Posted on 09/01/2020 2:03:31 PM PDT by ransomnote
The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced key reforms that will empower the FBI to build a more robust internal compliance program and that will ensure, among other things, the accuracy of FISA applications, as well as the active oversight of applications targeting federal elected officials, candidates for federal elected office, and their staffs.
“Today, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation press forward with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance reforms. In consultation with FBI Director Wray, I issued two memoranda — one that authorizes the establishment of an FBI Office of Internal Auditing and directs the FBI to undertake aggressive compliance measures, and the other that establishes protocols to ensure the accuracy of FISA applications and the effective oversight of any surveillance applications targeting elected officials and political campaigns,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “FISA is a critical tool to ensuring the safety and security of Americans, particularly when it comes to fighting terrorism. However, the American people must have confidence that the United States Government will exercise its surveillance authorities in a manner that protects the civil liberties of Americans, avoids interference in the political process, and complies with the Constitution and laws of the United States. What happened to the Trump presidential campaign and his subsequent Administration after the President was duly elected by the American people must never happen again.”
“Since the Inspector General’s Crossfire Hurricane report was issued last December, I have made clear that it describes conduct that was unacceptable and unrepresentative of the FBI as an organization” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “That’s why I immediately ordered more than 40 corrective actions, including foundational FISA reforms, many of which went beyond those recommended by the Inspector General. The FBI has been working diligently to implement these corrective actions. The additional reforms announced today, which we worked on closely with the Attorney General’s office, will build on the FBI’s efforts to bolster its compliance program. FISA is an indispensable tool that the FBI uses to protect our country from national security threats, and Americans can rest assured that the FBI remains dedicated to continuously strengthening our FISA compliance efforts and ensuring that our FISA authorities are exercised in a responsible manner.”
The first memorandum issued by the Attorney General is entitled Augmenting the Internal Compliance Functions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This memorandum makes significant improvements to the FBI’s internal compliance program. It authorizes the establishment of the Office of Internal Auditing to overcome a gap in auditing capability at the FBI and requires the development of compliance and oversight mechanisms, training, and internal controls to ensure the FBI’s compliance with applicable statutes, policies, procedures, and court orders that govern the FBI’s national security activities. The reforms also require the FBI to perform robust auditing functions, including, for example, routine audits of the FBI’s use of National Security Letters, compliance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and adherence to FISA’s minimization, targeting, and querying procedures.
The second memorandum is entitled Supplemental Reforms to Enhance Compliance, Oversight, and Accountability with Respect to Certain Foreign Intelligence Activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The supplemental reforms in this memorandum build on the corrective measures undertaken by the FBI Director in his response to the December 2019 report of the Department of Justice Inspector General entitled Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. These reforms are designed to ensure the accuracy and completeness of FISA applications targeting U.S. persons. The reforms also include oversight protocols to ensure that any use of FISA to surveil federal elected officials, candidates for federal elected office, or their advisors or staff is justified, non-partisan, and based on full and complete information. Finally, the memorandum requires the FBI to develop procedures to prevent United States persons from becoming unwitting participants in malign influence operations by foreign powers and to review its disciplinary policies and procedures to ensure appropriate disciplinary action for those who knowingly misrepresent facts to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
whoop-ti-dingle-doo-doo
As long as mistakes aren’t made again.
Such useless BS. They already had to have sign-offs on applications that went to the top of the FBI—and all wriggled out of it by claiming they rubber stamped the apps, rather than reading them, and that somehow makes the brass unaccountable for their blatantly fraudulent and political nature.
That whole system just needs to be shut down. But Barr is busy making the DoJ and FBI safe for Deep Staters past, present and future.
Filed under the sweep it under the rug index.
They’re part of the Deep State Swamp. Their behavior isn’t going to change, under corrupt and criminal scumbags like Obummer/Biden, with some nebulous “directives”.
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Sounds like you want to make certain political views illegal - which country do you think this is?
Fox. Hen house.
Instead of punishing the wrongdoers, The Barr JD thinks we will settle for some reforms and just forget the whole thing.
Well, will we?
Where is the resignation letter from Chris Wray?
There ya go.
That’s the major breaking news we’ve all been breathlessly waiting for, before Labor Day.
No muss, no fuss, nobody important gets in no trouble.
I’m here to tell you, that John Durham sure is a stern looking dude. Well, I mean his picture is.
Oh. Mistakes were made. We have established more bureaucratic processes, more useless HR style training, and new review commissions to correct these mistakes and prevent their repetition.
Who couldn't have seen this coming?
Whatever...
It it is unrepresentative then why was it so pervasive Herr Direktor Wray?
Process changes. No penalties. SSDD.
Fox? The lazy ineffective sod is the epitome of white privilege. The Buckley School, Andover, Yale and Yale. Following in the footsteps of the Bushes.
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Not good.
Too much Preservation of the unaccountable Deep Swamp.
The person selected to remedy FISA is a rabid Never Trumper who promulgated the worst Conspiracy theories about Trump.
They want power retained in the FBi - so Hillary and Loretta can be protected while Roger Stone’s house is Raided.
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Might have meant something if that had been the footnote to major prosecution announcements.
White wash horse shit...
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