Judicial Watch: Justice Department Discloses No FISA Court Hearings Held on Carter Page Warrants

The initial and renewals. Never even a hearing. The fake dossier was present as factual and corroborated and it was rubber stamped. Then the warrant was use to spy on the Trump campaign and then to try stop him from becoming and now serving as President. Brett Jarrett was outlining this morning that the FISA court and the 11 judges report to Chief Justice Roberts. Roberts needs to appoint a special master to investigate what happened, whether these judge properly executed their duties and who in the DOJ and FBI presented the dossier and charge them with obstruction of justice.

Judicial Watch: Justice Department Discloses No FISA Court Hearings Held on Carter Page Warrants

‘[N]o such hearings were held with respect to the acknowledged FISA applications. Accordingly, no responsive hearing transcripts exist.’

(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.

Judicial Watch recently filed a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking the transcripts of all hearings related to the surveillance of Carter Page.

“It is disturbing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts rubber-stamped the Carter Page spy warrants and held not one hearing on these extraordinary requests to spy on the Trump team,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Perhaps the court can now hold hearings on how justice was corrupted by material omissions that Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC, a conflicted Bruce Ohr, a compromised Christopher Steele, and anti-Trumper Peter Strzok were all behind the ‘intelligence’ used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team.”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press...-court-hearings-held-on-carter-page-warrants/

 

Add this to the long list of investigations Jeff Sessions should be authorizing. While Sessions snoozes our nation loses.

 

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It's call a press release.................deal with it.

 

Actually Chief Justice Roberts may be the point man to investigate when the FBI and DOJ mislead the FISA court and why the FISA court authorized surveillance on Trump campaign without even holding a hearing on the matter.

 

What percent of fisa apps actually have a hearing?

 

Those supervisors reviewed their records and confirmed that, as is typical in proceedings before the FISC, no hearings were held with respect to the acknowledged Carter Page FISA applications, and thus no responsive transcripts exist.”

So another nothing burger lol

 

Apparently our government just goes around and does whatever it wants willy-nilly.

 

As long as this matter is taken up. The FISA court has really, it appears, taken a dive in order to aid the Resistance cabal.

 

No, law enforcement sends their request to a judge who reviews it.

 

Does the Steele dossier qualify as grounds to spy on someone?

 

Not on its own. But the warrant wasn't just the dossier

 

Did the judge know that it was opposition research paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign?

 

The FBI/DOJ was asking to infiltrate and survival the Republican campaign for the Presidency and the FISA court did not even hold a hearing? Did not order these prosecutors before them and demand they prove the veracity of the dossier? They just rubber stamped this!

 

The court did not even hold a hearing to ask questions. And Rosenstein also rubber stamped it.

The REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY!!!!! And based on a sought out bought and paid for by the DNC/Clinton campaign phony dossier through a foreign agent with so-called Russian dirt.

THAT is what we need to be investigating, who in government was involved in trying to deny Trump the nomination and then the election and tried to set him and his staff up.

 

Sounds like jail-able offenses to me. But...but Russia?

 

typical in proceedings before the FISC,

yes because it is common practice for an administration to use the FBI and CIA to spy on an opposing parties presidential campaign and requires no court review or any other special consideration just needs to be rubber stamped
I'm glad you think that way giving the green light for Trump to do the same in 2020 and 2024

 

Sound a lot like Watergate to me.

 

Well there was only 2 candidates and it wasn’t paid for by trump

 

Carter page was not the republican campaign. He had already resigned by then. Working for the gop doesn’t provide lifetime immunity.

 

Page wasn’t part of the campaign at that time. And let’s not ignore how many admitted felons this campaign DID employ.

 

It was the way to spy on the Republicans and try and deny Trump the election. Not ONE hearing, the FISA court did not hold one hearing on the matter of spying on an opposition political campaign and granted the warrant based on the phony dossier high level officials at the DOJ and FBI plotted to use against Trump and the behest of the DNC and Clinton campaign.

 

Which they did not know when they were working their plan to surveil them and help the Clinton campaign and the DNC.

Why are you trying to excuse this abuse of US citizens and abuse of power and outright fraud used to obtain FISA warrants?

 

TEN times worse.

 

No record of any discussions, any questions, any inquiery and they hide the fact it was the DNC/Clinton campaign that had colluded with a foreign agent promising dirt from Russia on Trump.

Why are you not outraged