It is my personal opinion that, seeing as how smoothly the FISA misleadings sailed through, with no subsequent uproar from the Court for being misled; the FISA Court was in on the game, and were a cooperating part of the scheme.
Good point. Another view is that the judge is compromised and had no choice.
My guess is that the FISA Court was told that the Steele dossier was verified. The congressional leadership was told the same thing, which goes a long way to explaining the conduct of the Republicans on the Hill. The media was told the same thing. Total control of information in secret proceedings with no opportunity for cross-examination and refutation is a powerful thing.
No one in the summer and fall of 2016 and early 2017 contemplated that the senior people in the FBI, DOJ and IC were flat-out lying.
Which makes the FBI and CIA negligence stupider.
This whitewash report is probably designed by nature to defend the fisa court from accusations of corruption. Had to throw some middle management FBI people under the bus to save them from the public perception that they were in on the attempted coup.
Correct. The 4th Amendment is dead as hammer, to be followed by the First and Second.
“It is my personal opinion that, seeing as how smoothly the FISA misleadings sailed through, with no subsequent uproar from the Court for being misled; the FISA Court was in on the game, and were a cooperating part of the scheme.”
Seven of the current 11 FISA judges were the Fraud’s.
Consider that ALL of them were the Fraud’s when the coup began.