Bongino got better sources than we do?
Why am I hearing FBI Case Agent 1 Stephen Somma prepared the Carter Page FISA from the Steele Dossier from Bongino?
I was kind of hoping Stephen Somma was a known quantity; but if he's the main FISA rat, and Lindsay can't get to him, that's a problem. Everyone else can always just blame him.
If he's even still alive.
Court Bans Agents Who Botched Carter Page Surveillance From Seeking Wiretaps
An opinion and ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court also accepts a series of reforms the F.B.I. said it would make following a damning inspector general report.
Judge Boasberg’s new order also directed that no Justice Department or F.B.I. officials “under disciplinary or criminal review relating to their work on FISA applications shall participate in drafting, verifying, reviewing or submitting such applications to the court.”
That ban would thus appear to cover the case agent whom the inspector general singled out as “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions” in the Page wiretap applications, and who was among those referred for disciplinary review.
The report did not name him, but The New York Times has identified him as Stephen M. Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the F.B.I.’s New York field office. The disciplinary review process takes some time,and the internal scrutiny of Mr. Somma and his colleagues is ongoing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/politics/fisa-court-fbi-surveillance.html
FBI Case Agent 1
Prepared Carter Page FISA Application
Lindsay cannot get him in to testify (maybe one of the 20 missing from the list of 53)
Stephen Somma
Identified: The FBI Agent Faulted in FISA Report for ‘Significant Errors’
An FBI agent faulted for some of the most significant problems laid out in the Justice Department’s inspector general report on FISA abuse against a Trump campaign associate has been identified.
The New York Times, citing people familiar with the FBI’s Russia probe, identified Stephen A. Somma, a counterintelligence investigator who works out of the bureau’s New York field office, as “Case Agent 1” from the inspector general’s (IG) report.
The IG blasted the FBI for its handling of information used to obtain four surveillance orders against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide.
“Case Agent 1” is singled in the report as being “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions in the FISA applications.”
Somma was involved in multiple aspects of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
According to the IG report, he was the FBI agent who initially sought a surveillance warrant against Page. Somma pushed for a FISA warrant “almost immediately” after the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, the IG said.
Somma’s initial request was rejected, but FBI lawyers later approved seeking a FISA warrant on Page after the bureau received information from former British spy Christopher Steele. In his dossier, Steele alleged that Page was a key player in the Trump campaign’s “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
The IG report said the FBI failed to verify the allegations about Page before using Steele’s information in FISA applications. The special counsel’s investigation undercut the idea that Page or anyone on the Trump team worked with Russians.
Somma was in charge of verifying the accuracy of information included in the FISA applications.He was also the FBI handler for Stefan Halper,a former Cambridge professor who met with and secretly recorded Trump campaign aides Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George Papadopoulos.
The IG report said Somma failed to disclose potentially exculpatory information that Page and Papadopoulos told Halper. He also failed to disclose that the CIA told him on Aug. 15, 2016, that Page had been an “operational contact” for the agency years earlier.
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/02/25/identified-the-fbi-agent-faulted-in-fisa-report-for-significant-errors/
Man, they just won't fucking learn.
Under Rule 48(a), the Government’s motion should be denied on two
separate grounds.
Rule 48(a) does not have the authority to violate the Separation of Powers of the United States of America.
Nor is it there for Judges who want to act as Inquisitors.
It is there to protect defendants, ffs.
Re-opening the goddamn Country!
God gives Joy, which is situation independent.
Happiness is a natural result of something good happening to you.
You can be joyful anwhere, at any time.
Re-open the goddamn Country!
You, sir, know your watches.
Again.
Not a lot to be happy about right now.
You can always be joyful.
Joy is situation independent.
Men were joyful walking into certain death.
Men were joyful storming fortified beaches.
Joy is one of the spirits of God.
And God is generous, to a fault.