Among them will likely be former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI director James Comey.
The FISC, because it has no means of independently verifying the facts stated in a FISA warrant application, is forced to rely on the facts represented to it by the FBI, CIA, and NSA in applications for the warrants.
The FISC took no action to correct the FBI's actions until December 2019 when, in an unusual public decision, it imposed requirements on the FBI intended to require verification of the information presented to it.
A month later the FISC appointed David Kris, a former Obama administration lawyer and blogger who has written extensively in defense of the FBI's surveillance actions, to oversee the FBI's actions.
Clearly, the FISC isn't serious about policing the FBI's actions and preventing another "Crossfire Hurricane." The FISC is supervised by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who has taken no action to ensure the FISC does anything else.
There is a solution to the FISC's actions and inaction.
The function of the FISC can be fixed, at least in part, by setting barriers against the enormous abuses of power without which "Crossfire Hurricane" would never have gotten off the ground.
https://spectator.org/preventing-another-crossfire-hurricane/
The FISC, because it has no means of independently verifying the facts stated in a FISA warrant application, is forced to rely on the facts represented to it by the FBI, CIA, and NSA in applications for the warrants.
The FISC took no action to correct the FBI's actions until December 2019 when, in an unusual public decision, it imposed requirements on the FBI intended to require verification of the information presented to it.
A month later the FISC appointed David Kris, a former Obama administration lawyer and blogger who has written extensively in defense of the FBI's surveillance actions, to oversee the FBI's actions.
Clearly, the FISC isn't serious about policing the FBI's actions and preventing another "Crossfire Hurricane." The FISC is supervised by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who has taken no action to ensure the FISC does anything else.
There is a solution to the FISC's actions and inaction.
The function of the FISC can be fixed, at least in part, by setting barriers against the enormous abuses of power without which "Crossfire Hurricane" would never have gotten off the ground.
https://spectator.org/preventing-another-crossfire-hurricane/
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