If you search “spy court” online, the first item that pops onto your screen is a CNN article under the headline “Spy Court Fast Facts.” The first sentence of the story is, “Here’s what you need to know about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.” The next item in the search results is Wikipedia’s entry on the court. Others on the first page of search results include an article on the ACLU website with the headline, “Secret Spy Court Rules ACLU Case Can Move Forward.” It’s also about the FISA Court.

You get the picture. Search algorithms demonstrate the obvious and previously uncontested fact that the FISA Court’s raison d’etre is deciding whether federal agencies may undertake spying operations in America. It’s a little absurd to belabor this, but it is necessary because Democrats continue to deny that there’s any evidence that the intelligence community spied on Team Trump during the Russia investigation and to raise hell over Attorney General William Barr’s assertion that it did so. Of course it did.