The Carter Page FISA Application - Full Analysis

Linked is an analysis of the full 412 page FISA application for surveillance directed against Carter Page, released under FOIA.  @pwnallthethings  is a lawyer who focuses on national security matters and contributes to https://www.lawfareblog.com/

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1020800152926384128

eta - Thread reader, for easier reading: 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1020800152926384128.html



This morning Trump thanked Judicial Watch for getting the documents released. Bradley Moss, Mark Zaid and others were trying to get the documents released long before Judicial Watch entered the picture. 

"I spent 15 months working to get these documents released. We filed our lawsuit nearly a year before Judicial Watch. We were the ones who first got the Glomar response withdrawn. And then he tweets this nonsense."

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1020987184025776129




Praise for @pwnallthethings thread: 

"Tremendous thread on the Carter Page FISA application, remarkably released today, and contrasted with the "utterly dishonest" Nunes Memo. Fascinating. Shout-outs to for their FOIA litigation here."

https://twitter.com/jedshug/status/1020849095051759616


For many months, Bradley Moss tried to get Trump to release a completely unredeacted version of the FIOS applications so that all of the evidence could be revealed, to show that there was a lot more evidence justifying approval of the FIOS warrants  than just the Steele dossier. This was in response to Andrew McCarthy, who did a segment on Fox News this morning: 

"All that segment did was play into the President’s deluded paranoia. We asked him 4 months ago to declassify the applications so we wouldn’t have this fragmented release. You know he watches you. Why wasn’t that raised?" 

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1021019436285906944  


"No one should pay any mind to the President whining about redactions in the Carter Page FISA documents. He was publicly asked to declassify the whole thing. The White House never responded."

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1021000267498737664



I’m just wondering, given a new phase in Trump’s victimology, can there ever be ‘legal’ spying in these scenarios??


An important thread by April Doss, formerly senior minority counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russian investigation and head of intelligence law at NSA, now chair of privacy and security at Saul Ewing. 

"Alright folks, I've been holding off on wading into the Carter Page FISA discussion. But I realize that there are a relatively limited number of people who have had the opportunity to review Title I FISA applications on a regular basis. 1/" 

https://twitter.com/AprilFDoss/status/1021205398349598722



It's 10:59 pm, so I'll follow @nohero's advice. 

And I switch to decaf after the first three cups of coffee in the morning. 




cheese

The trouble starts when, like me, you’re on half-strength decaf. cheese sigh


"Sen. Burr: "I think it’s an awful precedent and if the American people ever learned anything from its release it’s that there was great justification to the courts as to why a FISA application was approved."

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1021912921905934336


cramer said:
Linked is an analysis of the full 412 page FISA application for surveillance directed against Carter Page, released under FOIA.  @pwnallthethings  is a lawyer who focuses on national security matters and contributes to https://www.lawfareblog.com/
https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1020800152926384128

eta - Thread reader, for easier reading: 
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1020800152926384128.html

I'll post this again for anyone who wants to see an analysis of how the information in the FISA applications demolishes what Nunes said in his memo. Sections of the Nunes memo and the FISA application are compared next to each other. 



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