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To: Just mythoughts
-- Is the CIA required to get a warrant for surveillance? --

From the perspective of the law, the same rules apply across the board.

A warrant only matters when the case is brought before the court. IOW, it only matter when the government gets caught, or brings a case into court itself.

I got down in the weeds following a set of cases against the NSA, about 10 of them, were consolidated. FISA has civil damages for people "aggrieved," meaning surveilled without a warrant. FISA has civil damages to deter "illegal" surveillance.

The government successfully had the cases tossed on state secrets grounds.

The only cases I know of that maybe involved CIA were physical searches of property of US persons, done overseas. Allowed.

33 posted on 02/06/2018 2:04:48 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Thank you. Brennan showing up to itch on the Sunday mass news shows, cause me to wonder just who he was talking to.


34 posted on 02/06/2018 11:21:05 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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