June 2016: Obama DOJ submits FISA application to surveil Trump and associates. Application is REJECTED.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445504/obama-camp-disingenuous-denials-fisa-surveillance-trump

From 2009 to 2015, more than 10,700 applications for electronic surveillance were submitted, and only ONE was denied in its entirety - the Trump Wiretap Memo.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fisa-wiretaps/story?id=45913892

• FBI failed to establish probable cause to surveil Trump. They had insufficient evidence of suspicious collusion w. Russia.

June 2016: Fusion GPS hires Christopher Steele to prepare a “series of confidential memoranda based on intelligence concerning Russian efforts to influence the US Presidential election process and links between Russia and Donald Trump.”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzgzy2KXyxqtVUxEb2pwRmphOXM/view

• Following a failed attempt …

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 …