Judge rules FISA is "exclusive" means for wiretapping -- POTUS can't use CinC power

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N.B.: In the same decision, Judge Walker threw out the classified document al-Haramain sought to use as evidence and gave the plaintiffs 30 days to re-file on new evidence.
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Anyone have any idea why? They could easily redact out all other names on the copy of the log presented, so I don’t see how it could endanger security.

Also, Bricker, why do you believe the case will be reviewed *de novo * and could you explain exactly what that means to those of us who are not lawyers and haven’t encountered the term before? I mean, going back to my high school Latin, it looks like of or from new, but I don’t quite know how that applies here.