Spy court rejects no requests in 2006

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States' secret surveillance court in 2006 did not reject any of the more than 2,000 government requests for permission to conduct electronic surveillance and physical searches, according to a Justice Department report released Tuesday.

Of the 2,181 applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court last year, 2,176 were approved and five were withdrawn; one of those was resubmitted and one was partially accepted.

Since 2001, the year of the disastrous September 11 attacks, only four requests have been denied.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/01/fisa.court/

[unhappycamper]

1. If I heard the FISA hearing yesterday correctly, those 2,181 requests

generated about 110,000 pages of names.

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2. Hey, the spooks need to entertain themselves. nt

[unhappycamper]

3. Yea, but 110,00 pages of names?

Does that mean we're fighting them here so we don't have to fight them over there?

[bemildred]

4. I think it means some suit-droid wants to look like he is really busy.

Getting a lot of work done here, yes sir, hunting down them terrists. If this is not a fishing expedition and/or a witch hunt, I don't know what is.