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...The DOJ's admission essentially means that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant authorizations to surveil Page, when stripped of the FBI's misinformation, did not meet the necessary legal threshold and should never have been issued.
...The June 2017 Page FISA warrant renewal, which was among the two deemed invalid by the DOJ, was approved by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, as well as former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
...Pientka briefly appeared on the FBI's website as an "Assistant Special Agent in Charge" of the San Francisco field office late last year, according to the Internet archive Wayback Machine - although Pientka no longer appears on any FBI website.
...At the same time, Wray acknowledged the FBI's "Unacceptable" failures as it pursued FISA warrants to monitor Page.
..."The focus on specific forms, checklists and technology, while appropriate, should not be allowed to eclipse the more basic need to improve cooperation between the FBI and DOJ attorneys," Kris said, noting that the FBI and DOJ have historically not always worked well together.
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