Posted on 02/04/2018 11:17:33 AM PST by xzins
The Obama team’s actions with the FISA Court were not just corrupt – they were criminal! Now his appointed judges are in the news for suspect deep state actions. The FISA Court was put in place in 1978 when Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The Court sits in Washington D.C., and is composed of eleven federal district court judges who are designated by the Chief Justice of the United States. Each judge serves for a maximum of seven years and their terms are staggered to ensure continuity on the Court. In addition, the entire FISA court in late 2016 was stacked with Obama appointees. The entire court as of March 2017 was Obama appointees.
Here’s a current list of FISA Court Judges –
As reported earlier by TGP, on April 26, 2017, an unsealed FISA Court Ruling unveiled a number of criminal activities that Barack Obama’s FBI and DOJ participated in during his time in office. The FISA Court Ruling shows widespread abuse of the FISA mandate.
According to the report, Obama’s FBI and DOJ performed searches on Americans that were against their 4th Amendment rights. This went on for years. One paragraph in the report states that 85% of the Section 704 and 705(b) FISA searches made during this time were non-compliant with applicable laws and therefore criminal.
In addition, the report cites that at the same time that Obama’s DOJ and FBI were illegally searching Americans against their rights and unbeknownst to them, Obama’s FBI was providing this information to outside contractors who had no business or legal cause or claim to the information. [Some people suspect that one of these contractors may have been Fusion GPS.]
Now Obama appointed Judges to the FISA Court are in the news because of their suspect actions –
1. On Friday the House Intelligence Committee released its FISA memo that described the corrupt actions taken by Obama’s FBI and DOJ to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. Obama’s DOJ and FBI used a document created from information by Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC funding to obtain multiple FISA Court warrants. The political anti-Trump sources of the information were not provided to the court when requesting the warrant and top DOJ and FBI officials were the ones partaking in these actions. As a result, Congressional leaders are calling for prosecution of FBI and DOJ officials involved in the criminal actions and FOX News’ Gregg Jarrett stated that the criminal acts by Obama’s scoundrels involved in the FISA crimes could qualify for sentences of up to 10 years in prison.
It’s time to determine who signed off on the above warrants. Judges typically sit on the Court for one week at a time, on a rotating basis. Which judge signed off on the warrants with such flimsy information provided? The judge or judges who signed off on these warrants need to be investigated. Also, why have none of these judges announced that they are prosecuting the individuals who provided the fake information? This is their duty!
2. One Obama FISA appointee was also involved in General Flynn’s criminal case. We know this because he recused himself from the Flynn case. Obama FISA Court appointee and U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras recused himself from former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s criminal case in December. It’s yet unknown the reason for why Contreras recused himself. Why did he recuse himself and did he also sign off on any of the FISA warrants given to Obama cronies?
3. On Friday another Obama appointed FISA Court judge, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sidedwith the Department of Justice after multiple news organizations, including CNN and USA Today, sued for the public release of Comey’s memos after their Freedom of Information Act requests were denied. (read more). The fact that any judge would currently side with this corrupt Department of Justice is suspect. What is in the memos and why is this being hidden from the public?
The current group of FISA Court judges needs to be investigated and if corrupt or criminal, removed from the court.
From wikipedia about the FISA court and how it is put together:
“When the court was founded, it was composed of seven federal district judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States, each serving a seven-year term, with one judge being appointed each year. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act expanded the court from seven to eleven judges, and required that at least three of the Court’s judges live within twenty miles (32 km) of the District of Columbia. No judge may be appointed to this court more than once, and no judge may be appointed to both the Court of Review and the FISA court.
As of 2017, Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed all of the current judges, four of whom were nominated to their District Court judgeships by a Democratic President.[2]”
Dreams of turning the US into China
you set up a ‘secret court’ and empower it to secretly issue individual and ‘general warrants’ (mass-scale searches and seizures) against American citizens, their property, and privacy rights
and... you get what you asks for.
tyranny.
one of several major reasons the British colonists (or 30 percent of them, at least) fought a revolution against King George was that the King’s government was executing secret warrants and doing so against American settlers on a mass scale, exactly like this
so long as the secret FISA court is permitted to exist, this danger against Americans will continue.
It’s becoming clearer by the day that the FISC is Deep State.
FISA secret court is also unconstitutional in the extreme..
https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/09/13/is-the-fisa-court-constitutional
https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/constitution-leaves-no-room-secret-law
John Roberts swore in the Kenyanesian Usurper a second time in private, both times.
Then he re-wrote the unAffordable Care Act from the bench rather than rule it out.
I have less confidence in John Roberts than I have in Lindsay Graham.
Correct. These blanket warrants were called "writs of assistance"...
In addition, the report cites that at the same time that Obama’s DOJ and FBI were illegally searching Americans against their rights and unbeknownst to them, Obama’s FBI was providing this information to outside contractors who had no business or legal cause or claim to the information. [Some people suspect that one of these contractors may have been Fusion GPS.]
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funny how the report of Fusion GPS having “contractor” status with the Fibbers and spying on US citizens through FISA exceptions went dark in the past couple weeks
Bttt.
5.56mm
The political anti-Trump sources of the information were not provided to the court....
It appears that now goNadler is saying that it was. If so the courts would have some explaining to do.
Otherwise, as I think is the case, the courts can cover themselves by saying they trusted the integrity of the agents presenting the evidence, and the properly signed surveillance requests.
Yeah!!! President Trump will be appointing a lot new judges. It sounds like the corruption was massive. It’s going to take a lot of work and an act of God to find evidence on all of them.
Yeah!!! President Trump will be appointing a lot new judges. It sounds like the corruption was massive. It’s going to take a lot of work and an act of God to find evidence on all of them.
Trump survived the deep-state decapitation strike with the treacherous appointment of the SC. Now, we're watching the counter-offensive slowly begin to gain shape and form.
Trump wisely and patiently is using the very legal system against the thoroughly corrupt administrative and judiciary actors themselves. One by one, they will be outed, neutralized, discredited, and ultimately punished.
This roll-up is 100% guaranteed - at this point, it's just a methodical process that needs to be followed according to well established procedural rules. But, the end isn't in doubt: the treasonous conspirators have no viable means of escape.
I oppose any listening to US citizens by any form of government or private industry. It should be an invasion of privacy charge.
Some say, “Well, you’re setting the US up for attack.”
I agree. That gives a bit more of an opening to those who would harm us.
In my view, we should not remedy that by violating our constitution. We remedy it by our response.
The answer is to go 100% shock and awe on anyone who would violate our security. Make such a lesson of them that those thinking of the same thing will realize that they and theirs will be wiped out.
I think they were separated at birth.
FISA’s like the IRS - targeting conservative Americans...
“The current group of FISA Court judges needs to be investigated and if corrupt or criminal, removed from the court.”
And just who, one might ask, would do the investigation? That would presume we actually had any investigators.
My understanding from legal people who have commented is that a judge has a responsibility to actually look at the documents and supposed evidence presented to obtain a warrant and determine its legitimacy.
If so, a judge knows he has bogus evidence and becomes complicity.
Or, a judge is hoodwinked by a masterful lying application, and afterwards should be extremely PO’d and set about rocking the liar’s world.
BTTT
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