(1) To bring greater transparency to the NSA's surveillance under the Patriot Act, the ACLU filed two motions with the secretive FISC asking it to release to the public its opinions authorizing the bulk collection of Americans' data by the NSA, and we are continuing to litigate a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that we filed in 2011 demanding the government release information about its use and interpretation of Section 215.
(2) But foreign intelligence surveillance court (FISC) opinions since then suggest that the new rules have also failed.
(3) A 2009 FISC opinion, evaluating the process from 2006 to 2009, dedicated a whole section to "misrepresentations to the court", and stated that the government has "repeatedly submitted inaccurate descriptions" of the process the FISC was reviewing.
(4) The newly-disclosed 2009 opinion includes a whole section entitled "Misrepresentations to the Court" , which begins with the sentence: The government has compounded its noncompliance with the court's orders by repeatedly submitting inaccurate descriptions of the alert list process to the FISC.
(5) mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) Reforms agreed to today: declassification of FISC opinions, reduce holding 215 data to 3 yrs, adversarial amicus at FISC.
(6) "Realistically, however, I would not anticipate many such cases given the fact-intensive nature of Fisc opinions," Walton wrote.
(7) In 2015, he accepted an appointment as an amici curiae for the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Court (FISC), in which he will offer an outsider’s opinion on novel government data requests.
(8) Diagnosis of parents and siblings was based on interviews with the probands, and only those with "definite" panic disorder by the FISC criteria were considered to be affected.
Fisk
Definition:
(v. i.) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean concentrations of duplicate pairs of specimens circulated to participants in 1975 show very close agreement except for one pair of duplicates for those laboratories using the Advanced Instruments and Fiske osmometers.
(2) Photograph: Phil Fisk Before shooting even begins the contestants have to come up with the 10 signature and showstopper bake recipes they would need if they made it all the way to the final.
(3) The Independent’s owners have moved fast to ensure that some of the papers’ biggest names – including Robert Fisk, Grace Dent and Patrick Cockburn – will continue to write for its digital-only operation .
(4) Photograph: Phil Fisk The team back here is led by Faenia, a veteran of Great British Menu , who has been on this show since series one.
(5) A description of its development and an analysis carried out on the examinations in 1969 and 1970 are contained in the paper by Fisk et al.
(6) Photograph: Phil Fisk for Observer Food Monthly Where did the original idea for Bake Off come from?
(7) Lest anyone imagine Northup's co-writer made it up, historian David Fiske has traced a real man from Ontario who may be the same Samuel Bass.
(8) Validation was approached by the Campbell and Fiske multitrait-multimethod procedure and was concerned with the convergent relationship of assertion as measured by the Scale with measures of dominance and abasement as well as the discriminant capability of the instrument in terms of its relationship to various types of aggression, both verbal and physical.
(9) Steve Auckland , the chief executive of the parent company of the Independent and the Evening Standard, said that no discussions have yet taken place with any of the Independent’s star writers such as Fisk, Matthew Norman and John Lichfield.
(10) Campbell and Fiske's criteria for convergent and discriminant validity were applied to six of the scales that were common to both instruments.
(11) Despite the difficulties ahead, Fisk said the decision marked a historic moment that could potentially change who had to come to the table to discuss labour issues.
(12) Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Fisk University in Boston, said he believed all the recent developments, including the disappointing June jobs report, had greatly reduced the chance of a September rate hike.
(13) There are, however, problems encountered when using the Campbell and Fiske (1959) approach.
(14) Another of the book's five co-authors, the British writer Alexander Fiske-Harrison, said that Hillmann underwent surgery the same day.
(15) Other recipients have included Lyse Doucet, Michael Buerk, John Simpson, Robert Fisk, Charles Wheeler, Bridget Kendall, George Alagiah, Fergal Keane and Ann Leslie.
(16) An email sent to Independent subscribers refers to the deal, saying that the “talented writers and provocative columnists you currently enjoy” will keep appearing in the i, and naming writers including Robert Fisk and Grace Dent.
(17) The inorganic phosphate liberated is measured by a modification of Fiske and SubbaRow's method.
(18) The linearity of the standard curve is observed up to an absorbance of 0.410, compared to 0.370 in the Fiske-Subbarow method.
(19) But such logic rapidly falls into the moral hole identified by Fisk, in which a Muslim death matters less when the killer is a fellow Muslim.
(20) We want to really take advantage of that now.” Auckland added that talks would now begin to win over star writers such as Robert Fisk and Matthew Norman to continue to write for the digital-only Independent.