Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said on Thursday the bureau made “many mistakes” in seeking Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority to snoop on Carter Page, an aide to former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The comments were made during a CNN interview in which McCabe defended FISA’s Section 702 — which empowers the U.S. intelligence community to collect data on non-U.S. citizens abroad — as Congress debates whether to reauthorize it.
McCabe, now a CNN law enforcement analyst, responded to Trump’s call to “KILL FISA” while saying it was used to spy on his campaign, after which the House blocked consideration of a reauthorization bill just days before Section 702 sunsets.
Disgraced former FBI agent Andy McCabe: “[FISA] 702 authorities were never used in the — in the course of that investigation of Donald Trump & his campaign & some of his…
