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igorzx31 | 4 years ago

^This person is wrong. FISA and FBI counter-intel have a low bar to get warrants because that's what congress intended.

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freeflight|4 years ago

Indeed, the FISA court only exists to rubber-stamp warrants.

In 33 years the FISA court granted 33,942 warrants, in that same time only 12 were denied, a rejection rate of 0.03% [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

perl4ever|4 years ago

The rejection rate, in a vacuum, isn't evidence that they are rubber stamping warrants.

From a logical perspective, it could mean that those submitting requests are able to avoid sending weak ones and choose to do so.

I'm not saying I believe you/the standard view is wrong, but there must be some other evidence.