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June 14, 208 The Honorable Donald J Trump President The White House 600 Pensylvania A venue, NW Washington, D.C 20500 ear Mr President: For more thn a year, the House Permnent Seect Comittee on Intelligence ("the Committee) has been investigating the Department of Justice's (OJ) and Federa Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) potentia misuse of authorities nder the Foreign Inteigence Surveillnce Act (FISA) In the course of the Committee's investigation, we ave uncovered irreglarities with te process by which DOJ and FBI obtained inrmation and sought nd renewed tree times a warrant pursuant to FISA on US citizen Carter Page Because OJ and FBI continue to obstruct the Committee's investigation, it is time to put the cts in the public doain, consistent with the need to protect intelligence sources and methods The Commitee's investigative ndings incude DOJs nd FBI's use of an unveried dossier of memorand that was not sbjected to proper US govement veriction and was not handled according to FBI procedures The FBI's own Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide prohibits the FBI om using unveried mteril to obtain a warrant under FISA The nveried allegations in the dossier were nevertheess presented to the Foreign Inteligence Suveiance Court (FISC) to obtin a FISA warnt nd tee renewals on Mr Pge DOJ also presented a news artice that was sourced om the author of the dossier You declassied these cts at te Committee's request in February of tis year Aer months of stonewalling incuding defying a awlly issued sbpoena, DOJ and FBI nay agreed to permit select Commitee members and sta to review the applications r the FISA warrant and renewal appications at DOJ OJ and FBI continues to obstruct the Committee's rther eorts to lern about the provenance and quaity of the inrmation used to obtain the FISA warrant and renewals on Mr Page To enable the public to understand the DOJ's and FBI's basis r obtaining the FISA warrnt and three sbsequent renewals, e respectly request that yo declassi and reease publicy, and in unredacted m, pges 10-2 nd 734, aong with a associated otnotes, of te third renewl of the FISA appication on Mr Pge That renewal was led in June 2017 and signed by eputy Attoey Genera Rod Rosenstein In addition, we enclose r your inrmtion a letter signed by a 3 Committee Repubicans to the Presiding Judge of the FISC, asking her to condct an investigation into DOJs conduct in obtaining the FISA warrant and three subsequent renewas
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