A federal judge said in a declassified opinion, issued during his time serving on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, that the National Security Agency misrepresented themselves and violated the Constitution for several years. The government released the declassified ruling on Wednesday, as written by Judge John D. Bates. In it, Judge Bates outlines the NSA’s Fourth Amendment violations as they go about collecting intelligence, including upstream ISP traffic, and how the agency collected as many as 56,000 completely domestic communications per year. Two years later, the NSA says they have changed the way data is collected and processed, but documents leaked by Edward Snowden bring the accusations back into the spotlight.”]