New FISA judge makes it clear: Top FBI officials misled court on Trump investigation

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New FISA judge makes it clear: Top FBI officials misled court on Trump investigation

by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2020 Though Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the FBI’s applications to obtain warrants to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign were riddled with errors, FBI and DOJ officials insisted they were merely unintentional process errors, not efforts to deceive FISA judges. In a recent order that has […]

Officials involved in Trump campaign surveillance barred from pursuing FISA wiretaps

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Officials involved in Trump campaign surveillance barred from pursuing FISA wiretaps

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2020 Officials from the Department of Justice and FBI who are under review for their role in obtaining wiretaps to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page have been banned from having any involvement in the pursuit of electronic monitoring through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a judge ruled. In […]