The US Government Is Hiding Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

The Trump administration is illegally withholding a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruling from Congress that objected to warrantless surveillance search filters used under Section 702 of FISA, according to Democratic senators Ron Wyden and Adam Schiff. The ruling should have been released by September 13 under the administration's own 180-day disclosure timeline, but remains classified as intelligence officials push Congress to reauthorize the surveillance program by year's end. Civil liberties groups are urging Congress to refuse reauthorization until the administration releases legally mandated information about how the surveillance program operates.