"I addressed that elsewhere in the thread. The laws aren't secret, it's the court rulings that are secret. The fact that there's a secret court is known, though

"I addressed that elsewhere in the thread. The laws aren't secret, it's the court rulings that are secret. The fact that there's a secret court is known, though. So you could campaign against that court without leaking classified information." The text of the laws was public. But the NSA decided that those laws meant something radically different than what was written down. Per my understanding, mostly that did not have involvement from the FISA court.