>Sorry to go slightly off-topic, but what is the evidence that the FISA courts are rubber stamps rather than really doing their job? I'm not being snarky, I jus

>Sorry to go slightly off-topic, but what is the evidence that the FISA courts are rubber stamps rather than really doing their job? I'm not being snarky, I just haven't seen any (but I have heard FISA called that a lot) http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spying-opinion-reject-request http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spyin... There have been nearly 34K requests to the FISA court. It has rejected 11.