The TV news is jubilating over Justice Department news/leaks about "improper" FBI testimony to the FISA court that caused said court to OK snooping on the Trump campaign during the election. Bear in mind that of the thousands of requests to snoop on American citizens only a dozen are rejected. 99.9% of all requests to snoop are approved. This is a rubber stamp. What's worse, the FISA court is secret. We don't know who the judge[s] are, where and when it meets, where it's records are kept, nothing. A FISA judge can rule any old which way and we citizens will never know. And they have rubber stamped a helova lot of snooping over the years.
We ought to shut the whole FISA court thing down. Intelligence and police agencies wanting to snoop will have to get their warrants from a real judge in a real court, one that tries cases and is open for business 9/5 five days a week.
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