Fourth Circuit: US v. Hinda Dhirane

No constitutional error in the FISA statutory process that substitutes review in the Executive Branch for a Franks hearing, as an unconditional adversarial process was appropriately modified in the interests of national security, and there was sufficient mitigation of the change.

Although it was unnecessary for the court to find that the defts were part of the organization to which they were sending funds, the finding amply supported the charge of providing material support.

For the sentence increase for funding a violent act, no nexus to a given violent act need be shown; the question is whether the deft believed that support would be used in an act of violence.

http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/174205.P.pdf