The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court deals with some of the most sensitive matters of national security – terror threats and espionage. Its work for the most part cannot be examined by the American public, by order of the Congress and the President. It is a tribunal that is completely secret (or supposed to be), its structure largely one-sided, and its members unilaterally chosen by one person.
A rotating panel of federal judges at the FISC decides whether to grant certain types of government requests – wiretapping, data analysis, and other monitoring for “foreign intelligence purposes” of suspected terrorists and spies operating in the United States.
... [T]he 11 judges are appointed exclusively by the Chief Justice of the United States, without any supplemental confirmation from the other two branches of government. John Roberts has named every member of the current court, as a well as a separate three-judge panel to hear appeals of FISC orders, known as the Court of Review.
Can a Chief Justice be impeached?
just an idle question.
Well worth the ten minutes.
Paid and bought
It would be an exciting, interesting, and highly successful political gamble.
Do judges go through background investigations? Because my understand of why they are done is to weed out those who may be subject to blackmail.
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Yea GD it! Oh we all want to forget about that injustice! NEV ER GET TO THE TRUTH IN THIS DAMN COUNTRY NEVER!
FAKE F’CKER CJ!
The only logical conclusion one can make when confronted by mountains of evidence that the fix was in for the 2016 election but moreso since then with the coup conspiracy by officials of the DOJ, FBI, CIA and NSA. The legitimacy of these institutions is now compromised. This is banana republic stuff folks. The corruption of the Clinton’s and their supporters is breathtaking.
Nice article, but nothing is going to change. The government is as corrupt as a wooden nickel. The only way that it will change is with strong leadership.
Trump was a start, but I see that his push and mandate is sputtering out.
Hillary, Lois learner, Clapper, and their ilk are not only free, but in many cases still at the government till. They are smug because they know that it is just a matter of a few years and they will be back in charge... and when that happens, they will make sure that another Trump wave never reoccurs.
Roberts has proven himself to be an ass of enormous proportion.
I’ve been waiting for this issue to surface!