Posted on 03/05/2020 6:25:47 PM PST by bitt
A ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Wednesday mistakenly said Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm which hired British ex-spy Christopher Steele in 2016, was looking for dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rather than on then-candidate Donald Trump.
The court fixed the glaring error only after the Washington Examiner brought it to its attention.
Judge James Boasberg, the court’s presiding judge, cited the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page in a Wednesday opinion and, in the midst of pointing out the multitude of flaws, omissions, and factual errors in the electronic surveillance filings uncovered by the Justice Department’s watchdog, he made a mistake himself.
“Although from the outset the applications acknowledged the likely political bias of the person who had hired Steele … information that confirmed the political origins of the Steele reporting was not,” Boasberg stated.
He then incorrectly quoted a footnote from the first FISA application, writing: “The FBI speculates that the [person who hired Steele] was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit [Clinton’s] campaign.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
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What a whopper. The CJ probably assigned some clerk to this important task. He obviously couldn’t care less.
To think these rubber stamp artist morons are making surveillance approvals.... they never read the filings. What a freaking dolt! Perfect judge for criminal cops.
In an open society, there should be no secret court. Abolish FISA.
FISA FAIL
Hillary spent 12 million to find dirt on herself. Right. All she had to do is look in the mirror.
caught
FISA is as dirty as Brennan and Commey.
Secret Courts are NOT AMERICAN.
Just another strange coincidental error that just happened to favor the left. Funny how these errors always seem to accrue to the benefit of the left.
I’m sure it was just an innocent mistake - again.
Sounds like enough evidence to impeach and convict FISA Court overseer Roberts.
Agree. The words of the Constitution and Bill of Rights show clearly the founding fathers intended judicial proceedings to be open and fair. They would be horrified to know Congress passed laws creating secret courts.
Secret courts are just park of the terrible legacy of George W. Bush.
Yeah, I was “surprised” when that “unexpected” statement came out.
Could they be any more obvious?
Ineptitude of this magnitude should have them peeing in a cup.
Just kill it.
Like flipping a coin 50 times and it always comes up heads.
What a lucky guy I am!
“Mistakenly”, yeah right.
They think we just fell off the turnip truck.
Appears that the FISA judges hired Hildabeast,Snowflake interns to write their opinion.
The left is a fascist need to be stopped this court is unconstitutional and Foal or fascist losers who don’t have any sense of integrity
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