Via Billy
As my colleague, Nick Arama,
posted just a short while ago,
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s internal investigation
into the facts and circumstances of the gross abuse of the FISA by the
FBI as uncovered by the Department of Justice IG, Michael Horowitz, and
the FBI’s response turned out to be a sham and a whitewash. The FISC
engaged the services of a highly partisan, former Obama administration
official who has been publicly critical of the idea that anything wrong
happened in the process of issuing FISA warrants on Carter Page as well
of any attempts to investigate it.
And, guess what? He found there was
no intentional wrongdoing and was highly critical of anyone who wanted
to investigate it. It reads like a smug, little self-congratulatory
report that ignored the damage done to the lives of innocent people,
downplayed the corrupt nature of using FISA to spy on a presidential
campaign and transition team, completely avoiding addressing the
violence done to our nation’s political life, and essentially said,
“deal with, you proles, because we can do whatever the f*** we like.”
