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Sen Rand Paul: President Trump Does Not Support Clean FISA Renewal – Sen McConnell Meets with President to Discuss…

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In November of 2019 buried deep in the congressional budget Continuing Resolution (CR) was a short-term extension to reauthorize the FISA “business records provision”, the “roving wiretap” provision, the “lone wolf” provision, and the more controversial bulk metadata provisions [Call Detail Records (CDR)], all parts of the Patriot Act. As a result of the FISA […]

DOJ Admits Two FISA Applications Lacked Cause – FISA Court Requests Information on Consequences: What Other Prosecutions Relied on the Invalid Warrants?…

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An interesting ruling, brief and order from the FISA Court (Judge Boasberg) released today [pdf here] reflects an admission by the DOJ the 2nd and 3rd FISA renewal against U.S. person Carter Page were invalid – The “DOJ assesses that with respect to the applications in [April and June 2017] “if not earlier, there was […]

Sen Grassley: U.S. Informant May Have Received Taxpayer Funds to Spy on Trump Campaign…

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The Department of Defense may have used taxpayer funds to pay longtime informant Stefan Halper, a Cambridge University professor, to recruit members of the Trump campaign as sources in the run-up to the 2016 election, Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in an explosive letter on Wednesday. Grassley, writing to James Baker, the […]

The FISA Court Is Complicit in the FBI Abuses It’s Raising Cain Over…

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Shortly after Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report detailing the government’s egregious abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Rosemary M. Collyer, the presiding judge of the FISA court, issued a rare public order demanding answers. Today is the deadline Collyer set for the government to “inform the Court in a sworn written submission […]

New Details About Meeting FBI Source Suggest Carter Page Was Set Up…

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Yesterday’s exclusive at The Federalist, revealing that Carter Page first met Stefan Halper at a small dinner at Magdalene College in Cambridge, triggered an immediate response from Svetlana Lokhova, the Russian-born British citizen who sued Halper last year for defamation for branding her a Russian spy. Magdalene College was Halper’s college, Lokhova tweeted, adding that […]

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