WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS AGAIN?

Secret Courts, warrantless searches, total secrecy even to lie under oath, secret documents and Personal Dossiers on EVERYBODY to be used against them at a later date, if needed: these are the underlying fabric of the NKVD-KGB, PRC Army, Stasi and the Gestapo. What are they doing here?! m/r


For secretive surveillance court, rare scrutiny in wake of NSA leaks - The Washington Post

By Peter Wallsten, Carol D. Leonnig and Alice Crites, Published: June 22 E-mail the writers

Wedged into a secure, windowless basement room deep below the Capitol Visitors Center, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates appeared before dozens of senators earlier this month for a highly unusual, top-secret briefing.

The lawmakers pressed Bates, according to people familiar with the session, to discuss the inner workings of the United States’ clandestine terrorism surveillance tribunal, which Bates oversaw from 2006 until earlier this year.  ...

“The government can get virtually anything,” said Wyden, who as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee is allowed to read many of the court’s classified rulings. “Health, guns, credit cards — my reading is not what has been done, it’s what can be done.”

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