By: James Bamford | Reuters
Last week, however, for the first time since its creation, the Obama administration declassified and made public large portions of an 85-page top-secret ruling by the court that had been the subject of a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The surveillance court was created in 1978, designed to act as a safeguard to protect the public from the National Security Agency's ever-expanding eavesdropping capabilities, and its long history of widespread illegal spying.
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