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FISA judges are the oversight on foreign surveillance, but there is no (public?) oversight of national security letters.


FISA judges are not oversight of anything, as we learned, they almost never refuse a request, and even if there's a threat of such refusal, FBI could just lie to them, and they would stamp it, and when the lie comes out, nothing happens. FISA court is just a smokescreen to provide an illusion of oversight.




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