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2019-12-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Where Was FISA Court Judge Collyer's Concern in 2018 When Devin Nunes Brought These Issues to Her Attention?

[Red State] The presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), Rosemary Collyer, was widely praised on Tuesday for her sharp rebuke of the FBI over their abuses of the FISA application process. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ report listed seven mistakes or omissions in the first application for a warrant to spy on Trump advisor Carter Page. By the time of the third renewal, there were 17.

Judge Collyer was angry. After all, this was such a shock. Here’s what she wrote:

The frequency with which representations made by F.B.I. personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other F.B.I. applications is reliable.

The court expects the government to provide complete and accurate information in every filing,

Judge Collyer has ordered the DOJ and the FBI to review each application they have submitted to the court and "to explain what steps have been taken to assure the candor of each submission." And she has set a deadline of January 10, 2020 for this report.

It’s great that she appears to be cracking down on these agencies in the wake of the IG’s revelations, but why did Judge Collyer fail to act when Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), then-Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote to her in 2018 to express his concern that the FBI had acted improperly?

The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel reported on Friday that Nunes sent a letter to Judge Collyer on February 7th, 2018 to tell her what his committee had found during their investigation of the FBI’s four applications. He wrote, "The Committee found that the FBI and DOJ failed to disclose the specific political actors paying for uncorroborated information that went to the court, misled the FISC regarding dissemination of this information, and failed to correct these errors in the subsequent renewals." Mr. Nunes "asked the court whether any transcripts of FISC hearings about this application existed, and if so, to provide them to the committee." Strassel wrote:

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-21 04:59|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 WIKI - Collyer was one of four FISA Court judges who approved a FISA warrant (issued in October 2016 and renewed several times) authorizing the wiretapping of Carter Page.[8] In December 2019 Collyer issued an order saying the FBI "provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI's case, in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen named Carter W. Page"[9] ordering the government to inform the court of planned procedures to "ensure that the statement of facts in each FBI application accurately and completely reflects information possessed by the FBI that is material to any issue presented by the application."

I'm calling the Dec 2019 order a CYA.

Emphasis added.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-21 05:07|| 2019-12-21 05:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Because letters from politicians get forwarded to the IG. Judges are supposed to stay out of the politics. The court is in a tough spot on this one. If a judge investigated every congressional letter, the dems would flood them.

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-12-21 07:49|| 2019-12-21 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Admiral Rogers reported surveillance and FISA abuses as early as 2015. Much of this was reported in bits and pieces by Rantburg at the time. Clapper tried to fire Rogers for this exposure in an attempt to cover up. The following timeline in the article is revealing: Mike Rogers is an American hero.
The FISA courts must have been aware of these abuses as well. I am always astounded daily by the depths of corruption that existed in the previous administration. My naiveté.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-21 08:00|| 2019-12-21 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Chief Justice Roberts is replacing Collyers with an Obama appointment (Judge Boasberg) to be presiding judge in the FISA courts???

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-21 08:07|| 2019-12-21 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Collyer resigned. She will now likely go into hiding.

Posted by b 2019-12-21 08:20|| 2019-12-21 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Shocked, she tells us. She's SHOCKED!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-21 11:58|| 2019-12-21 11:58|| Front Page Top

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