I 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 2OEH8eo

I 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.