It&#x27;s a solid list of tech-savvy attorneys with strong pro-privacy backgrounds. The court appointed them; FISA judges are not, contrary perhaps to appearances, looking simply to rubber-stamp government requests for surveillance, but the lack of an adversarial system certainly has given that appearance to the proceedings. Adding a public-interest counterweight to something that has gone from an extraordinary venue to a routine investigatory tool can only increase the legitimacy of FISC.