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[–] GumbyTM 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

Rare is an understatement:

Since 1979 through to 2015, the last round of reporting figures, the court has approved 38,365 warrants but only rejected a dozen. That's a rejection rate of 0.031 percent.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-spy-court-didnt-reject-a-single-secret-government-demand-for-data/

To be fair the other presidents would have then had a rate of 1.28 rejections per term where Obama had a rate of 1.5 rejections per term.

The big problem here is not so much the rejections but that the orders were sought against a political rival.

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[–] PGLiterati2 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I remember when i first learned that the fisa court had turned down these requests--I was shocked. FISA court has been termed a rubber stamp court by so many historians that I figured they didn't turn anything down, That's how rare. You only need the slimmest appearance of evidence--which means they didn't even have that.