Re:We Just Got a Rare Look at US National Security Surveillance
by mehrdadn on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:03PM
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> I think you are doing a category error: Criminal court proceedings are adversarial, FISA court is not.
That's not my argument—I think you read more into it than I intended! I wasn't trying to compare criminal courts to FISA courts; that was just an (unfortunate) coincidence in the analogy. The only reason I cited conviction rate as an example here was to illustrate why you can't just look at the statistics and draw a conclusion; that's all. It wasn't meant to serve as an argument for or against FISA courts.
That's not my argument—I think you read more into it than I intended! I wasn't trying to compare criminal courts to FISA courts; that was just an (unfortunate) coincidence in the analogy. The only reason I cited conviction rate as an example here was to illustrate why you can't just look at the statistics and draw a conclusion; that's all. It wasn't meant to serve as an argument for or against FISA courts.