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“Officials asking the FISA court for surveillance should have to check factual claims, include important information that weakens the request or raises source reliability doubts, certify that the review happened, and show the judge that valid accuracy steps were used.”
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“Officials seeking FISA surveillance should swear to key facts, identify and check political or news-based evidence, disclose facts that weaken the request, and give judges more context before targeting or extending surveillance of U.S. persons.”
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“Agencies asking the FISA Court for surveillance approval should give judges a fuller and better-checked record, keep written records of court contacts, avoid steering requests to favored judges, and allow outside legal or technical experts to help test important cases.”
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“Outside experts should be used more often in important secret FISA court cases, get more of the case materials they need when cleared, and be able to ask higher courts to review major surveillance law questions.”
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“FISA courts should use outside legal experts in more sensitive cases, give those experts more access and review tools when approved, and be able to hire independent legal advisers who answer only to the courts.”
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“Secret surveillance requests should be checked carefully, especially when they involve people in the United States.”
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“FISA Court judges should get appointed lawyers or outside experts for sensitive reviews, keep transcripts with case records, usually use the same judge for some U.S.-person extensions, and let congressional oversight committees request certain transcripts.”
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“FISA court work and surveillance programs should leave more written records, make major court opinions more available to the public when possible, and give Congress and watchdogs more information about how FISA and Section 702 are used.”
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“The FISA Court should use more independent privacy, civil liberties, and technical experts in important cases, let them review more case materials, and release significant court decisions publicly as much as security allows.”
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“People should face stronger consequences for knowingly misleading FISA courts, wrongly disclosing FISA applications, disobeying FISA court orders, or committing unlawful FISA actions that harm others.”
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“Federal courts and executive officials should report more information about surveillance tools, Section 702 targeting and U.S.-person searches, compliance problems, criminal uses of Executive Order 12333 information, and estimates of how many U.S. people’s communications Section 702 collects.”
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“The FISA Court should regularly review how agencies use Section 702, Congress should get access and reports for oversight, and GAO should audit whether targets are limited to non-U.S. persons outside the United States.”
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“Watchdogs should review more surveillance programs, agencies should report EO 12333 violations and limit how long they keep some Americans' data, Congress should be told about immunity for help with warrantless surveillance, and intelligence employees who misuse Americans' information should face consequences.”
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“Surveillance programs should be checked often, and the public and Congress should get enough information to judge whether the rules are working.”
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“The public and Congress should get more useful information about how secret surveillance powers are used, while protecting information that truly needs to stay classified.”
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“Inspectors General and civil liberties overseers should have a larger role reviewing FISA surveillance and sensitive matters, and Congress should receive oversight information when the Attorney General grants immunity in covered surveillance-related matters.”
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