For the past nine months, a senior Justice Department official has been reviewing FBI and DOJ compliance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Now three Republican members of Congress want to know what he has learned. Last March Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed John Huber, U.S. Attorney for Utah, to investigate alleged “irregularities” in...
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Troubled Trump Threatens More FISA Disclosures
Amid damaging revelations from the guilty plea of his former personal lawyer, President Trump responded with a threat to reveal information about the special prosecutor’s investigation. Such bluster is a familiar Trump tactic. The right-wing The Daily Caller picked up on Trump’s intentions a couple of weeks ago. “Declassification, we’re looking at very seriously,” Trump told reporters...
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Government Can Spy on Journalists in the U.S. Using FISA
Government Can Spy on Journalists in the U.S. Using FISA–Two 2015 memos spell out procedures for “targeting known media entities or known members of the media.”Whether anyone has been targetted is unknown (Intercept).
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Trump’s Order to Reveal Docs Could Undermine FISA System
“If your problem with the Carter Page warrant is that the standard is too lax, your claim is not that the system is abused, it’s that the system is abusive,” Vladeck continued. “The way to fix an abusive system is not to cherry-pick cases. The way to fix the system to reform it.” Trump’s Order to...
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