The judges who preside over America's secret court

[davidpdx]

Twelve of the 14 judges who have served this year on the most secret court in America are Republicans and half are former prosecutors.

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But judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, drawn from regular trial courts across the country, also have issued orders in public cases that belie their conservative, law-enforcement roots, sometimes ruling against the government in terrorism-related cases.

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Selected by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, FISA judges serve for staggered seven-year terms. Although the court carries 11 judges at a time, 14 have served this year because of routine turnover.

Six of the 14 were originally appointed to the trial courts by George W. Bush; five by Ronald Reagan; two by Clinton and one by George H. W. Bush.

http://news.yahoo.com/judges-preside-over-americas-secret-court-051135427.html
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I would have posted more if it had not been for the limit. Lots of information in the article.

[WillyT]

1. K & R !!!

[dkf]

2. Imagine if that were the proportional makeup of the Supreme Court.

[Tx4obama]

3. A LIST of all the current 11 FISA Court judges below...

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Court#Current_membership


The Judges on the FISA Court are appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States - which is currently Justice Roberts a Republican.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States#Other_duties

[kentuck]

4. That's more info than we are getting from the "secret" documents.

[davidpdx]

5. I thought it was telling that 10 of the 11 were Republicans

Go figure! Too bad since Roberts is chief justice it will be that way for a long time.