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| FISA Court rips FBI over lack of candor in Trump campaign eavesdropping | |
| 2019-12-18 | |
| [NYPOST] In a rare public rebuke, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court slammed the FBI Tuesday for misleading it in applications to wiretap a former Trump campaign aide, giving the bureau until Jan. 10 to come up with solutions. The order came in the wake of findings from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, who uncovered multiple instances of abuse in his review of the feds’ use of FISA warrants to surveil Carter Page, a one-time foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. The court ripped the FBI for mistakes it made in the Page case, and ordered the agency to explain how it will improve its warrant submissions in light of the litany of errors Horowitz uncovered. "The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above," FISA court presiding Judge Rosemary Collier wrote in an opinion for the court published Tuesday. "The frequency with which representations made by FBI 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 FBI applications is reliable."
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #20 How many FISA warrants have been applied for? How many, after rewrites, were turned down? You bet "We must protect our phony-baloney jobs." Finally, one exploded in their faces. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-18 15:49 |
| #19 "We must protect our phony-baloney jobs." |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-12-18 14:46 |
| #18 FISA knew what was going on from the beginning but now that the tactics have been exposed they are throwing the FBI under the bus to protect themselves. Nunes is right. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2019-12-18 14:09 |
| #17 FISA must be feeling the heat. And not a moment too soon. |
| Posted by: Tom 2019-12-18 12:50 |
| #16 How soon does that cartridge box step come into play? Pretty sooooon... |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2019-12-18 12:30 |
| #15 Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me four times in a row? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-18 12:22 |
| #14 This is resembling a Maxwell Smart episode. They claimed that their own guy was actually a Russian spy - that Carter Page, CIA asset, was actually a GRU asset. Actually it reminds me of that Italian comedy scene in which Bob Benigni (?sp) the buffon pretends to be a surgeon in the operating room and ends up administering the anesthesia ... to himself. Scene ends with Dr. Clown passing out on top of his patient in the operating table. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-18 11:52 |
| #13 ..given how effective both the Russian and Chinese counter intelligence offices have been the FBI looks like the Keystone Kops with all the penetrations carried out by foreign intel. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-18 11:43 |
| #12 Lends credibility to the impeccable FBI, the world's leading investigate agency. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-12-18 11:16 |
| #11 So they were rubber-stamping every application? Why have a FISA court at all? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-18 11:01 |
| #10 Methinks those on the FISA Court were rubber-stamping things because they trusted the FBI and got caught looking like fools. Don't want to make folks look like fools if they have power to step on you. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-12-18 10:54 |
| #9 Comey: "I know, Don Collier. It was a mistake. It won't happen again." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-18 10:44 |
| #8 Nunez's call to disband FISA courts probably had something to do with this sudden "rebuke". The more I read the more sure I am that we are in the midst of a coup attempt. How soon does that cartridge box step come into play? Oh yeah, DNC members in DC started rioting at the Willard hotel assaulting MAGA women. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-12-18 09:37 |
| #7 Jailtime for the agents involved AND the judges. I believe they were well aware of what was going on and allowed it. Personally I'd prefer the death penalty to really rub it in but sadly we won't get that. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-12-18 08:39 |
| #6 So the FBI came back with some 40 points to improve the process. This is all a sham. There was a crime committed against Carter Page, against the President, against the constitution. This incompetence started a billion dollar investigation, it derailed a sitting president, it cheated 61 million Americans out of the national agenda they voted for and won. This is NOT some administrative bullshit with a few points to tighten up the process... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-12-18 08:09 |
| #5 Can any one say "Fruit of the Poisoned Tree?" |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-12-18 07:12 |
| #4 The analysis lab is saying that if you substitute someone else's pee for examination, they're not responsible for the false report. They followed procedures even though the labels indicated that these weren't your normal run of the mill daily types. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-18 06:59 |
| #3 Tsk tsk. Disappointing! Very disappointing! |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-18 01:43 |
| #2 "It wasn't me!" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-12-18 01:17 |
| #1 The court ripped the FBI for mistakes it made in the Page case, and ordered the agency to explain how it will improve its warrant submissions in light of the litany of errors Horowitz uncovered. Maybe by imposing prison time on those who subvert the process? Nah. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-12-18 01:14 |