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Home Front: Politix
The FBI Wants To Treat Carter Page Warrant Mistakes Like Training Problems. A Court Adviser Says That's Not Enough.
2020-01-19
h/t Instapundit
[reason] - The FBI's newly released plans to avoid mistakes when seeking permission to wiretap and surveil American citizens is insufficient, according to an expert brought in to advise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).

In December, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Justice released a report showing significant problems with the warrants that the FBI submitted to FISC in order to secretly wiretap Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. While the OIG's report concluded that the agency was justified in investigating whether Page was unduly influenced by his connections with the Russian government, it also determined that the FBI withheld important details from the FISC that might have influenced its decision to grant these warrants. These omissions were not in Page's favor, and ultimately the OIG found 17 different errors or omissions in the warrant requests, some of which were not corrected in subsequent applications.

...While the FBI was hammering out this plan, the FISC appointed David Kris, a former Justice Department attorney during President Barack Obama's administration, to advise the court.

...It appears that version of Kris analyzed the FBI's plans. On Wednesday, he responded that Wray's proposals were ultimately insufficient. Part of the larger problem, which Wray has acknowledged, is that it's hard to check the accuracy of information that's not included or deliberately omitted.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#4  Still ignoring the Comey institutional train wreck?
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-01-19 15:27  

#3  ...While the FBI was hammering out this plan, the FISC appointed David Kris, a former Justice Department attorney during President Barack Obama's administration, to advise the court.

Fixers.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-19 07:45  

#2  It's hard to check the accuracy of information tell if he's a witch that's not included or deliberately omitted until you dunk him...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-19 07:41  

#1  I wonder what would have happened to a cop who was discovered to make such "mistakes" in an ordinary criminal case?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-19 02:59  

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