[New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?hp&_r=2& ]
WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s
surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency
the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing
not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in
nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say.
The rulings, some nearly 100 pages long, reveal that the court has taken
on a much more expansive role by regularly assessing broad
constitutional questions and establishing important judicial precedents,
with almost no public scrutiny, according to current and former
officials familiar with the court’s classified decisions.-[Full Article]
