{"id":41692,"date":"2020-01-10T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T02:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41692"},"modified":"2020-01-10T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T02:02:53","slug":"the-federalist-the-fisa-court-is-complicit-in-the-fbi-abuses-its-raising-cain-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41692","title":{"rendered":"The Federalist: The FISA Court Is Complicit In The FBI Abuses It\u2019s Raising Cain Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federalist: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/01\/10\/the-fisa-court-is-complicit-in-the-fbi-abuses-its-raising-cain-over\/\">The FISA Court Is Complicit In The FBI Abuses It\u2019s Raising Cain Over<\/a> by Margot Cleveland:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shortly after Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report detailing the government\u2019s egregious abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Rosemary M. Collyer, the presiding judge of the FISA court, issued a rare public order demanding answers.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the deadline Collyer set for the government to \u201cinform the Court in a sworn written submission of what it has done, and plans to do, to ensure that the statement of facts in each FBI application accurately and completely reflects information possessed by the FBI that is material to any issue presented by the application.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u2019s response will surely promise amends, as it should; the FISA abuse was inexcusable. Collyer was rightfully outrageous at the government\u2019s misconduct because, as her order stressed, the FISA court assesses whether probable cause exists to justify a surveillance order based solely on the information provided by the government. But that the DOJ swore out four fraudulent FISA applications does not excuse the FISA court for its own culpability\u2014and from the IG report\u2019s analysis, it appears that the secret court is far from blameless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federalist: The FISA Court Is Complicit In The FBI Abuses It\u2019s Raising Cain Over by Margot Cleveland:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41693,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41692\/revisions\/41693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}