In an important decision, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the government to review for release the court‘s opinions on the meaning, scope, and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The ruling is on a motion filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the Nation‘s Capital, and Yale Law School‘s Media Freedom and Access Information Clinic. Section 215, which authorizes the government to obtain „any tangible things“ relevant to foreign-intelligence or terrorism investigations, is the claimed legal basis for the NSA‘s mass phone records collection program.