Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government

[BlueStateSaint]

Oh, boo-effin'-hoo. 

Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government

By Carol D. Leonnig, Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman, Published: June 29

Recent leaks of classified documents have pointed to the role of a special court in enabling the government’s secret surveillance programs, but members of the court are chafing at the suggestion that they were collaborating with the executive branch.

A classified 2009 draft report by the National Security Agency’s inspector general relayed some details about the interaction between the court’s judges and the NSA, which sought approval for the Bush administration’s top-secret domestic surveillance programs. The report was described in The Washington Post on June 16 and released in full Thursday by The Post and the British newspaper the Guardian.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the former chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, took the highly unusual step Friday of voicing open frustration at the account in the report and court’s inability to explain its decisions.

“In my view, that draft report contains major omissions, and some inaccuracies, regarding the actions I took as Presiding Judge of the FISC and my interactions with Executive Branch officials,” Kollar-Kotelly said in a statement to The Post. It was her first public comment describing her work on the intelligence court.

The inspector general’s draft report is among the many documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, touching off a roiling national debate about the proper balance between the government’s reach into Americans’ lives and the effort to protect the nation in the Internet age.

If you have a problem with how you're being depicted, you can always resign, or ask to not be one of those judges.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-court-judges-upset-at-portrayal-of-collaboration-with-government/2013/06/29/ed73fb68-e01b-11e2-b94a-452948b95ca8_print.html

[Undies]

Let's see a list of all the decisions that did not side with the executive branch.  That should shut-up critics.

[Freeper]

It really sucks when you collaborate with the government and the haters, mostly creepy ass crackers, accuse you of collaboration.

[Mr Mannn]

Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government
if your portrayal upsets you so, stop the collaboration. easy peasy.

[JohnnyReb]

Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government
if your portrayal upsets you so, stop the collaboration. easy peasy.

The things people will do when they think it won't be discovered.

[J P Sousa]

Were there any court decisions against..........I didn't see any, but thousands were approved.   
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