Griffith Statement on Declassified FISA Court Opinions

Statement

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement in response to the newly-declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court) opinions:

"I am pleased that the Administration is finally releasing several of the FISA Court rulings which show some of their reasoning in allowing the NSA surveillance programs to seize our phone records, etc. Parts of the court's opinions were redacted in relation to the Fourth Amendment and they could not analyze all of the Fourth Amendment concerns due to the sheer volume of that task. Additionally, I am concerned that the court was originally misled as to the parameters of the program. In order to reach a solution, I will need to carefully analyze these court opinions. I look forward to additional information being released."

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