Carter Page was the convenient target of a FISA application the Obama-era DOJ and FBI needed to cover for their illegal surveillance. In essence, late summer 2016 the DOJ/FBI needed to get a search warrant to cover for the illegal political surveillance they had been undertaking for the past 10+ months on the Trump campaign.
The DOJ/FBI had an intelligence source named Carter Page, essentially an informant who worked for the CIA and whom the FBI previously used to indict Russians in the Buryakov case. Page was tangentially affiliated with the Trump campaign, so he became the conduit -a target- to get a search warrant that would provide the cover for all prior surveillance.
Carter Page became the useful target, and the Steele dossier, again provided by -essentially- another confidential informant (Chris Steele), provided the evidence to support the warrant. Thus, the dossier was important to support the search warrant application (the FISA app). The FISA application is the Title-1 search warrant application, and the dossier was essentially the underlying ‘woods file’, to justify the warrant.
Everything associated with the search warrant was nonsense, including the informants (Chris Steele, Igor Danchenko, Charles Dolan) who provided the DOJ with evidence (fabricated information) to take to the judge. That’s why it is all falling apart in closer examination. Everyone in the DOJ and FBI knew the evidence justifying the search warrant was nonsense, but they needed the warrant to cover for their prior unlawful conduct.
However, the target of that warrant, the former useful CIA, FBI and DOJ informant who was valuable to the DOJ in prior legal cases, is angry. Carter Page is righteously angry at the FBI and DOJ for lying to a judge (FISA Court) to get a search warrant against him and everyone he talked to and communicated with. So Carter Page has been filing civil lawsuits against the participants hoping to hold them accountable.
Today the civil lawsuit Carter Page -vs- James Comey, former FBI Director at the time when Page was targeted, was assigned to a new judge….. and who do you think the judge “randomly selected” was?
Yup…. James Boasberg, current presiding judge over the FISA Court.
(Source)
“Randomly reassigned” my ass.
Judge James Boasberg is up to his neck in this.
OK, bear with me and remember, this “random assignment” is a civil case against James Comey.
Not only was Judge James Boasberg the judge that signed off on the third extension of the search warrant that contained the fraudulent Steele dossier as its primary evidence to support it….. James Boasberg was also the “randomly selected” presiding judge in the criminal case against Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who doctored emails to deny that Carter Page was a CIA asset in order to justify the warrant.
Judge James Boasberg was also the presiding judge in the media lawsuit seeking the James Comey memos the FBI and DOJ refused to release. It was Judge Boasberg who ruled the DOJ could keep the Comey memos hidden from the public (link) to protect the integrity of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation. Robert Mueller was also put in place to cover up the illegal political surveillance (ie. “Spygate”) that was also the primary purpose of the fraudulent search warrant.
But wait, it gets worse… Robert Mueller filed the final renewal of the fraudulent warrant (June 29, 2017), and it was Judge James Boasberg signed it.
Let’s be really clear here. The FISA court is a small unit. The judges in/around Washington DC are also a small unit. They know everything that is going on in and around their DC network. A FISA judge inside that DC system knows every granular detail of everything that comes into their purview. All of it. Judge Boasberg even wrote the last two FISA court opinions (2019 and 2020) about the FBI abuses of the FISA-702 process and warrantless, illegal violations of the NSA database.
Now we are to believe it is just another random coincidence that James Boasberg is selected to be the judge in the civil case between Carter Page and James Comey?
To quote the White House occupant, “C’mon man”…
When the Carter Page FISA application was originally assembled by the FBI and DOJ, there was initial hesitancy from within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) about submitting the application, because it did not have enough citations in evidence (the infamous ‘Woods File’). That’s why the Steele Dossier ultimately became important. It was the Steele Dossier that provided the push, the legal cover needed for the DOJ-NSD to submit the application for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against the campaign of Donald J. Trump.
When the application was finally assembled for submission to the FISA court, the head of the DOJ-NSD was John Carlin. Carlin quit working for the DOJ-NSD in late September 2016 just before the final application was submitted (October 21,2016). John Carlin was replaced by Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Mary McCord.
