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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“Who was the judge that rubber stamped the authorization?”
No doubt that would be one “Rudy Gonzalas,” of Strzok and Lisa Page text fame. They knew him well. He’s their buddy, it seems. He also got forcibly removed from the Flynn sentencing phase without explanation. He presided over the plea. To a non-crime.
El swampo is deep-o.
See my previous post above. This is the first proof of FISA Judge malfeasance, and really opens a can of worms. All warrants signed by “Rudy” are now questionable. As is, the entire process.
We knew that, but this is a smoking gun. Yay JW!!!! If we had an AG, this could have been exposed in time to stop the recent FISA law renewal.
See tagline.
Oops. Contreras is the Judges name, not Gonzales.
I continue to believe Bush, Jr knew the Dread Pirate Roberts was a closeted homosexual with illegally adopted kids and 1)why he was picked initially for SCOTUS and 2) why he was chosen to be Chief Justice.
Why?
He could be easily blackmailed by Deep State - i.e. obamacare and now FISA corruption.
I still defer a firm opinion on Sessions however. One would have to have nads of steel to maintain his type of demeanor this deep into the game. The first year running interference for the DS? Sure. But two years in with the obvious momentum swinging towards the Trump & patriots? Why stay in at this point - usually in battle, the smart officers lead the retreat.
As far as blackmailing Roberts, et al, at this point in time with all that has been revealed, I think many of us have been approaching this all wrong. We have long assumed select individuals were inherently virtuous, but were perhaps be caught in a honey pot sting that once compromised made them subject to extortion.
However, maybe what really occurs is one cannot advance without voluntarily being compromised in order to join the club? In this sense, only the most psychopathicaly ambitious and corrupt would be attracted to the upper echelons of power. Some kind of initiation rite would be performed, perhaps with kids, to seal the deal. Once in, no one, no law can touch you - the swamp protects.
I think any mathematician could run a simple statistical analysis to determine the odds that all these DS players all exhibit the exact *same* psych profile. I mean, really, it seems pretty uncanny that they all tend to be the same.
Probably still being blackmailed by Soros and the rest. I’m thinking he’s just laying low and waiting til the President gets Kavanaugh and possibly 1-2 more picks on the court, which is quite possible. I think he’s got one more before this term is out. Whether if be RBG or Sotomayor. At that point, once they know they can keep the majority, we may just see Thomas step aside and then the court is stacked for a very, very long time. At that point, Roberts can tell his puppet masters that there isn’t anything he can do anyway.
However,they’ll all have to have round the clock protection, lest they end up like Scalia.
No doubt the 7th floor of headquarters is brimming with sociopaths. The rest are merely narcissists. That’s what it takes to be promoted and accepted into “The Club.”
About 4% of the population are sociopaths—look it up. However, Sociopaths often rise to high ranks. Many become politicians, too. In the upper levels of our government, it’s probably closer to 50%.
I’d support a seious, mandatory, in-depth psychoanalysis of everyone above GS-12. With firing anyone showing those traits.
On submission ex parte? Like a TRO? Unbelievable.
The judges didn't even bother to read the warrant.
It would have taken hours to read it. They just signed it without looking at it.
This is a constitutional travesty of justice.
Everything that followed that fraudulent warrant is fruit of the poisonous tree. Therefore all the charges brought by Mueller need to be dismissed as all the investigations and all the convictions were triggered by these fraudulent warrants. And all the parties to that warrant need to spend some serious prison time including the FISA Court judges who signed off on them.
And Sessions needs to join them as he is tacitly going along with the whole "damned" process.
Where is Rip Van Sessions? Why is he protecting his lunch mates at DOJ?
Why isn’t Drudge linking this story??
Without proper rigor, records and scrutiny. Or any due process for this US citizen.
I think that is a violation of even the FISA laws, much less a 4th Amendment violation...under the color of law.
They were betting everything she would win. By this time they expected to be well on their way to being ensconced into very comfortable positions in the ruling class of the emerging global totalitarian order.
It must have really been a bummer when she lost. I think most of them realize they have an appointment for early departure, and not on their own terms.
I’d support a seious, mandatory, in-depth psychoanalysis of everyone above GS-12. With firing anyone showing those traits.
Actually we need such screening for everyone upon reaching legal age. Those who test out as sociopaths and psychopaths get additional screening to make absolutely certain. The positives get permanently separated from society. What that means exactly, I'll leave for others to debate. Just get them the hell away from me and those I care about, permanently.
Thanks for the ping.
They thought she would win. No need for a stinkin’ hearing. The more I read the more I think the FISA Court “Judges” were in on the scam.
Drudge is no conservative site......................
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