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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:41PM (4 children)
Both those statements are blatantly false. Quotes from Horowitz's testimony or the report to back it up?
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:58PM (3 children)
Claim 1: They investigated four warrant applications
Claim 2: They found issues with only one.
Claim 3: They found no bias
Claims 1 and 3:
Claim 2: This article is only about the Cater Page application.
FTSummary:
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @07:10PM (2 children)
That says they found no one who admitted to bias or anyone who wrote down they were opening the investigation due to bias. Not that they found no bias. See quotes in the other response to you.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @09:50PM (1 child)
Ah, the Trump era where
does not mean that they found no bias.
Up doesn't mean up, favor doesn't mean favor, and the IG report is going to be the definitive report until it doesn't say what they want it to say.
Oh, and we have Trump's defenders saying that it is improper to open an investigation into a presidential candidate, except, you know, when the president (or is it an R?) does it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @10:47PM
That is in any era, it has been known since ancient times. Also, in Horowitz's testimony before congress he explicitly says that bias is indeed one possible explanation for why there were so many "errors" made in the same direction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence [wikipedia.org]