The FBI is reeling from the release last month of a report by Michael E. Horowitz, inspector general for the Department of Justice (DOJ). Horowitz found that the FBI, a DOJ subagency, did a shameful ...

A FISA court decision to deny standing to a legal challenge from a law school clinic violates the First Amendment right of access to court proceedings, which all members of the public share equally, ...

Republican lawmakers express concern over Jennifer Daskal's appointment to advise the secretive FISC after her controversial disinformation board role.

On February 26, 2013, the Supreme Court denied standing to journalists in challenging recent amendments to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This 5-4 ruling in Clapper v. Amnesty is a ...

Google has petitioned a secret U.S. national-security court to relax restrictions on the information the tech giant can reveal about government data requests, claiming such restrictions violate the ...

With the latest release of documents about the NSA and the FISA Court (this one in response to an ACLU/EFF Freedom of Information Act request) we now have yet more evidence that the NSA’s compliance ...

Congress is intent on reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) before it expires on April 19th. It is equally intent on renewing the law without rewriting it to prevent political ...

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a tribunal that oversees government eavesdropping, is a strange judicial creation. It lacks many of the usual features of a court. Its proceedings are ...

Since he came to Congress in 2013, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has not been a federal legislator known for having a passion for government transparency and ensuring compliance with the Freedom of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Perceptions that a secret court in the nation’s capital acts as a rubber stamp for the government are wrong, the outgoing chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington said ...