Secret Court’s Judge Says It Alters 24% of Data Requests
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About a quarter of government requests to the secret U.S. surveillance court undergo “substantive changes” because of judicial action, the court’s presiding judge said in a letter to Congress.
Allegations that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rubber-stamps virtually every government request for a warrant to obtain records and communication intercepts were shown by a sampling of data to be untrue, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said in the letter to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee.