‘Extraordinary’ Revelation: Two Out of Four Carter Page FISA Warrants by FBI Declared ‘Not Valid’


The FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] admitted in a secret order that at least two out of four of the spy warrants against Carter Page, dated April 7, 2017 and June 29, 2017, were not lawfully authorized. The June 2017 FISA warrant was signed by former DAG Rod Rosenstein and Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe. The FISA law states that American citizens cannot be secretly spied on by the US government absent probable cause, based on valid evidence, that an American is unlawfully acting as a foreign agent. The FISC has ordered the FBI and government to reform its procedures to apply for a FISA warrant. FBI Director Christopher Wray this month submitted a list of reforms, but the court blasted the changes as “insufficient.”

The FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] admitted in a secret order that at least two of the spy warrants against Carter Page were not lawfully authorized.

Presiding FISA judge James Boasberg wrote in a January 7 order which was not declassified and released until Thursday, that the last two FISA warrants on Carter Page dated April 7, 2017 and June 29, 2017 were not valid.

The June 2017 FISA warrant was signed by former DAG Rod Rosenstein and Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe.

Rosenstein signed the June 2017 FISA warrant a month after he wrote the memo authorizing the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller — and 20 pages of this FISA application are STILL REDACTED.

Did Robert Mueller actually use information gathered in real time by the illegal wiretaps on Carter Page?

If so, this could pose a huge problem for Mueller’s cases against Trump officials because the wiretaps are now officially invalid.

“The final three-month authorization to spy on Page was signed nearly six weeks after Mueller was appointed, meaning that Mueller may have had real-time access to and utilized nearly five months worth of surveillance of Page during the course of Mueller’s investigation. If his office used any of the information in subsequent cases, the declaration that the final two spy warrants against Page were invalid could potentially nullify previous or future convictions sought by Mueller’s office,” Sean Davis of The Federalist wrote.

The Federalist reported:

Judge James Boasberg, the current federal judge presiding over the FISA court, wrote in his order that at least two of the four FISA applications against Carter Page were unlawfully authorized. Additionally, according his order, the Department of Justice similarly concluded following the release of a sprawling investigate report on the matter by the agency’s inspector general that the government did not have probable cause that Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power. The FISA law states that American citizens cannot be secretly spied on by the U.S. government absent probable cause, based on valid evidence, that an American is unlawfully acting as a foreign agent.

In his January 7 order, Boasberg directed DOJ to retain and sequester all information and evidence relevant to both the Carter Page applications, the inspector general investigation of FISA abuse, and any additional DOJ investigations related to or spawned by the inspector general’s report. Boasberg told DOJ to provide all of the required information to the FISA court no later than January 28.

“DOJ assesses that with respect to the applications in Docket Numbers 17-375 and 17-679, ‘if not earlier, there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that [Carter] Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power,’” Boasberg wrote, referring to the final two of the four FISA applications to spy on Page. “The Court understands the government to have concluded, in view of the material misstatements and omissions, that the Court’s authorizations in Docket Numbers 17-375 and 17-679 were not valid.”

According to Boasberg, the DOJ is still assessing whether the first two FISA warrants on Carter Page were also obtained illegally.

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Additional source:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/23/two-carter-page-fisa-warrants-were-not-valid-doj-s/




Surveillance Court Appoints Conflicted, Anti-Trump Attorney To Oversee FBI Fixes After IG Horowitz Flagged 17 Mistakes Made by FBI on FISA Applications

The FISA Court appointed conflicted lawyer David Kris, who has advocated for the removal of President Trump, to oversee reforms to the FBI’s surveillance procedures after Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz flagged 17 mistakes and found FBI officials violated the law in their applications to wiretap former Trump volunteer Carter Page.

A former law enforcement official summed up David Kris’ appointment by saying, “He’s not going to do anything because in the end Kris doesn’t believe there was anything wrong with what went on at the FBI. His selection by the FISC is how bureaucrats protect themselves and could care less about the American people or the Constitution.”

  • Attorney David Kris tweeted: “Trump has to go”
  • Kris writes for and promotes the anti-Trump blog Lawfare
  • Lawfare’s founder wrote of needing an “insurance policy” if Trump were elected

On Friday, the FISA Court posted an order naming anti-Trump lawyer David Kris to “assist the court” in assessing the FBI’s response to the court-ordered cleanup of lapses and abuses identified by Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz.

In a report released last month, the IG found FBI officials violated rules, policies and law in their applications to wiretap former Trump volunteer Carter Page. Horowitz testified the FISA surveillance process needs to be fixed “from top to bottom.”

To some, the appointment of Kris is as mysterious as why the FISA Court’s judges failed to flag the FBI abuses on their own.

In social media posts, Kris has called Republican Congressman Devin Nunes “a politicized, dishonest [Intelligence Community] overseer who attempts to mislead.” He tweeted that Trump and his advisors should be “worried” that the “walls are closing in on him” regarding the Mueller probe. Kris also bought into the now-disproven conspiracy theory about Trump colluding with Russia and Putin. But even more importantly, since that time, Kris has advocated for President Trump’s removal.

Kris’s vocal opinions on President Trump and politics present numerous, obvious conflicts of interest.

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Additional source:

https://saraacarter.com/nunes-defender-of-carter-page-surveillance-picked-to-oversee-fbi-reforms/




Judicial Watch Finally Gets FISA Warrant: Comey Called Out for Lying about Dossier, and Clapper Blames Obama

Judicial Watch finally obtained the FISA warrants they requested.  The documents are heavily redacted, but do show that the discredited Steele dossier was the primary evidence used to obtain the warrant and three renewal warrants.  James Clapper connects Obama to the Steele dossier, ‘spygate’ and the Mueller investigation.

Judicial Watch obtained 412 pages of top-secret documents related to surveillance conducted against former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page.  The documents include an October 2016 application and three renewal applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants that were used to wiretap and spy on Page.
The document relied heavily on the discredited Christopher Steele dossier that was funded by the DNC and Clinton campaign, but the FISA court was not advised that the Steel dossier was funded by the DNC.

Gregg Jarrett called James Comey a liar because in an interview with Bret Baier, the former head of the FBI said that the Steele dossier was “not a critical part” of obtaining the FISA warrant, however, dossier was the main evidence presented to obtain the warrant.

Comey is begging Democrats to avoid joining the radical socialists on the left because if Democrats are too extreme, they will lose the midterm elections.  Those who are complicit in Hillary Clinton’s email crimes and cover-up are hoping for Democrats to save them from prosecution.

James Clapper, Obama’s former National Intelligence Director, told Anderson Cooper that Obama off the sequence of events that led to the Mueller investigation by tasking the intelligence community assessment (aka the Russian witch hunt).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOm3bGWgQHI

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When the FBI Used FISA to Spy on Carter Page as A Suspected Russian Agent, It Knew Better Because He Had Been an FBI Employee Targeting the Russians


Journalist Lee Stranahan reports that Carter Page, the subject of the FISA wiretap warrant, was an FBI employee from 2013 to 2016 who targeted the Russians prior to joining the Trump campaign. Therefore, when the FBI obtained the FISA warrant against Page, it was aware that he was not a Russian agent. -GEG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvZmai5Cs4