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-[[!meta title="Puzzle Palace"]]
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-* Author: James Bamford
-
-## Excerpts
-
-    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
-