On the day of the FISA abuse memo release, another FISA judge named James Boasberg decided to keep all of those Comey memos on meets he had with Trump private, because Robert Mueller or something. Lost in the news yesterday with all the coverage of the FISA abuse memo was FISA judge James Boasberg kept the memos from going out to the public. Boasberg was appointed to the FISA court by Obama in 2014. The timing of the keeping the Comey memos private is not a coincidence. Boasberg knew with the memo being released he’d get a free pass from the media to keep the memos a big, dark secret.
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who ruled in favor of the FBI’s request to keep the Comey memos secret, also sits on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The FISA court is the same court that approved the surveillance on Trump associates.
Boasberg refused to release the documents on the basis they were still being used by special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of the alleged Russian collusion with Trump associates.
The judge ruled, “the Comey Memos, at least for now, will remain in the hands of the Special Counsel and not the public.”
“It’s unfortunate, but not at all surprising, to see a FISA court judge side with secrecy over transparency on the very day the House Intelligence Committee released a very troubling example of abuse of trust within the FISA system,” said Christopher Bedford, the editor-in-chief of TheDCNF.