When the FBI uses FISA, it seeks approval from judges at the secret U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for phone, email and electronic surveillance and for searches of property, including "sneak-and-peak" search warrants in which agents covertly enter a business or home when the occupants are away, and try to leave no trail of their visit.
I remember fondly sharing with my audience at the time how bottom-of-the-barrel government employees were just waddling their fat asses into my house like it was some sort of a bus station. "Try," indeed.
See, FISA isn't so that our dummy civil servants can catch the bad men. If it were, maybe they would have caught the bad men who put incompatible engine hardware on Murray Street.
No, FISA is so that our useless government employees can have a fig leaf of legality when they engineer electronic communications between putative teenage lovers and national treasures who point out that there was incompatible engine hardware on Murray Street.
Being the wholly incompetent government employees that they are, however, they will send sexting photos to a $10 Tracfone that is technologically incapable of displaying photos. And our civil servant geniuses will be incapable of settling on a name for my teenage lover. Is it Taylor? Or is it Cody?
The purpose of FISA courts is so that the FBI may use within the legal system that evidence which they intend to fabricate. FISA isn't to catch the terriss.
(And FISA court judges are losers, in that they refuse to buy their tickets.)
And the Vermont State Police have learned their lesson: When the FBI comes to town, it's not to catch the bad men. It's to commit a felony. It's what they do. The FBI is the dirtiest, most corrupt piece of trash in Washington. They whack witnesses. They whack their own guys. They fabricate evidence. And the poor little rubes in the Vermont State Police almost got themselves a multi-million-dollar lawsuit for defamation of character. And if they catch me on a bad day, they still may get one.
And that, my little dream children, is your FISA lesson for the day.