FISA Court Selecting Surveillance State Advocate, David Kris, Shouldn’t Be a Surprise

[livingston]

FISA Court Selecting Surveillance State Advocate, David Kris, Shouldn’t Be a Surprise

WASHINGTON – The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has stunned court-watchers by selecting David Kris — a former Obama administration lawyer who has appeared on “The Rachel Maddow Show” and written extensively in support of the FBI’s surveillance practices on the left-wing blog Lawfare — to oversee the FBI’s implementation of reforms in the wake of a damning Department of Justice inspector general report last year.
[…] “Of all the people in the swamp … this is the guy that you come up with?” Nunes asked. “The guy that was accusing me of federal crimes? The guy that was defending the dirty cops at the FBI? … The court must be trying to abolish itself. There is long-term damage.”

It’s Kris’s job to manufacture the judicial plausible deniability the FISA Judges need to keep allowing the FISA process to exist.
Even before Mr. Kris was given this new FISC assignment, it was already his job to manufacture process arguments, find obtuse angles to justify the procedures being used, and provide the FISA judges with the plausible deniability they need in order to keep rubber stamping the fourth amendment violations.

It’s a scheme. A legal game of whac-a-mole. Every time the DOJ and FBI violate the fourth amendment; and every time they are caught in a compliance audit; Kris comes into the picture as the ‘fixer’, with the job to keep the non-fixable system going.

How do we know these are not earnest procedural processes being refined? Because the exact same violations are found year after year, after year. Nothing is ever fixed; the judges point out the violations; the Amici promise new process fixes; and wash-rinse-repeat the next year…. and the next….. and the next.

President Trump then referenced Nunes’ interview with Bartiromo on Twitter on Sunday afternoon, calling Kris “highly controversial” and slamming the FISC’s decision

FISA Court Selecting Surveillance State Advocate, David Kris, Shouldn't Be a Surprise... - The Last Refuge

This is a little weedy, but it’s important…. In the second half of Devin Nunes interview with Maria Bartiromo today he was asked his thoughts about the FISA Court selecting David Kris as an FBI surveillance and compliance monitor. The issue is quite important because the FBI FISA reforms and...

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long read but a good one folks

 

[livingston]

FBI’s new FISA reformer worked with Brennan on terrorism case that launched Obama-era ‘unmasking’ explosion
On Friday, Judge James Boasberg, the newly appointed head of the FISA court’s rotating pool of judges, selected former Justice Department official David S. Kris to oversee the reform of FBI procedures ordered by the court.

It has already been reported that Kris, who served as Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division from 2009 to 2011, has been a vociferous critic of Devin Nunes in the last several years, and an equally vociferous defender of the FISA surveillance done on Carter Page (and through Page the entire Trump team). Kris’s bias in favor of the surveillance is well known. Within the last two years, he has made the comments recounted by Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller News Foundation

Other circumstances surrounding Kris might give us pause as well. He is a writer for Lawfare, for example, and has penned articles jointly with Benjamin Wittes, the friend of James Comey who “leaked” Comey’s memos on his meetings with President Trump to the media.

Kris was in the Harvard Law class of 1991, Barack Obama’s class, and was a national security adviser to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2008. He was on the Obama transition team after the 2008 election, and from that position received his DOJ appointment in 2009.

FBI’s new FISA reformer worked with Brennan on terrorism case that launched Obama-era ‘unmasking’ explosion - Liberty Unyielding

Inevitably ... Brennan.

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[GOYABEAN]

Groundhog day

 

[spat]

Just the deep state doing deep state shit.

Nothing new here.

 

[Robin]

Another FISA Outrage

Fr those that don't believe the deep state doesn't exist. Well they are still at it and still covering their traitorous ass's! https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/12/spy-court-picks-fisa-abuse-denier-to-tackle-fisa-abuse/ It just gets sicker and sicker. Robin

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[livingston]

 

[livingston]

From the comments section

Devin Nunes Reacts to Appointment of Sketchy FISA Court Advisor David Kris... - The Last Refuge

DOJ-NSD lawyer David Kris has been a defender of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation and Lawfare critic of Devin Nunes’s 2018 memo on alleged FISA abuses. Sketchy Mr. Kris was recently picked by FISC presiding judge James Boasberg, to serve as the court’s amicus curiae — a position that is...

