Kash Patel

Oh, boy.

I might have to go to the bar.

Just super simple, right?

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA.

And the FISA court, the FIS, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Right.

And that's a whole other deal with it.

So there was a passage of legislation that its original purpose was there's a lot of bad actors overseas, namely terrorists, who want to do Americans harm.

We need a better way to find out who they are.

And electronic surveillance, ELSER as we call it, is a great way of doing it through people's phones, through people's computers, through people's laptops, through people's internet cafe signals, whatever, right?

But the American government didn't have an ability to just go and like plug in here and get all that.

So we created a law that allows us to go to a special court to say, if you, the target of the FISA, is one of two things, an agent of a foreign power

or acting at the behest of an agent of a foreign power, you can be targeted under FISA.

And the probable cause standard is the exact same as it was if we were trying to get a warrant on a bank robber.

It's the same standard in terms of the level of evidence.

But you go before this court and you're supposed to show all this information to say, look at the operation they're running.

And if they're an American citizen, like Carter Page was during the Russiagate FISAs, you're supposed to do more

to justify that surveillance because it's so intrusive on an American citizen.

But once you get a FISA, and I use this all the time to manhunt terrorists around the world.

Once you get a FISA, you basically just hoover in all this intel, all this data.