Representing Brookings Institute national security experts Ben Wittes and Susan Hennessey, Protect Democracy filed an amicus brief with the FISC, asking the Court to provide the public with clarity on the matter.  As the brief explains, “If the Court concludes that the Justice Department acted with political bias or violated rules of professional responsibility in this matter, the Court should inform the public of that and of any appropriate remedial action. Of equal importance, if the Court does not believe it was misled, then the Court should inform the public of that to correct the appearance of impropriety. Just as the public has a right to know whether the Justice Department has abused the FISA process, it has an equally compelling right to know whether the intelligence oversight process has potentially been abused by the people’s representatives in Congress and by the President.”