Either the FISA judges who approved this were complicit or lied to. Either way they will be outraged or will feign outrage. I would think at least one of the four will take action against the perjured applications submitted by the FBI. By floating this Nunes will put all four into CYA overdrive.
IMO the recent series of memos and text messages is a well-orchestrated plan to achieve many things. One of them is to see who will crack first, the FISA judge (or judges) who approved the warrant and its renewals, or the people in the FBI who asked for warrant/renewals.
I believe that the whole warrant and approval process was “cleverly” crafted to give all involved plausible deniability in the event it ever came to light. But now it has and the deniability is looking mighty thin.
So the judge has a choice. He can either claim to be completely in the dark and innocent or he can say that he knew. If he claims innocence, then he is (if I understand correctly) essentially forced to haul the person(s) who applied for the warrant back into his court and charge them with various types of fraud or whatever. He hasn’t done that, so it seems to me that by doing nothing, he is tacitly admitting he was a party to the fraud.
How could it be otherwise?