Order, In re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC

Description

The Court responds to reports that the FBI provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the DOJ, and withheld information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI’s case in connection with four applications for authority to conduct electronic surveillance on Carter W. Page. The Court orders the government to provide sworn written submission of what it has done, and plans to do, to ensure that statements of facts in each FBI application accurately and completely reflect information possessed by the FBI that is material to any issues presented by the application. The Court further instructs a declassification review of the Dec. 5, 2019 order which requires the government to address the concerns about accuracy and completeness of the information provided to the FISC in any matter in which the FBI’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) was involved.