The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work | Glenn Greenwald

Newly released data show that the government submitted 1,789 eavesdropping requests last year, and none was rejected

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In the mid-1970s, an investigation by the US Senate, conducted by the Church Committee, uncovered decades of serious, systemic abuse by the US government of its eavesdropping powers: listening in on the telephone calls of civil rights leaders, reading the mail of political opponents, spying on anti-war groups. The supposed lesson learned from this was that politic...