As reported at National Review Online: “FISA Court Issues Rare Public Order Condemning FBI for Russia Probe Abuses and Demanding Reforms”
The COURT demands reforms? We know where to start…AT THE COURT!
Forget for the moment omissions of ‘exculpatory evidence’ – there’s bigger fish to fry.
Their commentary is a condemnation of themselves…
““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,” wrote the FISA court.”
‘UNSUPPORTED’?
How can a FISA court be misled into justifying surveillance applications, when any idiot knows standard procedure in the process demands supporting evidentiary documents.
Why haven’t those evidentiary documents been revealed? If we’re to translate their condemnation of ‘unsupported representations’…it means THERE WERE NONE.
STOP.
RIGHT.
THERE.
The FISA court accepted spy applications…on American citizens…
…with NO ‘supported representations’? And these guys are the ‘Watchers’?
REFORMS? How about getting the FISA judges to explain THAT FAILURE?
Forget withholding exculpatory information…
…unsubstantiated allegations should’ve been enough to stop this in its tracks.
What good are reforms, if judges don’t follow procedure in the first place?
Follow-up question: Who’s watching the Watchers?