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Bush bypassed compliant court on wiretapping
But many lawyers familiar with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as the group of judges who secretly authorize national security wiretaps is known, challenged Gonzales's description of the court procedures as cumbersome. Records showed that the court had rejected none of more than 11,000 requests for warrants from 1979 through 2001. Since then, it has rejected just four of more than 5,200 applications.Congress set up the special electronic surveillance court in 1978 in response to revelations that former President Richard M. Nixon had used the FBI to spy on his domestic enemies. The law required the government to obtain a warrant from the court before it could wiretap a phone line.

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