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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @04:08PM (5 children)
And it is still laughable. Nothing has changed there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @04:19PM (2 children)
Oh yeah, that "wiretap" tweet was so wrong because no one actually uses physical wires anymore. Instead we learned of the multiple informants, multiple foreign countries, secret "electronic surveillance" warrants, etc. Definitely completely different than "wiretapping." And Obama had nothing to do with any of it.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @11:25PM (1 child)
Trump put "wires tapped" in double quotes. Most experienced English readers understand that the use of double quotes indicate the use of figurative language, and that the literal meaning should not be assumed. But people who hate Trump experience cognitive dissonance whenever something challenges their bias against Trump. They literally hallucinate. In this case, they simply did not see the double quotes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @12:24AM
Hillary Clinton wiped her hard drives with bleach on a cloth!
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:38PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @08:36PM
It wasn't the FBI, it was GCHQ via "Five Eyes". The NSA refused to cooperate so they went around them to get access to the shared data. This is why the head of the NSA, Mike Rogers, alerted Trump once he could tell him in a classified setting. It is also why the head of the GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, resigned soon after Trump's inauguration.
This is all out there for anyone to see, but it will be coming out again soon in the form of another one of these reports.