In separate instances, both Yahoo and the American Civil Liberties Union have asked the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, respectively, to declassify the government's surveillance order to the company, Reuters reports. Yahoo wants to have the ability to freely respond to previous reports that it established a program to scan emails on behalf of the government, the report states. Yahoo General Counsel Ron Bell petitioned Clapper to "confirm the existence of the government order, to declassify all or part of it, and to 'make a sufficiently detailed public and contextual comment to clarify the alleged facts and circumstances'" in a letter, the report continues. A spokesman for Clapper's office said they had received the letter and would respond to Yahoo directly. 
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