Fraudulent affidavits. Perjury before a judge, illegal
It was deceptive because DOJ didn’t tell the judge that all their sources were wound up in one conspiratorial, Democrat Party ball - Steele, Fusion GPS/Ohr, the DNC who paid for it, Hillary Clinton and crew, Corn (Hardcore leftist) and Isikoff ( he has very leftist colleagues), YAHOO and the Russian sources.
I read the unredacted part of the FISA warrant application and as you saw, commented on it. Most criminal court judges would not give out a warrant based on such generalities and “left-outs” information.
The warrant application has to be “specific” and this one was not since it kept relying on the NY Times which got its information from the DNC, Steele, Clintons, others “circle-jerkers”. They were not INDEPENDENT RELIABLE SOURCES. They were second or third hand “same source” sources (i.e. Steele).
A good warrant request of this type usually had two independent sources for it. This had only one very suspect one, Steele. All the others were just additional warts on his ass.