Productive Slow News Day
Today was naturally a slow news day. I don't count FISC Chief Judge Boasberg reporting that the FBI is still engaging in "widespread violations of the querying standard" for 702 surveillance as news. News would be if something had been done about the violations. You can read about it at the link but, if nothing is going to happen, this really only serves as a sort of reminder that some things never change:
National security surveillance court finds FBI regularly does not follow rules
The largely secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court identified 'widespread violations' concerning improper searches for information on American citizens
Nevertheless, this was a productive day for me. Not having anything to write about, I decided to back up my system and install an updated OS. Which I did. I like to think that my time was put to better use than Judge Boasberg's.