Posted on 10/31/2018 12:59:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, one of the top Republicans in Congress, wants the lead judge on the secret surveillance court to investigate whether the FBI abused the process to obtain FISA warrants against Carter Page.
Meadows wants to know whether the FISA process was “weaponized for political means.”
Republicans claim that the FBI misled the FISA court by relying heavily on the unverified Steele dossier to mount a case against Page.
The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus is asking a federal judge to investigate whether the process of granting secret surveillance warrants against American citizens was “weaponized for political means” against the Trump campaign.
“As the Presiding Judge of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)], you are privy to information which could potentially verify or contradict our understanding of abuses of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)] process,” North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows wrote in a letter Monday to Judge Rosemary Collyer. “Ultimately, to protect the integrity of the process, we believe such an investigation is necessary.”
“We write to encourage you to investigate the possibility FISA has recently been weaponized for political means,” added Meadows, a Republican member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Meadows is one of a handful of lawmakers on a congressional task force investigating the FBI and Department of Justice’s investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.
Republicans on the task force have focused heavily on the FBI’s applications for four FISA warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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Robert “Schwantz” Muller.
EXACTLY. Elitist Unipartarian TRAITORS. SWAMP creatures remain.
R.I.P. SWAMPSNIPER
Some perp walks in irons are coming.
many times on Hannity, guests have asked how come the FISA judges have remained silent on this issue.
there’s a story for the FakeNewsMSM to investigate.
The FISC should be shut down. Have the fbi and doj go to a designated rotating group of 3 members of SCOTUS to get FISA warrants against US citizens.
Secret warrants should be rarer than hen's teeth.
That question popped into my head as well.
bttt
I know - just would like to see the proof get out to the rest of the country.
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