In Response to EFF Lawsuit, Government Scheduled to Release More Secret Court Opinions on NSA Surveillance

UPDATE: Late tonight, the government released to EFF the „Raw Take“ opinion and the 2008 FAA opinion, described below. Those opinions are available here (pdf) and here (pdf). We are reviewing the documents and will post our analysis, along with other documents released by the government, shortly.

Later today, the government is scheduled to release two landmark opinions on NSA spying issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The documents are being released as a result of FOIA lawsuit filed by EFF last year, seeking disclosure of many of the surveillance court‘s still-secret, yet significant, opinions.

As we wrote in January, the two opinions we are expecting the government to disclose today are: