Posted on 01/12/2020 11:57:24 AM PST by Magnatron
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has stunned court-watchers by selecting David Kris -- a former Obama administration lawyer who has appeared on "The Rachel Maddow Show" and written extensively in support of the FBI's surveillance practices on the left-wing blog Lawfare -- to oversee the FBI's implementation of reforms in the wake of a damning Department of Justice Inspector general report last year.
The development on Friday, first reported by independent journalist Mike Cernovich, has roiled Republicans who have demanded accountability at the FBI. House Intelligence Commitee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told The Daily Caller that Kris' appointment was "shocking" and "inexplicable."
"It’s hard to imagine a worse person the FISC could have chosen outside [James] Comey, [Andy] McCabe, or [Adam] Schiff,” Nunes said. Speaking to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, Nunes added: “It’s a ridiculous choice. The FBI lied to the FISC, and to help make sure that doesn’t happen again, the FISC chose an FBI apologist who denied and defended those lies. The FISC is setting its own credibility on fire.”
On Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Nunes reminded anchor Maria Bartiromo that Kris had panned the now-vindicated 2018 memo produced by Nunes' panel, which asserted a series of surveillance abuses by the FBI against former Trump aide Carter Page. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz later substantiated Nunes' claims, noting that the FBI had made numerous materially false representations to the FISC.
"Of all the people in the swamp ... this is the guy that you come up with?" Nunes asked. "The guy that was accusing me of federal crimes? The guy that was defending the dirty cops at the FBI? ... The court must be trying to abolish itself. There is long-term damage."
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The FBI, the FISA Court, and every other agency involved in Federal law enforcement deserve less respect than child molesters and arsonists. I wouldn’t contact any of them even if I had credible information about a potential terrorist attack here in the U.S.
Only the most naive among us can’t see that the fix is in and that our government can’t be reformed.
He’ll be Huberific!
Enough of this ‘shiite’ by all US deep sate dept - fire them all TRUMP! Time to reverse the ‘coup’!
Mitch, Lindsey and the rest of the boys won’t confirm anybody that would help Trump drain the swamp.
Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that the cameras outside of Epstein’s cell failed when they did? /channeling leftwinger
“The FISC is setting its own credibility on fire.”
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Do they have any credibility after what recently happened?
Does Chief Justice Roberts after his Obamacare antics and now this?
DEEP STATE...in your face and up your fanny with this appointment.
These people are transparently full of sh!t.
Yes.
This seems a direct challenge to Trump, a huge raise in this poker game...
Can this new judge be impeached?
Trump very much needs to step up already and make some changes. There’s no downside to firing Wray at this time, and there’s a few others in need of canning as well. I’m getting a bit exhausted with his twitter complaints without action. He’s the president. These people serve at his pleasure. Congress is going to have a conniption no matter what he does. He needs to be bold and do it.
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Right. I think if he puts a new head in place, like FBI, perhaps there is no way to fire the employees under him. Not sure. It is maddening how no one gets fired or arrested and in fact, they mock him with their findings of no illegality each time.
Trump MUST step in here. He MUST kill the Deep State. You cannot any quarter to these assassins.
When Trump is re-elected, I’m praying that he’ll totally gut the Deep State; if they can’t fired outright, then post every last one of them to Nome, Alaska or Afghanistan ...
They're going to try again.
This is an “in-your-face” move by the Deep State. The President should fire all those responsible forr this lousy appointment.
FISA should be repealed. Whether or not it’s needed to defend our country against foreign threats, at the moment by far our most dangerous adversaries are our domestic enemies. That includes far too many members of the deep state, and they are manipulating the FISA system.
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