FBI Director Wray Pledges to Fix Flaws Found in FISA Court Applications
FBI Director Christopher Wray pledged Wednesday to fix the flaws found in the bureau’s applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Comey Says FBI Vindicated, But Admits Was ‘Wrong’ Defending FISA Process
Former FBI Director James Comey admitted Sunday that he was wrong to defend the bureau’s process of obtaining a warrant to monitor Carter Page, an adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Ex-Deputy FBI Director McCabe Defends Use of Dossier and FISA Court
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, on a whirlwind book tour, appears on C-Span with New York Times’ reporter Adam Goldman to discuss his book and some of the criticism the bureau faced under his leadership. McCabe defends the use of the infamous Steele dossier, the bureau’s use of a confidential informant…
Memo Reveals President’s DOJ Extended Surveillance of Carter Page on Russian Spy Allegations
A classified, highly disputed Republican memo reveals that the Justice Department under President Trump approved continued surveillance last spring of Trump campaign associate Carter Page because investigators suspected he was a Russian agent.
Manafort Calls on Justice Department to Investigate Leak of FBI Wiretaps
President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is urging the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate who leaked to the media information about the FBI conducting several wiretap probes of him, Bloomberg reports.
FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Trump’s Former Campaign Adviser on Russia
The FBI obtained a warrant to secretly monitor President Trump’s former campaign adviser, Carter Page, on suspicions that he was acting as an agent of Russia.
Opinion: Why NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Doesn’t Deserve Celemency
Fred Kaplan Slate I regard Daniel Ellsberg as an American patriot. I was one of the first columnists to write that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be fired for lying to Congress. On June 7, two days after the first news stories based on Edward Snowden’s leaks, I wrote a column airing (and endorsing)…
Report: At least 27 Accused Terrorists Prosecuted Under Secret Surveillance Law
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least 27 accused terrorists were prosecuted since 2007 using evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Reuters reports. The FISA cases vary from murder to an 18-year-old American trying to join an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria. As early as today, the U.S. government plans to disclose how many terrorist attacks…