Newell: Fallout from Horowitz report could be "defining moment" for FBI

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Within a week of the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz' bombshell report on the wiretapping and surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the FISA court judge Rosemary Collyer has issued a scathing dialogue about the FBI's conduct in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe. Newell invited former US Attorney Harry Rosenberg on the program Thursday morning to discuss."The other day I made the observation that it's not often that you see a judge issue a public rebuke of an investigative agency, and even less common that you see it from a FISA court judge - that's really a secret court in many respects," Newell began."That's exactly right," Rosenberg answered. "This is a court that very few people outside of law enforcement even know exists. This court operates in secrecy and so it's highly unusual for the chief judge of that court to issue a public order not only criticizing the FBI, but demanding that it respond in short order to its investigation, and whether the order issued by the FISA court should be made public without any redactions and harshly criticizing the FBI for either withholding evidence or proving false evidence when it sought an application for surveillance regarding a number of people including Carter Page."