HAMMER TIME!
Posted on 05/22/2019 6:19:42 PM PDT by Cboldt
WASHINGTON, DC: Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a Motion for Publication of Records with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on behalf of award-winning investigative reporter John Solomon and itself, seeking rulings, orders and opinions issued by the Court finding any of the attorneys associated with the Carter Page FISA applications violated rules of the Court or rules governing professional conduct by attorneys.
Southeastern Legal Foundation successfully pursued Bar sanctions against sitting President Bill Clinton, ultimately resulting in the surrender of his law license on the last day in office and disbarment by the U.S. Supreme Court (1998-2001) as part of the Agreed Order of Discipline from Independent Counsel Robert Ray. Click here for more information on the Clinton matter.
"We face a serious crisis of public confidence in our judicial system. Our nation's highest law enforcement officers and government attorneys are suspected of lying, misleading and withholding information from the FISC in order to obtain permission to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizen Carter Page," said Todd Young, SLF executive director. "If true, even in part, one of the most profound ways to help re-establish public trust in the rule of law is to hold these attorneys professionally and publicly accountable for their alleged grievous violations of the law and public trust."
Click here for FISC Motion for Publication of Records filed by SLF (file stamped copy as soon as available)
He may have been supervising, and following Barry’s orders.
They could have fit a little more into that “sentence”.
“Eschew surplusage.”
Mark Twain
I can think of one way to lighten the load - shut down the FISC entirely. It appears to be an unconstitutional star chamber at this point, so it has no right to exist.
I agree it’s ridiculous Roberts is suppose to supervise that court. But where was he when Lindsay Graham and the rest were jamming through Congress reapproval of the court? He is the one that needed to pump the breaks there and he was AWOL. I have a real hard time imagining Roberts being so hands off had it had been a Bush being assaulted by a fraudulent FISA warrant produced by a Democrat admin. The bottom line here is the GOPe has no interest in substantively supporting POTUS. It’s that simple.
I’d shut it down too. It does not “drag” unconstitutional snooping, it enables it. Dump the system, it exists only to dupe a gullible public. Go back to the 1970’s, illegal snooping goes on as always, and the government seeks court approval to the extent the government fears suppression of evidence.
All of them are in favor of their own system. They all tell us how great they are. Don’t expect critical self-exam from anybody in the FedGov. The so called “check and balance” is actually mutual support and “catch you if you fall.”
I can think of one way to lighten the load - shut down the FISC entirely. It appears to be an unconstitutional star chamber at this point, so it has no right to exist.
Instead the beltway swampers jammed through Congress reapproval of the FISC in bipartisan manner. Fully knowing that the obama admin had abused the FISA system massively and it was time to pump the breaks and take a look at the system. Disgraceful. Downright Treasonous.
How about a Cuban Breeze? I would, but I’m not Gretchen.
At the very least I would enjoy hearing some reaction ofanger from CJ Roberts concerning abuse of the FISA court system, which reports to him.
That conflates "the tool" with "abuse of the tool." Mind you, I think the tool itself is useless, but it is theoretically possible the useless tool be used honestly.
The paradigm shift I'd loike to see is the presumtion relating to the government. The government asserts it is entitled to a presumption of honesty and integrity. I disagree, emphatically. The government has demonstrated over a long period of time that it is dishonest and corrupt.
pingpingping!
I would find it insincere. This is the guy who says "there are no politics in judges" and thought the public would buy it. He and Wray are cut from the same mold.
He can say what he wants. I think he's not suited for the job, period.
None of the outrage they express results in meaningful change. Nothing but feelgood.
“Not a lamp post high enough.”
Odd Kamala Harris was pushing anti-swingingfromalamppost legislation?
HAMMER TIME!
Nor enough of them.
I guess it’s hard to supervise your buddies when you’re all in agreement.
The lingering questions...
Did the FISC Judges know what was going on and go along with it, thinking that nothing would ever happen to them nor would anyone ever find out about their corruption, given the secrecy surrounding their work?
OR
Like any other judge in the US, from the lowest level to SCOTUS, did they only make their decisions based on what they were told by the FBI and US Attorney? They can only go on what they know, so back to question 1.
Any decision they make can be based on lies. They have no idea of knowing the information that was provided was legitimate, until way down the road.
I tend to think that they were aware of what was going on, given that they’ve remained silent on all the lies they were fed and haven’t brought disciplinary actions against any of them. That is kind of telling.
One would think that at this level, oversight, is more administrative and day-to-day.
“Hey, this is Justice Roberts. How’s everything going with you folks? Good. Ok. Call me if you need anything”.
He’s not reviewing the cases, their decisions and asking questions.
Possibly, at one point and time in history, judges were honest, hardworking and unbiased. That time is long gone. The entire system is so corrupted that we need a legitimate reset.
“...in order to obtain permission to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizen Carter Page,”
Why no mention of the two hop rule (outward from Page)? That allowed them to spy on (I’ll bet) hundreds of people.
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