In a letter released Sunday night, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is requesting that President Donald Trump declassify roughly 19 pages of the fourth application of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Carter Page. The committee claims this effort is necessary to expose the irregularities in how the FBI and Department of Justice obtained the renewal warrants that lasted for nearly a year.
Sara Carter first reported on the urgency of the documents on Fox New’s Hannity more than a week ago, emphasizing that government officials believe the information contained in the documents will put to rest a number of questions about the FBI and DOJ’s handling of the Page application and raise new concerns that the agencies may have misled the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorized the warrants. DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein signed off on the final FISA warrant renewal to investigate Page, according to previous reporting and documents obtained by the committees conducting oversight of the matter. -- More...