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, @06:37PM (3 children)
By the way... who told Trump and why? Sounds like a leak to me. One that should be investigated and the leaker prosecuted, no?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @08:31PM (2 children)
Not a leak, he went through the proper channels and alerted the FISA court to the abuses. Then he waited for an SCIF to be set up in Trump tower after the election:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/14/more-evidence-surfaces-nsa-director-mike-rogers-did-not-aid-obamas-surveillance-scheme/ [theconservativetreehouse.com]
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nsa-director-rogers-disclosed-fisa-abuse-days-after-carter-page-fisa-was-issued_2692033.html [theepochtimes.com]
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday December 19 2019, @01:49AM (1 child)
Both of those links go to sites that specialise in conspiracy theories and lies. You're doing your argument no favours.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @01:57AM
You'll be hearing it again from official sources in a couple months. The people paying attention have known almost everything that is happening now since mid 2017. Trump has been (very annoyingly) dragging it out for maximum effect on 2020 elections.