Posted on 02/09/2019 10:44:25 AM PST by McQ444
The senior FBI lawyer who signed off on the FISA warrant to spy on Donald Trump's campaign advisor, Carter Page, has admitted during a congressional testimony that she didn't read the document before signing it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nnettle.com ...
NN is a dubious source.
Hannah Arendt: "[E.] was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. "
IIRC, Comey said he didn’t read it either.
As we saw with Hillary, incompetence is a perfectly adequate defense when it comes to criminal violations. I will admit that it requires a significant amount of liberal street cred along with a threat of retribution to pull that particular trick.
Funny. Must be a habit if rubber-stamping F_I bureaucrats. Rosenweasel basically said the same thing in testimony.
With Hillary as her roommate.
The judge knew that this process was sloppy and this whole bunch of bullshit is a wink, wink, nod, nod, between the corrupt fbi, doj and the court system.
How can anyone have any confidence in our corrupt law keepers?
I assume it's yet another Obama judge.
There were a number of judges involved in this FISA scam. The FISA judges are picked by Chief Justice Roberts, and he is responsible for making clear to them what constitutes abuse.
Does it make her look worse to have read it or not read it?
Roberts is DISGUSTINGLY a HUGE disappointment! LEFTY!
This lawyer needs to be fired and disbarred!
Yup, while trying to lecture Rep. Gohmert on "the process."
Gohmert: "You approved the [FISA] filing . . ."
Rosenstein: "That's my job. That's my job."
G: "OK, you approved it. When you approve a FISA application, in your mind does that mean you should read it and understand what's part of it?"
R: "You should certainly understand what's part of it, sir . . "
G: "But that's . . you're parsing words . . .That doesn't mean you need to read it, in your opinion. Is that correct?"
R: "It depends on the circumstances, sir and ah, [smiles]"
G: "Well tell me then, being a former felony state judge . . ."
R: "yes"
G: "If I had somebody like you come before me . . ."
R: "I'm not the one [inaudible or before the judge], sir."
G: "The guy that signed and approved an application for a warrant had not . . ."
R: "I don't think . . . "
G: "even read the application that would allow spying on someone"
R: "That would be atrocious"
G: "I would look at everything he signed from then on with a jaundiced eye and I'm telling you I was a little bit concerned . . ."
R: "Will you even give a chance to explain, sir."
G: "Well, you have. You said . . ."
R: "No I have not!"
G: "approved it."
R: "I did approve it."
G: "I didn't ask that question, because you've said you approve it, but you took out the words . . ."
Goodlatte: "The gentleman's will . ."
G: "That you read it."
Goodlatte: "The gentleman will suspend. I just want to make it clear that you will be afforded the full opportunity to respond once his time is expired."
G: "My time continued to run while the chairman took up some of my time."
Goodlatte:"You'll have that, too."
G: "And actually, I didn't have a question, I was taking the words that the Deputy Attorney General himself said. Let me ask you about this . . .
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R: "I completely understand your concern, and this FISA process is being reviewed by the Inspector General. If he finds some problem with it I'll respect that. Now, we don't talk about FISAs. It's illegal for us to talk about FISAs. And this particular example is the result the intelligence committee--certain information was declassified--so I'm comfortable talking about that. You have to understand in context, sir, that the department had made the decision to disclose the existence of a FISA to the House and Senate before I got there. Before I got there. What I signed was what is called a renewal application. It had already been approved three different times by a federal judge, it was signed under oath by an FBI agent who attested it was true and correct. Now if he was wrong, we'll hold him accountable. But let's allow the process to conclude before we jump to conclusions about that, because I assure you, sir, I'll be just as offended as you, if I find there was some incorrect information in that application.
Trisha Anderson, the head of the bureau’s National Security and Cyber Law Branch and principal deputy general counsel for the FBI, signed off on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application before forwarding the document to then-FBI Director James Comey, despite not having read it, she said.
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Wasn’t this the exact same claim made by McCabe?? WTF! You sign a legal document, you own it. Do they think claiming they didn’t read it exonerates them from culpability.
No wait. I forgot. They’re the F’n B. I. Of course they’re exempt from all laws.
Nota Bene:
A FISA in her branch had to be signed by an SES!
The Senior Executive Service [SES] is the DC Gatekeeper: political appointments to control the actual experts in the civil servant grades.
She “served” as a rubber stamp - as long as the target was Swamp-appoved. Had it been one of Hillary’s minions, she would have “served” as the firewall.
SES is Swamp Central.
Are’t you testifying that you DID read it when you sign it?
Didn’t need to.
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