Judge Dismisses Carter Page Lawsuit Against FBI Despite 'Deeply Troubling' Surveillance
Judge Dismisses Carter Page Lawsuit Against FBI Despite 'Deeply Troubling' Surveillance | ZeroHedge
Friedrich noted that the “FBI’s conduct in preparing the FISA warrant applications to electronically surveil Page was deeply troubling” and that the government itself has “conceded that it lacked probable cause for two of the warrants.”
‘No Actionable Claim’
However, Friedrich, a Trump appointee, ruled that the lawsuit be thrown out because Page had “brought no actionable claim against any individual defendant or against the United States.”
“In part, that is because Page faces at least three statutory roadblocks. First, Congress has not created a private right of action against those who prepare false or misleading FISA applications,” the judge wrote, noting that “both the plain language and the structure of FISA make clear that civil liability under 50 U.S.C. § 1810 attaches only to those who conduct or perform electronic surveillance.”
Secondly, the judge noted that Congress has “not provided for damages claims against federal officers for constitutional violations stemming from unlawful electronic surveillance in the national security context,” and thirdly, “Congress has not waived the United States’s sovereign immunity for this kind of claim.”
Apparently the government cannot be sued for breaking laws regardless of the public interest because the government has not said that is lawful. And all the judges concur.
Think on that...