Anonymous ID: 5fa12d March 5, 2020, 4:54 p.m. No.8328772   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8788 >>8795

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“ A ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Wednesday mistakenly said Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm which hired British ex-spy Christopher Steele in 2016, was looking for dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rather than on then-candidate Donald Trump.

 

The court fixed the glaring error only after the Washington Examiner brought it to its attention.

 

Judge James Boasberg, the court’s presiding judge, cited the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page in a Wednesday opinion and, in the midst of pointing out the multitude of flaws, omissions, and factual errors in the electronic surveillance filings uncovered by the Justice Department’s watchdog, he made a mistake himself.

 

“Although from the outset the applications acknowledged the likely political bias of the person who had hired Steele … information that confirmed the political origins of the Steele reporting was not,” Boasberg stated.

 

He then incorrectly quoted a footnote from the first FISA application, writing: “The FBI speculates that the [person who hired Steele] was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit [Clinton’s] campaign.”

 

In reality, the FISA application stated, “the FBI speculates that the identified U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign.”

 

“Candidate #1” was Trump, not Clinton.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fisa-court-mistakenly-says-fusion-gps-was-digging-up-dirt-on-hillary-clinton-not-trump