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by chomp 119 days ago
I think you’re confused on the difference between these, and what an administrative warrant is in particular.
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Trying to draw a distinction between the secret FISA court and administrative warrants from DHS is shaving the baloney a little thin.
Despite all its other warts, the FISA court is (A) an actual judicial-branch court (B) created by legislation and (C) the justices cannot be removed on direct Presidential whim.

In contrast, "administrative warrants" are more like an executive-branch manager writing a memo, where an unscrupulous President could get them removed in a day for not writing the "right" memos.

You think fisa is the good one? They're widely recognized as rubber-stamp courts.
Fisa doesn't have to be good for these phony sheet of paper warrants to be worse.
You’re comparing apples and oranges. These administrative warrants are very limited in scope. They are closer to the subpoenas that even ordinary civilian lawyers can send third parties in the course of litigation. They don’t give the government the power to bust into Google’s data center. The target has to respond or else challenge the warrant in court, but ordinary civilian subpoenas function the same way.
That's not at all what I've been hearing from reports of people getting these. They find that they're not at all targeted. They frequently don't even know who the target is. The officers get asked for a warrant and they might produce a bullshit piece of paper which is really just a memo.

Anyway, it's not "me" comparing these alleged apples and oranges, I am replying deep in a thread of other people making these comparisons.

> > Despite all its other warts, the FISA court is [a real court]

> You think fisa is the good one?

Is this an accidental fail to comprehend, or a deliberate strawman?