Posted on 02/07/2018 5:18:54 PM PST by Enterprise
It’s starting to look like it. Upper management in the affected agencies should have paid heed but they didn’t. This might fry them.
Literally it is, Obama nominated at least 10 of the judges
FISA needs to be abolished
Thanks!
Goodlatte has decided to retire so this might be his Damn The Torpedoes moment.
Helping to drain the swamp, not a bad way to go out.
If there are10 items needed to secure a FISA warrant I guess Goodlatte will soon know the other 9.
Do not put all your hope in the DOJ IG’s office.
I read that all eleven were nominated by Obama, approved by the Senate and appointed by the Chief Justice Roberts.
I’ve been down that yellow brick road before, in fact, once too often that I’m beginning to feel like the bride who gets left at the altar one too many times.
I’m not counting on this IG anymore, especially since learning just today, that he turned those “lost texts” from the FBI lovers, over to the Justice Department rather than the Investigative Committee as they had asked!
Article III section 1.
“The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”
The FISA court was created by the congress and they have oversight.
As always, it's difficult to pin down a time line on so much of what happened in this multi-year cluster____.
It looks as if Judge Collyer's activity might not be related to any specific FISA warrant request. She filed her 99 page opinion on April 26, 2017 and Dan Coates declassified it that same month.
Reading through some of the documents, I don't see how, if at all, Judge Collyer was involved in any of the FISA warrant requests which I think were four in total, and the final one was in lat 2016 or early 2017.
Not clear what judges did preside on the four warrant request proceedings, or when and why Judge Collyer began conducting her reviews that resulted in here 99 page opinion signed in April of 2017.
I guess the facts will eventually be uncovered in all these secret FISA court actions.
“The problem is no one seems to know who has oversight
over FISA court judges, if oversight exists at all.
It’s a black hole.”
And that is the RUT of the problem (a little Jocelyn Elders there). If the FISA judges are a bunch of Leftists, then they’ll certainly team up with the Dems to abuse the system and allow this kind of spying on political campaigns.
The ONLY SOLUTION is to pass a simple bill that PROHIBITS spying on a political campaign - period. It was INSANE to empower government to this level and NOT expect it to be abused, absolutely insane.
Uh oh. Democrats caught red handed committing treason. Time for Republicans to pass a law saying “hmmmm that was bad, mmmmmmmmkay bad.”
I think that's already illegal. They apparently got around the law by obtaining questionable warrants to surveil someone like Carter Page, with the actual intent of surveiling people in the Trump campaign he might communicate with, who they'd unmask and learn the actual identity of those communicating with Page.
They were using Page to hopefully listen in on more important people in the Trump campaign, as well as anything Page might be involved in.
Good point - so we must add, INDIRECTLY spying on a political campaign.
And it was probably even more serious than I made it sound. We still don’t know exactly what all was presented to the FISA court, but that dirty dossier was used to paint Trump as some sort of security risk who was possibly colluding with Russians. And Carter Page was a fringe part of the campaign who’d been in Russia a few times, so he was picked as the character who might be communicating with Russians for some improper purpose on behalf of the campaign.
. . .FISA resulted from extensive investigations by Senate Committees into the legality of domestic intelligence activities. These investigations were led separately by Sam Ervin and Frank Church in 1978 as a response to President Richard Nixon’s usage of federal resources to spy on political and activist groups.[2] The act was created to provide judicial and congressional oversight of the government's covert surveillance activities of foreign entities and individuals in the United States, while maintaining the secrecy needed to protect national security.
It isn't even longhand writing (cursive), like this:
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