Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here with another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

Podcast. The Secret of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, it's called FISA Court, has given the

FBI until January 10th to address abuses and lapses identified by the Department of Justice Inspector General in a recent report.

That report you may recall heavily criticized FBI practices in its long-term spy case that produced no evidence of any American improperly

conspiring with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Today I want to go over six ways that I think we were blind to screaming red flags about

government surveillance abuse.

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FBI Woods procedures.

I started writing about this a couple of years ago.

These were FBI procedures created nearly two decades ago

under the then director of the FBI Robert Mueller. These Woods

procedures named after the FBI official who helped design them were supposed

to appease the secret of FISA court that had flagged abuses by

FBI officials in their wiretap applications submitted to the court. The

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