To fix FISA, appoint public advocates

Published March 6, 2018 5:01am ET



Last week’s letter from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to Attorney General Jeff Sessions states that the FBI may have broken federal law by using unverified information to support its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications against Carter Page.

First obtained by Fox News, Nunes’ letter indicates that the FBI might be in breach of its own regulatory guidance, because it relied heavily on the uncorroborated testimony of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who authored the now-infamous Trump dossier.

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