The Senate on Thursday passed an act that reauthorizes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The act lets government investigators apply to a secretive court to spy on Americans. The program has widespread problems, the Department of Justice’s inspector general found earlier this year. The House passed the bill in March. Attorney General William Barr […]
FLASHBACK – Comey: ‘We Did Not Spy—We Just Observed and Reported Secretly Without the Subject’s Knowledge or Consent’…
After Attorney General Barr suggested that the FBI and other agencies spied on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, former FBI director James Comey fired back. “We did not spy,” he told reporters as he stretched for his morning yoga class. “We just observed and reported secretly without the subject’s knowledge or consent.” “See, I’ve never considered […]
Rank and Vile – DOJ Inspector General Identifies 93 Percent Non-Compliance Within FISA Review – Issues So Bad IG Presents Interim Report Before Reviewing Details…
After the DOJ Offfice of Inspector General (OIG), Michael Horowitz, presented his December 2019 findings of the FISA application used against U.S person Carter Page, the gross deficiencies and intentional fraud were so extensive the IG said he was going to review a sample of FISA applications to identify if the fraud and abuse was […]
IG Horowitz: FBI Problems with FISA Warrants Extend Beyond Russia Case…
Looking More Deeply at the Memorandum Provided by the OIG Review of FISA Applications…
FBI’s Russia Collusion Case Fell Apart in First Month of Trump Presidency, Memos Show…
The piecemeal release of FBI files in the Russia collusion investigation has masked an essential fact: James Comey’s G-men had substantially debunked the theory that Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow by the time the 45th president was settling into the Oval Office, according to declassified memos, court filings and interviews. And that means a […]
The 21 Words Uttered by FISA Court Judge That Changes the Russia Collusion Case Forever…
For much of the last three years, key law enforcement leaders have insisted they did nothing wrong in pursuing counterintelligence surveillance warrants targeting the Trump campaign starting during the 2016 election. And, they’ve added, if mistakes were made, they were unintentional process errors downstream from them and not an effort to deceive the judges. But […]
Why Metadata Matters…
Metadata is often described as everything except the content of your communications. You can think of metadata as the digital equivalent of an envelope. Just like an envelope contains information about the sender, receiver, and destination of a message, so does metadata. Metadata is information about the digital communications you send and receive. Some examples […]
Keep Throwing Spaghetti at That Wall by James Howard Kunstler…
We’re reminded this morning by The New York Times, America’s official psychotic fantasy generator, that the Russians are coming (again!) as an ad hoc arm of the committee to re-elect Mr. Trump. You have to ask yourself: Does Mr. Trump actually need their help? His opponents have been self-meddling so diligently that their party now […]
Barr’s “Outside Prosecutors” and the FISC Sequestration Agreement…
When the FISA Court responded to the DOJ Inspector General report in December and January 2020 they requested an action plan from the DOJ and FBI to respond to the issues raised about misrepresentations to the court. The DOJ/FBI replied to the FISA Court admitting the last two FISA renewals (April, June ’17) used against […]
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