Secret court says it is no rubber stamp; led to changes in U.S. spying requests. October 15, 2013 More than ...

Secret court argues ... "It is a kangaroo court with a rubber stamp," Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency analyst-turned-whistleblower, told The Guardian in early June 2013.

FISA Court Appears To Be Rubber Stamp For Government Requests The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has been under fire since one of its classified orders ... To get an idea of how secret, ...

Since it was founded in 1979, the secret court that signs off on NSA spying has rejected just 11 of the 34,000 surveillance requests it has received. But now the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...

WASHINGTON - Perceptions that a secret court in the nation's capital acts as a rubber stamp for the government are wrong, the outgoing chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington said ...

Most Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions governing National Security Agency surveillance are classified, but the panel’s top judge disputed the idea that his court is a rubber-stamp ...

For the first time in the 200-year history of the U. S. Postal Service (USPS), a secret ”message” has been found on a postage stamp. The current $1 stamp issued September 23, 1986 has a Star ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The secret U.S. court that reviews electronic surveillance and searches approves nearly every request it receives, but demands substantial changes to nearly one in ...

But, he said, the court was no rubber stamp. “The judges ask searching questions,” he said. “If they don’t get the right answer, they don’t stamp things ‘reject.’ ...