Posted on 03/07/2020 9:34:02 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on March 5 effectively barred FBI and Justice Department officials involved in the infamous application to surveil former Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
The chief justice of the secret court, James Boasberg, ordered the ban in a 19-page opinion, the latest in a series of developments triggered by the release of the condemning report by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which examined the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications the FBI used to spy on Page.
Boasberg wrote, “No DOJ or FBI personnel under disciplinary or criminal review relating to their work on FISA applications shall participate in drafting, verifying, reviewing, or submitting such applications to the court.”
Boasberg also accepted a detailed plan put forth by the FBI to prevent the kinds of significant omissions and misstatements that made their way into the Page FISA applications despite significant vetting by top officials at the bureau and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
“The court is encouraged by the government’s responses to the OIG report and its orders, as the FBI and DOJ have each indicated that the flaws identified in the OIG Report require significant and systemic remedial action,” Boasberg wrote.
The DOJ inspector general released a report in December that found a number of serious omissions and misstatements in the FISA applications on Page. For example, the FBI failed to disclose that Page had a relationship with the CIA, that the agency had approved Page as an operational contact from 2008 to 2013, that Page notified the agency about his contacts with Russians, and that the CIA had assessed that Page was truthful about describing his contacts.
Exacerbating the omission, an FBI attorney altered an email to say that Page was “not a source.”
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The two-tiered justice systems goes on and on and on and on...
They need to be charged with 18 USC 1001 at a minimum. I’m sure there are other applicable federal statutes.
Paging Bagpipes Barr.....
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This is just a slap on the wrist.
The evidence against them is far greater than the evidence against Roger Stone. And I believe the crimes are greater too. These guys were in trusted positions working for our government.
They should all be FIRED and SERVE JAIL TIME.
Boasberg also accepted a detailed plan put forth by the FBI to prevent the kinds of significant omissions and misstatements that made their way into the Page FISA applications ...”
There WAS a detailed plan....it’s called THE LAW. It was in place and it was violated.
Contempt, perjury, and for those who are attorneys, disbarment.
Boasberg is scapegoating.
He and his co-conspirators knew damn well what the trash was that they were accepting.
He just likes being the master of the Star Chamber.
Better to admit that the court itself is utterly un-Constitutional and dissolve it.
Exacerbating the omission, an FBI attorney altered an email to say that Page was “not a source.”
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That is not an error, that’s a flat lie.
“Erred” such bullshit. It was an attempt to overthrow the government and criminally spy on the political opponents. They should face decades in prison or possibly a firing squad
How about pulling their security clearances. Maybe McDonald’s will hire them to bag orders.
What is this “Erred”?These investigators didn’t err they lied.They submitted knowingly false documents to the FISA court.
All such persons should be found guilty and given the electric chair.
I will gladly operate that chair for free, taking a few vacation days to work with the prison staff on proper chair maintenance.
People who misled the Court must be tried for perjury and as part of conspiracy to overturn the Government of the United States. Stop the damn slow walking everything that has do with this case!!
Big deal - at the rate things are going there won’t be a FISA court for long.The law is up for renewal, and Trump won’t stand for renewing it without serious changes.
And not a firing squad with guns, blow-torches, only.
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