Timothy Birdnow

Efforts to reform the FISA Courts have been undertaken - and the Courts have hired a bitter Trump-hating partisan to assist them with the task.

Sharyl Attkinsson dishes:

To some, the appointment of Kris to help with the job is as mysterious as to why the FISA court’s judges failed to flag the FBI abuses on their own.It would seem more important than ever to have an apolitical person, or a balanced group of people, conducting oversight of these politically sensitive matters.Kris’s vocal criticisms of President Donald Trump present numerous, obvious conflicts of interest.

On Twitter, KriscalledRep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) "a politicized, dishonest [Intelligence Community] overseer who attempts to mislead,” and wrote that Trump and his advisers should be "worried” that the "walls are closing in” regarding the Mueller probe. Kris alsobought intothe now-disproven conspiracy theory about Trump colluding with Russia and Putin.

But even more importantly, since that time, Kris has advocated for Trump’s removal.

"Do we want to be a country in which elected officials can use their governmental power to attack political opponents? If not, it’s pretty simple: Trump has to go,” Kris wrote on Twitterin October 2019. Specifically, Kris criticized what he said was Trump using government powers against political opponents, seeming to dismiss the possibility that the government had used its powers improperly against Trump.

In addition, Kriswritesfor the blog "Lawfare” and has called Lawfare’s Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes "incisive.” Wittes is the man whowroteof the need for an "insurance policy” against Trump prior to Trump’s election:

"Our democracy needs a health insurance policy. … The courts have a few obvious advantages, starting with hundreds of independent judges of both parties whom Trump cannot remove from office and who don’t have to face his supporters in forthcoming elections. … The goal … will be to offer a systematic defense of the values the Coalition of All Democratic Forces holds in common and to have the ability to respond rapidly to actions that threaten those values: to forestall such actions in court as long as possible, to whittle them down, and to block those that can be blocked. The goal is to use the courts to render Trump’s antidemocratic instincts as ineffectual as possible.”

Wittes also is a friend of former FBI Director James Comey, who was referred for criminal charges for mishandling and leaking government information in his anti-Trump efforts. (The Justice Department declined to prosecute, with officials stating they didn’t believe Comey meant any harm.)

Regardless, however, America is now faced with a very stark choice: do we want to be a country in which elected officials can use their governmental power to attack political opponents? If not, it’s pretty simple: Trump has to go. 5/5

— David Kris (@DavidKris) October 3, 2019

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