[shakna]

> I do think it's fair to be suspicious and that we should be vigilant about it, but I don't think that 1500 requests a year is too out of line.

Those 1500 requests cover about 15 million people though, which skews the weighting. That gives me concern.

> If there's a 'known process' for getting warrants, and law enforcement knows what will be approved and what won't

Either that, or there is a culture that rejecting a warrant needs extenuating circumstances, in which case it becomes a large concern.

We can't know if the oversight is simply managerial, or actually effective. It's done with the utmost secrecy, with many punishments awaiting any who might speak out.

> I think the big concern is the 'mass surveillance' - or when local cops are making requests to do local-yocal small cases that don't have relevance to things like actual terrorism.

Unfortunately FISA enables mass surveillance. And the checks and balances seem heavily weighted against the individual, and in favour of a state they can't oppose.