The FISA Judges, the FBI leadership and everyone along the line never questioned anything and just accepted what was fed to them.
The FISA judges should be impeached and have their law licenses revoked.
The FBI leadership needs to be terminated and have their pensions revoked, including prohibition of working for any federal gov’t agency.
“The FISA Judges, the FBI leadership and everyone along the line never questioned anything and just accepted what was fed to them.”
There does appear to be one single solitary voice of reason that was involved in the whole process:
‘FBI leadership supported relying on Steele’s reporting to
seek a FISA order on Page after being advised of, and
giving consideration to, concerns expressed by Stuart
Evans, then NSD’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General
with oversight responsibility over OI, that Steele may
have been hired by someone associated with
presidential candidate Clinton or the DNC, and that the
foreign intelligence to be collected through the FISA
order would probably not be worth the “risk” of being
criticized later for collecting communications of
someone (Carter Page) who was “politically sensitive.”’
Evans was the person at the DOJ who was supposed to be in charge of the FISA process. Apparently, according to Lisa Page’s testimony to Congress, the FBI chose NOT to tell Evans when they started a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, because they were “concerned about leaks”. The only person they told at the DOJ was another Deputy Assistant Attorney General, George Toscas, who soon went and told Evans about it.
Even though other people in the DOJ allowed the FBI to go ahead with the FISA application, apparently Evans pestered them until they gave him a concession:
‘Due to Evans’s persistent inquiries, the FISA
application also included a footnote, developed by OI
based on information provided by the Crossfire
Hurricane team, to address Evans’s concern about the
potential political bias of Steele’s research.’
Wouldn't that be cruel and unusual punishment for the simple crime of TREASON?....../s