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 Watchs] FOIA request . [Office of Intelligence] determined that there were no records, electronic or paper, responsive to [Judicial Watchs] 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 DOJs 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 Clintons 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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It is my understanding that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, oversees the FISA Court. That would be John Roberts.
Correct.................
WTH?
They can’t do that
702 requires hearing
I’ve been saying the same thing. The judges are corrupt. Investigators, prosecutors, judges.....ALL CORRUPT!
Either FIX A court is lying, or Rosenstein. Or is it BOTH?
Ha! FIX A court was an autocorrect boo boo, but I think I’ll leave it!
So does that mean the judges just sign off on what ever the DOJ sends them?????? Asking as I don’t get what part the Judge played in this except might be swampish because which all that has come out the judge is not calling them on the carpet
There is a nefarious meaning behind this that so far is being overlooked.
1. There was a FISA Hearing but it’s being denied to cover up other things ... such as a flashing Neon Obama sign or to otherwise protect somebody high up in the Obama administration.
2. Or As suspected, Roger Stone was a CI for the FBI.
3. I smell rotten fish.
The corruption is truly layers deep. Many layers.
Obama, Jarret, Lynch, and Comey.
Felons all.
One one who can’t sing should be below ground by tomorrow evening.
And He will be a distant memory.
Onward to save the nation.
Bump.
A FISA Court judge would sign a leaf if it blew through his window and landed on his desk.
The FBI once before claimed Strzok’s key emails were missing but was later forced to produce them...
No doubt why Gitmo has been *spruced up* so to speak -
Holiday Friday news dump?
Yep. Must be even worse to come for them to do this.
So a FISA judge signed the warrant based solely on an informal representation by the FBI.
And a call from the Kenyan’s White Hut, no doubt. Rice, Jarrett, etc.
Interesting as the silence on this from the FISA Judges since the exposure of the crime over a year ago should be indicative of duck, and cover on the part of those judges.
This whole thing has a single source all the many strings are tied to.
John Roberts appointed these jackass judges. Who is responsible for fixing this mess????
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