CNET - The U.S. government has released a secret court ruling from 2011 that found some surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency illegal and that estimated the NSA collected many thousands of "wholly domestic communications" between Americans.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation heralded as a "victory" Wednesday's release of the 86-page opinion by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), set up under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In a statement following the release of the court opinion, Director for National Intelligence James Clapper announced the establishment of a group that will review the United States' surveillance capabilities and issue a report by mid-December.
The group will assess "whether the U.S. employs its technical collection capabilities in a manner that optimally protects our national security...while appropriately accounting for other policy considerations, such as the risk of unauthorized disclosure and our need to maintain the public trust."
The court document, dated October 3, 2011, found some of the NSA's collections to be in breach of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Read More
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