April, fool. And a liar

April Doss mug shot

Powerline looks back at the falsehoods penned by April Doss last year

Last year one April Doss published articles at the Atlantic and the Weekly Standard on the FISA warrants taken out on Carter Page. Doss had served as senior minority counsel on the Senate Intelligence Committee (she worked for the Democrats). She also spent over a decade at the National Security Agency, where she was associate general counsel for intelligence law. Doss touted her professional experience and expertise to assure us that the FBI had dotted all the i’s and crossed all the t’s when it took out FISA warrants on Carter Page. In the process of assuring readers that all was in order with the FBI’s work on these warrants, Doss also disparaged Devin Nunes (whose memo laying out problems with the warrants had been released in February) as a crazy conspiracy theorist.

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On Friday last week the Wall Street Journal cruelly quoted the July 27, 2018 Weekly Standard article by Doss that I had addressed last year in the post linked above. In its Notable & Quotable feature the Journal quoted Doss without comment under the heading “Conspiracy Theory”: 

[House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin] Nunes insisted on releasing a memo that endorsed a new conspiracy theory about how a Democratic administration had: abused the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] process by using salacious opposition research (with the implication that the funding source made the information itself suspect), incorporated that suspect research into a FISA application, and sent the application to the secret proceedings of the FISC without telling the court there could be bias in the information. Through this complicated string of subterfuges, Nunes claims, the Democrats managed to pervert justice in order to spy on the Trump campaign.

Over time, the conspiracy theory would deepen: Since the dossier included information from sources in Russia, that meant that the Hillary for America campaign had colluded with Russia to provide fake information to Christopher Steele, who slipped the fake news to the FBI, which then pulled the wool over the eyes of a succession of four FISC judges, each of whom signed off on further surveillance against Carter Page.

It’s an exhausting theory to contemplate, and yet one that many people, fueled by conspiracy-mongering rumors on the Internet about the workings of the “deep state,” believed.

Part of this woman’s resume reads: “April Doss spent over a decade at the National Security Agency working in a variety of capacities, including technology development, intelligence oversight, information sharing policy, counterterrorism, foreign liaison, and serving as the head of intelligence law in NSA's Office of General Counsel”.

After publishing her false and deceptive narratives Doss hired on to work with the Democrats on the Senate Judicial Committee to help “investigate” Russian interference with the 2016 election. Ten years inside the NSA; it’s fair to ask what other lies this woman engaged in durig her tenure there, and what harm she is still doing, as a member of the very deep state she denies exists.

Friday, Doss was on CNN to lend her analysis and knowledgable insights into her Democrat employers’ impeachment efforts. She has declined, however, to repond to inquies regarding her current views on the intelligence community’s sabotage of our republic.