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Snowden files was quite detailed on how the NSA programs targeted at US were barely having any kind of judicial scrutiny and FISA was rubberstamping. I don't se

Snowden files was quite detailed on how the NSA programs targeted at US were barely having any kind of judicial scrutiny and FISA was rubberstamping. I don't see any reason to believe that the situation has improved or that in the other branches of sigint employing agencies it is better.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
> Snowden files was quite detailed Where was this detailed? We would need to know how many requests the FISA courts receive and how many they reject and we would also need to know these numbers for the in-the-open legal system. Even still- if investigators are good at their job they aren't going to give the judge flimsy requests that will get rejected. I know for example that police often err on the side of caution and request warrants where a warrant might not be required because it's better than being wrong and tainting the entire case.
- autoexec 3y ago
  > We would need to know how many requests the FISA courts receive and how many they reject We aren't entirely without numbers "1,856. That's the number of applications presented to the court by the government last year. And it's also the number that the court approved: 100 percent success." (https://www.npr.org/2013/06/13/191226106/fisa-court-appears-to-be-rubberstamp-for-government-requests https://www.npr.org/2013/06/13/191226106/fisa-court-appears-...)