When a government makes a court secret, I tend to infer the worst interpretation of the activities they're hiding from us. We have no means of checking whether the FBI is putting any care into their warrant applications. We have no way of knowing if the judges even read the affidavits, or what level of scrutiny they apply to the requests, etc.
All we know is that they grant 99.98% of the warrants asked-for. That's a massively suspicious rate of approval that is more likely explained by the rubber stamp than careful consideration and evaluation.
Nothing in this world has that kind of success rate without some sort of shenanigans.
Sure and so far it was only Wyden that even was allowed to shed some light on what is happening behind the curtain and even then, when IC officials are dragged in front that body that is supposed to be the buck where it all stops, IC representative simply lied ( wiki Clapper for more info ). It is silly that all this is happening in plain sight and we still argue like it is some sort of assumption.
All we know is that they grant 99.98% of the warrants asked-for. That's a massively suspicious rate of approval that is more likely explained by the rubber stamp than careful consideration and evaluation.
Nothing in this world has that kind of success rate without some sort of shenanigans.