Less than earth shaking. It says the FBI flimflammed the FISA court to get a warrant for surveillance of Carter Page, a new name to me. The FBI showed the Steele document, opposition research paid for by Clinton and the DNC, to the FISA court as evidence that Carter Page needed his phone and email tapped. The FBI also showed a Yahoo news article based on leaks from Steele, as independent corroboration of the Steele document.
Seeing as how the FISA court is a pure rubber stamp, out of thousands of requests for warrants submitted to FISA, only dozen or so are ever rejected. So the famous memo identifies one case where the FBI flimflammed the FISA court and obtained a warrent improperly. Wanna bet the FBI has been doing this all along and of those thousands of warrents issued, many of them are just as bogus as the one obtained on Carter Page?
The FISA court is secret. We don't know who the judges are, where the court meets, we never get to see their transcripts and records. They can order surveillance on anybody on the flimsiest of evidence, and have been for decades. It's a rubber stamp.
We ought to close the entire FISA court thing. Law enforcement, including the FBI, should have to go to a real court, the kind that tries cases, in order to spy on American citizens.
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