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In reply to the discussion: Snowden saw what I saw: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution Thomas Drake [View all]SlimJimmy
(3,180 posts)It doesn't go on some *record*. The judge rejects it and in some cases recommends steps to improve the chances of a future affidavit for a warrant being accepted. For example, if an investigator says he believes that stolen property is at a certain location, but doesn't have any evidence showing the likelihood that the property is there, that request will probably be rejected. The judge might then say, "Get an informant to verify the existence of the property at that location, or develop surveillance that shows it being moved there, and I might reconsider." That's how it really works.
For some reason, you seem to think the amount of requests reflect some type of justification of the FISA court. As I previously stated, just one request to collect the data of hundreds of millions of records is sufficient for me to question the program's scope.