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==FISA 702 abuse==
[[File:Fisa-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The FISA court noted improper omissions about contractor access, such as [[FusionGPS]] or [[Daniel Richman]], "seems to be the result of deliberate decision making." It was Carlin's job to inform the Court about [[FISA abuse]].<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/08/doj-political-surveillance-from-the-irs-in-2011-to-the-fisa-court-in-2016/ DOJ Political Surveillance – From the IRS in 2011 to the FISA Court in 2016], Posted on March 8, 2020 by sundance. theconservativetreehouse.com</ref>  ]]
Carlin essentially did a "[[kamikaze]] dive" in assuring the [[Obama administration]]'s "insurance policy" against the election of [[Donald Trump]] would move forward. Carlin withheld from the [[FISA court]] critical details of an [[NSA]] Inspector General report, and an ongoing Compliance review, that the FBI and its contractors were engaged in [[Fourth Amendment]] violations of the rights of Americans. Carlin quit just days before the FISA warrant on [[Carter Page]] was submitted and approved. Two days later, the NSA informed the Court that the Obama Department of Justice and FBI had been abusing the FISA process since at least 2011.<ref>[https://m.theepochtimes.com/declassified-top-secret-report-details-spying-on-americans_2253658.html Declassified Top Secret Report Details Spying on Americans], By Joshua Philipp, The Epoch Times, May 31, 2017</ref> The warrant approved two days earlier against Carter Page gave the FBI FISA Title I authority throughout the duration of the [[Trump transition]],<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page] By [[Ellen Nakashima]], Devlin Barrett, Adam Entous, ''Washington Post'', April 11, 2017</ref> and authority to apply the same extensive intrusions upon anyone Carter Page had phone, email or text contact with.

Carlin personally attended an October 4, 2016 FISA court hearing, and left the [[DOJ]] on October 15. NSA Director [[Adm. Mike Rogers]] informed the FISA court on October 23 of a pattern of [[FISA abuse]] in the Obama FBI and among contractors dating back months and years.<ref>[https://www.circa.com/story/2017/05/23/politics/obama-intel-agency-secretly-conducted-illegal-searches-on-americans-for-years Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years], ''Circa'', May 23, 2017</ref> The court ascribed the Obama DOJ-NSD failure to disclose the abuses at the October 4 hearing, which Carlin attended,<ref>[http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/160561655023/release-of-the-fisc-opinion-approving-the-2016 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Memorandum and Opinion approving the 2016 Section 702 Certifications] (dated April 26, 2017), p. 19.</ref> to an institutional “lack of candor” and emphasized that “this is a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.”<ref>[https://exposefacts.org/institutional-lack-of-candor-fisa-violations/ Institutional Lack of Candor – FISA Violations] A primer on recent unauthorized activity by the Intelligence Community, January 24, 2018. Demand Progress.</ref> In the interim, the Obama DOJ secured a FISA Title I warrant on Carter Page based on spurious opposition research paid for by [[Hillary Clinton]] and the [[DNC]].<ref>[https://saraacarter.com/intelligence-committee-reveals-weakly-sourced-doc-used-fisa-application/ Intelligence Committee Reveals Weakly Sourced Doc Used for FISA Application], Sara Carter, February 2, 2018</ref>

===Carter Page===
On March 11, 2016 Carlin and [[Preet Bharara]] of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) congratulated themselves in a DOJ press release upon the conviction of Evgeny Buryakov, an [[SVR]] agent for the [[Russian Federation]]. Another SVR agent, Igor Sporyshev, fled the country. The press release noted, {{quotebox|The FBI obtained recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”), who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company.  In response to requests from Sporyshev, UCE-1 provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by UCE-1 and supporting documentation relating to UCE-1’s reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices.  Sporyshev then took the binders to, among other places, the ''[[Rezident|Residentura]]''.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work DOJ Press Release, Southern District of New York, March 11, 2016].</ref>}} Carter Page's name later was leaked to the [[media]] as 'FBI undercover employee ("UCE-1”)'.<ref>In a letter to Congress Page wrote "'''''Illegal leaking of my identity as “Male-1” [UCE-1 or FBI Undercover Employee-1 in court documents] in U.S.A. v. Evgeny Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev, and Victor Podobnyy''''' – On April 3, 2017, reporters at ABC News3 and [[BuzzFeed]] News4 requested to meet in order to inform me that U.S. government operatives had unlawfully disclosed my identity as Male-1 in this 2015 case." [https://www.scribd.com/document/347666260/Carter-Page-letter-to-Senate-Intel-Committee-May-7-2017 Carter Page letter to Senate Intel Committee], May 7, 2017, p. 2.</ref> 

In other words, John Carlin knew [[Carter Page]] ''was not'' a Russian agent, yet that did not stop Carlin from preparing a FISA warrant in October 2016 to hoax the FISA court into believing that Carter Page was an agent of Russia.