Thread by @JohnWHuber

A tip for
@DevinNunes
@RepGoodlatte
@ChuckGrassley

Don't just subpoena @TheJusticeDept & @FBI for the "4" FISA applications/renewals against @carterwpage

Demand the spying application against "FOUR members of the Trump team" the FISA court *rejected*: theguardian.com/us-news/2017/j…

"The Guardian has learned" means the source doesn't want to be described - at all

"Summer" = 6/20/16 to 9/22/16

Steele's memos named Carter Page (7/19), Paul Manafort (~7/19-26) & Mike Flynn (8/10) over this period*

*Michael Cohen was later, 10/20

So if this whole thing started with George Papadopolous, why isn't he the subject of a FISC warrant when the FBI was trying to spy on another *four* Trump officials all at once? Four!

FISC rejects <1% of applications and even they balked at this, so how bad was that application? What source/evidence verification was there? Why did neither the Nunes memo or Schiff memo even mention it?

Is that prior court rejection the reason why the "narrowed" and finally approved application just for Carter Page on 10/21 was bulked up and padded? It had dossier allegations AND in desperation a Steele/Fusion GPS-sourced Yahoo News article the FISC was misled/lied to about?

Speaking of rare FISA court rejections, how about also asking @TheJusticeDept for the two *other FISC rejections* they had in Jun and Jul 2016 to spy on "two Russian banks"?

This was leaked to Paul Wood of the BBC, possibly by @JohnBrennan - bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

Steele named TWO major Russian banks in his dossier. The Central Bank of Russia and Alfa*

And the DOJ wanted to spy on TWO Russian banks. Hmm 🤔

*Which he misspelled. A senior US intelligence official described Steele as "meticulous" in an anonymous quote to The Guardian

Paul Wood also personally met with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele in Washington D.C. Nope, nothing to see here

Since those articles in mid Jan 2017 (when everyone went dossier crazy pre Trump inauguration), isn't it strange The Guardian and BBC haven't followed up on that reporting on super rare rejected FISA applications on Russia? Aren't they curious what happened?

Anyway, just a tip and a few questions to investigate. Oh & all those FISA applications are classified so that's another couple of felony media leaks to add to the list👌