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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: mewzilla
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page

From 2017. Warrants thicker than your wrists, huh? But interestingly, no mention of an actual hearing.

41 posted on 08/31/2018 1:48:58 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: CivilWarBrewing; tennmountainman
You are correct. Hearings probably DID take place but ALL EVIDENCE OF THAT HAS BEEN DESTROYED.

Bingo. There's no way hearings did not take place. They just don't want us to hear what was heard.

42 posted on 08/31/2018 1:49:17 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: ghost of nixon

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 .


43 posted on 08/31/2018 1:49:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: morphing libertarian

Not funny how all roads point back to him.


44 posted on 08/31/2018 1:49:51 PM PDT by Kudsman (I'm normnal.)
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To: Kudsman

he should be indicted for conspiring with Hillary in a coup d’tat.


45 posted on 08/31/2018 1:51:15 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Red Badger

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


46 posted on 08/31/2018 1:57:11 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

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.


47 posted on 08/31/2018 1:57:26 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right)
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To: Kudsman

Just remember, the GUILTY PARTY ALWAYS KNOWS what went down.....................


48 posted on 08/31/2018 1:59:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I thought only the first warrant request was rejected. Then the next one was approved along with three extensions.


49 posted on 08/31/2018 1:59:34 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Red Badger

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.


50 posted on 08/31/2018 2:03:10 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Red Badger

Friday Afternoon + a Holiday weekend.

HA!


51 posted on 08/31/2018 2:03:41 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 ( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
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To: KC Burke

Succinct...................


52 posted on 08/31/2018 2:04:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

And two national funerals going on.................


53 posted on 08/31/2018 2:05:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: for-q-clinton

“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.”


This. Let’s see if the Senate has the balls (maybe after January, when there are 57 or so R Senators?).


54 posted on 08/31/2018 2:10:46 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: morphing libertarian
”pitcher Obama”

More likely that he plays catcher.

55 posted on 08/31/2018 2:12:08 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: noiseman

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.


56 posted on 08/31/2018 2:14:10 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: tennmountainman
I believe that q is real, sending out real info but I can't for the life of me understand the advantage of keeping Sessions in DOJ if he is not going to address the multiple high crimes and misdemeanorsee going on.

plan or no plan, the longer the mule charade goes on the worse it is for our president.

57 posted on 08/31/2018 2:17:44 PM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: KC Burke

Well, how about that! They’re almost as bad as the Vatican under Frankie.


58 posted on 08/31/2018 2:17:52 PM PDT by livius
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To: Red Badger

someone ping me when the perp walks begin


59 posted on 08/31/2018 2:20:07 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: wildbill

The sealed indictments just took a giant leap of volume.


60 posted on 08/31/2018 2:28:55 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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