FISA Court: The Government Lied To Us About Everything

This seems like it ought to be a bigger story.
A newly declassified ruling from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in June demonstrates that the government lied about its legal basis for spying on former Trump campaign official Carter Page.

The ruling states that the information produced by the FBI’s unlawful investigation into Page was illegally obtained and that it “found violations of the government’s duty of candor in all four applications.” 

So, the government lied in every application, in an unlawful investigation based on illegally obtained information. Great. That's the hat trick, then.  

6 comments:

Joel Leggett said...

It was at the time. The story is a year old.

Grim said...

Huh. I saw it yesterday for the first time.

Mike Guenther said...

And the statute of limitations is over this weekend, I believe. So it's all a moot point anyway.

Grim said...

That’s a big story in itself: nobody was held to account.

E Hines said...

statute of limitations is over this weekend, I believe. So it's all a moot point anyway.

Not entirely moot. All the statute of limitations does is limit criminal liability. I don't think it applies for civil liability (though there are other "protections" for government officials), and it certainly doesn't apply in the public opinion court.

Eric Hines

ymarsakar said...

i told humans thentruth. as noah and jere,iah did