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The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have…

— Preet Bharara

The FBI relies on FISA every day in national security investigations to prevent terrorists and foreign intelligence services from harming the United States.

— Christopher A. Wray

FISA is a powerful tool - and we've got to be sure we're using it properly, at every step in the process. But we…

— Christopher A. Wray

“From its inception, FISA has been the ultimate rubber stamp. In its first twenty-four years, from 1978 to 2002, the court rejected a total…

— Glenn Greenwald

There's a lot of talk about FISA applications. Many people I've seen talk about it seem not to recognize that a FISA application is…

— Rod Rosenstein

What we do is we combine information collected from any lawful source in a single FBI database so we don't miss a dot when…

— James Comey

“Then, on December 14, 1999, an alert United States Customs agent in Port Angeles, Washington, stopped a nervous twenty-three-year-old Algerian named Ahmed Ressam who…

— Tim Weiner

The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And…

— Ron Wyden

It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to…

— James Comey

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

— Robert Mueller

The Obama administration's FBI and Justice Department used unverified opposition research obtained outside of our country as ammunition to get a FISA warrant to…

— Trish Regan

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA…

— Jonathan Turley

To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in…

— Benjamin Wittes

I know firsthand that it's difficult to get a FISA warrant. From 2002 to 2005, when I was an F.B.I. agent conducting counterintelligence investigations…

— Asha Rangappa

FISA targets those who are 'agents of a foreign power.'

— Rick Wilson