(6.5.2016) The Justice Department has a long track record of denying that the Executive Branch relies on secret law. One particularly egregious example was in 2011 when DoJ spokesman Dean Boyd said: “Contrary to various claims in recent months and years, Section 215 is not a secret law, nor has it been implemented under secret legal opinions by the Justice Department.” The public later found out that a secret interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act was being used to justify the mass surveillance of millions of Americans.