The makeup of the FISA Court and how judges are chosen; How almost all of the key decisions about the legality of America's mass Internet spying projects have been made by the FISC; How the current system promotes ideological hegemony within the FISA court; How the FISC’s endless-secrecy-by-default system insulates it from the ecosystem of jurisprudence that could act as a guardrail against poor decisions as well as accountability for them; How the FISC’s remit has… [read post]