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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 09, 2019, 06:08:20 pm
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Published 8 mins ago
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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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-report-doj-watchdog-releases-findings-on-russia-probe-surveillance (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-report-doj-watchdog-releases-findings-on-russia-probe-surveillance)
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John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: IG report lays out compelling evidence FBI misled FISA court in Russia case, sources say. https://johnsolomonreports.com/ig-report-prov
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EconChick/IntelChick
@MikayesFiona
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1h
BREAKING:
Solomon can now confirm IG report says FBI misled FISA Court.
Now DOJ can take action with FISA court!
I expect Barr to do something drastic to get everyone's attention after official release. Bank on it.
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Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
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4m
AG Bill Barr says that the DOJ IG report "now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken."
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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 ...
This will be the only part the Democrat Press will report. Nothing else to see here, folks.
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Brian Wilson
@BrianWilson997
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Many many FBI sins of omission detailed in IG FISA report. The FBI slanted the information presented to the Court to get the outcome it desired.
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Lee Zeldin
@RepLeeZeldin
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“The Crossfire Hurricane team failed to inform Department officials of significant information that was available to the team at the time that the FISA applications were drafted and filed.â€
Lee Zeldin
@RepLeeZeldin
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“Much of that information was inconsistent with, or undercut, the assertions contained in the FISA applications that were used to support probable cause and, in some instances, resulted in inaccurate information being included in the applications.â€
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Sean Davis
@seanmdav
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The DOJ IG determined that the Steele dossier is what provided "probable cause" for the government to spy on Carter Page, and that the FISA application "drew heavily...upon the Steele reporting to support the government's position that Page" was a Russian agent.
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Mollie
@MZHemingway
IG says officials all agreed that they should launch massive counterintel probe on basis of that one uncorroborated tip and not tell campaign (which included US Sen. and future AG Jeff Sessions and former NJ Gov. Chris Christie, notably) in case they were all in on it.
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Jake Gibson
@JakeBGibson
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U.S. Attorney John Durham -
“I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff. However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within
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Jake Gibson
@JakeBGibson
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U.S. Attorney John Durham -
“I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff. However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within
Faster, John!
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John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
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put differently, Justice Department Inspector General has found that all those attacks on the FBI by Trump, his WH, and GOP lawmakers the last three years have been complete BS
John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
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worth noting that this Republican propensity for wildly-exaggerated scandal hype precedes Trump
see Benghazi, birtherism, IRS, emails, Shirley Sherrod, etc etc
this is the result of GOP driving itself into demographic and political cul-de-sac
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Jim Hoft
@gatewaypundit
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IG Report: FBI Offered to Pay Christopher Steele "Significantly" to Dig Up Dirt on General Michael Flynn
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Patrick Howley
@HowleyReporter
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Steele withheld reports from FBI
"these and other reports were provided to the FBI in November and December 2016 by a journalist, Senator John McCain, and Ohr. When we asked Steele why he failed to provide...he could not provide us with an explanation" (p. 104)
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Faster, John!
Better make some more popcorn. @Cyber Liberty
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Mark Meadows
@RepMarkMeadows
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You won't see this in headlines, because it proves EXACTLY what we've been saying.
FBI used knowingly false and dubious information in a FISA as an excuse to surveil American citizens in the Trump campaign. And kept using the same bad info in renewals!
Stunning abuse of power.
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Mark Meadows
@RepMarkMeadows
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Predictably, some media allies of Democrats spinning hard. This is what the investigation was about, pg 361:
IG found "numerous serious factual errors and omissions in the FISA applications ... that undercut certain allegations in the applications."
That, alone, is indefensible
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No beer tomorrow it seems.
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Jack Posobiec
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@JackPosobiec
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The FISA didn't find anything but they kept renewing the FISA anyway
This is actually a big deal
The system is broken
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Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
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Jordan on IG rpot: We thought they spied on two Americans, we now know it was four. The Inspector General's report confirms what many of us feared: James Comey's FBI ignored guidelines and rules in spying on President Trump's campaign in 2016.
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Tom Winter
@Tom_Winter
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IG Report: Paul Manafort was under federal investigation for money laundering millions from Ukraine in January of 2016, before he joined the Trump campaign.
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NBC Politics
@NBCPolitics
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AG Barr on IG report's findings: "The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken."
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This can put a bit of kink into the Rat narrative, if reported.
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Barr: IG Investigation Reveals ‘FBI Launched an intrusive investigation’ of A Presidential Campaign
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Sara Carter -
https://saraacarter.com/barr-ig-investigation-reveals-fbi-launched-an-intrusive-investigation-of-a-presidential-campaign/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug
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US Attorney Durham objects to IG findings on Russia probe origins in stunning statement
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-blasts-fbi-over-intrusive-probe-of-trump-campaign-in-wake-of-fisa-report (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-blasts-fbi-over-intrusive-probe-of-trump-campaign-in-wake-of-fisa-report)
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Mark Meadows
@RepMarkMeadows
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I see James Comey has a victory lap op-ed out, making it clear he didn't read the report. Which is at least consistent with his management style of apparently not reading FISA applications.
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James Comey
@Comey
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FYI: I offered to go on Fox & Friends to answer all questions. I can’t change their viewers on Donald Trump but hoped to give them some actual facts about the FBI. They booked me for tomorrow at 8 am. They just cancelled. Must have read the report.
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Breaking911
@Breaking911
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Schumer on Justice Department IG Report: "Let me repeat, so that all of those conspiracy theorists out there here it, this report confirms that the predicate for the FBI's investigation was valid and without political bias."
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Debra J. Saunders
@debrajsaunders
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IG: "We asked Steele how he would characterize his relationship with the FBI
prior to furnishing reports on the 2016 election. He told us it was "good" except for
the tardiness of the FBl's payments to him."
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"The Justice Department inspector general on Monday released a long-awaited report that found FBI agents were not motivated by political bias in opening investigations into associates of the Trump campaign in 2016."
“We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the decisions to open the four individual investigations,†the report issued by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz states, referring to investigations into George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Carter Page."
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Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7o9IA9upM&feature=emb_title#)
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Don't miss the last sentence.
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"The Justice Department inspector general on Monday released a long-awaited report that found FBI agents were not motivated by political bias in opening investigations into associates of the Trump campaign in 2016."
“We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the decisions to open the four individual investigations,†the report issued by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz states, referring to investigations into George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Carter Page."
@Victoria33 Don't miss the last sentence
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