Resisting Gov’t Overreach: Lessons of the FISA Memo
Given the actions at the highest echelons of the FBI and the nefarious actions of Obama-administration holdovers with respect to the FISA warrant, a housecleaning that makes the Saturday Night Massacre look like a paper cut is in order (“Up from swamp: An enemy within,” Michael Goodwin, Feb. 4).
Fire ’em all. The fish stinks from the head down. This should have happened when President Trump took office. Instead, he’s left with a rotten, corrupt bureau with zero credibility because of its own actions. Scott Westcott Clifton Park
Former FBI Director James Comey had an ohso-sanctimonious response to the FISA memo, asking “that’s it?”
But Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified that the FISA warrant wouldn’t have been sought without the Steele Dossier. And isn’t Comey on record as saying that the dossier was “salacious and unverified”?
The initial FISA warrant application and renewals were signed by Comey, McCabe, former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Isn’t that enough? William T. Fidurski Clark, NJ
The American people had a right to see the Republican memo, and I think we need to see Rep. Adam Schiff ’s memo in response. I want to see more evidence, not less.
It appears that both the Department of Justice and FBI misused the FISA Court in obtaining warrants, using a prettymuch-discredited dossier. None of it passes the smell test.
Most of what has been released is a total embarrassment to the Democratic Party, especially to Democrats sitting on the House Intelligence Committee. Sal Giarratani Boston, Mass.
I’m starting to see a pattern here: First, the Obama administration uses the IRS to attack unfriendly political groups before the 2012 election.
Having dodged any responsibility for that, it goes on to use Clinton opposition research, chock full of lies, to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump adviser.
The same party that weaponized the IRS, DOJ and the FBI has the audacity to call Trump a threat to democracy and a despot. Steve Heitner Port Jefferson Station
After reading the memo, I come to the same conclusion as The Post (“The Memo & Its Critics,” Editorial, Feb. 3).
High-ranking officials of the DOJ and FBI apparently did not tell the full story when applying to FISC for a probablecause order on Carter Page, who volunteered to help the Trump campaign.
I don’t see how anyone can be critical of this memo. The facts speak for themselves.
The “dossier” was just a bunch of unverified stories put together by the Democrats to destroy the Trump campaign. Richard Ketay Newark, NJ
If the president of the United States and his advisers can be successfully targeted for destruction by corrupt FBI and DOJ officials, everyday citizens don’t stand a chance against an out-of-control government.
The Justice Department’s insidious actions shred the fabric of our constitutional republic. It’s heartbreaking that this is happening in our country. Carole Campolo East Hampton
Our country has never been so politically divided as it is now. This Congress cannot agree on anything, and with the release of that memo, the situation is only going to worsen.
This divisiveness is not what our country needs or wants, and it’s high time for those elected clowns in Washington to stop all of their political infighting and work together to bring unity. John Amato Fresh Meadows
The most shocking outcome of the memo is that Trump feels “totally vindicated” by it.
Never mind that his son, Donald Jr., met with Russians prior to the election in efforts to get unfavorable information on Hillary Clinton. The only person who should be ashamed is Trump. JoAnn Lee Frank Clearwater, Fla.