In Stunning Public Rebuke, FISA Court Slams FBI, also Worried About ‘Other Warrants’
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 court ordered the government, by January 10, 2020, to explain what steps it’s was taking to prevent such lapses in the future.
FISC Judge Collyer responds to the IG Report.
Court orders remedial measures.
There is also a December 5 FISC Order – currently pending classification review – discussing the court’s “concerns”
No mention of individual accountability.
Full memo:https://www.scribd.com/document/440157695/Collyer …
Read the statement from FISA court Click Here (TLB) ed.
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(TLB) article sources, ZeroHedge, Wall Street Journal, Scribd.com
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