Since the release last Saturday of the FISA application that targeted Carter Page, and the subsequent three renewal applications, there has been no lack of analysis of the unredacted details.
While the central role of the dossier comes as no surprise - after all, Andrew McCabe, the FBI's disgraced former deputy director and acting director, testified to the House that the dossier was "Crucial" to the FISA - the overall audacity exhibited in the application is breathtaking.
The second way the authors of the application sought to support the Big Lie of the dossier was to cite tendentious opinion articles in U.S. publications to support the idea that the Trump campaign was working "Behind the scenes" to shape its Russia policies in such a way as to conform to the desires of the Putin regime - attributing this, on no stated evidence, to the supposed influence of Carter Page.
What FISA did, in effect, by creating the FISC to pass on applications for surveillance was to transform Article III judges into government bureaucrats for purposes of FISA. Here's what I mean.
Since there is no true case or controversy presented to the FISC and there is only a limited possibility for appeal - only if a decision should go against the government can there be an appeal, since the target of the FISA warrant is not represented before the FISC - as long as the judge sides with the government, no one will be the wiser.
The Carter Page FISA application, drawing on the dossier, states that Carter Page had "Secret" meetings with Russians, whom the U.S. government regards as bad guys.
Without the support of facts such as I've just laid out, the statement that Carter Page engaged in "Secret" meetings is merely tendentious and prejudicial.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/the_big_picture_on_the_carter_page_fisa.html
While the central role of the dossier comes as no surprise - after all, Andrew McCabe, the FBI's disgraced former deputy director and acting director, testified to the House that the dossier was "Crucial" to the FISA - the overall audacity exhibited in the application is breathtaking.
The second way the authors of the application sought to support the Big Lie of the dossier was to cite tendentious opinion articles in U.S. publications to support the idea that the Trump campaign was working "Behind the scenes" to shape its Russia policies in such a way as to conform to the desires of the Putin regime - attributing this, on no stated evidence, to the supposed influence of Carter Page.
What FISA did, in effect, by creating the FISC to pass on applications for surveillance was to transform Article III judges into government bureaucrats for purposes of FISA. Here's what I mean.
Since there is no true case or controversy presented to the FISC and there is only a limited possibility for appeal - only if a decision should go against the government can there be an appeal, since the target of the FISA warrant is not represented before the FISC - as long as the judge sides with the government, no one will be the wiser.
The Carter Page FISA application, drawing on the dossier, states that Carter Page had "Secret" meetings with Russians, whom the U.S. government regards as bad guys.
Without the support of facts such as I've just laid out, the statement that Carter Page engaged in "Secret" meetings is merely tendentious and prejudicial.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/the_big_picture_on_the_carter_page_fisa.html
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