One rule of leadership is that if you can't delegate, you are dead (metaphorically). Secretive Surveillance Court Rebukes FBI Over Handling of Surveillance of Trump Aide Presiding judge describes recent Inspector General report as 'troubling' Consequently, there is a very high probability that the public rebuke of the FBI by a FISC judge could not have been issued without the knowledge and concurrence of Chief Justice Roberts.  The chief justice alone has complete and absolute ownership of the FISA process.  One wonders why it took so long, since many of the DOJ I.G. findings of fraud on the court, initiated by some very nasty FBI agents, were already in the public domain. A simple phone call to the attorney general by a senior staff member of the chief justice could have much earlier verified such perfidious behavior and thus very early on forged an Executive Department, Judiciary Branch partnership to protect our Fourth Amendment rights...(Read Full Post)