Treasury Secretary [[Jack Lew]] blocked the FOIA request from being released, an apparent [[conflict of interest]]. Lew was White House Chief of Staff in 2012 when the Secret Research Project was conceived. FISA chief judge Rosemary Collyer determined illegal FISA abuse of the NSA database by the FBI, and [[Fourth Amendment]] violations began in 2012, and were the result of "deliberate decision making." | Treasury Secretary [[Jack Lew]] blocked the FOIA request from being released, an apparent [[conflict of interest]]. Lew was White House Chief of Staff in 2012 when the Secret Research Project was conceived. FISA chief judge Rosemary Collyer determined illegal FISA abuse of the NSA database by the FBI, and [[Fourth Amendment]] violations began in 2012, and were the result of "deliberate decision making." |