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Judicial Watch: Justice Department Discloses No FISA Court Hearings Held on Carter Page Warrants
www.judicialwatch.org ^ | AUGUST 31, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 08/31/2018 1:22:38 PM PDT by Red Badger

‘[N]o such hearings were held with respect to the acknowledged FISA applications. Accordingly, no responsive hearing transcripts exist.’

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today announced that in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a court filing last night that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.

In the filing the Justice Department finally revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Page FISA spy warrants, first issued in 2016 and subsequently renewed three times:

[National Security Division] FOIA consulted [Office of Intelligence] … to identify and locate records responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] FOIA request…. [Office of Intelligence] determined … that there were no records, electronic or paper, responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] FOIA request with regard to Carter Page. [Office of Intelligence] further confirmed that the [Foreign Surveillance Court] considered the Page warrant applications based upon written submissions and did not hold any hearings.

The Department of Justice previously released to Judicial Watch the heavily redacted Page warrant applications. The initial Page FISA warrant was granted just weeks before the 2016 election.

The DOJ filing is in response to a Judicial Watch lawsuit for the FISA transcripts (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01050)).

In February, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a memo criticizing the FISA targeting of Carter Page. The memo details how the “minimally corroborated” Clinton-DNC dossier was an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants to spy on Page.

Judicial Watch recently filed a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking the transcripts of all hearings related to the surveillance of Carter Page.

“It is disturbing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts rubber-stamped the Carter Page spy warrants and held not one hearing on these extraordinary requests to spy on the Trump team,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Perhaps the court can now hold hearings on how justice was corrupted by material omissions that Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC, a conflicted Bruce Ohr, a compromised Christopher Steele, and anti-Trumper Peter Strzok were all behind the ‘intelligence’ used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team.”

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To: Red Badger

I believe Chief Justice John Roberts oversees the FISA courts . Is he not a bit culpable?


101 posted on 08/31/2018 5:06:04 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: chief lee runamok

Think, just think about your comment. Is it plausible that the silence is proper procedure for a prosecutor?


102 posted on 08/31/2018 5:14:08 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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To: MAGAthon
give thanks Judicial Watch

Yes, some incredible work being done by them.

103 posted on 08/31/2018 5:17:17 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: mass55th
I thought only the first warrant request was rejected. Then the next one was approved along with three extensions.

Obviously you're just as confused as I am.........

104 posted on 08/31/2018 5:29:38 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: Red Badger

No checks. No balances. No hearings. No due process.

The Soviet legal system was less rigged than this.


105 posted on 08/31/2018 5:40:33 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Red Badger

Wow. Who was the judge that rubber stamped the authorization?


106 posted on 08/31/2018 5:47:11 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: qaz123

I interpreted it as the warrant was requested, however it was authorized/approved/signed off by a judge without any presentation of information.


107 posted on 08/31/2018 5:49:47 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

Yeah....it may not be a court hearing it but may be one judge that signed off on it....who is this judge? Is she/he part of the coup or was duped by the DOJ? If duped then they should be mad and hold contempt of court against those who signed the affidavit....


108 posted on 08/31/2018 6:05:12 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Trumpisourlastchance; Red Badger
This explanation does sync up with the possible explanation for the redaction of the dates on the FISA warrants. Redaction makes no other sense.

There is yet another oddity in Saturday’s release, but of unknown relevance: The dates in the applications and warrants were redacted. Why? One possibility: The dates of the verification of the applications coincide with (or near) the dates the FISA court issued the surveillance orders, demonstrating that the judges served as a mere rubber stamp on the requests and did not do a thorough review of the information.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/23/10-key-takeaways-released-fisa-warrants-carter-page/

109 posted on 08/31/2018 6:34:46 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Red Badger

So, whoever said not to tick off these deep state swamp people because they will “get” you was right! And it appears the deep state swamp extends to the FISA judges.


110 posted on 08/31/2018 8:08:07 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: mtrott

And it now appears there is no “rule of law” in DC. If this stuff keeps up, we’ll be a completely lawless third world country.


111 posted on 08/31/2018 8:11:30 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: Lurker

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These “judges” need hanging...


112 posted on 08/31/2018 9:06:20 PM PDT by matthew fuller (How many of today's voters have ever seen a half-dollar coin (or silver dollar)?)
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To: Bigtigermike

I have said from the beginning I think tge the judges had to be in on it. No way they simply got fooled by the “evidence”. What happened to my country!! I blame stupid ass Americans who voted for liars and schemers like Bill Clinton and Obama. Don’t want to lose our abortions and social security.


113 posted on 08/31/2018 9:22:55 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: CivilWarBrewing

God I love hubris.


114 posted on 08/31/2018 10:06:21 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Eddie01

Damn that list is long ...

But we have a covered.


115 posted on 08/31/2018 10:08:36 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Phillyred

Yes they were all in on it. They were busy making plans for undermining of all levels of govt under President Hilliary so they never thought any of this was going to come out. It is coup and they should be charged with treason. But who can do that? It is clear the AG will do nothing.


116 posted on 08/31/2018 10:52:41 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: rfp1234

As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise”!!


117 posted on 08/31/2018 11:24:15 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Eddie01

If Page sues the FISA Court and all its judges (since he probably doesn’t know which ones heard the FISA warrant applications against him), they will have to be put under oath before a court or a federal grand jury and then tell the truth or go to jail and be exposed as a FISA judge.

We’re gonna need more tape recorders and tape!


118 posted on 08/31/2018 11:26:50 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: HollyB

Hmmmm. Interesting take on it and definitely not out of the realm of possibility. Given how corrupt this whole thing is, if it were presented to the ‘right’ judge, who was on board with all of this(as they seem to be), then it’s definitely believable that they could have pulled this off.

So:

1. They wrote the affidavit, never showed it to a judge and went up on the wire anyway

2. They and then judge are complicit in the whole thing, w/ the judge never having read the affidavit because they want the President out as much as anyone else.

Either way, it’s all illegal, starting from the very first utterance of anything: dossier, Papadopoulus, Paige, Flynn, everything is tainted as Fruit from the Poisonous Tree.


119 posted on 08/31/2018 11:56:05 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Red Badger

Trump is sensing that the tide has turned far enough that he will soon be able to rectify much of this crap w/o the Repubs taking a hit....tick-tock....tick-tock...Hey Sessions, what time do you have?


120 posted on 09/01/2018 3:28:00 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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