A rare moment of sanity—with an even rarer potential for good governance—emerged last month from the miasma of President Trump’s continuing war on the “Deep State.” After the Justice Department’s Inspector General reported that FBI investigators repeatedly misrepresented or withheld evidence from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when they applied to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, the Court’s Chief Judge ordered the Bureau to reform the way it seeks permission to eavesdrop on Americans in national security cases. For years, civil libertarians have warned about the lack of transparency and accountability in the FISA process. Targets almost …read more
Source:: The American Interest
