The government doesn’t have to disclose Foreign Intelligence...
The government doesn’t have to disclose Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rulings about the telephone metadata collection program authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, ruled Monday. The Electronic Frontier Foundation had sued…
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the Department of Justice, seeking the names of the phone companies helping the government collect call records, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said the release of such specifics could compromise national security. “Official confirmation of the existence of or general information about an intelligence program does not eliminate the dangers to national security of compelling disclosure of the program’s details,” Rogers said.