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FISA court documents about to be declassified?

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And it couldn’t come at the worst time for the LDAMM.

Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots.

First, from SaraACarter.com:

Lawmakers Call on Trump to Declassify Carter Page FISA

by Sara A. Carter

Lawmakers are asking for 20 pages of the FISA, along with other classified documents

epublican lawmakers called on President Trump to declassify the highly redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant that allowed the FBI to spy on a short-term Trump campaign volunteer. They are asking for 20 pages of the FISA, along with other classified documents and footnotes, they say the Department of Justice has withheld from their ongoing investigation into the bureau’s handling of the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The lawmakers are also asking that Trump declassify the DOJ’s Gang of Eight briefing notebook that was presented only to a select group of lawmakers in the Senate and House this summer, who have access to classified material, according to numerous congressional sources. The third bulk of documents consists of 12 interviews the FBI conducted with DOJ official Bruce Ohr in 2016 regarding his communications with former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the anti-Trump unverified dossier. Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for the now embattled research firm Fusion GPS, that was hired by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to investigate alleged ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Steele was hired by Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who among others has testified to Congress about his role.

There aren’t but a handful of actual journalists working today. Sara Carter is one of them, along with my highly-principled advocate Susan Katz Keating. I should also care to include John Solomon, Gregg Jarrett, Catherine Herridge, to name but a very select few. Continuing:

President Trump is expected to declassify the documents within the next several weeks, sources tell SaraACarter.com. On Wednesday this news site reported that Trump is listening to lawmakers who complained the Justice Department has been stonewalling and failing to provide Congress with the documents necessary for appropriate oversight.

With this as well:

Over the past month, lawmakers also discovered that Ohr was a backchannel for Steele, who had been removed as a confidential source by the FBI after it was discovered that he was shopping around his dossier in the summer of 2016 to journalists.

The unverified dossier was used by the FBI as evidence to the secret court to obtain a warrant on Carter Page, the short term volunteer for the Trump campaign. The FBI obtained the initial warrant on Page and then three subsequent renewals, of which the final renewal signed was signed in the Spring of 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Lawmakers say Rosenstein’s involvement presents a serious issue since he signed off on the final FISA warrant and would have had access to all the previous warrants that failed to provide the secret court with the necessary information and led the court to grant the warrant.

Representatives Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows have asked President Trump to declassify the FISA/Carter Page documents.

This information seems to be mirrored by former US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Joseph diGenova, as interviewed by Tucker Carlson last week.

Further, apparently Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — the titular head of the US Department of Justice since Jeff Sessions recused himself back in January of 2017 — is finding himself appropriately under the microscope as well.

This from the Sean Hannity Show, as he discusses the situation with Sara Carter, Gregg Jarrett and Joseph diGenova:

Continuing from SaraACarter.com:

But lawmakers, specifically the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, along with the aide of the government watchdog group Judicial Watch discovered among the troves of documents that they have obtained over the past year that the FBI failed to provide significant exculpatory evidence to the FISC judges and other major discrepancies in the application and the way the FBI handled its investigation.

Can you imagine the state of these United States if it is proven, beyond any doubt, that the allegations are correct?

Can you say “soft coup against a presidential candidate, a president-elect and a sitting president?”

I knew you could.

BZ

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Declassifying the FISA papers

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Tom Fitton,

And here’s an interesting note. Is it due to the focus on FISA courts or is it because of a disinterest in working with the Trump administration? From ZDNet.com:

In Trump’s first year, FISA court denied record number of surveillance orders

by Zack Whittaker

More surveillance orders were denied during President Donald Trump’s first year in office than in the court’s history.

In its first year, the Trump administration kept one little-known courtroom in the capital busy.

A secretive Washington DC-based court that oversees the US government’s foreign spy programs denied more surveillance orders during President Donald Trump’s first year than in the court’s 40-year history, according to newly released figures.

Why would that be?

Annual data published Wednesday by the US Courts shows that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court last year denied 26 applications in full, and 50 applications in part.

That’s compared to 21 orders between when the court was first formed in 1978 and President Barack Obama’s final year in office in 2016.

That’s a rejection rate of 0.11 percent to date.

Okay, why?

Specific reasons for the modifications were not given, but they can include changing who or what is surveilled and for what length.

Or is it simply a Deep State political reaction?

What you may not know is this: going to the FISA court customarily equated to a Grand Jury and a ham sandwich.

BZ

 

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