I know the FISA courts are secret proceedings, but is anyone asking what sort of judge evaluated this warrant application? Are the proceedings recorded in any way? Are there transcripts of the entire proceedings?
Wouldn't the judge have a responsibility to question the veracity of the assertions made in an application for a warrant? This seems to be another huge area of questions. I wonder if there is anyway to learn the details of those court proceedings?
That’s what I’m wondering. Who has oversight of the FISA court? Its Trump related decisions clearly need to be reviewed. In fact, it clearly needs much more than that.
It needs a top down IG type inspection. Maybe even a commission of some sort to assess its functioning in the post 9/11 era.
One way or another, an overhaul of the FISA system will probably be part of the fallout of this thing if the Republicans play their cards right. Doing so would be consistent with some of Nunes’s statements.
Funny how it was the Dems who screamed bloody murder at Dubya’s expansion of surveillance powers and now it turns out they’re the very ones to abuse those powers in the lowest of ways.
The squirrely plantation black democrats Believe the courts and cops are biased and stacked against them. They Believe the school to prison pipeline. They know looting is okay cause looting is retrieving what is theirs.
I can imagine their discussions when they process the facts that the FBI manufactured evidence and lied to the courts to convict innocent people!
Perhaps it’s enough to shop a judicial clerk, if the judge is sloppy and tends to rely upon the clerk to slog through the paperwork.