re: FISA Application Breakdown

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Each renewal contains more info in every section dealing with what the warrant has yielded

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In FISA application the first, Section V is two pages, and it's withheld under the following FOIA exemptions:
national security, withheld by statute (non-discretionary), law-enforcement proceeding, identity of a confidential source, and secret law-enforcement sources and methods

VI is 3 pages:
national security, withheld by statute (non-discretionary), pending law-enforcement matter, personal privacy, identity of a confidential source (only 2 of 3 pages withheld under this), and secret law-enforcement investigative techniques

By the time we get to FISA application the second, the completely blacked out section VI from before is now section VII, and there's a whole new section VI. Combined, VI-VII are now 15 pages of black-out.

They *really* don't want you to know what's in here. E.g. they are withholding even unclassified sub-headings within this section to keep it entirely opaque (this one withheld under pending law-enforcement matter and investigative technique exemptions).

By the time we get to FISA application the fourth, these three sections have ballooned to 32 pages of entirely opaque content, with the exception of VII (G), which appears in application the third, and which references Carter Page's Feb 2017 letter to DOJ.

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