Judge agrees with DOJ in ruling against further declassification of Carter Page FISA documents

Published March 4, 2020 5:39pm ET



A federal judge shut down an effort to further declassify information from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act filings related to onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

Amit Mehta, the judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., agreed with the Justice Department that President Trump’s tweets and a White House news release didn’t constitute declassification orders.

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