Carter Page FISA

The desire to get Trump was so strong that people in the Justice Department skirted the law. The chief FISA court judge explained. "The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightened duty" required of investigators, Collyer wrote. The FISA court is a secret court that relies on receiving accurate information from the FBI. Since only one side is presented the standard for accuracy must be the highest. Over the entire 33 year period, the FISA court granted 33,942 warrants, with only 12 denials. They got permission to listen in on the private conversations of Carter Page which then led to listening in on all of the Trump associates. Page was accused of being a Russian spy when in fact he was working for the CIA. The communication between the FBI and the CIA was called into question after 9-11 but there still seems to be some problems.