"I think the FISA is totally fraudulent, 100 percent fraudulent," the California congressman declared, adding that by releasing the FISA applications, the public can assess whether Obama officials and career DOJ and FBI employees abused the FISA process or whether seeking a FISA warrant on Page was justified, as Democrats continue to maintain.
While the February memo exposed several misleading facts and material omissions in the Page FISA applications, since then more details have emerged, and these new facts indicate Obama administration officials and career FBI and DOJ employees misled the FISA court in more ways than previously thought.
Nunes' February memo on FISA abuse identified four main areas of misconduct by the FBI and DOJ. First, the DOJ abused the FISA process by presenting to the court the unverified "Raw intelligence" report of Christopher Steele, commonly known as the Steele dossier.
Schiff stated: "In its October 2016 FISA application and subsequent renewals, DOJ accurately informed the Court that the FBI initiated its counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016, after receiving information" concerning Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.
Schiff claimed in his memo that the "DOJ would have been negligent in omitting vital information about Papadopoulos and Russia's concerted efforts," indicating the DOJ led the FISA court to believe evidence existed of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia.
Schiff previously downplayed problems with the FISA applications by noting "Page ended his formal affiliation with the campaign months before DOJ applied for a warrant," as if that fact proved the DOJ and FBI were not politically motivated.
Second, even though Trump appointee Rosenstein approved the final FISA application, as Rosenstein's June 28, 2018 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee made clear, the FBI provides the DOJ the completed FISA application and a team of DOJ attorneys then brief Rosenstein on the details.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/13/10-ways-doj-abused-authority-spied-trumps-campaign/
While the February memo exposed several misleading facts and material omissions in the Page FISA applications, since then more details have emerged, and these new facts indicate Obama administration officials and career FBI and DOJ employees misled the FISA court in more ways than previously thought.
Nunes' February memo on FISA abuse identified four main areas of misconduct by the FBI and DOJ. First, the DOJ abused the FISA process by presenting to the court the unverified "Raw intelligence" report of Christopher Steele, commonly known as the Steele dossier.
Schiff stated: "In its October 2016 FISA application and subsequent renewals, DOJ accurately informed the Court that the FBI initiated its counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016, after receiving information" concerning Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.
Schiff claimed in his memo that the "DOJ would have been negligent in omitting vital information about Papadopoulos and Russia's concerted efforts," indicating the DOJ led the FISA court to believe evidence existed of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia.
Schiff previously downplayed problems with the FISA applications by noting "Page ended his formal affiliation with the campaign months before DOJ applied for a warrant," as if that fact proved the DOJ and FBI were not politically motivated.
Second, even though Trump appointee Rosenstein approved the final FISA application, as Rosenstein's June 28, 2018 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee made clear, the FBI provides the DOJ the completed FISA application and a team of DOJ attorneys then brief Rosenstein on the details.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/13/10-ways-doj-abused-authority-spied-trumps-campaign/
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