Article snippet: The scandal surrounding the FBI requesting a surveillance warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to spy on Trump presidential campaign aide Carter Page based on uncorroborated information and ommissions may be far from over. According to the recently released audit by Michael Horowitz, the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that the Obama FBI used information and documents that the agency’s director knew were uncorroborated and gleaned from a partisan source. Horowitz’s DOJ audit on the origins of the Russian collusion hoax found “at least 17 significant errors and omissions” in the Carter Page FISA surveillance application that enabled the investigation into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. Written on December 5 and finally declassified last Friday, an order revealed that FISA is ordering a review of every single warrant application involving the now-former FBI lawyer under criminal investigation Kevin Clinesmith. The secretive court that oversees national security surveillance is also urging the FBI or the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to verify the accuracy of every other surveillance request made by Clinesmith. In the order, FISA is ordering that the U.S. government, namely the DOJ, provide the following by written submission on or before December 20, 2019: It remains unclear whether or not the obscure court will make the DOJ’s response public. The FISA may not come down too hard on ... Link to the full article to read more