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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 02:56 PM Feb 2018

Context on Nunes Memo: in 2016, FISA court denied 0.5% of warrant applications...

Since 1979, it has denied 0.052% of warrants.

Do Republicans really think if that extra information was in the request, FISA would have denied it?

The report shows that 1,752 applications were made during 2016 to allow the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to intercept phone calls and emails. Breaking down that overall figure, the court said it permitted 1,378 requests in full, while 339 requests were granted after modification.

The court's new reporting methods also revealed that the FISA court also rejected parts of 26 requests submitted by the NSA and the FBI.

In other words, just 0.5 percent of all surveillance requests last year were denied.

By comparison, since 1979 to date, the court has approved 40,117 warrants but only rejected 21 requests. That's a rejection rate of 0.052 percent.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/in-obamas-final-year-us-secret-court-denied-record-number-of-surveillance-requests/
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Context on Nunes Memo: in 2016, FISA court denied 0.5% of warrant applications... (Original Post) yurbud Feb 2018 OP
Wouldn't Trump have learned about the surveillance if LakeVermilion Feb 2018 #1
this is an anti-american intelligence talking point sharedvalues Feb 2018 #2
FISA warrants are hard to get sharedvalues Feb 2018 #3

LakeVermilion

(1,022 posts)
1. Wouldn't Trump have learned about the surveillance if
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 03:02 PM
Feb 2018

he had participated in the security briefings? As I recall, he knew more about the military than the generals and more about spying than the CIA.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
2. this is an anti-american intelligence talking point
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 04:07 PM
Feb 2018

Few fisa warrants are denied because the government pts tons of effort into preparing them well. And many are changed and resubmitted.


For example the first FISA request on Manafort was denied.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
3. FISA warrants are hard to get
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 04:10 PM
Feb 2018
http://www.newsweek.com/how-get-fisa-warrant-797323

It is very hard to get such surveillance warrants.

“It’s extremely difficult, and, in fact, the goal [inside the FBI] is to hold yourself to a high enough standard so that you won’t ever get rejected by the court,” said Renato Mariotti, who was a federal prosecutor in Chicago from 2007 to 201
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