re: #367 Nyet

> But FISA only says no .03% of the time. How probable does it have to be? Barely if at all.

Maybe FISA is permissive, I wouldn’t know, but that statistic is not necessarily indicative of much to me. It could be low because FISA is a rubber stamp court or it may be low because it’s so strict that only the cases with the best evidence are offered to it.

My understanding is the latter. There are only a few people who prepare FISA warrant requests, they know exactly what flies and what doesn’t, so anything too weak to be accepted never gets put forward. There are a lot of processes in bureaucracies like this.

It doesn’t mean the process is a joke or the judge would approve a scribble on a napkin, it’s just that everybody knows the drill.