{"id":38366,"date":"2020-03-11T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38366"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:52:08","slug":"we-are-slowing-seeing-admissions-about-illegal-spying-on-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38366","title":{"rendered":"We Are Slowing Seeing Admissions About Illegal Spying On President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just The News<\/a> posted an article Monday by John Solomon about a recent statement by U.S. District Judge James A. Boasberg<\/a>, the new chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Evidently the Judge is not impressed by what went on during 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

For much of the last three years, key law enforcement leaders\u00a0have insisted they did nothing\u00a0wrong in pursuing counterintelligence surveillance warrants\u00a0targeting the Trump campaign starting during the 2016 election. And, they’ve added,\u00a0if mistakes were made, they were unintentional process errors downstream from them and not an effort to deceive the judges.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But in a little-noted passage in a recent order, U.S. District Judge James A. Boasberg<\/a>, the new chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,\u00a0took direct aim at the excuses and blame-shifting of these senior Obama administration FBI and DOJ officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In just 21 words, Boasberg provided the first\u00a0judicial declaration the FBI had misled the court, not just committed process errors. “There\u00a0is\u00a0thus\u00a0little doubt that the government breached its duty of candor\u00a0to\u00a0the Court with respect to those applications,” Boasberg wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally someone is placing responsibility for previous FISA abuses on the people in charge and not the people working for them.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

“The frequency and seriousness of these errors in a case that, given its sensitive nature, had an unusually high level of review at both DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have called into question the reliability of the information proffered in other FBI applications,” Boasberg wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In another words, he is worried the bad conduct exhibited by the FBI may extend to more cases affecting others’ civil liberties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, Boasberg put Wray on notice \u2014 even while praising the current director \u2014 that process fixes alone won’t suffice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The errors the OIG pointed out cannot be solved through procedures alone,” he wrote. “DOJ and the FBI, including all personnel involved in the FISA process, must fully understand and embrace the heightened duties of probity and transparency that apply in ex parte proceedings.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boasberg’s ruling was far more than a temporary suspension of FBI personnel’s participation in the FISA court. It is the first and only judicial finding in the Russia case that the FBI vastly misled the nation’s intelligence court and that blame must be shouldered by federal law enforcement’s top leaders, many of whom have spent much of the last three years trying to escape such accountability.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those who have begged the FISA court for years to more aggressively rebuke the conduct in the Russia case, Boasberg’s ruling was a welcome step in the right direction and a first effort to end the excuse-making. But those critics are holding out for more, including prosecutions or disciplinary action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the meantime, those who led the FBI and DOJ through that turbulent time \u2014 Comey and his deputy Andrew McCabe, as well as former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and Rosenstein \u2014 must come to grips with this new reality. A judge has formally concluded that his court was misled by the work product they oversaw and signed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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