Press Groups Support Access to FISA Court Documents

The Reporters Committee, joined by 34 news organizations and press freedom groups, filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week in support of the American Civil Liberties Union’s effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a long-running case concerning public access to court documents at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, a secret body that authorizes surveillance activities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

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