A top FBI intelligence analyst under investigation for failing to properly vet the Steele dossier before it was used to obtain invalid warrants to spy on a former Trump campaign aide appears to have violated his own “Golden Rule” for government spying. A member of the International Intelligence Ethics Association, Brian Auten has lectured since 2010 on “Intelligence and Statecraft” at Patrick Henry College in Virginia, where until recently he was listed as an adjunct professor. “National security investigations are not ethics-free,” Auten wrote in a magazine article published on Sept. 23, 2016, as he was using the thinly sourced, error-ridden and uncorroborated dossier to try to support a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to electronically eavesdrop on Trump adviser Carter Page. “When I teach the topic of national security investigations to undergraduates at a Christian college,” he added, “we cover micro-proportionality, discrimination, and the ‘least intrusive standard’ via a tweaked version of the Golden …
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