[86678] in Cypherpunks
Re: Court proceedings under new SAFE act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Tue Sep 16 18:38:13 1997
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970911212546.0069c654@netcom10.netcom.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
> >secret court that has never denied a request for a wiretap) jurisdiction;
> >they can issue ex parte orders giving police access to plaintext. Also
> >lets U.S. government coordinate with other governments in doing such.
>
> Is there any way of finding out the names of the judges sitting on the FISA
> court?
Not that I know of, though I do know that U.S. District Court Judge Joyce
Green served on the FISA court for seven years.
Background: The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Survelliance Act established a
special, secret court of current Federal district court judges. They
approve warrants in secret hearings, with no opposing attorneys present.
The judges are required to be available 24 hours a day for emergency
hearings. Some happen in the middle of the night in the judge's home.
-Declan
