Judicial Watch: Justice Department Discloses No FISA Court Hearings Held on Carter Page Warrants

Judicial Watch ^ | AUGUST 31, 2018

[detective]

udicial Watch today announced that in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a court filing last night that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.

In the filing the Justice Department finally revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Page FISA spy warrants, first issued in 2016 and subsequently renewed three times:

[National Security Division] FOIA consulted [Office of Intelligence] … to identify and locate records responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] FOIA request…. [Office of Intelligence] determined … that there were no records, electronic or paper, responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] FOIA request with regard to Carter Page. [Office of Intelligence] further confirmed that the [Foreign Surveillance Court] considered the Page warrant applications based upon written submissions and did not hold any hearings.

The Department of Justice previously released to Judicial Watch the heavily redacted Page warrant applications. The initial Page FISA warrant was granted just weeks before the 2016 election.

[detective]

“It is disturbing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts rubber-stamped the Carter Page spy warrants and held not one hearing on these extraordinary requests to spy on the Trump team,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Perhaps the court can now hold hearings on how justice was corrupted by material omissions that Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC, a conflicted Bruce Ohr, a compromised Christopher Steele, and anti-Trumper Peter Strzok were all behind the ‘intelligence’ used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team.”

The warrants were fraudulent. The FISA Court held no hearings whatsoever to review and approve the warrants.

[treetopsandroofs]

Late Friday afternoon...

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Oh my, stake to the heart.

[treetopsandroofs]

ALL FISA judges are and have been pwned from the start.

Check who nominated them, and when they began.

[be-baw]

Fitton should be the next AG. He would be more effective than anyone in the DOJ.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Did the FISA court even read it before they rubber stamped it? Probably helped write it.

[Mariner]

this is a dupe.
The original is in Breaking news.

[Red Badger]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3683838/posts

[Parley Baer]

Chief Justice Roberts needs to look into this. It makes the FISA court look like a kangaroo court. Just rubber stamping whatever the DOJ/FBI want will not cut it in my book. No wonder these FISA court judges are silent.

[detective]

I checked and then had to do something else.

I got delayed about 30 minutes before posting.

Should have checked again.

[Jacquerie]

The FISC pencil-whipped an assault on an American’s Fourth Amendment rights.

Illegal aliens get due process . . . not associates of Donald Trump.

More fruit of the poisoned tree.

Please President Trump, blow up the swamp!

[hal ogen]

"...look like..."??? More descriptive: IS

[Chewbarkah]

Congressmen Nunes and Goodlatte petitioned the FISA court for hearing transcripts and copies of what the FISA court actually received re: the Page warrant. On 2-15-1 FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer replied that FISA courts don’t normally keep transcripts of hearings and suggested they get whatever they wanted from the Executive Branch. Collyer obstructed the investigation by omitting to mention that there were NO HEARINGS to have transcripts of.

Rosenstein said he signed the requests without even reading them. The next shoe to drop will be that the FISA judges didn’t read them either. Why bother when DOJ/FBI agents always tell the truth?

The whole FISA system is a corrupt sham.

[Tucker39]

Q: Has anyone even wondered why there aren’t one or more FISA Judges mad as h**l about being lied to by phony FISA applications?
A: Because for some reason, the Judge(s) gave less than a d*mn whether the FISA Applica-tions were legit or not. They hated Trump, too. So screw what the law says!

[DrDude]

You are 100% correct. Nothing will change unless arrests are made. I doubt anyone will ever be charged. Apparently, 6 months have passed since Judge Collyer committed fraud. No one is looking. No one will ever investigate.

[eyeamok]

Like I said in the beginning which others are now saying, if the Judges were not part of the seditious conspiracy to overthrow the united states presidency, the day it went public about the dossier, they would have summoned ALL of them and Jailed them for contempt and referred them for crimibal prosecution.....

[SgtHooper]

They are appointed by the USSC Justice Roberts. Thank you again, Traitor Roberts!! NOT!

[Mr. Lucky]

Courts almost never hearings on warrant applications. The warrant is granted or denied based upon the adequacy of the written application and supporting affidavits.

The FISA courts may well be rubber stamps, but holding an ex parte hearing wouldn't change that.

[blueplum]

thanks for the explanation. Sounds like another nothingburger.

[VTenigma]

He’s not a lawyer.