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+    For reasons of security, as well as the fact that the State De-
+    partment's portion of the budget could not by law be spent within
+    the District of Columbia, Yardley set up shop in New York City.
+    After first considering a building at 17 East 36 Street, he finally
+    settled on a stately four-story brownstone at 3 East 38 Street,
+    owned by an old friend.
+
+    --- page 13 (pdf) e 25 (book)
+
+    The key to the legislation could have been dreamed up by Franz Kafka: the
+    establishment of a supersecret federal court.  Sealed away behind a
+    cipher-locked door in a windowless room on the top floor of the Justice
+    Department building, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is most
+    certainly the strangest creation in the history of the federal Judiciary. Its
+    establishment was the product of compromises between legislators who wanted the
+    NSA and FBI, the only agencies affected by the FISA, to follow the standard
+    procedure of obtaining a court order re- quired in criminal investigations, and
+    legislators who felt the agencies should have no regulation whatsoever in their
+    foreign intelligence surveillances.
+    
+    [...]
+    
+    Almost unheard of outside the inner sanctum of the intelligence
+    establishment, the court is like no other. It sits in secret session, holds no
+    adversary hearings, and issues almost no public opinions or reports. It is
+    listed in neither the Government Organization Manual nor the United States
+    Court Directory and has even tried to keep its precise location a secret. "On
+    its face," said one legal authority familiar with the court, "it is an affront
+    to the traditional American concept of justice."
+
+    -- page 453
+
+    [...]
+
+    Then there is the last, and possibly most intriguing, part of the definition,
+    which stipulates that NSA has not "acquired" anything until the communication
+    has been processed "into an intelligible form intended for human inspection."
+    NSA is there- fore free to intercept all communications, domestic as well as
+    foreign, without ever coming under the law. Only when it selects the "contents"
+    of a particular communication for further "proc- essing" does the FISA take
+    effect.
+
+    -- page 458
+
+    Like most things in Britain, the practice of eavesdropping is
+    deeply rooted in tradition and probably dates back at least to
+    1653. In that year Lord Thurloe created what was known as
+    "The Secret Office," which specialized in clandestinely opening
+    and copying international correspondence. That custom later
+    carried over to telegrams and finally the telephone shortly after
+    it was first introduced in England in 1879.
+
+    -- page 487
+