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n December of 2012, a handful of senators fought to fix the law that allows for PRISM, the NSA's vast Internet surveillance program that taps Google and Yahoo for communications. They failed. But now that they have your attention, they'd like to try again. In light of the public outrage about PRISM, eight senators have come up with a way to make public the secret courts that administer the program, which was reauthorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) less than two years ago. Under the guise of covertly gathering intelligence on the U.S.'s enemies, FISA courts operate and approve surveillance requests in secret. They've existed since FISA was passed into law in 1978, and most recently were renewed for five more years at the end of 2012. In light of PRISM, which was only revealed Thursday due to a press leak, those senators have created a bill to declassify Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinions. Many of the new bill's sponsors gave FISA its biggest recent challenge, fighting it before it passed the Senate on December 28, 2012. The seven democrats cosponsoring the bill each voted no (it passed 73-23); Mike Lee (R-Utah), who voted to extend FISA, is now angling to make it public.
Read more: http://www.disclose.tv/news/8_senators_want_to_expose_the_secret_courts_that_enable_PRISM/89848#ixzz2WPUw12Op
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