1.0 link 19956 <![CDATA[Secret Court Proceedings in the NSA Cases: The Next Best Thing to Not Having Courts at All]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shayana-kadidal/secret-court-proceedings-_b_19956.html "Something remarkable and disturbing is happening in this case and in others across the country" challenging the NSA's warrantless spying on Americans, wrote the lawyers in the case in Oregon challenging NSA surveillance of domestic attorney-client phone calls. "The executive branch of our federal government, disregarding the admonition that '[d]emocracies die behind closed doors,' is attempting to draw a veil of secrecy over judicial proceedings to determine whether the warrantless eavesdropping program, itself kept secret for years, is unlawful."

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