In a letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, the presiding judge of the country’s surveillance court laid out some details about the operations of the top secret court.The unclassified document discussed the way the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), its staff, and the government interact, along with how applications for court orders are handled. As The Atlantic’s Conor Freidersdorf pointed out, it also disclosed how rarely FISA court orders are challenged.
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