Posted on 01/23/2020 4:38:52 PM PST by bitt
Government tells court it lacked probable cause in last two of four eavesdropping applications for Carter Page
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department now believes it should have discontinued its secret surveillance of one-time Trump campaign adviser Carter Page far earlier than it did, according to a new court filing unsealed Thursday.
The Justice Department made that determination in a December letter to the secret court that oversees surveillance of suspected foreign spies, acknowledging it may have lacked probable cause to continue wiretapping in the last two of the four surveillance applications it sought against Mr. Page.
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Ah, well, lesson learned then.
Article lacking source doc.
So who in the Justice Department is going to jail for this?!?
Neaux Boddy.
It had no legal basis to start an investigation at all.
But ORANGE MAN BAD so it’s ok.
One Question Please
Have ANY of the Lawyers that committed this Fraud Upon The Court, Lied to The Court and Deceived The Court been DISBARRED Yet???
The old “Oopsie” defense. Not only did they not have justification for the last two FISA warrants, they didn’t have it for the first two. Page was just the highest person in the Trump campaign to not be immediately known to everyone. Asking to bug Donald Trump Junior might have set off alarm bells even among the biggest Democrat hacks on the FISA court.
FISA court is just as corrupt and worthless as most other courts.
Indictments.
Fair trials.
First class hangings.
In that order.
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Per obxxx: “A teachable moment.”. Grrrrrrrrr
We meant to stop butt we forgot. Yeah, that’s it. We forgot.
Thanks.
Not even top secret!
It was the spell check that done it.
1) If Carter Page was never an agent of a foreign power, NONE of the FISA warrants were ever valid. DoJ gets an “F” in logic if they can’t figure that out.
2) Did the FBI use the Page FISA warrants to surveille Flynn, Manafort, Trump, other Trump campaign personnel and appointees? We don’t know, because it took 3 years not to investigate the issue. IG Horowitz systematically excluded looking at collected materials that didn’t relate to “Russian collusion”. Spying on a President and his campaign and what was done with the info just didn’t interest him for some reason.
3) If the DoJ pursues Flynn, assuming the court approves his petition for withdrawing his guilty plea, demands for discovery should include the entire surveillance product of the Carter Page warrants (both before and after the official date of approval), and anything else involving Flynn and Trump.
We’ll have a training day with a catered lunch and maybe we’ll send out an email...no wait...we’ll pay a lefty consultant a lot of money to produce a training dvd.
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