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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From 2017. Warrants thicker than your wrists, huh? But interestingly, no mention of an actual hearing.
Bingo. There's no way hearings did not take place. They just don't want us to hear what was heard.
My ax to grind on the Page FISA apps is that the extensions seemed to have made no progress on verifying anything in the (partly) FIB funded “dossier”.
I thought that to get an extension they had to show “progress”, especially driven by the fruits of their FISA wiretaps allowed 3 months ago.
Total sham both by the Court/Judges and the DoJustUs/FIB .
Not funny how all roads point back to him.
he should be indicted for conspiring with Hillary in a coup d’tat.
How does the FISA judge’s name, Contrares keep coming up if Strozk buddy wasn’t involved?
So if no judge was involved, you got abuse of power and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Buy rope futures.
Trees are plentiful.
5.56mm
AMEN. Trump can’t fix it by himself.
He is one brave man against thousands and thousands of swamp
rats.
Sessions was a mistake in many ways.
Just remember, the GUILTY PARTY ALWAYS KNOWS what went down.....................
I thought only the first warrant request was rejected. Then the next one was approved along with three extensions.
The Just-Us Department, the FBI (Friends of Bill and Insurectionists), the CIA, the NSA and the entire Intelligence community were subverted to run a scam to subvert the election and the FISA court was a willing rubber stamp with the false information paid for by Hillary.
Friday Afternoon + a Holiday weekend.
HA!
Succinct...................
And two national funerals going on.................
“This is why the Judges won’t call the DOJ out on this...because they are just as guilty too. They did NOT do their jobs as they swore they would. All should be impeached and brought up on charges for violating Page’s civil rights.”
More likely that he plays catcher.
yeah for two reasons. i saw the vid of him throwing out the first pitch. Secondly, i don’t want to see a vid of the other meaning.
plan or no plan, the longer the mule charade goes on the worse it is for our president.
Well, how about that! They’re almost as bad as the Vatican under Frankie.
someone ping me when the perp walks begin
The sealed indictments just took a giant leap of volume.
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