FISA Court Order in Response to Inspector General Report

https://www.lawfareblog.com/fisa-court-order-response-inspector-general-report

"In response to the Justice Department inspector general report on the Russia investigation, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has issued an order requiring the government to provide a sworn written statement by Jan. 10, 2020 on what the Justice Department has done and plans to do to ensure that statements of fact in each FISA application filing to the court are complete and accurate."

Ouch! That's going to leave a mark.

Full text of the court order is available at the link. It's just a bit over three pages long.

If anyone was wondering, I guess the court was waiting for irrefutable evidence of the FBI's malfeasance. We all "knew" that those applications were bogus, but a responsible body can't act without facts. Now that they have actual facts...

"THEREFORE, the Court ORDERS that the government shall, no later than January 10 2020, inform the Court in a sworn written submission of what it has done, and plans to do, to ensure that the statement of facts in each FBI application accurately and completely reflects information possessed by the FBI that is material to any issue presented by the application. In the event that the FBI at the time of that submission is not yet able to perform any of the planned steps described in the submission, it shall also include (a) a proposed timetable for implementing such measures and (b) an explanation of why, in the government's view, the information in FBI applications submitted in the interim should be regarded as reliable.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to FISC Rule of Procedure6 2(a), that the government shall, no later than December 20 2019, complete a declassification review of the above-referenced order of December 5, 2019, in anticipation of the FISC's publishing that order. In view of the information released to the public in the Report, the Court expects that such review will entail minimal if any redactions."

...the court sounds pissed.

 

"The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession ... calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable." - FISA Court commenting on Comey.

 

That is the court saying allegations of FISA abuse were dead on, contrary to LW dismissal's as just RW conspiracy theories. It is now official, unelected DOJ/FBI personnel presented fraudulent evidence to the FISA court and altered exculpatory evidence, as the IG affirmed last Wednesday in his Senate testimony. IMHO in order to prevent Trump from being elected or in the case of 'Plan B', to hamstring his new administration. Yet from the head of the House intel committee that is supposed to be overseeing all this, we get crickets. Disgusting, Schiff is the very definition of a partisan political hack.

 

That is a HUGE slap down of the DOJ / FBI. It only gets worse, because you know Comey, McCabe, Strzok team was even dirtier than has been reported. The court ordered them to have no or minimal redactions. In other words, we want it all you duplicitous bastards.

 

Yup, they all insisted there were no irregularities with the FISA process, heck, Susan Rice assured us it was all done by the book.

So how long before the LW claims this FISA court who issued the OP statement is in the tank for Trump, like they lie Barr is?

 

Sounds like a plan... complex processes always need tweaking...

 

This stuff has been going on for a looong time, some say the reason the Deep State entrapped Gen. Flynn was because he intended an audit of the intel services, and also he was one of the few who strongly opposed our Afghanistan policy, which we now know was based on lies.

 

Dissolving this court would be the best solution.

 

Sean Hannity has been saying the bolded part a long time, standing by for LW apologies......

 

Ha! I see what you did there.

 

Yeah, like how to avoid committing fraud against the court, and the country, for political purposes.

 

Jail time might deter any future perps.

 

No kidding , the left was lying all along .

 

Don't hold yer breath.

 

There isn't evidence that there was any partisanship involved in the mistakes made, OR that the FISA order would have been denied had the mistakes been fixed.

While such process errors are important, there is not excuse for suggesting this case justifies the outlandish BS of Nunes and the GOP and their whines about criminals being found out.

 

If the 'mistakes' had been fixed there would have been no FISA warrant. That is clear. The IG report verifies Nunes concerns pretty clearly.

 

You be like:

 

Roger Stone and General Flynn were prosecuted for less than what the FISA Court admits the FBI and DOJ did.

 

I see the report didn't save Flynn. He's up for sentencing next month.
Warm socks for Christmas.

 

The judge decided not to allow the alarming FBI abuse of rights.

 

The IG didn't rule out bias, and Barr and Durham disagreed with the IG when he said he didn't find bias.

The IG said the phony dossier was central to getting the FISA warrants, Brennan lied about that to Congress and said it had no part.

Funny all 17 of those 'errors' just happened to go against Trump. The odds of that are 100,000:1.

Uh, Durham currently has a criminal investigation going.

 

I doubt he will serve any time by the time this is over. He was framed because he intended an audit of the intel agencies.

 

They weren't mistakes, they were gross misconduct.

 

While it's nice that the court acknowledged that it go played this strikes me as too little too late.

The scumbags who misled the court already had an affirmative obligation to provide it with a full and factual accounting of the evidence.

The only way this stops is when people start going to prison. The culture of impunity in Washington is what allows this to happen.

 

MUCH less.