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May 3, 2012 09:49 pm PDT

US requests for secret spying warrants rose to nearly 2K in 2011, and not a single one was rejected

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) reports today that the US Justice Department made 1,745 requests last year to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) for permission to wiretap or search for evidence in counter-terrorism cases. That's up from 1,579 requests in 2010. Every single one of the requests submitted in 2011 were accepted, [...]


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