The FISA court that accepted the edited and bungled application from an FBI lawyer on Carter Page is now looking at the other, possibly tainted, applications from the same dude. From the Hill:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court (FISA) that approved FBI surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page is now investigating other applications it’s received from one of the agency’s attorneys accused of making an inappropriate change to the Page application.
The review, which was announced in an order released Friday, hints at a comprehensive effort by the secretive court to reevaluate surveillance after the Justice Department inspector general’s report found errors in the Page application process.
In the order, written on Dec. 5 and declassified Friday, the court requested that the executive branch identify “all other matters currently or previously before this Court” that involved FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith. The court also requested explanations of how the Justice Department and FBI are ensuring that Clinesmith’s submissions were accurate.
And he has other problems as well:
Clinesmith has since resigned from the FBI and is under criminal investigation over the change he made, though he has not yet been charged with a crime.
Now, it’s all speculation at this point. But if other errors and omissions are found, they could show that he was merely inept and not politically motivated. UNLESS those other applications show political motivation too. THEN that dude is totally screwed…