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The top secret US court overseeing electronic surveillance programs rejected Tuesday a petition to release documents on the legal status of the government’s “war-on-terror” wiretap operations.
In only the third time the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has publicly released a ruling, it turned back a request to reveal documents that would shed light on the government’s program to spy on the communications of terror suspects without first obtaining warrants.
FISC’s ruling argued that its role as a unique court dealing with national security issues necessarily meant its case documents and decisions would be classified, and that US constitutional provisions did not require it to release case materials.
