Kris finds FBI's new procedures for dealing with FIS inadequate

Washington Examiner:
The Obama Justice Department official appointed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to scrutinize the FBI’s FISA reforms determined the bureau’s reforms would be insufficient without a change in the FBI’s culture.

David Kris, a controversial pick for the job after his full-throated defenses of the FBI’s decision-making throughout the Trump-Russia investigation, said the changes FBI Director Christopher Wray proposed in the wake of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s damning report on FISA abuse were insufficient and told the court its review “should not obscure the larger issues presented.”

“Standards and procedures, checklists and questionnaires, automated workflows, training modules, and after-the-fact audits are all important, but they cannot be allowed to substitute for a strong FBI culture of individual ownership and responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of FISA applications,” Kris said in a Wednesday filing. “Without that, even the best procedures will not suffice; indeed, expanded procedures dictating multiple layers of review and approval could backfire, creating a kind of moral hazard in which each layer believes, or assumes, that errors have or will be caught by the others. Organizational culture is paramount to real reform, and the inspector general's report suggests that the FBI's culture of accuracy has suffered.”

Horowitz’s report, released on Dec. 9, lambasted the DOJ and the FBI for 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to its targeting of Carter Page, stretching from October 2016 to summer 2017, and critiqued the broader counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane.
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Kris did not speak to his own participation in that culture and his obviously wrong response to Deven Nunes's disclosure of the problem, to begin with.  His statement was really the only one he could make with any credibility after he took the other side for so long.

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