[FISA manipulation] Nunes sending eight criminal referrals to Attorney General

Good luck with that Devin.

 

Just another enabling Trump lapdog.

 

This will work about as his lawsuit against Devin Nunes' Cow for slander.

 

Speaking of nunes...

 

This is getting good.

 

Really interested to see what happened to the “global leak referral” which wasn’t even tied to a person he knew of that leaked classified info... just a referral because yeah. LEAKS!!

Also - this referral was sent in April. Seems like the AG is all over this one 6 months later. All your Leaks belong to us!!

 

Devin Nunes has an excellent track record with law suits.

 

couldn't figure out which thread to put this in

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...c72754-210d-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html

Surveillance court demands answers from FBI for errors, omissions in Trump campaign investigation



FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2018, file photo, former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill Washington. The Justice Department’s inspector general says former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
By
Devlin Barrett
Dec. 17, 2019 at 4:17 p.m. EST
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the government Tuesday to explain what the FBI will do to ensure the bureau does not mislead judges again when applying for surveillance orders like those used in the 2016 investigation of the Trump campaign.

The four-page order from Judge Rosemary M. Collyer, the presiding judge of the FISC, takes the FBI to task for 17 omissions and errors contained in applications to the court to secretly monitor the electronic communications of Carter Page, a former Trump adviser.

In a report released last week, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found serious failures in the FBI procedures for ensuring that its applications to the court are complete and accurate.

“When FBI personnel misled (the Justice Department) in the ways described above, they equally misled the FISC,” Collyer wrote. “The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the (inspector general) report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” expected of FISC filings.

Collyer is the judge who signed the very first surveillance application for Page sought by the FBI in October 2016.

One of the issues exposed by the inspector general was that an FBI lawyer forwarded an altered email in 2017 to make it appear that Page was not a source for the CIA, when in fact Page had provided the agency information in the past.

That document alteration has been referred to a prosecutor for consideration of criminal charges. In the meantime, the FISC has ordered the Justice Department and FBI to provide information about any other surveillance applications in which that same attorney, Kevin Clinesmith, was involved.

“The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable,” Collyer wrote.

The reliability of FISC filings is considered critically important within the government, largely because the court’s work is so secretive that defense lawyers do not get to challenge the factual assertions behind such warrants.

Horowitz’s review of how the FBI investigated a possible conspiracy between Trump associates and Russia to influence the 2016 election concluded that the FBI had met the low legal threshold to open an investigation, but that the pursuit of Page as a suspected agent of the Russian government was plagued by errors, misstatements, and omissions.

As a result of his findings, Horowitz has already announced he will conduct a broader audit to see whether factual problems with FISC applications extend beyond the Page case. The Justice Department and the FBI submit applications to the FISC for the country’s most sensitive national security cases involving terrorism or espionage.

Collyer’s order requires the government to submit a sworn submission describing 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.”

Even before the court’s rare public order, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray had announced his agency would make more than 40 changes to its internal procedures in order to prevent such errors and omissions in the future. President Trump has called the FBI a “badly broken” agency.
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Devin the same maggot farmer who met with the ousted, vengeful Ukrainian prosecutor to help Scump invent a bs story on the Bidens?

Uck-fay that puto.

 

Lying to Congress huh? So he is going to support Trump in his lying in writing to Mueller?

DD

 

keep hope alive.

 

Doesn't change the fact that Trump campaign had information sharing with Russian linked associates per the Mueller Report.

 

related

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12...-not-only-for-the-fbi-but-also-the-u-s-media/

 

When the FBI opened its investigation — known as "Crossfire Hurricane" — into possible coordination between members of President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, it had both an "authorized purpose" and an "articulable factual basis," the IG report found.

The investigation was launched on July 31, 2016, three days after the FBI heard from a "friendly foreign government" that Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had signaled that Russia had dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Trump campaign.

The IG report said this information alone was enough to trigger the Russia probe, because it gave the FBI reason to believe a crime or threat to U.S. national security was in the works.

The final say on whether to launch the investigation belonged to Bill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, who complied with DOJ and FBI policies and made the decision with widespread support from FBI officials.

"We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced his decision," the IG report said.

"The report separately found some problems with respect to specific, and later in time, applications for FISA surveillance of Carter Page," Daskal told us. But those problems "do not change the fact that the initial overarching decision to investigate was justified."

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-...barr/barr-disputes-inspector-generals-report/

 

Smoke-Screen

Act of covering up information or attempting to hide intentions by conversation or an action.

The act of Smoke-Screening is mostly done to lead error of conduct, thought, or judgment. Performed by conversation or statement to mislead the victim away for the actual indecent or plans.

T_Man

 

As far as Glenn Greenwald and surveillance goes... that's one thing. But Glenn Greenwald is sugar coating the Mueller Report and the attacks on elections in US and other Western European nations by Russia.

Not only did Trump have contact and information sharing with associates linked to the country that has meddled into many Western European nations, but this surveillance was approved of by both GOP and Dems in the FBI.

I say crocodile tears regarding FISA, this has been repeatedly amended and expanded since 9/11. Now that it effects a Republican, there's an outcry? A Crooked Republican? Give me a break.

 

yep, and now Democrats are all about loving the national security state

 

You mean responding to an attack against us and our western European allies by Russia?