Posted on 03/06/2020 6:37:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Ban applies to requests for FISA surveillance authority
The FISA court has temporarily banned FBI agents under disciplinary review in the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page from requesting surveillance authority from the court.
The ban was imposed in an opinion issued Wednesday by the secretive court’s chief judge, James E. Boasberg.
“FBI personnel under disciplinary review in relation to their work on FISA applications accordingly should not participate in drafting, verifying, reviewing, or submitting such application to the Court while the review is pending,” Boasberg wrote.
The judge also said in his 19-page opinion that the same restrictions apply to any Justice Department attorney under disciplinary review, as well as any DOJ or FBI personnel who are the subject of a criminal referral related to their work on FISA applications.
Boasberg also stated that the FBI had “omitted or mischaracterized” pieces of information pertaining to the credibility of former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, and the now largely debunked dossier he produced.
The FBI’s FISA application implied that Page’s Russian contacts were secret and suspicious, though in reality Page has disclosed them.
The ruling also points out that, according to Michael Horowitz’s Inspector General report, someone in the FBI’s Office of General Counsel went so far as to add additional text to an email from another agency stating that Page was not a source, thereby falsifying FISA warrant evidence.
The temporary ban comes days before a March 15 deadline for Congress to decide whether to renew several post 9/11 FISA tools.
Sad to say, there’s more agents where they came from.
Interesting...
They should be BANNED form ever testifying in ANY Court after the Fraud they Committed, No Testimony EVER
CIRCA 2017 FISA Report Confirmed:
Obama Admin Sent FISA-Obtained Info on Americans to Non Government Entities
We Still Don’t Know Whose Data Was Sent to What Companies
The Hill ^ | 2/24/2020 | Joe Hoft / FR Posted on 2/24/2020, 1:16:05 PM by bitt
A stunning April 2017 report from the FISA Court received no publicity until nearly a year after it was released to the public. The report covered results of an investigation or audit into FISA searches made by Obama’s NSA, FBI and DOJ during Obama’s time in office. On April 26, 2017, an unsealed FISA Court Ruling unveiled a number of criminal activities that Barack Obama’s FBI, NSA and DOJ participated in during his time in office. The report was actually completed before the 2016 election.
The FISA Court Ruling showed widespread abuse of the FISA mandate. According to the report, Obama’s FBI, NSA and DOJ performed searches on Americans that were against their 4th Amendment rights. This went on for years. One paragraph in the report states that 85% of the Section 704 and 705(b) FISA searches made during the time of the audit (a few months in 2015) were non-compliant with applicable laws and therefore criminal.
In addition, Obama’s DOJ and FBI were illegally searching Americans against their rights. Unbeknownst to most Americans, Obama’s FBI was providing this information to outside contractors who had no business or legal cause or claim for the information. A review of the report showed on page 19 that the Court stated that Obama’s NSA had an institutional “lack of candor”.
LINKED the 99-page report released on April 26, 2017 in an unsealed FISA Court Ruling.
2016 Cert FISC Memo Opin Order Apr 2017 (4) saved by the Sinclair Broadcast Group on Scribd) 1 of 99 pages
Rogers is also suspected of telling President-elect Donald Trump that he was being spied on in a meeting shortly after his election win in November 2016. The level of corruption within Obama’s NSA, FBI and DOJ is shocking. To date no one has been charged with crimes or is serving time as a result of the many crimes committed by this group of government hoodlums. We still don’t know what companies were receiving personal information on which Americans during the Obama years. It’s been more than four years!!! (Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
CIRCA 2018-—In trudging through the FISA document that came to light, it was discovered that Obama’s National Security Agency (then-headed by Susan Rice) had been illegally conducting searches on people in the US. The document has gone on to state that those illegal searches, which were conducted under Obama amounted to a whopping 85% of the total searches involving US person identifiers.
The FISA Court is suffering from ALL the abuses we warned it would.
Why are they still employed and free?
Isn’t the problem that they are unindicted felons who abused authority? This is like barring bank robbers from Chase Manhattan, every other bank is fine.
It will be back to business as usual once people's attention is elsewhere, unless there is a serious overhaul.
I think we need to revisit the idea of secret courts with secret proceedings, our Founding Fathers were keenly aware of the problems with those.
Those that broke the law should be put in jail, period...
You broke the law in El Paso. Your punishment? Don’t go back to El Paso!
That’s not how things work for average Americans! Jail time or... I’ll get Chuck Schumer to threaten you.
They should be banned from walking free for 5 or 10 years.
Let me get this straight now! All the FBI agents that lied to the FISA court are going to be banned from appearing before the FISA judges, but the FISA judges that bought their lies hook-line-and-sinker without as much as a pertinent question will remain on the court.
Here come da judge, here come da judge. Yep! That ought to fix the mess.
Yes ...my first thought...why aren’t they FIRED?
Barred from the FISA court?
Really? That’s it?
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
So is this like having your Top Secret or Secret Security Clearance suspended? If so, you usually get it back if you are not fired.
Is this like the suspension of duties if you are identified as a reprimanded alcohol or drug abuser and on a pathway to recovery, thus suspended from promotions and your security clearance duties?
Is this something that will eventually result in pass overs for promotion for 10-years forcing an up and out release or retirement from the FBI?
No matter what the cause, will these offenders be eligible to use their total federal service for a federal retirement at age 55?
Bullcrap - they should fired and barred from any future retirement claims against the USG and not be allowed to serve as a contractor or employee on a contract to the USG.
Kind of lets the cat out of the bag about what is going on behind the scene of limited public dissemination.
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