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"These applications take weeks, sometimes months to prepare,” the former deputy assistant attorney general said. “Every fact that's in an application is vetted and scrutinized by lawyers."
"And that's before it ever gets to the FISA court," he said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act judges who weigh surveillance requests. "The chances that there was a conspiracy of all these people to provide misleading information to the FISA court" in the Carter Page case is "zero."
So said Matt Olsen, a former deputy assistant attorney general who oversaw surveillance requests under President George W. Bush.
“It’s politically motivated, it's sort of amateurish, it's very short and it leads to more questions than it answers.”
The former Justice Department official said the “real takeaway” on the request for surveillance of Page is that “there had to be huge suspicions” that he was an agent of Russia in order for the application to be made and approved.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-memo-russia-probe-surveillance-amateurish-politically-motivated/story?id=52818698
"And that's before it ever gets to the FISA court," he said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act judges who weigh surveillance requests. "The chances that there was a conspiracy of all these people to provide misleading information to the FISA court" in the Carter Page case is "zero."
So said Matt Olsen, a former deputy assistant attorney general who oversaw surveillance requests under President George W. Bush.
“It’s politically motivated, it's sort of amateurish, it's very short and it leads to more questions than it answers.”
The former Justice Department official said the “real takeaway” on the request for surveillance of Page is that “there had to be huge suspicions” that he was an agent of Russia in order for the application to be made and approved.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-memo-russia-probe-surveillance-amateurish-politically-motivated/story?id=52818698
