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Fix the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and Punish the Crooks Who Abused It
February 12, 2020 ~ By Austin Bay
Two months have passed since Dec. 9, 2019, the day Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz exposed the profound damage done to a judicial institution vital to successfully defending America in a world of complex threats: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC. The damage done to American public trust in the court is not incidental. Trust is a source of strength, among friends or in the world's most powerful nation. Trust promotes cooperation, which enhances systemic strength. When trust disappears, expect discord seeding division and weakness. The FISC was created to protect a citizen's constitutional rights while permitting intelligence community surveillance of legitimate suspects. To protect necessary cloak-and-dagger secrets, the FISC meets in secret. A secret court in a free society requires two things: (1) legitimate existential threats to citizens and assets: (2) trust in security agency professionalism and integrity, and trust in the judgment of the court judges. Unfortunately, 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. With the documented abuse acknowledged, America needs an FISC-type legal tool to combat covert threats like terrorism, transnational crime and enemy espionage. Twenty-first-century digital and financial connectivity, and commercial jet transportation, reduce police and Pentagon response time.
Though mainstream media outlets take scant notice, angry calls to disband the court have not faded. The decibels will increase when federal prosecutor John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax becomes headline news. I wager Durham will expose crony government at its worst -- dirty government officials, bureaucrats and agents who are politically exploiting and criminally manipulating the U.S. national security structure to harm their political opponents.
Comment:
FISA Court has some of the best Judges the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA can buy, and there is no way in "Hell' they didn’t know what was going on from the beginning, so they took their bags of CASH and Signed the Warrants. There is no way the FISA judges appointed by Chief Justice Roberts didn’t at least have an inkling they were being used to commit nefarious acts. I suspect they knew more, and I don’t allow myself to think they were part of the conspiracy to overthrow the government of the US. All of the FISA judges involved must be censured and replaced.
A complete investigation of each FISA Court Judge that has had anything to do with this fiasco is an absolute necessity. Crooked cops (DOJ, CIA, FBI, etc.) did not run this three year clandestine operate in a vacuum. Either some of the Judges were deeply involved and complicit, did nothing or they are too incompetent to sit on the Federal Bench.
February 12, 2020 ~ By Austin Bay
Two months have passed since Dec. 9, 2019, the day Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz exposed the profound damage done to a judicial institution vital to successfully defending America in a world of complex threats: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC. The damage done to American public trust in the court is not incidental. Trust is a source of strength, among friends or in the world's most powerful nation. Trust promotes cooperation, which enhances systemic strength. When trust disappears, expect discord seeding division and weakness. The FISC was created to protect a citizen's constitutional rights while permitting intelligence community surveillance of legitimate suspects. To protect necessary cloak-and-dagger secrets, the FISC meets in secret. A secret court in a free society requires two things: (1) legitimate existential threats to citizens and assets: (2) trust in security agency professionalism and integrity, and trust in the judgment of the court judges. Unfortunately, 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. With the documented abuse acknowledged, America needs an FISC-type legal tool to combat covert threats like terrorism, transnational crime and enemy espionage. Twenty-first-century digital and financial connectivity, and commercial jet transportation, reduce police and Pentagon response time.
Though mainstream media outlets take scant notice, angry calls to disband the court have not faded. The decibels will increase when federal prosecutor John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax becomes headline news. I wager Durham will expose crony government at its worst -- dirty government officials, bureaucrats and agents who are politically exploiting and criminally manipulating the U.S. national security structure to harm their political opponents.
Comment:
FISA Court has some of the best Judges the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA can buy, and there is no way in "Hell' they didn’t know what was going on from the beginning, so they took their bags of CASH and Signed the Warrants. There is no way the FISA judges appointed by Chief Justice Roberts didn’t at least have an inkling they were being used to commit nefarious acts. I suspect they knew more, and I don’t allow myself to think they were part of the conspiracy to overthrow the government of the US. All of the FISA judges involved must be censured and replaced.
A complete investigation of each FISA Court Judge that has had anything to do with this fiasco is an absolute necessity. Crooked cops (DOJ, CIA, FBI, etc.) did not run this three year clandestine operate in a vacuum. Either some of the Judges were deeply involved and complicit, did nothing or they are too incompetent to sit on the Federal Bench.