"When FBI personnel mislead NSD (the National Security Division of the Department of Justice)," Judge Collyer wrote, "they equally mislead the FISC."
Writing about the IG report, the judge said the details document "troubling instances in which FBI personnel provided information to NSD which was unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession."
Secret FISA court orders feds to fully explain misrepresentations by the FBI about the Carter Page FISA and submit documents which can be made public pic.twitter.com/cJeDp3979c
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) December 17, 2019
In Congress, one key ally of President Trump quickly said he would follow up on the FISC announcement with reforms of the FISA process.
"As Inspector General Horowitz’s report describes in great detail, the FISA process falsified evidence and withheld exculpatory evidence to obtain a warrant against Mr. Page on numerous occasions," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
"We identified at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications," Horowitz told Congress earlier this month in his report, saying the "errors and omissions resulted from case agents providing wrong or incomplete information."
"That so many basic and fundamental errors were made on four FISA applications by three separate, hand-picked teams, on one of the most sensitive FBI investigations that was briefed to the highest levels within the FBI and that FBI officials expected would eventually be subjected to close scrutiny, raised significant questions regarding the FBI chain of command's management and supervision of the FISA process," the report stated.
"I think it's fair for people to sit there look at all of these 17 events and wonder how it could be purely incompetence," Horowitz told Senators earlier this month, as he made clear he was not prepared to fully embrace the idea that all of the FISA mistakes were due to intentional acts.
About the Author