- As it stands now there is no downside for FBI malcontents – other than a “rebuke” — worth it for the cause
FISA COURT REBUKES FBI ON WIRETAP
Says Agency mishandled applications for surveillance of one-time Trump aide, Carter Page
Judge Rosemary Collyer, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, called the FBI’s actions“antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” owed to the court by government agents.
We’ll bet ‘Big Jim’ Comey was really hurt emotionally by being ‘rebuked!’…….Ohh Nooo…not ‘rebuked’…
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“Applications were ‘mishandled’ “???
“…the FBI’s actions (were) ‘antithetical to the heightened duty of candor (it) owed to the Court…”
Let us translate Judge Collyer’s words as us ordinary rubes would understand them…you know, in kinda the ‘vernacular of the street’:
” THE FBI IS A BUNCH OF DAMNED LIARS !”
“ANTITHETICAL? TO “THE HEIGHTENED DUTY OF CANDOR” !!??!!… my ass!
Why in the hell would someone say something like that unless they intended to make the ‘average American’ think ‘this was no big deal…just a case of ‘antitheticality’ in service to a ‘heightened duty’ to…you know…be a little more candid…’
(Yes, yes, we know…it was only a few ‘bad actors’ at the Bureau…not the ‘36,000’ dedicated…) dlh
Article at Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—A secret surveillance court issued a rare public order on Tuesday rebuking the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its handling of applications to wiretap Carter Page, a one-time Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser whose monitoring by the government has become the subject of significant public controversy.
Judge Rosemary Collyer, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, called the FBI’s actions“antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” owed to the court by government agents.
“The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable,” Judge Collyer wrote, referring to the behavior of FBI personnel criticized in a recent Justice Department watchdog report. Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2019
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“Applications were ‘mishandled’ “???
“…the FBI’s actions (were) ‘antithetical to the heightened duty of candor (it) owed to the Court…”
