FISA

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) was established by Congress in 1978. The irony is FISA was created by the U.S. Congress based on the recommendations of the Senate's Church Committee, which was convened in 1975 to investigate illicit activities and civil rights abuses by the federal intelligence community. The court gives permission for search and seizure without a court order or warrant. Since the court only hears the governments side of the story all information presented to the court must be fully investigated before being presented to the court and 99.998% are approved. The FBI improperly used warrantless search powers against U.S. citizens more than 278,000 times in the year ending November 2021, according to an unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) filing. This was the court that approved the now debunked Steele dossier that was used to spy on the Trump campaign. The FISA judge who approved the request now says he would not have done so if he had known what he knows now. The first request by the FBI to spy on Carter Page was refused so they went back a second time with the Steele dossier and the court approved. Is it time for another Church committee.