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The Secret FISA Court Must Go

We are assured the secret FISA court is keeping a close eye on government surveillance, but the truth of what it has done and justified is terrifying. Law professors Christopher Sprigman and Jennifer Granick argue that the court must go.

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A government spies on hundreds of millions of its citizens. It claims the authority to engage in mass spying based on secret orders of a secret court making secret interpretations of the law.

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