WASHINGTON - Perceptions that a secret court in the nation's capital acts as a rubber stamp for the government are wrong, the outgoing chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington said ...

This editorial is from the Philadelphia Inquirer: Trusting the oversight of the nation’s most secretive agency to its most secretive court never seemed likely to work. And as it turns out, it didn’t.

Trusting the oversight of the nation’s most secretive agency to its most secretive court never seemed likely to work. And as it turns out, it didn’t. That’s the impression left by the latest ...

WASHINGTON — The secret U.S. court that reviews electronic surveillance and searches approves nearly every request it receives but demands changes to nearly 1 in 4 applications before giving the ...

Since it was founded in 1979, the secret court that signs off on NSA spying has rejected just 11 of the 34,000 surveillance requests it has received. But now the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...

Most Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions governing National Security Agency surveillance are classified, but the panel’s top judge disputed the idea that his court is a rubber-stamp for ...