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FISA court slams FBI over surveillance applications, in rare public order
Fox News ^ | 17 December 2019 | Andrew O'Reilly, Bill Mears

Posted on 12/17/2019 2:05:17 PM PST by Magnatron

In a rare public order Tuesday, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISC] strongly criticized the FBI over its surveillance-application process, giving the bureau until Jan. 10 to come up with solutions, in the wake of findings from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.

The order, from the court's presiding judge Rosemary M. Collyer, came just a week after the release of Horowitz's withering report about the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the [Office of Inspector General] report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above," Collyer wrote in her four-page order. "The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable."

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To: romanesq; hadrian

I wonder if Collyer even looked at the evidence, and if so, if she asked questions. Even an honest judge can be lazy.


121 posted on 12/17/2019 9:28:17 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

I think she is saying “No FISA warrants until 20 January 2021, or possibly 20 January 2025, depending ...”


122 posted on 12/17/2019 10:01:21 PM PST by bIlluminati (Defund the Left. Shrink the U.S. Federal government to 1897 levels.)
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To: Magnatron

My 1st thought as well

Jackasses...Fraudz...


123 posted on 12/17/2019 11:48:16 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Magnatron

124 posted on 12/17/2019 11:49:34 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: JoSixChip
The fact that many of these fib agents involved in this are still employed by the fib says it all.

You can say That again !

125 posted on 12/17/2019 11:54:14 PM PST by timestax
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To: hadrian

I too have the utmost respect for her and her colleagues.../s


126 posted on 12/17/2019 11:56:27 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: cpdiii

127 posted on 12/17/2019 11:58:23 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: eartick; Magnatron

Duh...

And there was already a system in place to ensure integrity of FISA applications...

All they had to do was be dishonest and take advantage of a system and people who presumed they were trustworthy, which they proved they are not...


128 posted on 12/18/2019 12:06:05 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: blackdog

RE: The court could refuse...

The court could have refused the first ones, if they had a shred of integrity. All the FBI had was razor thin, even with their claim that it was “verifiable.”
No, the court will clean itself right after hell freezes over.


129 posted on 12/18/2019 5:15:58 AM PST by Missouri gal
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To: Syncro

There should be their.


130 posted on 12/18/2019 5:18:31 AM PST by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: Magnatron
Right? I wouldn't call this...”Slam”.

More like a pop on the palm of the hand. Bad lil boyz.
Now, write us a 500 word essay on how your never ever going to do this again.

131 posted on 12/18/2019 5:57:37 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: timestax
>>The fact that many of these fib agents involved in this are still employed by the fib says it all.
You can say That again !<<

Curious...why do you say fib instead of fbi?

132 posted on 12/18/2019 5:59:35 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Collyer’s statemet is as laughable as a similar one would have been from Roland Friesler to the Gestapo.


133 posted on 12/18/2019 8:46:21 AM PST by damper99
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To: Souled_Out

Thanks, your (<———— thypo joke) right...


134 posted on 12/18/2019 12:02:35 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: hadrian

" I have utmost respect for her. "

Probably says more about you than her.

135 posted on 12/19/2019 8:36:15 AM PST by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: Cboldt
...as I was saying...

FISA Court news: Judge Rosemary Collyer, who I am told has health issues, will step down early as presiding judge & Chief Justice Roberts has tapped (obama appointed) Judge James Boasberg to take over that role in the new year. (Collyer will apparently remain a FISA judge; her term ends in March.) pic.twitter.com/4f7zjw5USm

— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) December 20, 2019

136 posted on 12/20/2019 1:45:32 PM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: newfreep

You can’t tell “appoint” from “oversee,” of if you can, you are gaslighting others that they are the same thing.


137 posted on 12/20/2019 1:57:37 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

LOL!

Ignoring reality is no defense of your incorrect position.

But that’s OK...I’ll forgive your wayward digressions.

Ciao!


138 posted on 12/20/2019 2:00:06 PM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Cboldt
btw, my original post references direct & indirect that you have conveniently overlooked...again.

To suggest Chief Justice Dread Pirate Roberts has no connection, direct or indirect, to FISC is, well....absurd.

btw, Chief Justice Dread Pirate Roberts is the one who appoints judges to the FISA court – every last one of them including judges like Rudolph Contreras, who granted a previously denied Michael Flynn FISA warrant.

139 posted on 12/20/2019 2:02:51 PM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: newfreep
There is your strawman again. I never suggested that "Chief Justice Dread Pirate Roberts has no connection, direct or indirect, to FISC". I asserted he doesn't "oversee" the FISC.

-- btw, Chief Justice Dread Pirate Roberts is the one who appoints judges to the FISA court --

Not news to me. I said so in my original post. I'm not going to look it up. Bye again.

140 posted on 12/20/2019 2:45:01 PM PST by Cboldt
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