However, the FISC's rigor in protecting the rights of Americans, which is reinforced by 90 - day renewals of surveillance orders, is necessarily dependent on the government's production to the court of all material and relevant facts. (theatlantic.com)
With 2,371 secret surveillance orders approved in 2007, federal surveillance activity under the jurisdiction of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has risen for the 9th year in a row — more than doubling since 2000. (slaw.ca)
That case came three years before the 2016 surveillance order described in the Nunes memo. (usatoday.com)