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cali

(114,904 posts) Sun Jul 7, 2013, 09:43 AM Jul 2013

Solutions: 2 simple reforms that I'd like to see in FISA reform. do you agree?

FISA needs reform badly. I just wrote my Senator asking him to put these reforms in his FISA Privacy Protection and Accountability Act:

1) In every FISA hearing have a government lawyer with clearance appointed to act as defense- like a Public Defender.

2) Change the process for appointing Justices so that the process is not delegated solely to the Chief Justice, but to rotating members of the SCOTUS and put in place a confirmation process that involves a panel of those with clearance and knowledge of the FISA court.