Bazan, Elizabeth B. The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: An Overview. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 24 Jan. 2007. Bazan, Elizabeth B. The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: An Overview. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 24 Jan. 2007.
From "Summary": "This report examines the creation, membership, structure, and jurisdiction" of the FISC and the FISCR.
Eggen, Dan. "Broad U.S. Wiretap Powers Upheld: Secret Court Lifts Bar on Terror Suspect Surveillance." Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2002, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 18 November 2002, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, in its first ruling, "found that the USA Patriot Act ... allows intelligence investigators and criminal prosecutors to more easily share information about ongoing terrorism and espionage cases.... Appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the current intelligence appeals panel comprises three semi-retired appellate court judges: Ralph B. Guy, Edward Leavy and Laurence Hirsch Silberman."
Lewis, Neil A. "Court Overturns Limits on Wiretaps to Combat Terror," New York Times, 19 Nov. 2002. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Washington Post. "[Editorial:] Chipping Away at Liberty." Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2002, A24. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"The unanimous decision" by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review "presents a compelling reading of the law. The fault for the problem it creates lies not with the court but with Congress, for the carelessness and haste with which it passed the USA Patriot Act in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and its unwillingness to push back against Bush administration excesses."
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