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NEW: DOJ says it's reviewing the Carter Page FISA application to see what parts can be made public. Before now, the gov't has "never, in any litigation civil or criminal, processed FISA applications for release to the public."
In a new court filing, the FBI says its Carter Page FISA application and order "continue to be very sensitive materials that are part of the on-going Russian interference investigation" by Mueller.
FBI: It is "wholly unprecedented for the Government to disclose FISA applications at all, whether under the FOIA or otherwise." It's being forced to do so because of the competing memos released by Reps. Nunes and Schiff.
The latest in @usatoday's #FOIA lawsuit with @JMadisonProject seeking records about FISA surveillance of Trump's campaign and associates.
Here's the story: Justice Department says it's considering 'unprecedented' public disclosure of Carter Page FISA application.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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Speaking of drugs: Since the Trump administration ordered prosecutors to focus on minor immigration crimes, DOJ has been bringing fewer cases against border drug traffickers than at any point in more than a decade. Here's DOJ's data, through November.
Here's our coverage from a couple months ago. The trend hasn't changed. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…
(Yes that's an Excel chart, and yes we'd normally have December data by now, but that might not be one of those essential government functions.)
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There's now a not-quite-so-secret D.C. Cir. opinion in the mystery Mueller grand jury case.
Whoever the mystery company is, it's been ordered to pay $50,000 a day in fines until it complies with the grand jury subpoena. But the accrual is stayed while appeals are pending.
Whatever the mystery company is, it's conducting "general commercial activity in the U.S."
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Lawyers for one of the Russian companies charged over election meddling continue to file peevish things in court, this time about how unhappy the judge seemed to be about previous peevish filings ->
The lawyers say they've been getting threats ever since the judge faulted them for unprofessional behavior. Some were "whipped into their frenzy by a cable television entertainer unknown to undersigned counsel named Rachel @Maddow."
Here's the filing -> documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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BREAKING: POTUS is directing ODNI/DOJ/FBI to declassify: pages of carter page FISA applications, reports and interviews bruce ohr prepared & all FBI repots on page FISA
🚨 TRUMP is *also* directing the DOJ/FBI to "publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr."
so ... where are the documents?
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1) My latest @EpochTimes
theepochtimes.com/carter-pages-a…
2) Republican lawmakers have repeatedly called on President Trump to declassify the highly-redacted Carter Page FISA Warrant Order & Applications.

According to reporting by Axios, President Trump may declassify the documents as early as this week.
3) DNI James Clapper testified to the lack of corroboration and validation of the Steele Dossier, noting the Dossier had not been verified as of December 2016.

“We couldn’t corroborate the sourcing, particularly the second and third-order sources.”
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Trump: Day 551
-Ratchets Up Fight w/Michael Cohen
-Alters DT/Putin Video & Transcripts
-Bans CNN Reporter From WH Event
-Trying 2 Conceal Kavanaugh Docs
-Walk of Fame Star Destroyed Again
-Bolton Now Using "Witch Hunt" Line
-Emolument Lawsuit Moves Forward
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Day 656 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 508 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #fakenews #TrumpLies
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DOJ OFFICIALS: 31 lawmakers have viewed a largely unredacted version of the Carter Page FISA applications. Devin Nunes, who has demanded the president declassify large swaths, is *not* one of them.
10 House Intelligence Committee Republicans and 7 House Intelligence Committee Democrats are among them. Nunes is one of three committee Republicans who didn't see the document for himself.
Yet all 13 Republicans signed a letter over the weekend to President Trump calling on him to declassify swaths of the FISA that were redacted in the public version.
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The Lawfare blog has come out in defense of the FISA warrants. What to Make of the Carter Page FISA Applications lawfareblog.com/what-make-cart… It’s pretty weak tea.
It begins by reviewing the history leading up to the release of the applications, verifications and warrants, including the Nunes and Dem memos. It goes without saying that they defend the Democrat version since they are leftists themselves.
But then he begins his argument by discussing the footnote revealing Steele’s bias.
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This is a very important piece in the Carter Page #FISA documents put together yesterday evening by @DavidKris. You should read it.
One note on Kris’s first point, that the disclosure of a FISA application is alone monumental, even if redacted heavily, as this one is:
Back in the mid-1990s, as a young reporter for Legal Times, I wrote a long piece on the FISA Court and process, about which almost nothing substantial had previously been written.
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