Article III of the Constitution sets up the Judicial branch. The very first sentence in that article says, “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” [The punctuation and capitalization is that of the Founding Fathers, not mine.]
One such very inferior court is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, , also known as FISA. (The A stands for Act). It’s supposed to oversee our government’s efforts to collect information on us. FISA is a joke--a rubber stamp for the N.S.A.
A week ago it ruled that N.S.A. may resume its bulk phone data collection. The ACLU, however, has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which had ruled the program was illegal, to issue an injunction halting the collection of data. The Circuit Court has not yet acted.
Incidentally, if you want to mess with their heads, in every phone conversation randomly throw in the either the word “bomb” or “Snowden.”
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