So many things wrong for such a short paragraph: "Reuters writes that the 1,457 requests made last year by the NSA and FBI were all approved" 1,457 < 48,642.

So many things wrong for such a short paragraph: "Reuters writes that the 1,457 requests made last year by the NSA and FBI were all approved" 1,457 < 48,642. > "Even if every LEO..." NSA != LEO. Do you believe their requests were not being made by lawyers with the relevant act open on their other monitor? > "no apparent oversight..." The court's previous rejection rate was .03%. .03% of 1457 is less than 1. IOW, this is the expected outcome even if no greater care was taken to write bullet-proof requests. Also, this: "The memo did reportedly show an marked increase in requests that were modified by the court before approval: 80 applications were changed, as opposed to 19 in 2014"