Who appoints FISA court judges?
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts who is a conservative George W Bush appointee.
http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/courts_special_fisc.html
Congress in 1978 established the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as a special court and authorized the Chief Justice of the United States to designate seven federal district court judges to review applications for warrants related to national security investigations. Judges serve for staggered, non-renewable terms of no more than seven years, and until 2001 were drawn from different judicial circuits. The provisions for the court were part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (92 Stat. 1783), which required the government, before it commenced certain kinds of intelligence gathering operations within the United States, to obtain a judicial warrant similar to that required in criminal investigations. The legislation was a response to a report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the “Church Committee”), which detailed allegations of executive branch abuses of its authority to conduct domestic electronic surveillance in the interest of national security. Congress also was responding to the Supreme Court’s suggestion in a 1972 case that under the Fourth Amendment some kind of judicial warrant might be required to conduct national security related investigations.
Not surprisingly, a conservative appoints conservatives to the FISA court.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/chief-justice-john-roberts-appointed-every-judge-on-the-fisa-court-20130812
Since 2007 or so, though, the FISA Court has bulked up like A-Rod. The New York Times revealed that it has developed a complex case law interpreting the Surveillance Act, the Fourth Amendment, and its own jurisdiction. That case law—like the orders the Court issues, like the briefs the government files, and like the legal opinions from which those briefs flow—are, of course, secret.
An entire shadow Constitution may be growing up, parsed by a court appointed by John Roberts. That secret growth seems more alarming because of reports that the chief justice's picks for the secret court have been skewed toward the Republican side of the bench.
But we need to support the NSA because terror! and freedom!
And from July:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say.
The rulings, some nearly 100 pages long, reveal that the court has taken on a much more expansive role by regularly assessing broad constitutional questions and establishing important judicial precedents, with almost no public scrutiny, according to current and former officials familiar with the court’s classified decisions.
The 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, was once mostly focused on approving case-by-case wiretapping orders. But since major changes in legislation and greater judicial oversight of intelligence operations were instituted six years ago, it has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court, serving as the ultimate arbiter on surveillance issues and delivering opinions that will most likely shape intelligence practices for years to come, the officials said.
But we have to ignore all of this because nutcase Larry Klayman brought a lawsuit and won in federal court. Somehow, all this abuse of power should be ignored because the plaintiff is a right wing nutjob.
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happens.
Just ignore the puppets who are attempting to emotionally manipulate the 'left' which they do constantly, assuming we are so manipulable that if they just say 'right wing nut' we will protect the NSA and go against our own interests.
I love this actually because when they try to use these tactics on Left Forums, they completely expose themselves to us.
for one of the best rulings we have had in a real court regarding the gross violation of rights being perpetrated by the Bush, Right Wing Led NSA
therefore all the NSA stuff is totally cool. 
Klayman and the judge may be right wingers but most important, the NSA is filled with Bush Appointed Right Wing Nuts also.
So, isn't it a beautiful thing to watch? While Dems cowered rather than do what was right, file suit at least against Bush's NSA for their egregious violations of our rights, or fire all of them and replace them with ethical people, eventually, even Right Wingers could no longer support their OWN LEADERS, (we told them so!) taking away, not just the rights of Liberals, but THEIR RIGHTS ALSO.
What do you call it when this happens? Schadenfreude? Karma? Poetic Justice? I don't know but I'm getting a huge kick out of the fact that even former Bush fanatics have finally realized that the LIBERALS WERE RIGHT after all, and it is THEY, not us, who finally took some action to try to end the policies WE WARNED THEM ABOUT.
What a wonderful thing! They are ALL Rightwingers, the Plaintiff, the Defendants and the Judge!
And the People Win!
If only I could find my old Right Wing adversaries who I warned that they were supporting policies that would affect them also, but they were so certain that they would be in power forever and they would be immune being that they were so 'patriotic'.
I love saying 'I told you so' to Right Wingers, but they have become very quiet and hard to find these days! 
