DOJ inspector general finds 17 'significant
errors or omissions' in Carter Page
FISA applications
Washington Examiner,
by
Jerry Dunleavy
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/9/2019 1:52:27 PM
The Justice Department watchdog excoriated the FBI for relying upon British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier in obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who released a report on Monday showing his findings regarding allegations of surveillance abuses, also found the FISA process was significantly flawed and marred by serious mistakes and missteps, but determined that the initiation of the Trump-Russia investigation itself crossed the low threshold to be properly predicated and was not influenced by political bias as some of Trump's allies have alleged.
The IG would only be able to report what people confessed to, so it's not likely anyone they interviewed would actually say they did something wrong.
Note that Durham's office has sent a message advising they have more than what the IG had access to, and they have a grand jury hearing testimony.
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Soooooo....not even a wrist slap or bad performance memo can be expected. Gotcha.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pearson365 12/9/2019 2:14:27 PM (No. 257276)
No 1, has anyone seen / heard reports that Comey, McCabe and 2 to 3 dozen other Obama regime officials have been seen entering or departing the Hartford federal courthouse? Durham may be another Huber, the prosecutor that Congressman Nunes and Jordan said never interrogated any of the key witnesses involved in the 2016-17 coup against President Trump. To date, Trump has been poorly served by his DoJ and FBI, and I have little confidence anything will change,
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
starboard 12/9/2019 2:21:16 PM (No. 257278)
Not surprised by this Obama IG appointee who was probably reached.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 12/9/2019 2:47:35 PM (No. 257291)
As predicted. this guy Inspector General Michael Horowwhitewash has done exactly what was expected. He spent all those months figuring out how to file a report that would not implicate his buddies at FBI and DJO.
Brave of him to accuse some "low level" employee for making errors. I might point out that no "low level" employee would be so bold as to perform any not normal action without the knowledge and approval of a "high level" supervisor. I'm sick and tired of being told that people like Inspector General Michael Horowitz and Mueller are of the highest integrity when they are anything but !!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 12/9/2019 2:58:09 PM (No. 257298)
And has the FISA court judges, who were misled 17 times by this report from IG Obama ... oops, I mean IG Horowitz ... hauled the signatories on those warrants before their bench to explain these 17 (or more) LIES (aka "misleads")? I haven't heard it.
Which leads me to believe that the FISA Court Judges and their staff was as deep into this coup plotting as the folks who plied these falsehoods on the court. And that, my friends, is a very, very scary thought. If I were in Congress, I'd be wanting to pull the plug on this star chamber.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/9/2019 3:07:53 PM (No. 257307)
"not influenced by political bias." Uh huh. This would be the first thing that wasn't biased since Donald Trump introduced his candidacy. Are they sure they weren't just reading the FBI's fake mission statement?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 12/9/2019 3:18:30 PM (No. 257315)
But, hey, it's OK, they didn't intend to break the law, just just did it 17 times "on a accident" as a 6 year old liar would claim.
Horowitz is a investigative coverup artist.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/9/2019 3:51:16 PM (No. 257346)
Then just what in the bloody hell do you attribute it to? Serial incompetence and statistically improbable if not virtually impossible coincidence? Space aliens, a shift in the earths axis, climate change perchance?
Again we are asked to reject the obvious and embrace the absurd. Sorry, I've had enough.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
privateer 12/9/2019 4:17:41 PM (No. 257362)
I expect to see raises, bonuses and promotions all around for the Merry Band of Traitors. Plus multi-million dollar "how I did it" book deals. Brennan and Clapper will receive the Presidential Medal...from Khamenei.
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