Yes, multiple someones need to go to prison. Or rather, justice requires them to.
[Update a few minutes later]
The problems pointed out by the IG go far beyond “errors” and “sloppiness.” It was a fraud on the court, in order to set up innocent people. And who knows how much more of it has been going on? At a minimum, Flynn’s conviction should be overturned.
[Update a while later]
John Brennan (someone else who should be wearing orange) says that the FBI were “doing their level best.”
[Update a while later]
James Comey is a pathological liar.
Well, yeah, ya think?
[Update late morning]
Horowitz destroys the media lie that he found no political bias.
It seems clear that the FISA judges consider themselves primarily administrators not legal adjudicators capable of issuing bench warrants. The glaring flaw in the FISA system, set up as part of the Church Committee “reforms” post-Watergate, is the lack of a public defender or people’s advocate to oppose the government applicants.
The fact that the FISA court itself hasn’t really started leaning on the government (read FBI) until the IG report instead of issuing its own subpoenas and/or referrals for criminal prosecution is indicative of its weakness as an institution. It appears to be the opinion in the rest of the FBI and DOJ that rolling the FISA court is no big deal…
This is proof that one of the side effects of classification of information is to protect the stupid. The other is to protect sensitive sources. Any abuse of this system needs to be viciously adjudicated so future mistakes are not covered up.
A good way to land in jail for contempt is to make a judge look stupid; sort of the definition. On the other hand, having secret courts is sort of the definition of tyranny. Is a judge still an idiot if everyone who laughs at him is sworn to secrecy?