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Would be good to also take care of illegal spying on presidential campaigns while they're at it. And of rubberstamping FISA warrants based on fake, uncorroborat
by m0zg 8y ago
Would be good to also take care of illegal spying on presidential campaigns while they're at it. And of rubberstamping FISA warrants based on fake, uncorroborated "dossiers".
- m0zg 8y agoFolks who are downvoting, may I ask why? Seems like a very non-controversial thing to suggest, frankly, especially given who will be ordering the spying this time.
- 1123581321 8y agoI didn’t downvote the comment, but it is nearly off-topic and seems uninformed as a bill wouldn’t be written to just do either of those things. The second one would be difficult to define in legal language and your comment doesn’t try to address that. It doesn’t seem like you would recognize if Congress solved the problem.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Would be good to also take care of illegal spying on presidential campaigns while they're at it. Even if that was a real problem, it's obviously impossible for a law to “take care of it”, only to outlaw it, which, as we’re discussing “illegal spying”, it already has, by definition.
- m0zg 8y agoSure, but it seems like it'd be valuable to make the FISA court less rubber stamp happy, no? Gosh, maybe even require corroborated evidence before requests are granted.