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Federal Agent Smith has been investigating a group believed to be agents of a foreign power involved in international terrorism. Agent Smith discovered that this group has been involved in three prior plots to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the United States, but in each incidence their contacts failed to deliver the weapons. Agent Smith has filed several requests for court orders based on statutes that were originally part of the USA PATRIOT Act. Agent Smith asked for authorization to install a wiretap for 90 days. Assuming everything else in the application is done properly, it should be:


A) Granted; FISA warrants can be issued for 90 days but Wiretap warrants cannot exceed 30 days.
B) Granted; both FISA warrants and Wiretap Act warrants can be issued for 90 days.
C) Denied; neither FISA warrants nor Wiretap warrants can be issued for more than 30 days.
D) Denied; the duration of a FISA warrant is based on the data obtained during the wiretap

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