I don't have a good source for my 99% comment for the general case, that's just something I ran across a while ago. However, Wikipedia makes the same claim for

I don't have a good source for my 99% comment for the general case, that's just something I ran across a while ago. However, Wikipedia makes the same claim for FISA warrants.[1] Of course, there is also some discussion that these are only "final" requests to that court. Just using the FISA numbers as a starting point for discussion, I'm not ready to believe that 11 requests denied and 33,942 warrants issued is something that makes sense. I'd bet that the Russian Parliament is less of a rubber stamp on Putin. :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...