Jerry Nadler presses DOJ and FBI for FISA documents

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The House Judiciary Committee requested documents from the Trump administration in response to a watchdog report on errors and missteps found in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process.

Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote to the Justice Department and FBI on Friday, saying that his panel needs the records to consider potential reforms. The New York Democrat also asked for “prompt declassification reviews” of relevant filings, including a copy of the one the department plans to make on March 27 “apprising the FISC of accuracy procedures it plans to adopt for FBI applications to conduct pen register or trap and trace surveillance and to acquire business records.”

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