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[[File:Fisa-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The [[FISA court]] ruled the [[Obama administration]]'s improper access to [[FISA]] data granted to contractors "seems to have been the result of deliberate decision making."]]
[[File:Fisa-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The [[FISA court]] ruled the [[Obama administration]]'s improper access to [[FISA]] data granted to contractors "seems to have been the result of deliberate decision making."]]
From the draft Resolution introduced in the House May 22, 2018:
Whereas these warrants grant U.S. intelligence and law en-
forcement agencies sweeping power to collect bulk infor-
mation and conduct ‘‘about collection’’, which results in
surveillance of a broad array of private communications
from the past, present, and future, including those of
U.S. citizens not specifically targeted in the FISA au-
thorized warrant;
Whereas to obtain these warrants, FBI and DOJ officials
submitted an unverified dossier prepared by Christopher
Steele to the FISA Court, failing to disclose that Chris-
topher Steele was hired by the firm Fusion GPS, which
was hired by the Democratic National Committee and
Hillary Clinton campaign to prepare this dossier and that
the source was unreliable and was soon thereafter going
to be terminated as a source;
Whereas the FISA Court was not informed that Christopher
Steele was actively opposed to the election of Donald
Trump, that he was the unnamed source cited in the
media reports that the FBI used to corroborate his dossier, and that Fusion GPS had been hired to perform
previous anti-Trump research efforts in 2015;
Whereas the Woods Procedures, which are the FBI’s manda-
tory vetting process required for all FISA warrant appli-
cations instituted to ensure that all the facts contained
in an application are accurate and verified to clearly sup-
port probable cause for a warrant, were not followed;
Whereas former Director Comey admitted in sworn testimony
to the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 8, 2017, that
material contained in the Steele dossier was known to be
both ‘‘salacious’’ and ‘‘unverified’’;
Whereas since FISA warrant applications are rarely turned
down, are almost never subject to appeal, and are pre-
sented in closed court with no public record where the
Government is not challenged by any defense, it is imper-
ative that the Government take extra care to validate the
information being utilized to build their case before they
take the extraordinary step of waiving rights of a U.S.
citizen without his or her knowledge or the opportunity
to present a defense;
Whereas at the FISA Court, the Government has a responsi-
bility not only to provide its best evidence in support of
its case, but also to provide the best evidence against its
case;
Whereas these deeply flawed and questionable FISA warrant
applications utilizing illicit sources and politically biased
intelligence were approved by DOJ and FBI officials at
the highest levels before being submitted to the FISA
Court;
Whereas it was further not disclosed to the FISA court that
the wife of fourth-ranking DOJ official Bruce Ohr worked for Fusion GPS and that Christopher Steele di-
rectly transmitted the dossier and other information
through Bruce Ohr for submission to the FISA court;