JUDICIAL WATCH NEWS LINK 02/18/52020

Fix the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and Punish the Crooks Who Abused It Source: Strategy Page The abuse of the FISC by corrupt members of U.S. security and legal agencies -- specifically within the FBI and DOJ -- may have squandered that trust forever. Evidence is emerging that other corrupt actors, perhaps in the CIA, conducted illegal surveillance. READ MORE

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2018-05-31 Judicial Watch Sues to Expose DOJ FISA Warrant Abuses and Continued Stonewalling of Congress Source: Judicial Watch Over the last year, the DOJ and FBI have withheld or stonewalled on documents about the FISA court warrants targeting of the Trump campaign, Spygate documents, the Clinton-DNC anti-Trump dossier, the genesis of the Obama’s Trump-Russia investigation, the Clinton email investigation, and anti-Trump FBI text messages. READ MORE 2019-12-09 Judicial Watch Statement on FISA Application Report Source: Judicial Watch Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: "Today’s IG report on the Russiagate FISA abuse provides abundant evidence that the FBI and DOJ massively violated the law in order to obtain the Carter Page spy warrants targeting President Trump." READ MORE 2018-07-21 Judicial Watch Receives Carter Page FISA Court Documents Source: Judicial Watch JW President Tom Fitton: "These documents are heavily redacted but seem to confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team." READ MORE