Posted on 12/18/2019 8:24:39 AM PST by Starman417
Yesterday the FISA Court issued to strongly worded rebuke of the FBI for its deceptive practices before the Court
Cry me a riverIn a rare public order Tuesday, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISC] strongly criticized the FBI over its surveillance-application process, giving the bureau until Jan. 10 to come up with solutions, in the wake of findings from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.
The order, from the court's presiding judge Rosemary M. Collyer, came just a week after the release of Horowitz's withering report about the wiretapping of Carter Page, a former campaign adviser to President Trump.
"The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the [Office of Inspector General] report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above," Collyer wrote in her four-page order. "The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable."
"The [FISA court] expects the government to provide complete and accurate information in every filing with the court," Collyer wrote. "Without it, the [FISA court] cannot properly ensure that the government conducts electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes only when there is a sufficient factual basis."You don't say.
FBI Director Christopher Wray offered a mea culpa and promised to be a good boy in the future:
Again, so freaking what?
Eric Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who altered a document to make Carter Page look like a Russian spy has left the FBI. Who ordered him to alter the email? Who else has been fired other than McCabe? Why are any of the personnel who touched this still at the FBI? Are they going to get nothing more than "Strongly worded letters"?
And as for Collyer- who gives a damn what she thinks now? Who has she summoned to the Court to answer for the malfeasance?
NO ONE.
To make matters worse, Collyer and FISC were notified two years ago of the abuse.
https://twitter.com/DevinNunes/status/1207297762037051394
And what did the Court do?
Nothing.
Imagine a theft from Sotheby's in which a $50 million diamond is stolen. Now imagine that Sotheby's promises more and better security. Now imagine that the FBI comes in and promises to be better next time.
And no one catches or punishes the robbers.
That's the state of the FISC today.
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
Totally agree.
Can’t trust the government with anything important - shut it down.
I doubt this will happen, but threatening it’s very existence is the best way to get some meaningful reform. This problem needs more than a few tweaks.
Shut it down NOW!
Shut down FISA, shut down the FBI.
Traitor Roberts is supposed to be responsible for the FISA Court[s].
why is he not on the hook for extremely lax oversight?
This. This works for me also. It was the FIB that LIED to the FISA Courts
Whats more of a threat to you and me, the federal government or some nebulous terrorist organization? Shut it down. The entire IC needs a rework from the ground up. The best first step would be to put fifty or so of these traitorous internal security apparatchiks in prison.
THE FISA COURT HAS BECOME EVERYTHING THAT CONSERVATIVES WARNED IT WOULD BECOME.
As long as the left doesn't subvert the court used to do THAT.
Didn’t all sane citizens know that Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely? Secret courts, with no checksand balances, have no place in a free country.
They showed him the photos!
Mark Levins Landmark Legal tried to get the FISA court to act on abuses back in 2017 but were denied.
Over 2 1/2 years ago, Landmark Legal Foundation asked Judge Collyer to act on the FBI abuses committed on the court and she denied the request.
This is the same Judge Rosemary Collyer who rebuked the FBI today.
On a different note:
I haven’t got the time right now to search but do any of you remember Wray trashing the republican’s (Nunes) summary of the IG report (before it was declassified) and claiming that Schiff’s summary was accurate?
Wray was lying!
He knew that the whole thing was trash and Schiff was lying and yet .. he poo pooed Nunes for months!
So these two ... Judge Collyer and Chris Wray are going to slip away from any type of consequences and lay the blame on others?
Bingo! ......if that's not the 1st step then the entire IC needs to be disband...and it should be more then 50 from my count....
Word processors are burning up as defense attorneys are compiling briefs to overturn convictions where the criminal organization FKA the FBI used FISA warrants.
Another Bush legacy failure.
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