{"id":37957,"date":"2020-01-12T21:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T02:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37957"},"modified":"2020-01-12T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T02:13:57","slug":"refusing-to-acknowledge-or-deal-with-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37957","title":{"rendered":"Refusing To Acknowledge Or Deal With The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federalist<\/a> is reporting today that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) presiding Judge James Boasberg\u00a0 has chosen David Kris to review the FBI\u2019s proposed changes to its surveillance application process.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Kris, who served as assistant attorney general for the DOJ\u2019s National Security Division, recently claimed the IG report that catalogued egregious abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) powers actually vindicated the FBI. He also smeared Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018, saying his initial sounding of the alarm about those abuses was incorrect, threatened national security, and should be harshly punished.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kris appeared in locations that pushed the false Russia collusion narrative, such as Rachel Maddow\u2019s MSNBC show, the Lawfare blog, and Twitter, to defend the FBI and attack President Trump and other critics of the harmful surveillance campaign. He once wrote that Trump \u201cshould be worried\u201d that Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into treasonous collusion with Russia meant \u201cthe walls are closing in<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The appointment of a former official who served as an apologist for the FBI signals that the court isn\u2019t particularly concerned about the civil liberty violations catalogued by Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u2019s investigation into the year-long surveillance of Carter Page. Page is the Trump campaign affiliate whose phone and email communications federal agents wiretapped, and who had confidential human sources and overseas intelligence assets placed against him. False claims that Page was a Russian spy were leaked to the media by government officials as part of a years-long campaign to paint President Trump as a traitor who had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not good news for our country. It shows that the deep state is still protecting itself and will continue to do so at least in the near future. Dirty cops will not be dealt with as long as they have the right political views. We are at a tipping point–either we are going to have equal justice under the law or we are going to live in a surveillance state. The only way to change this is for voters to vote anyone out of office who hindered in any way the investigations into the corruption that took place at the senior levels of the Department of Justice, FBI, IRS,\u00a0 etc., under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federalist is reporting today that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) presiding Judge James Boasberg\u00a0 has chosen David Kris to review the FBI\u2019s proposed changes to its surveillance application process. The article notes: Kris, who served as assistant attorney … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4441,11438,11731,10733,69,10911,10685,10859,12428,12073,135,5409,11815,11114,10686],"class_list":["post-37957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-election","tag-carter-page","tag-confidential-human-source","tag-deep-state","tag-department-of-justice","tag-fisa","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court","tag-ig-report","tag-michael-horowitz","tag-obama-administration","tag-surveillance","tag-the-federalist","tag-trump-campaign","tag-wiretapped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37958,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37957\/revisions\/37958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}