Judicial Watch Obtains Carter Page FISA Court Documents
JULY 21, 2018

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding today’s release of 412 pages of documents about FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrants targeting Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser:

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. Given this corruption, President Trump should intervene and declassify the heavily redacted material.

The documents were due to Judicial Watch yesterday but were emailed around 5:30 pm today.

The warrants are controversial because the FISA court was never told that the key information justifying the requests came from a “dossier” that was created by Fusion GPS, a paid agent of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. The initial Carter Page warrant was granted just weeks before the 2016 election. Today’s document release supports criticisms by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee who released a memo that criticized the FISA targeting. The memo details how the “minimally corroborated” Clinton-DNC dossier was an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants to spy on Page.

The document production comes in a February 2018 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the DOJ rejected a July 19, 2017, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00245)). The lawsuit is seeking:

Copies of all proposed and all final signed FISA applications submitted to the FISC relating to Russian interference in the 2016 election, allegations of collusion between people associated with the Trump campaign and Russia, and any known Trump associates regardless of context;

Copies of all FISC responses to the above-mentioned applications in which the Court notified the FBI or Justice Department that it would not grant the proposed applications or recommended changes. If any such FISC responses were provided orally, rather than in writing, please provide copies of FBI or Justice Department records memorializing or otherwise referencing the relevant FISC responses;

Copies of all FISC orders relating to the above mentioned applications, whether denying the applications and certifications, denying the orders, modifying the orders, granting the orders, or other types of orders.

In April, the DOJ told the court it was “processing for potential redaction and release certain FISA materials related to Carter Page,” and agreed to a production schedule for responsive records to be completed July 20, 2018.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room...ourt-documents/


The Documents
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content...lease-1.pdf?D=1

Goodlate: Page FISA documents show serious FBI problems

Jul. 22, 2018 - 11:03 - DOJ releases over 400 pages of FISA documents concerning former Trump campaign aide Carter Page; Rep. Bob Goodlatte shares insight on 'Sunday Morning Futures.'

https://video.foxnews.com/v/5812323045001/?#sp=show-clips


Video at web page.

Here’s the 5 Important Details We Learned From Just Released Carter Page FISA Warrant
by Colin Kalmbacher | 7:37 pm, July 21st, 2018

The Carter Page FISA warrants have been released. While most of the information was redacted in the warrant applications, here’s Law&Crime‘s running list of what you need to know:

1. These are multiple warrants contained in one file.
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2. The warrants flatly declare Page is a Russian agent. Over and over again.
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3. Most of the interesting stuff is blacked out. And that’s almost everything.
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4. All the right-wing villains appear in one place.
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5. Page complained to the Department of Justice about fake news and being mocked by Clintonistas.

This is an actual thing that happened. Here’s the passage at length:
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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/her...e-fisa-warrant/