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<blockquote data-quote="Rutherford B Hays" data-source="post: 4051047" data-attributes="member: 76876">From wikipedia So take it for what worth.&quot;Also rare is for FISA warrant requests to be turned down. During the 25 years from 1979 to 2004, 18,742 warrants were granted, while only four were rejected. Fewer than 200 requests had to be modified before being accepted, almost all of them in 2003 and 2004. The four rejected requests were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being submitted for reconsideration by the government. Of the requests that had to be modified, few were before the year 2000. During the next eight years, from 2004 to 2012, there were over 15,100 additional warrants granted, and another seven being rejected. Over the entire 33-year period, the FISA court granted 33,942 warrants, with only 12 denials – a rejection rate of 0.03 percent of the total requests.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#cite_note-WSJ2012Stats-4" target="_blank">[4]</a> This does not include the number of warrants that were modified by the FISA court.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>&quot;<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#FISA_warrants" target="_blank">United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - Wikipedia</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rutherford B Hays, post: 4051047, member: 76876"] From wikipedia So take it for what worth. "Also rare is for FISA warrant requests to be turned down. During the 25 years from 1979 to 2004, 18,742 warrants were granted, while only four were rejected. Fewer than 200 requests had to be modified before being accepted, almost all of them in 2003 and 2004. The four rejected requests were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being submitted for reconsideration by the government. Of the requests that had to be modified, few were before the year 2000. During the next eight years, from 2004 to 2012, there were over 15,100 additional warrants granted, and another seven being rejected. Over the entire 33-year period, the FISA court granted 33,942 warrants, with only 12 denials – a rejection rate of 0.03 percent of the total requests.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#cite_note-WSJ2012Stats-4'][4][/URL] This does not include the number of warrants that were modified by the FISA court.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#cite_note-5'][5][/URL]" [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#FISA_warrants"]United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - Wikipedia[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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