We’ll see. We know that in the past Andrew Weisman used info he planted in the media to obtain warrants in cases prior to this one. That’s in the public record. We also know that reports of some fictitious meetings somewhere were used to justify the FISA warrant on Carter Page. Connecting the dots, that fake info was planted by the investigators so they could get a warrant. That is also a serious criminal offense, faking the justification for a warrant to a court.
Not defending the action, but what's the crime? What I'm asking for is a citation to USCode.
18 USC 1038 is limited to hoaxes about "weapons offenses."
I think 18 USC 1001 doesn't apply, because the government is allowed to lie to the public, and especially to suspects. it;s done all the time to get confessions and otherwise elicit evidence.
The court might have a contempt widget of its own, but that's not a criminal offense, there being no statute.
It's my (not comprehensively studied) point of view that the remedy for fraudulently obtained warrant is that the evidence becomes inadmissible at trial.
False representation of evidence to get a FASA warrent was criminal behavior to justify getting dirt on the Trump Campaign. The Watergate break-in was criminal behavior to get dirt on the Democrat Party. It looks like we have Watergate II!!
Obama, what do you know and when did you know it?