Wired: "In a surprising move, a secret spying court ordered the Bush Administration to respond to the ACLU's request for the court to reveal the legal pinnings behind its decisions that gave legal blessing to the government's warrantless wiretapping program.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the government to respond by August 31 to the ACLU's request to see the court's orders, which the court described as an 'unprecedented request that warrants further briefing'. The court's own unprecedented response writes the latest strange chapter in the ongoing secret spying saga.
Those orders reportedly include a still-secret decision curtailing the government's spying that led the Administration to successfully press Congress to hurriedly expand the government's spying authority before the summer recess."
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