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To: be-baw

“It appears FISC rubber stamps all the applications submitted which is not acceptable.”

They were designed to be rubber stamps, back when they were supposed to be a formality for approving spying on foreign terrorists and spies and such. After all, the intelligence agencies are going to spy on those people whether they can get a warrant or not. So the court might as well approve it, so we at least have some kind of oversight and record of the spying. They just continued to be rubber stamps when the deep staters expanded their mission to include every citizen in the country. That’s where the real trouble started.


48 posted on 12/23/2019 9:00:24 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Since its inception in 1979, only 85 of more than 40,000 have been denied.

Interestingly in 2016 there were 34 rejected and 34 more in 2017. 84% of rejections happened in just those two years.

Gotta wonder: why so many, so recently?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court


51 posted on 12/23/2019 9:09:23 AM PST by be-baw
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