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Beau Geste says:
January 13, 2020 at 6:55 pm

Roberts picked the entire set of political spy-enabling FISC judges. The FISC was formed to protect Constitutional civil rights. It has no other “official” purpose. But protecting civil rights requires honest judges. Willfully and deceptively denying civil rights requires dishonest or incredibly incompetent judges. Willful denial of civil rights under color of law by judges is a crime. 18 USD 242.
Roberts hired these judges, and can fire them. Roberts knows that these judges deceptively approved political spying on a low-level “target” (carter page), who is a CIA/FBI agent falsely sworn by the DOJ/FBI to be a russian agent. Roberts knows that the FISC deceptively used the “2-hop” rule to authorize political spying on the entire Republican Party, and its Presidential candidate-then elected President. The FISC should not approve deceit to avoid Constitutional issues. To do so is corrupt, and Roberts surely knows this.
Roberts knows that the FISC (including a majority – 4 – of the judges he appointed !!!) has refused to discipline deceptive and unethical practice in their secret court proceedings, which require the utmost honesty and ethical practice. Roberts knows that the FISC has refused to withdraw the tainted FISA Warrant it deceptively used for political spying by Dem party loyalists to spy on the entire GOP and its President. Roberts surely knows the constitutional safeguards against spying on a political party and President, even if his appointee judge collyer doesn’t. Roberts knows that refusal to withdraw the tainted FISA Warrant protects the illegal spying on thousands-to millions of GOP, journalists, contractors, Cabinet officials, etc going back decades. Roberts should know that this looks like willful protection of denial of civil rights by judges he personally selected to protect civil rights. Roberts knows that any honest federal judge, however incompetent, would severely discipline unethical practice to protect the integrity of court proceedings. This is especially true of secret proceedings where defendants are not represented. Roberts knows that a tainted Order/Warrant which protects illegal behavior must be immediately withdrawn. But Roberts has not fired these judges and appointed honest judges who will protect civil rights and not accept DOJ/FBI political spying deceit.
Instead Roberts replaced collyer (who signed the first Fake FISA and might not withstand vigorous inquiry) as chief judge from a no-name law school. (how did she even get appointed, with lots of judges with Constitutional Law training from much higher-ranked law schools available?). Roberts replaced collyer with a judge who on-the-record has been subjected to DOJ/FBI deceit, but does not discipline it, and who’se response to FBI refusal to discipline its own deceit is to appoint a fixer who openly opposes the illegally-spied-on Republican President. And Roberts kept collyer on the FISC court, to continue doing what she does – including refusing to withdraw her tainted FISA or severely discipline the DOJ/FBI deceit (fines, disbarment, imprisonment, perjury prosecution …)which any honest judge would carry out to protect the integrity of the court. .
Roberts’ defense is apparently his previous claim that there are no obama-appointed judges?
Judicial respect is earned, as is judicial disrespect.
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[Robin]

Hillary Clinton Has Been Exonerated... Again | Washington Monthly

The question remains: will the media collude with conspiracy theorists to influence the 2020 election?

washingtonmonthly.com

We are fucked.
These globalists and their useful idiots are so deeply and firmly embedded that saving our republic may be beyond the peaceful setting of a court room.
Robin

 

[livingston]

Chiefco says:
January 13, 2020 at 4:26 pm

The appointment of David Kris causes concern because I am wondering what kind of access he will have to “information” and the ability to delete “information”. Nunes is right…Get rid of FISA . Deep State is alive and well. SMH

 

[livingston]

Hillary Clinton Has Been Exonerated... Again | Washington Monthly

The question remains: will the media collude with conspiracy theorists to influence the 2020 election?

washingtonmonthly.com

We are fucked.
These globalists and their useful idiots are so deeply and firmly embedded that saving our republic may be beyond the peaceful setting of a court room.
Robin

My thoughts are that Huber and team Muller were put in place to make sure all evidence against the wrong doings of Clinton and Obama were destroyed or never see the light of day...With all this spying going on .. The little we know about... is the vast majority been compromised ...(our public servants ) ... All the way to Roberts on SCOTUS... .