FISA court

For two years certain right wing leaning reporters have questioned the origins of the Mueller/Russia investigation. They claimed that the FISA court permission to look into the probe was based on faulty information provided by the Steel dossier. It now appears that other reporters are looking into these allegations. In a front-page story this past Saturday, The New York Times reported that “F.B.I. agents had tracked down and interviewed one of Mr. Steele’s main sources, a Russian speaker from a former Soviet republic who had spent time in the West . . . After questioning him about where he’d gotten his information, they suspected he might have added his own interpretations to reports passed on by his sources . . . that made it harder to decide what to trust.” This same article uses the word," eavesdrop" in describing the way the government listened in on conversations with Trump adviser Carter Page. This is a synonym for spying. The law outlines that any reports given to the FISA judges must be vetted as to accuracy and it appears this did not happen.