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Two possibilities. Either the government is incredibly careful to only submit requests with sufficient evidence and justification to the secret court or its a r
by UncleMeat 3y ago
Two possibilities. Either the government is incredibly careful to only submit requests with sufficient evidence and justification to the secret court or its a rubber stamp. I wonder.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoHaving seen some submissions from various LEOs ( non-FISA stuff mind ), I have zero problem accepting the premise that the government is not that selective. Fishing expedition concept exists for a reason.
- ethanbond 3y agoThat's the neat thing about priors, ain't it.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoI certainly agree that the FISA court is almost certainly just a rubber stamp. I do not believe they provide meaningful oversight. But I must agree with 2OEH8eoCRo0 on this: we don't know, and we need to know when we're in the context of discussing what public policy should be. It's not enough to strongly suspect. What needs to happen is that the whole process needs to be made open to the public, as it should always have been. There is no acceptable reason to hide a process like this from the public. Once it is in the public view, we can properly judge whether the requests are truly just being rubber stamped. And, as a bonus, being forced to make these requests public would almost certainly reduce (though likely not eliminate) any extant abuse of this process.