♦ When the FISA application was finally submitted (approved by Sally Yates and James Comey), it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.
A few months later, February 2017, with Donald Trump now in office as President, it was Mary McCord who went with Deputy AG Sally Yates to the White House to confront White House legal counsel Don McGahn over the Michael Flynn interview with FBI agents. The surveillance of Flynn’s calls was presumably done under the auspices and legal authority of the FISA application Mary McCord previously was in charge of submitting.
♦ At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson. In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ. Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.
♦ When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission. Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint. It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules. Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General? Michael Atkinson.
When ICIG Michael Atkinson turned over the newly authorized anonymous whistleblower complaint to the joint House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee (Schiff and Nadler chairs), who did Michael Atkinson give the complaint to? Mary McCord.
Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment. As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.
♦ During his investigation of the Carter Page application, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered an intentional lie inside the Carter Page FISA application (directly related to the ‘Woods File’) which his team eventually tracked to FBI counterintelligence division lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith. Eventually Clinesmith was criminally charged with fabricating evidence (changed wording on an email) in order to intentionally falsify the underlying evidence in the FISA submission.
When John Durham took the Clinesmith indictment to court, the judge in the case was James Boasberg.
♦ In addition to being a DC criminal judge, James Boasberg is also a FISA court judge who signed off on one of the renewals for the FISA application that was submitted using fraudulent evidence fabricated by Kevin Clinesmith. In essence, now the presiding judge over the FISA court, Boasberg was the FISC judge who was tricked by Clinesmith and now the criminal court judge in charge of determining Clinesmith’s legal outcome. Judge Boasberg eventually sentenced Clinesmith to 6 months probation.
As an outcome of continued FISA application fraud and wrongdoing by the FBI in their exploitation of searches of the NSA database, Presiding FISC Judge James Boasberg appointed an amici curiae advisor to the court who would monitor the DOJ-NSD submissions and ongoing FBI activities.
Who did James Boasberg select as a FISA court amicus? Mary McCord.
♦ SUMMARY: Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.
You can clearly see how Mary McCord would be a person of interest if anyone was going to start digging into corruption internally within the FBI, DOJ or DOJ-NSD, and you can see how Judge James Boasberg personally selected Mary McCord to be the advisor to the court.
Now the latest….
This “court” needs to be abolished. And not only for corruption, because it’s very nature is antithetical to the US.
If any one of the FISA judges involved in this incredible debacle were just slightly honest, this could have been mitigated. These criminals in black robes are at the epicenter of this entire mess. The FISA Court has absolutely no real oversight. It is patently obvious that the cabal of judges involved in this “investigation” were in the pocket of DOJ and the FBI. Our justice system has completely come off the rails….
No comment from the overseer of the FISA court, Chief Justice John Roberts…
Roberts is the most blackmailed justice in ur history.
A complete and utter COWARD.
String him up too
Why was it reassigned from Judge Pan?
Why don’t you email her and ask her or him directly?
id do it but I’m worried about the feds showing up and asking why…..
She is friends with Comey’s lawyer or something very close to this
You’ll never know–judges are never required to explain why they’re recused from a case.
This is INSANE!!!
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it!”
I have said over and over again that the court picks favorable judges per each case. The big question is where is the oversight from the judicial committee. Lyndsey was quiet when he ran the committee. It is all a fraud against the American people
Snowden showed us the “evidence”as to what is behind the corrupt courts, NSA phone intercepts!
FISC. That’s Frickingly Insane Scurrilous Corruptocrat.
Aren’t there any basic standards to force a judge to recuse himself, whether randomly selected or not?
Just Wow!
Shouldn’t this judge be required to RECUSE himself in the matter due to his paerticipation?
Where’s Peppermint when you need her?
Hopefully in Kenosha
Question, why havnt they fled the country?
2nd question…HOW are they STILL ALIVE??
‘Carter Page is righteously angry at the FBI and DOJ for lying to a judge (FISA Court) to get a search warrant against him and everyone he talked to and communicated with.’
Disagree. I think he’s still part of the scheme, to keep the clock running until everybody can no longer be charged.
