If it was a speed thing, the FBI could show "good faith" [1] and say that a judge should verify the request post-facto and (in)validate it. But of course it do

If it was a speed thing, the FBI could show "good faith" [1] and say that a judge should verify the request post-facto and (in)validate it. But of course it doesn't do that, because the FBI doesn't operate in "good faith", and because it would prefer as little oversight as possible - which is what this request is really about anyway: the removal of judicial oversight, even beyond its rapidly growing abuse of NSLs [2]. [1] - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160605/09111034626/appeals-court-as-long-as-government-has-good-faith-it-can-root-around-your-digital-files-as-much-as-it-wants.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160605/09111034626/appea... [2] - https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/04/14/keeping-secrecy-exception-not-rule-issue-consumers-businesses/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/04/14/keeping...