FISA court orders DOJ to review flawed surveillance applications and provide names of targets washex.am/3dOZcJs
Friday's ruling came days after DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a memo showing FISA flaws were not just limited to the surveillance of Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
The OIG ‘identified apparent errors or inadequately supported facts’ in all 25 applications for which the Woods Files could be produced. Interviews with FBI personnel ‘generally have confirmed’ those deficiencies, not dispelled them.”
The judge ordered the DOJ to provide the court with “the names of the targets” for all 29 applications and to specify which targets and docket numbers correspond with the court applications with no Woods file —
and the three of those for which no Woods file may have ever existed.
He further ruled that the agency must “assess to what extent those 29 applications involved material misstatements or omissions”...
He further ruled that the agency must “assess to what extent those 29 applications involved material misstatements or omissions”...
and “assess whether any such material misstatements and omissions render invalid, in whole or in part, authorizations granted by the Court for that target in the reviewed docket or other dockets.” The judge asked the Justice Department to prioritize the cases with no Woods file.
