That’s what I’m wondering. Who has oversight of the FISA court? Its Trump related decisions clearly need to be reviewed. In fact, it clearly needs much more than that.
It needs a top down IG type inspection. Maybe even a commission of some sort to assess its functioning in the post 9/11 era.
One way or another, an overhaul of the FISA system will probably be part of the fallout of this thing if the Republicans play their cards right. Doing so would be consistent with some of Nunes’s statements.
Funny how it was the Dems who screamed bloody murder at Dubya’s expansion of surveillance powers and now it turns out they’re the very ones to abuse those powers in the lowest of ways.
There definitely needs to be some mechanism for routine oversight and review of what the FISA court and any other secret court is doing. Maybe a civilian board of experienced judges, or a special category of IGs. And then even congressional review in extraordinary circumstances such as those at present.
There appears to be no routine process where the decisions of a FISA court can be reviewed, or where anyone damaged by improper decisions can seek redress.
And that gigantic question about all the unmaskings is still just hanging out there with no detailed answers yet, AFAIK.
C.J. John Roberts—who well may be under control.