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It's my understanding that the secret court ruled the primary legal justification for PRISM (FISA Section 702) as unconstitutional. The Justice Department is trying to keep that ruling as secret as possible. [1] So, really, what would they do?

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret...

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How can they rule the justification as unconstitutiona when the judges were giving court orders under that justification?

More broadly though, I don't understand how you can possibly have secret courts. Justice not only must be done but must be seen to be done, otherwise its not justice.

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe they declared only part of FISA unconstitutional. The part they declared unconstitutional happens to be the primary crux of the legal argument for PRISM.

I don't understand how you can have secret courts either. It's a perversion of what this country was founded upon.

I'm personally most interested in ACLU's challenges about Tor/VPN providers and FAA.

Secret courts are not about justice.

They are about masking injustice behind the veil of "law".

Since US is a country with long tradition of rule of law. The easiest way of subverting the rule of law is by subverting the concept of a judge and of a court.

There.

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