Writing to Rosemary M. Collyer, the presiding judge at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Nunes asked for transcripts of "any relevant FISC hearings associated with the initial FISA application or subsequent renewals related to electronic surveillance of Carter Page." The Page surveillance warrant, first granted in October 2016, and the evidence used to secure it are at the heart of the controversial memo Nunes and the White House released last week on alleged surveillance abuse. The FISA court granted the original surveillance warrant on Oct. 21, 2016, and then three subsequent renewals. Democrats have called the Nunes memo incomplete and misleading. Only the government may come before the FISA court, so the bar for evidence is considered particularly high.

Source: Fox News February 09, 2018 16:41 UTC