>But how would I refute the "Federal judges warrant rejection rates are very low because the law enforcement doesn't want to present questionable warrants in th

>But how would I refute the "Federal judges warrant rejection rates are very low because the law enforcement doesn't want to present questionable warrants in the first place" argument? Assuming that is the case, one would think it would be in NSA's self interest to be less stringent with their FISA requests so as to achieve a higher rate of rejections, thus creating an image of propriety for the court. If memory serves, NSA seems to pride themselves on the low rejection rate. Not that there's anything wrong with that—if in fact it's due to stringent preparation—it just looks bad from the outside.