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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on December 17, 2019, 06:30:35 PM
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In Stunning Public Rebuke, FISA Court Slams FBI, Says Worried About 'Other Warrants'
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fisa-court-slams-fbi-rare-public-statement
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court slammed the FBI on Tuesday in a rare public statement over the agency's handling of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page's warrant application and subsequent renewals, according to the Wall Street Journal.
"In order to appreciate the seriousness of that misconduct and its implications, it is useful to understand certain procedural and substantive requirements that apply to the government's conduct of electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes," reads the statement.
The punchline: "The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the hieghtned duty of candor" required by federal investigators, adding "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," wrote the court, which called the recent watchdog report from the DOJ's Inspector General "troubling."
The FISA Courts slams the FBI, which is unheard of. Why it took them so long to rebuke the FBI.
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Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal tried to get the FISA court to act on abuses back in 2017 but were DENIED
Over 2 1/2 years ago, Landmark Legal Foundation asked Judge Collyer to act on the FBI abuses committed on the court and she denied the request.
This is the same Judge Rosemary Collyer who rebuked the FBI today.
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The FISA process/court was another one of many negotiated deals during GWB's administration. It did little other than shift professional bureaucrats from one place to another and resulted in spending billions more each year in chasing down "the bad guys."
Bush couldn't have imagined that "the bad guys" were the ones pulling the FISA court's strings, and, I would argue, the FISA court isn't worth the money to fund it if they can't do their own due diligence and insist on the evidence they've been given is viable and correct.
The FISA court is just as guilty as the FBI in failing to see through the FBI's lies.