Why did the FISA court first deny the request? It must have stunk to high heaven.
Yes, and courts (judges) no NOT like it if after the Court denies a motion, the the party desiring the motion simply “cleans is up,” not by curing/removing the actual problem, but to simply hiding the problematic part.
For example, had the government asked for a warrant for a building known as the Trump Tower, and the judge(s) wisely declined on the grounds that, absent an extremely compelling and overriding need, they were not gong to get into anything political, then the government went back to the same Court but another judge (set of judges) and asked for a warrant for 721 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, and gotten it, without disclosing the prior refusal. when it all came out, the Court would be VERY SERIOUSLY pissed.
If I was sitting on that Court, especially in the set of judges that approved the second application, the DOJ attorneys might well be facing a Bar complaint, possibly even for Fraud on the Court.