The Modified FISA Warrants Of The Last 5 Years !!!

Here's the 4 Denials we've all been talkin about:

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Orders 1979-2004

Link: http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/stats/fisa_stats.html

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But how about the 178 judicial modifications since Chimpy became president?

Year ... Modified requests
2000 ... 1 request modified
2001 ... 2 requests modified
2002 ... 2 requests modified (both modifications later reversed)
2003 ... 79 requests modified (out of 1724 granted)
2004 ... 94 requests modified (out of 1758)

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court

Just makin sure you're aware of this.

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Judge .............................Judicial District ...Date Appointed .......Term Expiry
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (presiding) District of Columbia ....May 19, 2002 .........May 18, 2009
Dee Benson ........................District of Utah ........May 2004 .............May 2011
Robert C. Broomfield ..............District of Arizona .....October 1, 2002 ......May 18, 2009
James G. Carr ...................Northern District of Ohio..May 19, 2002 .........May 18, 2008
John E. Conway ..................District of New Mexico ....May 19, 2002 .........May 18, 2007
Michael J. Davis ................District of Minnesota .....May 18, 1999 .........May 18, 2006
Nathaniel M. Gorton .............District of Massachusetts .May 18, 2001 .........May 18, 2008
Claude M. Hilton ..............Eastern District of Virginia May 18, 2001 .........May 18, 2007
Malcolm Howard ..........Eastern District of North Carolina ........2005 .........2012
George P. Kazen ............Southern District of Texas..... May 18, 2003 .........May 18, 2010
James Robertson .................District of Columbia ......May 19, 2002 .........May 18, 2006
(resigned December 20, 2005

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court

Still... they've been telling his lowness "no" a bunch!

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but "tighten that net a little, boys, so you aren't eavesdropping on ordinary people" would be more like it.

Remember, it says "modified." Something like five have been denied.

just got more and more "questionable", the more people he wanted to spy on, hence more modifications

for a megalomaniac.

Do you have the number of modified requests for the Clinton years?

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Each application for one of these surveillance warrant (called a FISA warrant) is made before an individual judge of the court. Like a grand jury, FISC is not an adversarial court: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings. However, the court may allow third parties to submit briefs as amici curiae. If an application is denied by one judge of the FISC, the federal government is not allowed to make the same application to a different judge of the FISC. Instead, denials must be appealed to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Such appeals are rare: the first appeal from the FISC to the Court of Review was made in 2002, 24 years after the founding of the FISC.

It is also rare for FISA warrant requests to be turned down by the court. Through the end of 2004, 18,761 warrants were granted, while just five were rejected (many sources say four). Fewer than 200 requests had to be modified before being accepted, almost all of them in 2003 and 2004. The four known rejected requests were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being resubmitted for reconsideration by the government. Of the requests that had to be modified, few if any were before the year 2000. In subsequent years, according to journalist Joshua Micah Marshall, the breakdown was as follows: (graph)

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Link again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court

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