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FBI restricts information obtained from Carter Page FISA surveillance
Washington Examiner ^ | January 25, 2020 02:26 PM | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 01/25/2020 7:50:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The FBI has restricted all the evidence obtained through the wiretapping of former Trump campaign staffer Carter Page.

Revealed in a Jan. 7 filing by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that was made public on Thursday, the government said the bureau chose to “sequester all collection the FBI acquired pursuant to the Court’s authorizations” to grant a warrant and three extensions for the electronic surveillance of Page, a U.S. citizen who was suspected of acting as an agent of Russia but was never charged with any wrongdoing.

The filing, signed off by presiding FISA court Judge James Boasberg, further stated that the "sequester" would remain in place until the completion of a further review of the DOJ inspector general report on the Page FISA warrants and the "outcome of related investigations and any litigation."

"The government has not described what steps are involved in such sequestration or when it will be completed," Boasberg wrote. "It has, however, undertaken to 'provide an update to the court when the FBI completes the sequestration.'"

Boasberg's filing made headlines on Thursday for showing the Justice Department conceded that there was insufficient evidence to justify the last two of four orders covering the final several months of electronic surveillance of Page during the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. The initial order came in October 2016, and the electronic surveillance stretched into the summer of 2017 with a trio of extensions at three-month intervals. It remains unclear whether the Justice Department believes the first two orders targeting Page were similarly flawed.

"Today’s unprecedented court filing represents another step on the road to recovery for America’s deeply damaged judicial system. I hope that this latest admission of guilt for these civil rights abuses by the Justice Department marks continued progress towards restoring justice and...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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KEYWORDS: carterpage; fbi; fisa; obstructionofjustice
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Fruit of the poisonous tree.
1 posted on 01/25/2020 7:50:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trust the plan!

(Runs and hides)

2 posted on 01/25/2020 7:55:41 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are those bagpipes I’m hearing?

L


3 posted on 01/25/2020 7:59:05 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is now going to be evidence in an entirely different kind of investigation. A criminal proceeding.

A “heads on pikes” kind of proceeding.


4 posted on 01/25/2020 7:59:46 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not good enough. All cases must be dropped


5 posted on 01/25/2020 8:03:28 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Not good enough. All cases must be dropped

Not the ones dealing with who approved and signed the warrants.

I do want those heads on pikes.

6 posted on 01/25/2020 8:07:43 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Cutest internet video: Charlie bit my finger. Creepiest internet video: Joe Biden bit my finger.)
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To: Nifster
My understanding is that there are NO “cases” with this FISA material.

A FISA warrant is used to get information for a counter-intelligence investigation. It’s such a blatant violation of a target’s constitutional rights that the evidence really can’t be used in a criminal trial even if everything is done properly.

7 posted on 01/25/2020 8:08:49 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Alberta's Child

FISA is unconstitutional star chamber.

No place in our constitutional representative republic.


8 posted on 01/25/2020 8:17:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Their only punishment: they can’t further abuse the illegally obtained information which has already been leaked extensively. Nothing changes, our elite law enforcement squad will just keep on doing outrageously unlawful things with the wink and nod approval of the court and seemingly the Attorney General.


9 posted on 01/25/2020 8:23:40 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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I agree. I’m just pointing out that I don’t think there are amy criminal cases where FISA evidence was used to get a conviction.


10 posted on 01/25/2020 8:25:48 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FISA was once a good tool to protect America and the left destroyed it and bastardized it to become a political tool. Heads should be rolling if they are not on pikes or still attached to a rope on a tree.


11 posted on 01/25/2020 8:58:49 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That horse has already left the barn...


12 posted on 01/25/2020 9:02:48 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t they need to track down every place the evidence from the surveillance was used? Shouldn’t it affect cases which could not have been made without this surveillance?


13 posted on 01/25/2020 9:11:00 PM PST by Rocky
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To: Alberta's Child

i was agreeing with you


14 posted on 01/25/2020 9:12:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Alberta's Child

But that’s kinda the point and I don’t have a cogent argument for you but the FBI uses a process called parallel construction where they develope two lines of evidence one that was obtained legally but in reality is cherry picked or augmented some sort of evidence gained Via illegal surveillance or other shenanigans , the parallel track, that FBI hides from the discovery process. Any case they had fisa warrants most likely has this augmented parallel track. Apologies for the ad hoc nomenclature to describe poorly their scam


15 posted on 01/25/2020 10:22:47 PM PST by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds about a decade too late.

Barn, Horse.


16 posted on 01/25/2020 10:58:44 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So the TH I is pulling all the details to cover somebody’s guilty ass. Time to disband the FBI and start over again. In between use the agency budget to build the wall.


17 posted on 01/25/2020 11:07:21 PM PST by Bernard ("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
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To: Alberta's Child

The way it works is the FISA phone, email, text etc. intercepts are used to get the names of potential players and info that they can then claim they acquired the info through proper methods.


18 posted on 01/25/2020 11:31:38 PM PST by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: KarlInOhio

I’m talking the ones that have already been pursued


19 posted on 01/26/2020 12:10:14 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Alberta's Child

Mike Flynn


20 posted on 01/26/2020 12:10:38 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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