Why Won't Trump Release the FISA Warrant Application?

Think about that.

Trumpt and his administration have repeatedly accused the FBI and/or the Obama DOJ of improperly using the "salacious" Steele dossier in order to get the FISA warrant issued and to conduct illegal surveillance on the Trump campaign.

But, even though Trump, as president, can release the warrant application and prove that the FBI and/or OJ acted improperly to have the FISA warrant issued, he has chosen not to. This is spite of the fact that even conservative pundits are calling for Trump to release the FISA information, including staunchly conservative Andrew CMcCarthy, of the National Review.

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@AndrewCMcCarthy
Will he or won’t he?

Will President Trump order the disclosure of any warrant applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (the FISA Court) in which the Justice Department and FBI presented any information derived from the Steele dossier?

We don’t need to imperil national security. There is no need to disclose the entirety of any application. There is no need to expose intelligence sources or methods of gathering information — they can be redacted. We don’t even need to see any actual application; a declassified summary of the relevant information will do. We just need to know if what administration supporters are saying is true: In seeking surveillance authority on the rationale that Trump associates were acting as agents of a foreign power, did the Justice Department and the FBI present the FISA court with the Steele dossier as if it were a product of U.S. intelligence reporting — rather than what it really was, a political opposition-research product commissioned by the Clinton campaign?.

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Could the reason Trump won't release the FISA warrant information be that there was nothing improper about the warrant or how it was issued, and Trump wants to continue to use the warrant accusations to discredit the FBI and DOJ as part of his escalating campaign to justifying the firing of Mueller or Rosenstein.

There's no other logical reason Trump won't release it.