The head judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) criticized the FBI over its surveillance-application process and told the bureau that it has until Jan. 10 to come up with a solution, following Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s findings of significant errors on how the FBI placed Trump campaign aide Carter Page under surveillance.
“The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the [Inspector General’s] report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above. The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable,” federal Judge Rosemary Collyer wrote in an opinion (pdf) for the court on Tuesday.
