House Intelligence Committee Asks POTUS to Declassify 19 Pages of FISA For Public

By Sara Carter | July 23, 2018 | 3:34 PM EST

In a letter released Sunday night, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is requesting that President Donald Trump declassify roughly 19 pages of the fourth application of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Carter Page. The committee claims this effort is necessary to expose the irregularities in how the FBI and Department of Justice obtained the renewal warrants that lasted for nearly a year.

Sara Carter first reported on the urgency of the documents on Fox New’s Hannity more than a week ago, emphasizing that government officials believe the information contained in the documents will put to rest a number of questions about the FBI and DOJ’s handling of the Page application and raise new concerns that the agencies may have misled the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorized the warrants. DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein signed off on the final FISA warrant renewal to investigate Page, according to previous reporting and documents obtained by the committees conducting oversight of the matter.

Fox News investigative journalist, Catherine Herridge first published the letter Sunday night.

The letter to Trump (which was signed by all Republican members of the committee) is dated June 24 and states, “In the course of the Committee’s investigation, we have uncovered irregularities with the process by which DOJ and FBI obtained information and sought and renewed three times a warrant pursuant to FISA on U.S. citizen Carter Page. Because DOJ and FBI continue to obstruct the Committee’s investigation, it is time to put the facts in the public domain, consistent with the need to protect intelligence sources and methods.”

“After months of stonewalling, including defying a lawfully issued subpoena, DOJ and FBI finally agreed to permit select Committee members and staff to review the applications for the FISA warrant and renewal applications at DOJ. DOJ and FBI continue to obstruct the Committee’s further efforts to learn about the provenance and quality of the information used to obtain the FISA warrant and renewals on Mr. Page,” the letter states.

The committee members say the public has an inherent right to know the information contained in the FISA application, which was not disclosed in the 412 pages of highly redacted FISA documents released on Saturday. Saturday’s documents reveal that the bulk of the FISA application on Carter Page relied heavily on the unverified dossier put together by former British spy Christopher Steele.

“To enable the public to understand the DOJ’s and FBI’s basis for obtaining the FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals, we respectfully request that you declassify and release publicly, and in unredacted form, pages 10-12 and 17-34, along with all associated footnotes, of the third renewal of the FISA application on Mr. Page,” it states. “That renewal was led in June 2017 and signed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. In addition, we enclose for your information a letter signed by all 13 Committee Republicans to the Presiding Judge of the FISC, asking her to conduct an investigation into DOJ’s conduct in obtaining the FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals.”

As of yet, there is no word from the White House if President Trump will authorize the release of the documents.

This story is developing.

https://saraacarter.com/house-intelligence-committee-asks-potus-to-declassify-19-pages-of-fisa-for-public/

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She said he wants to remain neutral to all of it and to have DOJ be transparent with Congressional requests and then she had a big HOWEVER, that he sees it all as a big witch hunt and a hoax. So didn't say he would and didn't say he wouldn't

USC hit with lawsuits from 51 more patients of George Tyndall as board chairman calls for expedited settlement

As more lawsuits pile up against USC for its handling of a campus gynecologist accused of sexually abusing patients, the chair of the university’s board of trustees said he wanted to see the litigation resolved “as quickly as possible.”

Rick Caruso, the mall magnate tapped to lead the board in the wake of the scandal, said he hoped a settlement could occur without depositions and trials that would require former patients to detail publicly their experiences with Dr. George Tyndall.

“We are going to be fair, we are going to be dignified and we are going to have a process that does not put them through hardship in coming to a resolution,” said Caruso.

Settling the cases could cost USC and its insurers hundreds of millions of dollars. More than 225 students and alumnae are now suing USC for failing to protect them from Tyndall, including 51 women who filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday morning.

The plaintiffs who sued Monday are clients of a Houston law firm that used Facebook advertisements as well as other methods to reach former patients of Tyndall. They include graduates from across the U.S., as well as from Israel and Britain, and the time frame of their accusations ranges from the late 1980s to two years ago, the entire span of Tyndall’s three-decade career at the student health center.

More:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-usc-gynecologist-suit-20180722-story.html

UPDATE: Roanoke police arrest man after Sen Warner's office damaged from brick

ROANOKE,Va. (WDBJ7) – UPDATE:

The Roanoke Police Department has arrested a man after an incident involving damage to Sen. Mark Warner's Roanoke office after a brick was thrown through the front door.

Police have arrested James W. Trainor, 36, in relation to this incident.

Trainor was charged with felony property damage.

ORIGINAL STORY:

The Roanoke Police Department is looking for the person responsible for damaging the front door of Sen. Mark Warner's Roanoke office with a brick.

According to the Roanoke Police Department, officers were dispatched to 2nd Street and Kirk Avenue Southwest at around 7:33 a.m. Monday after receiving a report of a person that was walking around the area carrying bricks.

When police arrived to the scene, they were unable to locate the person they were looking for, but found that there was damage to the front door of Sen. Warner's Roanoke office.

The person who was observed carrying bricks was described as a white man, 25-30 years old, has a slender build and light colored hair.

The Roanoke Police Department is investigating this incident and is currently working to find surveillance video to try to identify the man involved.

If anyone has information about this incident, you're asked to contact the Roanoke Police Department tip line at (540)344-8500.

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Virginia Man Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Traveling to Haiti and Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct

A Virginia man was sentenced today to 276 months in prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, for traveling from the United States to Haiti and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Thomas T. Cullen of the Western District of Virginia and Special Agent in Charge Patrick J. Lechleitner of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C., announced.

James Daniel Arbaugh, 40, of Stuarts Draft, Virginia, pleaded guilty on Feb. 6, to one count of traveling in foreign commerce from the United States to Haiti in or about 2016 to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a person under the age of 18 before U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth K. Dillion of the Western District of Virginia, who sentenced him earlier today and remanded him to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.

“James Arbaugh was a wolf in sheep’s clothing: he posed as a selfless missionary when in reality he was exploiting his position to prey on and sexually abuse vulnerable children in one of the most impoverished areas of the world,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “Today’s sentencing is a testament to the unwavering commitment of our prosecutors and law enforcement partners to hold sexual predators like Arbaugh accountable for their deplorable crimes.”

“The defendant abused his position of trust to prey on vulnerable victims, and their lives will never be the same,” said U.S. Attorney Cullen. “As this case indicates, our office is committed to working with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to identify and vigorously prosecute those who exploit children.”

“This kind of heinous and evil activity has no place here, abroad or in-transit,” said Special Agent in Charge Lechleitner. “Those seeking to commit such abhorrent crimes and evade detection cannot hide from our highly skilled and dedicated investigators.”

According to admissions made in connection with his guilty plea, Arbaugh has lived in Haiti for approximately 15 years and has traveled regularly back to the United States during that time. According to statements made by the Court during Armbaugh’s sentencing hearing, during his time in Haiti, Arbaugh traveled as a Mennonite missionary regularly visiting remote towns and villages, where he would befriend and groom children in these communities. Arbaugh admitted that in 2016, while in Haiti, he engaged in illicit sexual contact with a minor under the age of 12 by touching the minor’s genitals under the minor’s clothing.

The investigation of the case was conducted by HSI and the Harrisonburg Police Department. This case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Kaylynn Shoop of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeb Terrien of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Virginia.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.