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The secret federal court that approves orders for conducting surveillance on suspected foreign terrorists or spies issued a strong and highly unusual public rebuke to the FBI on Tuesday, ordering the agency to say how it intends to correct the errors revealed last week by a Justice Department report on one aspect of the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the FBI made serious and repeated mistakes in seeking under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, to conduct surveillance of Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.
The FBI's submission to the court made assertions that were "inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation," the report said.
Rosemary Collyer, presiding judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, said in the unusual public order that the report "calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable." She ordered the FBI to explain in writing by Jan. 10 how it intends to remedy those problems.
Document here: https://www.scribd.com/document/440156909/Fisa-Court-to-FBI
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:31PM (6 children)
I'll give you a hint: The sex trafficking that isn't done by relatives is oftentimes being done with the tacit approval of those in power or those in law enforcement, whether through economic incentive or direct participation. Epstein was not an isolated incident and this particular problem is not going to be solved by security theater from the primary consumer group of the the trafficking. Law enforcemnt and politicians like to tell us how much better they are than everyone else, but the truth is they are just as dirty as the rest of us in the best of times, and much more dirty in the worst.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:36PM (5 children)
No, deathmonkey and azuma have both said they would not interfere with a child sex trafficking ring if it meant Trump would be more likely to get elected, eg because prominent democrats were involved. From aristarchuses posts I assume the same.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:40PM (2 children)
It is only meant as an example of what we are dealing with here, these people do not care what happens or who they need to support if it helps "stop Trump".
They are sick. At least the people feeding them their talking points have crimes to cover up and get massive financial and political benefit from this, but the low level peons that would post here... What is their benefit?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @05:13PM (1 child)
More or less sick than those feeding the ego and supporting the most mentally ill and corrupt President ever? As in worse than Nixon corrupt. As in worse than Harding corrupt. As in worse than Reagan mentally ill. As in worse than Lincoln mentally ill.
At least the low level persons under Trump believe his bullshit that Trump will do better for them and the country personally, as delusional as that is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @05:47PM
If you cover up evidence of a child being raped, it is more sick than "feeding the ego" of someone. Just that you would ask a question like that shows how messed up you are.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 18 2019, @07:00PM (1 child)
[Citation Needed]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @08:39PM
Well here is another opportunity for you.
Do you think it was ok for ABC to cover up the Epstein story because it was inconvenient to their democrat political allies even if it meant the continued sexual abuse of women and children?