ANONS IMPORTANT FISA ABUSE DETAILS
*All this information was disclosed in a 99-page FISA court ruling on April 26, 2017, that was declassified by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
[Im]plausible Deniability
On March 9, 2016, Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight personnel learned that the FBI had been employing outside contractors who had access to raw Section 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data, and retained that access after their work for the FBI was completed.
The FBI’s apparent disregard of minimization rules and improper use of FISA material abused by "outside contractors" was the result of "deliberate decision making", and was NOT an isolated incident.
Lovers' Texting
On the same day the NSA discovers the FBI’s use of private contractors, FBI lawyer Lisa Page sent a text to FBI agent Peter Strzok: “Need to try to fix a HUGE who f-up.” Page quickly corrected her typo by texting “Wfo”—an abbreviation for the FBI’s Washington field office.
Adm Mike Rogers Says 'Yeah, that's enough of that sh!t'
On April 18, 2016, Rogers moved aggressively in response to the disclosures. He abruptly shut down all FBI outside-contractor access. At this point, both the FBI and the DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) became aware of Rogers’s compliance review. They may have known earlier, but they were certainly aware after outside-contractor access was halted.
The Response To Adm Rogers Actions Was To Have His Ass Fired
As all of this was transpiring, then-DNI James Clapper, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) Weasel-in-Chief, John Carlin, submitted a recommendation that Rogers be removed from his position as NSA chief. The move to fire Rogers, which failed, originated sometime in mid-to-late October 2016—exactly when Rogers was preparing to present his findings to the FISA court.
Adm Rogers Damns The Torpedoes, Goes Flank Speed Ahead
Rogers presented his findings directly to the FISA court’s presiding judge, Rosemary Collyer. Collyer and Rogers would work together for the next six months, addressing the issues that Rogers had uncovered.
It was Collyer who wrote the April 26, 2017, FISA Court ruling on the entire episode. It also was Collyer who signed the original FISA warrant on Carter Page on Oct. 21, 2016.
Rogers informed Collyer of the ongoing FISA abuses by the FBI and NSD just three days after she personally signed the Page FISA warrant.
Collyer recently (Dec 2019) submitted her plans to enjoy Senior Executive Service (SES) benefits and retire comfortably in March 2020.
One More Highly Visible Weasel In The Hen House
Virtually every FBI and NSD official with material involvement in the original Carter Page FISA application would later be removed in one fashion or another. One significant and potentially telling exception is Bill Priestap, who still serves as head of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nsa-director-rogers-disclosed-fisa-abuse-days-after-carter-page-fisa-was-issued_2692033.html