From
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-here-are-the-17-specific-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fbis-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page . The quotes are all from the IG Report, and I did each separately so I could comment, briefly, and to make it easier for others to comment.
1Omitted information from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Page, including that Page had been approved as an operational contact for the other agency from 2008 to 2013, and that Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers, one of which overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application;
Relevant information withheld.
2Included a source characterization statement asserting that Steele’s prior reporting had been “corroborated and used in criminal proceedings,†which overstated the significance of Steele’s past reporting and was not approved by Steele’s FBI handling agent, as required by the Woods Procedures;
False statement.
3Omitted information relevant to the reliability of Person 1, a key Steele sub-source (who, as previously noted, was attributed with providing the information in Report 95 and some of the information in Reports 80 and 102 relied upon in the application), namely that (1) Steele himself told members of the Crossfire Hurricane team that Person 1 was a “boaster†and an “egoist†and “may engage in some embellishment†and ...
Relevant information withheld.
4Asserted that the FBI had assessed that Steele did not directly provide to the press information in the September 23 Yahoo News article, based on the premise that Steele had told the FBI that he only shared his election-related research with the FBI and [Fusion GPS Founder Glenn] Simpson; this premise was factually incorrect (Steele had provided direct information to Yahoo News) and also contradicted by documentation in the Woods File ...
False statement.
5Omitted Papadopoulos’s statements to an FBI CHS in September 2016 denying that anyone associated with the Trump campaign was collaborating with Russia or with outside groups like WikiLeaks in the release of emails;
Relevant information withheld.
6Omitted Page’s statements to an FBI CHS [Confidential Human Source] in August 2016 that Page had “literally never met†or “said one word to†Paul Manafort and that Manafort had not responded to any of Page’s emails; if true, those statements were in tension with claims in Steele’s Report 95 that Page was participating in a “conspiracy†with Russia by acting as an intermediary for Manafort on behalf of the Trump campaign
Relevant information withheld.
7Selectively included Page’s statements to an FBI CHS in October 2016 that the FBI believed supported its theory that Page was an agent of Russia but omitted other statements Page made, including denying having met with Sechin and Divyekin, or even knowing who Divyekin was; if true, those statements contradicted the claims in Steele’s Report 94 that Page had met secretly with Sechin and Divyekin about future cooperation with Russia and shared derogatory information about candidate Clinton.
Relevant information withheld.
8Omitted the fact that Steele’s Primary Sub-source, who the FBI found credible, had made statements in January 2017 raising significant questions about the reliability of allegations included in the FISA applications ...
Relevant information withheld.
9Omitted Page’s prior relationship with another U.S. government agency, despite being reminded by the other agency in June 2017, prior to the filing of the final renewal application, about Page’s past status with that other agency; instead of including this information in the final renewal application, the FBI OGC [Office of the General Counsel] Attorney altered an email from the other agency so that the email stated that Page was “not a source†for the other agency, which the FBI affiant relied upon in signing the final renewal application;
Relevant information withheld and evidence tampering.
10Omitted information provided by persons with direct knowledge of Steele’s work-related performance in a prior position about Steele’s professional judgment, including statements that Steele had held a “moderately senior†position (not “high-ranking†as noted in the applications), had no history of reporting in bad faith but demonstrated “poor judgment,†“pursued people with political risk but no intelligence value,†“didn’t always exercise great judgment,†and it was “not clear what he would have done to validate†his reporting;
Relevant information withheld.
11Omitted information from Department attorney Bruce Ohr about Steele and his election reporting, including that (1) Steele’s reporting was going to Clinton’s presidential campaign and others, (2) Simpson was paying Steele to discuss his reporting with the media, and (3) Steele was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. Presidentâ€;
Relevant information withheld.
12Failed to update the description of Steele after information became known to the Crossfire Hurricane team, not only from Ohr but from others, that provided greater clarity on the political origins and connections of Steele’s reporting, including that Simpson was hired by someone associated with the Democratic Party and/or the DNC;
Relevant information withheld.
13Failed to correct the assertion in the first FISA application that the FBI did not believe that Steele directly provided information to the reporter who wrote the September 23 Yahoo News article ...
Relevant information withheld.
14Omitted the finding from a formal FBI source validation report that Steele was suitable for continued operation but that his past contributions to the FBI’s criminal program had been “minimally corroborated,†and instead continued to assert in the source characterization statement that Steele’s prior reporting had been “corroborated and used in criminal proceedingsâ€;
Relevant information withheld and perjury.
15Omitted Papadopoulos’s statements to an FBI CHS in late October 2016 (after the first application was filed) denying that the Trump campaign was involved in the circumstances of the DNC email hack;
Relevant information withheld and perjury.
16Omitted Joseph Mifsud’s denials to the FBI that he supplied Papadopoulos with the information Papadopoulos shared with the FFG (suggesting that the campaign received an offer or suggestion of assistance from Russia) ...
Relevant information withheld.
17Omitted evidence indicating that Page played no role in the Republican platform change on Russia’s annexation of Ukraine as alleged in Steele Report 95, which was inconsistent with a factual assertion relied upon to support probable cause in all four FISA applications.
Relevant evidence withheld.
As another has pointed out in another thread, it is no accident that these "Inaccuracies and Omissions", collectively and individually, all pointed toward the same conclusion, the approval of FBI surveillance. The IG declined to connect the 17 dots, but taken together they prove this was a politically motivated hit job.
