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by mo2art 1924 days ago
on the chance that I might sound naive, how does this supposedly work in regard to judicial review?
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sneak 1924 days ago
The court that reviews the interpretations is itself also classified, just like the interpretations and the verdicts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

Snowden cited this as the reason he came forward.

This applies to communications and stored records however, not end user computers.

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autoexec 1924 days ago
> Snowden cited this as the reason he came forward.

yep. Once he realized that the NSA was outright lying to congress and the American people had no ability in law to actually know or address the abuses going on leaking the truth was the only way anyone would ever hear about it.

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