A picture's worth 1000 words. What a big circle jerk this has become:
"…the @TheJusticeDept’s national security division, @DavidKris, to help the court assess the government’s response”
Why not just get another wacko @lawfareblog-ger, @benjaminwittes?https://t.co/tYvLCAmzxX
— Carter Page, Ph.D. (@carterwpage) January 11, 2020
A former Justice Department official picked Friday to oversee the FBI’s reforms of its surveillance procedures in the wake of a damning inspector general’s report was one of the many pundits during the Russia probe to defend the bureau’s surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
David S. Kris, a former assistant attorney general for national security, was also an outspoken critic of Rep. Devin Nunes and other congressional Republicans who accused the FBI of misleading the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in applications to wiretap Page…