Two years ago this month, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued a warrant authorizing the FBI to spy on Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to.
The FBI lovebirds even communicated they were applying "Hurry the F up" pressure to try to rush the FISA warrant through the court before Election Day.
We recently learned that the FBI's initial justification for opening the Trump-Russia collusion case - the belief that another campaign aide, , might have colluded with Moscow - quickly fell apart when Papadopoulos told an FBI informant he didn't collude and would consider such activity treasonous.
Finally, the House intelligence committee dug up evidence that Steele and the FBI engaged in leaks with the news media about the Russia investigation, then used some of those articles to support its FISA application.
There are more exculpatory pieces of evidence I could detail but these alone make a compelling case that the initial FBI and DOJ representations to the court were, at best, flawed and, at worst, desperately biased and driven by an election clock.
Now, it is possible that the court has taken some action in the Russia case, such as holding a show-cause hearing behind closed doors, to question the FBI. But if it hasn't, Meadows' letter is designed to smoke out a response.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists' misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/413854-silence-of-the-lambs-the-deafening-quietude-of-the-fisa-court-and-john
The FBI lovebirds even communicated they were applying "Hurry the F up" pressure to try to rush the FISA warrant through the court before Election Day.
We recently learned that the FBI's initial justification for opening the Trump-Russia collusion case - the belief that another campaign aide, , might have colluded with Moscow - quickly fell apart when Papadopoulos told an FBI informant he didn't collude and would consider such activity treasonous.
Finally, the House intelligence committee dug up evidence that Steele and the FBI engaged in leaks with the news media about the Russia investigation, then used some of those articles to support its FISA application.
There are more exculpatory pieces of evidence I could detail but these alone make a compelling case that the initial FBI and DOJ representations to the court were, at best, flawed and, at worst, desperately biased and driven by an election clock.
Now, it is possible that the court has taken some action in the Russia case, such as holding a show-cause hearing behind closed doors, to question the FBI. But if it hasn't, Meadows' letter is designed to smoke out a response.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists' misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/413854-silence-of-the-lambs-the-deafening-quietude-of-the-fisa-court-and-john
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