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FISA report: DOJ watchdog shares findings on Russia probe surveillance
By Ronn Blitzer, Brooke Singman | Fox News
The Justice Department’s inspector general on Monday released to lawmakers the long-awaited internal review concerning the origins of the Russia investigation.
According to a source, the report concluded that investigators found no intentional misconduct surrounding efforts to seek a highly controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in the early months of the Russia investigation -- but also faulted the FBI over numerous inaccuracies in the application process.
The IG probe identified at least 17 errors in the Page applications.
IG Michael Horowitz and his investigators probed how the unverified anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was used to secure the original FISA warrant for Page in October 2016, as well as other decisions at the outset of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of Russian election interference and the Trump campaign.
The release comes as Washington has been consumed with the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The House Judiciary Committee was holding the inquiry’s latest hearing Monday, days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats are moving forward with plans to bring articles of impeachment against the president over his dealings with Ukraine.
But the FISA report is sure to become a political football of its own, alongside the impeachment probe.
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