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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by gergles on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:11PM (#5862681)
>Sorry to go slightly off-topic, but what is the evidence that the FISA courts are rubber stamps rather than really doing their job? I'm not being snarky, I just haven't seen any (but I have heard FISA called that a lot)

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spyin...

There have been nearly 34K requests to the FISA court. It has rejected 11.

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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by kvb on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @04:28PM (#5864500)
How many should have been rejected, given proper scrutiny?
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