claim: the foreign intelligence surveillance court "is transparent."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jun 12, 2015 ... the usa freedom act may foist some transparency on the notoriously opaque  fisa court. max j. rosenthaljun. ... the foreign intelligence surveillance court,  often known as the fisa court after the 1978 law that created it, rules on  government requests for surveillance of foreigners. its 11 federal judges, ...
evidence_2: jun 18, 2013 ... in his interview with the president last night, charlie rose asked obama about  the oversight he claims exists: "should this be transparent in some way?"  obama's answer: "it is transparent. that's why we set up the fisa court." but as  politico's josh gerstein noted about that exchange: obama was "referring ...
evidence_3: google is asking the foreign intelligence surveillance court to allow it to  disclose statistics in its transparency report on the number of fisa orders it  receives.
evidence_4: aug 15, 2014 ... but even foreign intelligence surveillance court (fisc) judges don't agree on  how exactly the fisc should work. since the snowden disclosures, hundreds of  lawmakers have made it clear that they want to see more transparency in the  court by supporting various nsa reforms. most recently, 18 senators ...
evidence_5: competence. it does include measures that gesture in the right direction— increasing the adversarial nature of the fisa court's proceedings, augmenting  the availability of appellate review of fisa judges' decisions, adding  transparency to the court's operations, and increasing fisa judges' access to  technical expertise—but ...