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Broken clock is right twice a day I guess. FISA courts are a fucking sham. 'member when they were going after the guild of librarians with warrants that prevents the accused from talking to a lawyer? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
This is one of those situations where everybody sucks, and there's no good side of the fight.
Trump wants to kill any foreign surveillance, because he was caught creceiving orders from foreign investors in his campaign. FISA is inherently flawed and should be reformed or replaced, but the American people do have an interest in monitoring foreign communications with our political leaders.
Thing is FISA's interests in political representation is a very small part of their actual mandate. Which should surprise no one since it was founded by Nixon. The brunt of it is targeted at regular people.
For example the vast dragnet surveillance of the NSA were approved under FISA. We know such surveillance is used regularly against social movements like occupy Wall Street, WTC protests, most likely BLM, etc.
https://www.fedbar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FISA-pdf-1.pdf
Not a thing I say much, but Trump is on the right side on this one. For completely the wrong reasons, of course.
That tends to be true in representative democracy as a whole, so it's not that surprising either ;)