(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today announced that in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a court filing last night that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.
In the filing the Justice Department finally revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Page FISA spy warrants, first issued in 2016 and subsequently renewed three times:
[National Security Division] FOIA consulted [Office of Intelligence] … to identify and locate records responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] FOIA request…. [Office of Intelligence] determined … that there were no records, electronic or paper, responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] FOIA request with regard to Carter Page. [Office of Intelligence] further confirmed that the [Foreign Surveillance Court] considered the Page warrant applications based upon written submissions and did not hold any hearings.
The Department of Justice previously released to Judicial Watch the heavily redacted Page warrant applications. The initial Page FISA warrant was granted just weeks before the 2016 election.
The DOJ filing is in response to a Judicial Watch lawsuit for the FISA transcripts (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01050)).
In February, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a memo criticizing the FISA targeting of Carter Page. The memo details how the “minimally corroborated” Clinton-DNC dossier was an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants to spy on Page.
Hearings, we don’t need no stinking hearings, did the Judge bother reading the warrants or just sign, I got a bridge I’d love to sell the judge.
Why isn’t this rubber-stamper judge livid about being used by this politicized DOJ?
So, the FBI and some judge decided they didn’t need to discuss the implications of spying on the Presidential campaign of the opposition. You know WHY they thought no hearings were required?
Because Hillary was going to win and become President. When liberals are in power, THEY decide what law is, how it applies and IF they need to abide by them.
They can whine and cry about Trump all they want, but this is real third-world, banana republic crap and we are fortunate to have it exposed. Now, CRUSH IT.
Th so-called judge is was was going to be paid off with a higher court appointment. Remember Strzok and page discussed setting up a dinner party with the judge on the Flynn case. Since it probably did not have President Trump’s name on it so who would be the wiser. MY questions are the following how many of these warrants were given to spy on lower level employees of political opponents We know the CIA spied on the Senate intelligence Committee. Who is to say that a Clerk or Secretary for Justice Roberts was used as a gateway to him to ensure he voted correctly on keeping Obamacare.. It is the perfect way to gather intelligence on political opponents. In other words typical Chicago style Politics.