illegally
(NaturalNews) Just hours after President Obama said he would sign new
federal legislation ostensibly aimed at ending the National Security
Agency's bulk collection of Americans' metadata, he instructed his
Department of Justice to seek permission from a secret court to continue
the program for at least another six months.
As reported by the UK's Guardian
newspaper, the DOJ essentially asked the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court, which considers all government surveillance requests
behind closed doors, to ignore an earlier federal appeals court ruling
that found the bulk collection of data unconstitutional.
The
request also suggested that the administration had no intention of
complying with a potential court order banning the collection, the paper
reported.
The paper said U.S. officials had confirmed earlier
that the administration intended to seek permission from the FISA court
to restart the domestic bulk collection program.
