Couldn’t the chairmen then refer it to him, to direct the judge to comply or to be fired?
We have seen Judge Roberts in action before.
Jeff Sessions is the one who needs to be relieved of his duties. The judge said that the DOJ has access to all the documents and can release them anytime.
This is unbelievable. Sessions is being held hostage by the DOJ bureaucracy. He is the weakest attorney general ever.
Then in the comments of this article:
BigMamaTEA says:
February 15, 2018 at 11:49 pm
Rob, if you want the real answer…….Years ago when I was researching this….The FISA Court came about because of the Church Committee back in the 70’s. (Named after a Senator Church btw) From my research:
Their hearings exposed secret, arguably illegal wiretapping, bugging, and harassment of American citizens, including Supreme Court justices, reporters, and government officials, all in the name of collecting intelligence about threats to national security. The most notorious case, first exposed in the 1960s and fully documented by the Church Committee, was the wiretapping of Martin Luther King, Jr. by the NSA and by the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, who believed him to be part of a Communist conspiracy.
The Church Committee’s investigations also led to passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978. The FISA court was originally designed to guard executive branch surveillance programs from the public while ensuring the other branches of government could oversee activities.
I also saved this quote from Senator Church at that time…….
“On August 17, 1975 Senator Frank Church appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, and discussed the NSA, without mentioning it by name:
“ In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. (…) Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left: such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.
If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology. (…)
I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return” Senator Frank Church.
It's pretty clear Obama and/or Clinton has something over Roberts based on his weird behavior in arriving at his ObamaCare decision.
Roberts is in charge of appointing judges to the FISA court. Obama complained that Roberts has been appointing too many GOP judges, and suddenly there is a change and he starts appointing Obama cronies.
In particular, there is suddenly a very pliant judge in place to take the previously rejected warrant request to spy on Trump and re-process it favorably.
In my opinion, Roberts is still succumbing to extortion and cannot be trusted in this or any matter involving the Clintons or Obama. Don't expect him to ride to the rescue.
Judge Collyer is raising constitutional issues about the prerogative of the court to release such information. Overall, I see her response as being a positive one. She is putting the ball in the hands of DOJ and the Executive Branch. Perhaps, Trump should step in and signal his willingness to give this information to Congress.