What is a FISA search? Don’t you have to go to court and get a warrant? Or is this looking at the information after it is collected pursuant to a warrant?
Warrants? We don’t need no stinkin’ warrants!
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It’s where you have a database and you allow some contractor whose fortunes are tied to a particular political orthodoxy to run searches on the database. It’s like a weaponized Google search, say search on Trump, dinner and you get the NSA recordings of every person who had a dinner date with Trump. The problem is that the FISA court is telling the FBI that these were warrantless searches and therefore illegal and that the FBI violated minimization procedures by allowing these searches in the first place.