FISC: FBI Lawyer Who Altered Carter Page Warrant Must Be Reported To Bar. Court Reviewing All Warrant Applications
By Sara Carter
December 20, 2019
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer released a public order Friday, demanding to see all the applications handled by the FBI attorney, who is alleged to have changed the details in the FISA application on Carter Page. In the two-page Dec. 5, order Collyer also requested that the bureau advise the court if FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who was involved in altering Page’s application has been reported to the appropriate bar association for disciplinary action.
Page, who was a short term campaign volunteer for President Donald Trump, was wiretapped by the FBI. The bureau was given approval by the secret court to spy on Page based on the information it provided in the application to obtain the warrant from the court. Earlier this week Collyer released her public order giving FBI officials a Jan. 10 deadline to address how to remedy the extraordinary malfeasance that led to the FBI’s baseless warrant to spy on Page. That was the first time the court has spoken since the Department of Justice Inspector General released its findings on the FBI’s now debunked investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
Friday’s order, which redacted the name of FBI Attorney Clinesmith, criticized the government for failing to provide all the information requested by the court. Horowitz named Clinesmith in his shocking report released earlier this month on the significant abuses discovered by his team regarding the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe into the Trump campaign.
Collyer also asks the FBI to advise the court if Clinesmith’s conduct “has been referred to the appropriate bar association(s) for investigation or possible disciplinary action.”
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Poster comment: In related news, FISA Court Chief Judge Rosemary Collyer announced she was stepping down early from the FISA Court.
