“Since when does Roberts have the power to appoint judges?”
The chief justice of the Supreme Court appoints the Fisa judges. This is done in anonymity and is most dangerous.
The FISA judges have done much good and much bad. Their potential for bad far exceeds their potential for good. This court damn near accomplished a soft coup-de-tat. In effect they were part of a cabal of sedition. It must be disbanded.
No Star Chambers in a free country. They don’t pass constitutional muster. Not ever in the Founders intents. they were opposed to this despotism.
The numbers I have seen show that despite effectively a 100% approval rate of FISA requests, less than 0.5% result in arrests or indictments. Sounds like either a bunch of fishing expeditions, or the warrants are just being used as CYA for illegal surveillance of American citizens. I think a special prosecutor should be looking at every FISA application submitted for the past 10 years.