Double-secret epic bench slap!

For a super-duper secret spy tribunal, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has gotten awful chatty all of a sudden.

Responding to the Horowitz report, presiding judge Rosemary Collyer has issued an order excoriating the FBI's handling of the Carter Page warrant application.

The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.

Collyer then directs the DOJ and FBI to, uh, not do all those bad things she just mentioned.

THEREFORE, the Court ORDERS that the government shall, no later than January 10, 2020, inform the Court in a sworn written submission of what it has done, and plans to do, to ensure that the statement of facts in each FBI application accurately and completely reflects information possessed by the FBI that is material to any issue presented by the application.

By the severity of this sanction, we can see how seriously the FISC takes the safeguards of Americans' constitutional rights in secret, ex parte proceedings in which it grants 99 percent of applications.

I say again: epic!