Saturday, February 03, 2018

Judge responsible for issuing the FISA Warrant ...




  





Contreres was appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) by Barack Obama in the midst of the 2016 election.



WASHINGTON — Judge Rudolph Contreras was responsible for issuing the FISA Warrant to wiretap former Trump Campaign Foreign Policy Adviser Carter Page, according to two sources familiar with the material that underlies the Memo published by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday.

Contreres was appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) by Barack Obama in the midst of the 2016 election, being sworn-in on May 19, 2016. He would go on to issue authorization to spy on Carter Page after receiving an application from the FBI, who purported to believe that Carter Page could be acting as an agent of the Russian Government. The FISA Court has received more than 34,000 applications to spy on Americans since its founding in 1978, turning down only 12 applications in that time, or just .0312%.

Looks Like A Duck.


Quacks Like a Duck
Judge Contreres has a long career with the Department of Justice, taking his first job as an Assistant US Attorney in 1994. His term on the FISA Court expires on May 18, 2023.

If Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)’s memo is to be believed, then it would seem that the FBI submitted a FISA Application to spy on Carter Page with serious material omissions, including the source of funding for the Steele Dossier and that Christopher Steele said that he was “Passionate about Donald Trump not becoming President”. Contreras may have acted perfectly ethically when he approved the FISA Warrant to electronically monitor and record Carter Page.

Judge Contreras also oversaw the case in which Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI. On December 7th Judge Contreras recused himself from the Michael Fynn Case. A spokeswoman for the the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia Lisa Klem did not say why Contreras was recused, adding that the case was randomly reassigned.

On Thursday the Mueller team successfully sought a rescheduling of the Flynn sentencing. “The parties shall file a joint status report by no later than May 1, 2018, stating whether the matter should be scheduled for sentencing or whether a deadline should be set for filing another joint status report,” said a related order signed by the new Judge, Emmet G. Sullivan.

Mueller’s Office of the Special Counsel cited the “Status of the investigation” for their request to reschedule General Flynn’s sentencing, but declined to provide further details.


Raise your hand if  you're  surprised that Obama would appoint Judges who agreed to do his bidding.   Srsly.

10 comments:

gadfly said...

According to the WSJ, there were four FISA judges who signed off on the Page warrants:

[…] The memo describes the process by which the government got a secret warrant under the law that governs the secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for Mr. Page.

[…] At least two of those renewals occurred while Mr. Trump was president and at least one was authorized by a Justice Department official he appointed. A person familiar with the matter said that four separate federal judges approved the surveillance of Mr. Page, and all of those judges were appointed by Republican presidents.

Rudolf Contreras, however was not one of the four, since he was appointed by Barack Hussein Obama.

rwnutjob said...

He was actually appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts during the campaign. That wasn't the first time Roberts was blackmailed into destroying America.

Jess said...

Congress had the chance, and still has the chance, to cut off the funds, and send the courts home to collect unemployment.

Eskyman said...

It appears that most of the FISA court judges were appointed by Bill Clinton; we know what a tower of probity he was. Also, Gateway Pundit has this: (http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/all-the-bogus-fisa-requests-were-signed-by-obamas-ag-loretta-lynch-and-first-request-to-spy-on-trump-was-denied-by-the-court/)

"A very disturbing fact about the wire tapping request of President Trump is that the FISA Court turned down President Obama’s Administration’s first request to wire tap President Trump that was evidently signed off on by Attorney General Lynch. With only two known applications denied out of 10,700 from 2009 through 2015, the fact that the Obama Administration’s application was denied by the FISA Court is very disturbing. The odds of this happening were 0.02%."

Another bit: "We also know that all of these requests were signed off on by the Obama Administration’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch and that the first request to spy on Trump was denied by the FISA Court."

So- all the FISA court requests were to left-wing judges appointed by Clinton, and the requests were signed off by Lorretta Lynch. This stinks on ice!

Anonymous said...

Courts have no ability to investigate facts. The way a court works in America is each side advocates the facts and law for its side and the court (plus possibly a jury) finds which is more persuasive.

These "courts" are just appropriating the name to get legitimacy. With no notice to the subject of the procedure and no opportunity to point out falsehoods, mistakes, exaggerations, omissions by the other side there is no proceeding no truth finding. The court is totally at the mercy of the one side that puts what evidence and selective law it wants to. When that side is the USG and it lies etc there is no repercussion on the actors, they can lie again against you.

gadfly said...

rwnutjob said...
He was actually appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts during the campaign. That wasn't the first time Roberts was blackmailed into destroying America.


We don't need lies here. Chief Justice Roberts does not possess such authority.



gadfly said...

Eskyman said...
It appears that most of the FISA court judges were appointed by Bill Clinton; we know what a tower of probity he was.


Another "honest" Republican making up facts? Where have all the conservatives gone?

If you go to the FISA website, here, you can click on a judge's name and read about his/her history. By a giant majority, most judges on the Foreign Intelligence court were appointed by Dubyah because the court was established as a result of 9-11.

gadfly said...

I didn't say it correctly when relating FISA to 9-11. Congressional actions after 9-11 included revamping the FISA rules to permit monitoring US citizens suspected of illicit interactions with foreigners - but warrant applications. were examined in far greater detail, so the number of judges were increased.

Steve in Greensboro said...

It does not matter who appointed the judge. If he signed off on the warrant, he should be hung by his neck until dead, right next to the Obama DoJ weasel who applied for the warrant.

Steve in Greensboro

Eskyman said...

Thanks gadfly for the correction!

My statement was wrong, and if I could remember where I got my misinformation I'd go back there and correct it.

Now I've discovered that Bush did appoint most FISA judges: not that it matters, since Bush is a Swamp Creature of the Globalist Uniparty too. Clinton only appointed two, and so did Obama; Reagan appointed one.

And Swamp Creatures definitely include judges. It's way past time dirty judges were recalled (I'd prefer hanged, drawn and quartered, with head on a pike, but I'd settle for them being recalled.)



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