The Attorney General of the United States Cannot Sign FISA Warrants.

[msanthrope]

Dana.....you're useless.

[Uponthegears]

1. Explanation?

[MissB]

3. Only AGs that are confirmed by congress have that power.

Yates was confirmed by congress but he obviously wasn't.

[Uponthegears]

4. I am fairly sure

That United States Attorneys go through Senate confirmation.

There was no one left at Justice in DC that was a confirmed position so I thought the same thing as the OP. I never imagined he would go trolling the US Attorneys offices.

He's desperate

[avebury]

5. I watched Anderson 360 show from

yesterday and they were pretty clear that only Senate confirmed AG's can sign FISA warrants. There are now no senate confirmed employees at the AG's office.

[msanthrope]

6. No. They do not. nt

[Uponthegears]

11. Check section titled "Appointment"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney

[msanthrope]

12. Not confirmed under 50 USC 1804. Now, Trump's explanation will be

That all us attorneys are technically senate-confirmed... But only Yates has been confirmed under 50 USC....

And since I presume that you have read the relevant statute, could you explain to me how apparently now every single us attorney has the right to request a FISA warrant????

[Uponthegears]

14. The FISA statute requires

That the application be approved by the Attorney General (who has to personally certify that it has a good faith factual basis). It's not just confirmation, it's also the position.

I used to hold exactly the same opinion as you, btw. I'm just not sure I was right.

[msanthrope]

15. Sorry, we are going to disagree. nt

[Uponthegears]

16. Only kind of

I was posting exactly the same thing you are all last night when Trump first gigged that toad Boente.

I hope you're right.

It would be sweet as hell.

[braddy]

2. ?

[msanthrope]

7. Not Senate confirmed. nt

[Gothmog]

8. I think that you need to be senate confirmed to sign warrants

[PRETZEL]

9. Maybe I'm misreading this but

aren't FISA warrants issued by the FISA Court?

I had thought that the judges who are sitting on this court have to sign off on the warrant requests.

[msanthrope]

10. Who makes the request? nt

[PRETZEL]

13. I believe the AG

makes the requests, but I don't believe he can issue the warrant.