“There is thus little doubt that the government breached its duty of candor to the Court with respect to those applications.” James E. Boasberg, Presiding Judge, FISC, Opinion and Order, In re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC, Docket Misc. 19-02, March 4, 2020
That sentence is in his March 4, 2020, FISC opinion. The docket is Misc. 19-02. The court issued a corrected opinion and a short covering order on March 5, 2020, after noting an error on page 6 of the March 4 filing. On April 3, 2020, he ordered further sworn reporting after an OIG Woods-procedures memorandum.
The March 4 opinion recites the December 2019 OIG report on the Carter W. Page applications and then treats the candor breach as established for the court’s remedial purposes. It is a FISC finding about government filings. It is not a criminal conviction. It is not a finding that Boasberg signed the original Page applications. Then-Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer had already directed the government to explain itself in December 2019; Boasberg, as the new presiding judge, wrote the March 2020 follow-on.
The government’s later technology-update letters in the same docket are addressed to “The Honorable James E. Boasberg.” Those letters exist. They do not convert a remedial FISA docket into a political endorsement.