IMO he became a volunteer for the Trump campaign specifically so that the IC could monitor all of the communications of the Trump team.
Yep-and they are playing the ruse out, with appropriate safeguards, of course
I’ve said the same thing many times and it may fit into the current case assignment. I would expect a recusal to come of the current assignment further kicking the can down the road.
When you go duck hunting, you take a trained Labrador Retriever.
You don’t just take any ole dog, and it hope will fetch ducks.
Carter Page was a trained espionage professional on an assigned mission. His mission continues.
Read Page’s impressive resume, then compare that with the doofus he repeatedly played on TV.
Yes and a big fat book deal will be his reward, that and a luscious taxpayer funded settlement.
One of the many THOUSANDS of families to have fortunes seized and redistributed to the US middle-class.
I cannot believe how much I learn from the CTH comments. I have not thought of this angle before (perhaps others have mentioned it but I don’t always have time to read all comments) but I will be looking at this with fresh eyes.
Has anyone ever seen James Boasberg and James Taylor in the same room together? Carol King could update the lyrics of “You’ve Got a Friend” to make a new song, “You’ve Got a Judge”.
♫ You “randomly” pick my name
And you know, whatever the case
I’ll be judgin’
So you won’t go to the pen
Justice don’t mean nuthin’ at all
I slow the wheels down to a crawl
And I’ll be there
You’ve got a judge ♫
Wait, wait…let me put on my shocked face….ok.
Why is that not grounds for his recusal?
I was feeling up beat watching Steve Bannon’s entrance statement. This just makes me ill and depressed.
Annnnnd??????
And we also emerged from the primordial soup as one celled organisms.
Also third trimester babies aren’t human and have no rights.
The current resident got the most votes ever.
King George got a raw deal man!
Okay, so who is going to dig in and get the dirt on Boasberg, McCord, Carlin, et. al. and expose them to the public?
Put their faces, their names and their deeds on billboards all across the country, and expose them!!!
The corruption is so transparent, one could be forgiven for thinking that patriots were behind the reassignment. Forcing them out into the open so even the sleepy can’t help but take notice.
That Boasburg is still empowered is telling. Boasburg was placed in the FISA admin position by John Robert., Robert replaced a FISA judge who had pushed back against the Page FISA Application with a Obama loyalist, Boasburg and its actors remained in place now.
Robert is totally complicit in all this!
Roberts/Eipstain?
Banana Republic of Amerika.
are we for sure there ever really was a constitution?
Ok, I’m going to throw this out here- even though I already know it won’t be popular with everyone. First, Carter can file to recuse the judge. He approved the warrants and it’s a direct conflict of interest. It should be clear cut.
If he doesn’t, is it more than suspicious and maybe he wants to lose this case? Wouldn’t that be the best cover up? The man is a professional word salad- no way he got where he is speaking in such a convoluted way without professional training. He was always suspected to be working for one of the agencies when he was then placed in the Trump team- it was all very very suspect.
Recusal came to mind for me as well. But these collaborators are cocky and undeterred given how they have so easily escaped justice for years thanks to Bondo etc.
With Garland heading the DOJ and all the other JoeBama appointees, it’s not surprising that they feel untouchable or “on top of the world” no matter how many “coincidental appointments” Boasberg is involved in or embarrassing leaks occur.
They do not fear Impeachments or a harsh and effective political opposition with this GOP leadership and its turncoats.
Incredible work by sundance.
The “randomly selected” Justice Boasberg, who always shows up when the Deep State et al special privileged entities need a friendly judge, reminds me of those shady towns in a movie Western with one local or territorial Judge protecting whatever greedy dynasty or evil landowner put him in his job to eliminate all opposition. (Then Destry etc frees the populace)
Carter Page isn’t exactly Destry but his civil case could be the last chance for Boasberg to redeem himself and prove my comparison is not accurate. But like the town Judge in the B Westerns, I wouldn’t count on it. There is not an effective opposition for him to worry about yet. (ie McConnell, McCarthy…)
Twould seem that Destry is not the man for this job. Judge Roy Bean comes to mind though.
