[IP] Judge resigns from FISA court
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Subject: Judge resigns from FISA court
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, December 21, 2005 11:31 am
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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According to the Washington Post, Judge James Robertson has resigned from
the FISA court because of the administration's secret surveillance
program. The article cites his concerns that information from these
secret wiretaps could have been used to gain FISA warrants for later
investigations. One source said "They just don't know if the product of
wiretaps were used for FISA warrants -- to kind of cleanse the
information... What I've heard some of the judges say is they feel they've
participated in a Potemkin court." The presiding judge of the FISA
court, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, knew about the secret surveillance program
and insisted that the Justice Dept certify in writing that they were not
using the wiretaps that way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122000685.html?sub=AR
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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