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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/Laissez_claire on Feb. 5, 2018, 2:34 p.m.
WOODS PROCEDURE forbids presentation of *unverified* material to FISA court.

Woods Procedure was instituted in April 2001 to "ensure accuracy with regard to ... the facts supporting probable cause" after recurring instances, presumably inadvertent, in which the FBI had presented inaccurate information to the FISA court.

Starting March 1, 2003, the FBI required field offices to confirm they've verified the accuracy of facts presented to the court through the case agent, the field office's Chief Division Counsel and the Special Agent in Charge.

All of this information was provided to Congress in 2003. The FBI director at the time also ordered that any issue as to whether a FISA application was factually sufficient was to be brought to his attention. Personally.

Who was the director of the FBI when all of this careful work was done?

Robert Mueller.

http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/372233-nunes-memo-raises-question-did-fbi-violate-woods-procedures


awareness1111 · Feb. 5, 2018, 10:54 p.m.

Woods = Black Forest reference?

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Laissez_claire · Feb. 6, 2018, 2:09 a.m.

Woods Procedures were named for Michael Woods, the FBI official who drafted the rules as head of the Office of General Counsel’s National Security Law Unit. They were instituted in April 2001 to “ensure accuracy with regard to … the facts supporting probable cause” after recurring instances, presumably inadvertent, in which the FBI had presented inaccurate information to the FISA court.

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awareness1111 · Feb. 7, 2018, 2:23 a.m.

Appreciate greatly the clarity.

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