Just rename the Politicized FISA Court the Star Chamber and be done with it.
This is so widespread within the Federal Government that nobody knows exactly how to “contain” it.
Which is good, if it spills from it’s container, we will see most of the pieces.
Star Chamber indeed.
The courts have wrecked the 4th Amendment. While cops generally can’t search your car without your permission, the government has open access, a cutout in the 4A, to search your financials and medical records.
FISA, as in FOREIGN, is another cutout in the 4th Amendment. Instead of obtaining a warrant in open court to search for a particular item in a particular place, it is secret and designed to surveil Americans in the employ of foreign governments, i.e. traitors to America.
Instead of framing this as a self-serving separation of powers issue, the FISA judge should be outraged that officers of the court lied to her. She should begin with tossing every signatory to the FISA applications in jail for contempt of court.
We are at the precipice of a surveillance/police state.
Star Chamber indeed.