My god! It’s all in plain sight for anyone to see! Rest assured, Lyndsey and the gang will be sure to miss it.
They already have!
FILE A MOTION to BUMP the JUDGE!!!
It can be done in Civil Court… the first Motion is typically automatic.
Can it be done in Criminal Court?
So we have …
three (3) slanted attorneys / judges here?
I’m betting he recluses himself, if not Page’s attorneys will insist upon it within the first few filings.
Don’t hold your breath.
Can Carter do anything about this judge?
does he want to do anything?????
Who was the Judge the two lovers spoke about? They were planning a dinner party that the Judge would attend.
Rudolph Contreras.
Thank you
A person is never “former CIA”; once CIA, always CIA. Carter Page was a plant.
John Roberts.
Sundance encapsulated EXACTLY what The Swamp is here in this story…will someone find the plug and pull it fast!
Interesting conflict! JimCo needs JimBo for a CYA operation? The Swampies are getting desperate when they are so very overt in their corruption!
With my blood already boiling, is it possible to boil more?
Oy Vey! Just another coincidence, goyim. Stop noticing things.
I didn’t know McCord or Mueller were Jewish. Wow, do you have an news email I can subscribe to so I know who the Jews are too? What’s goyim mean, sounds Jewy? Thanks for the info sweetie 😉
I thought the whistleblower rule change was to allow 2nd hand, or hearsay complaint, since CIAramella hadn’t actually heard the phone call?
And we’re fighting to restore what we had? Thanks to Sundance, sunlight is now being poured onto what we “had” and I’m not sure that I like it at all. In baseball, they’d say that it’s time for a tear down; I think that’s what’s needed now for us as well.
Sundance! No other journalist I know of has more knowledge of the “granular” details of Obamagate than you. For the benefit of posterity, I truly hope you’re planning a book. To allow a scandal this huge to fade into electronic dust would be a darned shame.
Having participated in the business end of multiple T1’s my understanding of the process to even get one was that it was serious business. However, having seen these particular warrants popped out with more regularity than a pez dispenser against a supposed doof with an impressive spook resume and when the ruse came into the light resulted in no more than a few spilled drinks during a good belly laugh around the DC circuit by a judge with his fingers in everything I am resigned to think it’s all on purpose. Violation of the FISA process was originally a sin, to be judged by Congress, who has oversight….who also have oversight of all the 3 letters. The trend is so obvious it’s the latest joke.
This is incredible work. Sundance has thrown down the gauntlet in front of Durham. The big question is why would ALL of these people and some unmentioned like John Roberts take such incredible risks? Perhaps it was to cover up the spying but who were the beneficiaries of the spying to begin with?
Why? a) because they can.
b) because it is — basically — no longer a “risk” any longer.
Because, now, why not? With so much in-place, by-design corruption, what we used to call the “Rule-of-Law” has become nothing more than a fairy-tale.
Exactly ?
“Having one’s day in Court,” has lost all meaning, hasn’t it? Talk about collision and a set-up!
The corruption in America over the last 6 years is criminal.
Where are the good guys? Is there ONE person in DC with any integrity?
Obama and Holder did quite a job destroying our government.
We are now a third world banana republic. Complete with political prisoners and medical tyranny.
Would it be correct to assume Justice Kennedy is neck deep in this as well?
Roberts
if all “choosable” parties are involved
in shovelling manure;
then any random . . . selection . . .
will not pass the smell test
String him up.
Crooked Judiciary is becoming better know as such.
The rule of law is dead although many have yet to learn that.
You hit the big time Sundance – got a huge mention in Citizen Free Press!!! Keep up the excellent real journalism Sundance…..you and Raheem Kassan and Natalie Winters….
Something odd about Carter Page..
In a universe that functions largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but every one of them must be distrusted. – Nero Wolfe
I posted JUST THIS, at LiveLeak over five years ago! About Carter Page.
Now, wake me when we see twitching, peeing bodies in military nooses.
Boasberg should be prosecuted for treason. Page should lay out the facts showing Boasberg’s treasonous behavior in an affidavit demanding the judge recuse himself from the case.