There is this line
:Since its debut in 1978, the FISA court has denied only one of the roughly 10,000 warrant applications sought by the feds.
Then there's this:
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, chief of the seven-member FISA court, would not agree to be interviewed, but has bristled at accusations that the court rubber-stamps federal warrants.
And Lamberth has often been critical of the government from his bench. He is said to have censured an FBI lawyer in March for one FISA warrant request, according to The Washington Post, a censure that set off a department-wide investigation into the way the FBI was requesting the warrants.
Either the writer or this judge takes us for complete idiots.
Please pardon me for being redundant, but can any one please tell me which "one" warrant application was denied?
There is this line:
Since its debut in 1978, the FISA court has denied only one of the roughly 10,000 warrant applications sought by the feds.
Then there's this:
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, chief of the seven-member FISA court, would not agree to be interviewed, but has bristled at accusations that the court rubber-stamps federal warrants.
And Lamberth has often been critical of the government from his bench. He is said to have censured an FBI lawyer in March for one FISA warrant request, according to The Washington Post, a censure that set off a department-wide investigation into the way the FBI was requesting the warrants.
Was this the same "one" request as above?