The partially redacted declassified FISA documents that were released were not the result of a FOIA application.
If you know different, you should be able to provide an official link to such FOIA application that was PROCESSED AND APPROVED for otherwise anyone can make a FOIA application but it does not mean the application will be reviewed and approved.
The partially redacted declassified FISA documents that were released were not the result of a FOIA application. If you know different, you should be able to provide an official link to such FOIA application that was PROCESSED AND APPROVED for otherwise anyone can make a FOIA application but it does not mean the application will be reviewed and approved.
So you have no evidence that shows that FOIA standard procedures weren't followed.
The DOJ initially refused JW's FISA request. So JW sued the DOJ
It was in April that the DOJ relented and told the court that it was “processing for potential redaction and release certain FISA materials related to Carter Page”. The DOJ agreed to a production schedule to be completed by, July 20, 2018.
.....Normally, even the existence of applications for warrants issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would be classified – but the Trump administration took the unusual step of declassifying them as part of the Nunes Memo in order to further its case against the Mueller investigation.
Trump’s goal may have been to selectively release only information that buttressed his campaign against the FBI and Mueller, but the law doesn’t work that way. Once things are declassified, they’re declassified. So right after the Nunes Memo was released, American Oversight and Dominique Bravo filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DOJ’s National Security Division and the FBI: one seeking the FISA applications themselves, and one seeking the identities of the DOJ attorneys who submitted them and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judges who approved them....