Tom Fitton,

And here’s an interesting note. Is it due to the focus on FISA courts or is it because of a disinterest in working with the Trump administration? From ZDNet.com:

In Trump’s first year, FISA court denied record number of surveillance orders

by Zack Whittaker

More surveillance orders were denied during President Donald Trump’s first year in office than in the court’s history.

In its first year, the Trump administration kept one little-known courtroom in the capital busy.

A secretive Washington DC-based court that oversees the US government’s foreign spy programs denied more surveillance orders during President Donald Trump’s first year than in the court’s 40-year history, according to newly released figures.

Why would that be?

Annual data published Wednesday by the US Courts shows that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court last year denied 26 applications in full, and 50 applications in part.

That’s compared to 21 orders between when the court was first formed in 1978 and President Barack Obama’s final year in office in 2016.

That’s a rejection rate of 0.11 percent to date.

Okay, why?

Specific reasons for the modifications were not given, but they can include changing who or what is surveilled and for what length.

Or is it simply a Deep State political reaction?

What you may not know is this: going to the FISA court customarily equated to a Grand Jury and a ham sandwich.

BZ