Transparency: a secret court with secretly appointed judges who make secret rulings on requests whose details are kept secret from the judges.* * I've seen all

Transparency: a secret court with secretly appointed judges who make secret rulings on requests whose details are kept secret from the judges.* * I've seen allegations of this last bit, but not evidence. The claim was that it mostly goes on the word of the requesting agency/analyst and the judge has no real way of knowing whether it's a legitimate request or not.