This isn't news as the document I am about to link to is dated January 7, 2020. But I wasn't aware of this before today. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issues orders approving surveillance of US citizens, which would otherwise be illegal under the 4th Amendment. It approves over 99.9% of all requests. And these are secret orders - the subject of the order isn't aware of them ever.
In the Carter Page case, the FISC issued an unclassified opinion stating that the original applications had "material misstatements and omission". See https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6669964/FISC-Declassifed-Order-Re-Page-FISAs.pdf This was a huge rebuke to the FBI agents who originally filed the applications.
I think that all FISC orders should be unclassified after a certain number of years.
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