BLITZER: Breaking late this afternoon, an unprecedented rebuke of the FBI by the normally very secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court known as the FISA court. Let's bring in our senior justice correspondent Evan Perez. Evan, how unusual was this?</s>EVAN PEREZ, CNN SENIOR JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: It's very unusual. This court, as you said, Wolf, does almost everything in secret, and this is an order from the Chief Judge of the FISA court, Rosemary Collyer. And she is citing these findings from the Inspector General of the Justice Department who said that there were 17 instances in which the FBI either presented things as facts which they were not or left things out of this application for a FISA surveillance of Carter Page. And so, there were these problems that the -- that the Inspector General found that now requires the FBI to undergo a more fulsome review of how it does these FISA applications. And I'll read this one part of what the Judge said. She said that the fact that these -- these problems were found calls into question whether the information contained in other FBI applications is reliable. Again, those are strong words from the Judge. She's ordering, Wolf, that the FBI come back by next month and say exactly what it's doing to correct these problems so that they don't occur again. The FBI, by the way, just issued a statement saying that the Director, Christopher Wray, has ordered 40 different fixes that are, hopefully, going to fix problems like this from happening again.</s>BLITZER: Yes, because I don't remember a time when a FISA judge has written a public letter like this --</s>PEREZ: Public letter.</s>BLITZER: -- saying we don't know if we can believe you.</s>PEREZ: Right, exactly. And, again, these problems are systemic, it appears, at the</s>FBI. BLITZER: Thanks very much, Evan, for that report. Pretty tough letter indeed. Coming up, a Russian spy ship sailing recklessly and posing a potential threat to vessels off the east coast of the United States.
Secret Surveillance Court Slams FBI Mistakes