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| 12.17.19
FISA Court Orders FBI to Fix Surveillance – Are You Concerned about the FBI’s Surveillance Standards?
Are you concerned about the FBI's surveillance standards?
What’s the story?
- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court has issued a rare public rebuke of the FBI, ordering the bureau to explain how it plans to correct errors revealed in last week’s Justice Department report about the FBI’s investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
- Rosemary Collyer, presiding judge on the secretive FISA Court, said the report "calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable." She ordered the FBI to explain by Jan. 10 how it intends to remedy those problems.
"The frequency with which representations made by F.B.I. personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other F.B.I. applications is reliable,” Collyer said.
- She added that the FBI’s surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page “was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor" required by the law that established the FISA court.
- Last week, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report into alleged surveillance abuse against Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign by the Obama administration. The individuals surveilled under the operation known as “Crossfire Hurricane” included Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn. The IG found “seven significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FBI’s initial application to the FISA Court to surveil Page.
What do you think?
Are you concerned about the FBI’s surveillance standards? What should the FBI do to remedy the aforementioned errors? Take action and tell your reps, then share your thoughts below.
—Josh Herman
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