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Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by creaghpatr on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:33PM (#16127018)
No need to imagine, it literally happened this election cycle: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-governm...

Whether the renewal to continue spying into early 2017 was (figuratively) warranted is debatable, but with the official reasoning largely classified, the public may never know.

Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by daveguy on Thursday January 11, 2018 @06:39PM (#16129140)
Manafort had been under investigation since 2014. The Trump campaign hired him while he was being surveilled. That could happen from a plain old court issuing a surveillance subpoena. I think FISA should always require court approval. No blanket approvals like were going through phone companies. But court approval on an individual basis is how we've always done legal investigations.