Something very fishy happened this week. The Justice Department tried to get a USA Today reporter to drop a story that would embarrass the government, and when he wouldn’t, gave the reporter a quote implying that the story is a non-story. The tl;dr is: There’s nothing to see here, but we’d really prefer it if you didn’t publish it!
What happened, exactly?
Contrary to the DOJ’s bizarre denial, it’s quite a story indeed. The short version is that judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have on multiple occasions called out the Department of Justice for misrepresenting critically important facts in briefs to the court, but the DOJ office charged with investigating material misrepresentations to judges never looked into any of the allegations. In other words, internal DOJ accountability mechanisms failed.
Here's the longer version:
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LINK HERE: http://privacysos.org/node/1187
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