The FISA court judges are guilty, too!

Margot Cleveland writes in part in the Federalist,

...But that the DOJ swore out four fraudulent FISA applications does not excuse the FISA court for its own culpability—and from the IG report’s analysis, it appears that the secret court is far from blameless.

...Over the next nine months, three different FISA judges granted extensions to the FISA surveillance order, not once probing the government on the reliability of the sub-sources.

That fatal mistake rests at the hands of the four federal judges who signed the surveillance orders.
For all of the DOJ’s mistakes and malfeasance, that fatal mistake rests at the hands of the four federal judges who signed the surveillance orders. They had an obligation to ensure probable cause existed to surveil Carter Page. For there to be probable cause, the government needed to establish the sub-sources were reliable, or other sufficient evidence, but the IG report makes clear the Steele dossier is the backbone of the application.

Read more here.

"We should not subject our political campaigns to secret courts, secret warrants, secret surveillance"

Dem collusion with Russia, Trump DOJ should declassify & disclose FISA app, Tomorrow President Trump begins the process of releasing previously secret documents about the assassination of JFK.

Sean Davis tweets, The Mueller probe is based entirely on two things: a dossier created by Dem collusion w/ Russia, and illegal leaks by James Comey.

Andrew McCarthy tweets: To repeat: Trump DOJ should declassify & disclose FISA app to show what representations were made to court about source of dossier claims.

Tomorrow President Trump begins the process of releasing previously secret documents about the assassination of JFK. Peter Baker and Scott Shane report at The New York Times,

...The documents have either never been disclosed or been made public only in redacted form, and are due to be released by the National Archives and Records Administration on Thursday under a law passed in 1992 after the Oliver Stone movie “JFK” stoked interest in Kennedy-related conspiracies. The last of the documents were required to be released 25 years after the law was signed, but the incumbent president, in this case Mr. Trump, can order some withheld in response to concerns by the intelligence agencies. White House officials said he had not made up his mind whether to do so.