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Just how bad was the FBI’s Russia FISA? 51 violations and 9 false statements
John Solomon Reports ^ | December 9, 2019 | John Solomon

Posted on 12/10/2019 1:25:54 AM PST by Yo-Yo

To understand just how shoddy the FBI’s work was in securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant targeting the Trump campaign, you only need to read an obscure attachment to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report.

Appendix 1 identifies the total violations by the FBI of the so-called Woods Procedures, the process by which the bureau verifies information and assures the FISA court its evidence is true.

The Appendix identifies a total of 51 Woods procedure violations from the FISA application the FBI submitted to the court authorizing surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page starting in October 2016.

A whopping nine of those violations fell into the category called: “Supporting document shows that the factual assertion is inaccurate.”

For those who don’t speak IG parlance, it means the FBI made nine false assertions to the FISA court. In short, what the bureau said was contradicted by the evidence in its official file.

To put that in perspective, former Trump aides Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos were convicted of making single false statements to the bureau. One went to jail already, and the other awaits sentencing.

The FBI made nine false statements to the court.

And the appendix shows the FBI made another nine factual assertions that did not match the supporting evidence in the file. In another words, the bureau was misleading on nine other occasions.

The vast majority of remaining Woods violations — 33 in total — involved failing to provide any evidence in the Woods procedure backing up assertion in the FISA warrant application.

That’s serious too since the sole purpose of the Wood procedures is to ensure all evidence cited in a FISA application is documented as accurate and reliable so it can be trusted by the courts.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; fisa; solomon
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To: Yo-Yo

Shoddy???

How about we call it what it truly was: CRIMINAL and TREASONOUS.

Stop dancing around this crap. The swamp was in full ‘coup’ mode on this one, driven by 0bama and implemented by Brannan, Clapper, Comey and all their flying monkeys, in order to restore their Queen to the throne.

For none of these top tier miscreants to be tried and convicted for TREASON is to witness the death of America.


21 posted on 12/10/2019 3:00:44 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: Yo-Yo

L8r


22 posted on 12/10/2019 3:04:07 AM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Yo-Yo

James Comey: “So”?


23 posted on 12/10/2019 3:13:06 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: Yo-Yo

Just a preview of the upcoming 2020 sequel.


24 posted on 12/10/2019 3:15:39 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: qaz123

Gee, and I thought this would all now be fixed. As Hillary said, “What difference does it now make”? This experiment is now over.


25 posted on 12/10/2019 3:19:28 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: PubliusMM

Do you think the walking dead liberals in Alexandria, VA or Annapolis, MD even care to notice that a coup is ongoing? They certainly didn’t when I visited there last weekend. Clueless and without a care.


26 posted on 12/10/2019 3:29:52 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: SkyPilot

Absolutely correct


27 posted on 12/10/2019 3:34:14 AM PST by WHBates
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To: Yo-Yo
I also wonder what Chief Justice Roberts, as the sole appointee of FISA judges for the FISA court, thinks about the Horowitz report, and how his judges were lied to.

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Maybe while Barr and Durham are at it they could check Roberts and other anti Trump judges communications with Obama Schiff Pelosi.....since we found so much corruption....just to be sure.

28 posted on 12/10/2019 3:37:15 AM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: SkyPilot

When he campaigned for Trump, the President won, and then Flynn was hired as National Security Advisor - he had to be destroyed.

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Flynn Page...needs to sue every last person they can. Manafort, Stone, ....
Can probably walk free...fruit of the poisonous tree.


29 posted on 12/10/2019 3:42:42 AM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Does the report explain why it took so long for it to be published?


30 posted on 12/10/2019 3:46:03 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Yo-Yo

bkmk


31 posted on 12/10/2019 4:02:00 AM PST by sauropod (Chick Fil-A: Their spines turned out to be as boneless as their chicken patties.)
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To: Yo-Yo

If the FISA judges were not part of the coup, they would have held the FBI signatories in contempt of court. You or I would have been tossed in jail.


32 posted on 12/10/2019 4:07:45 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Yo-Yo

51 violations of Woods Procedures. Included amongst them were 9 where supporting documents show the assertions were false.

Of these 51 violations, how many favored Trump or the campaign? Surely, if the FBI were unbiased and not politically motivated, the benefits of their incompetence to the parties would be distributed randomly, right?


33 posted on 12/10/2019 4:09:38 AM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: SkyPilot

At best, Horowitz is blind as a bat. Most likely he is a Deep State operative who feeds the sound bits to media they use to “clear” all the guilty parties. That’s how we get criminals like Comey taking a victory lap, claiming to be exonerated.


34 posted on 12/10/2019 4:37:03 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: SkyPilot

That won’t stop any defense lawyers from filing suits that the criminally compromised organization FKA the FBI will have to defend. Heck, I’ll bet even jailhouse lawyers are busy as we speak.


35 posted on 12/10/2019 4:41:30 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: SkyPilot

Photoshop his face on a horse’s ass and make a animated GIF out of it.


36 posted on 12/10/2019 4:47:42 AM PST by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: tired&retired

The US government is the enemy of the American people. There is only one solution.


37 posted on 12/10/2019 5:08:25 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: tired&retired
Obama weaponized the FBI, CIA & NSA even worse than he weaponized the IRS.

The one good side in that act of pure evil is that it will reduce trust in FedGov as a whole. Voters will want smaller government as a result of this massive abuse of power, and that will lead swing voters to go conservative. [Legal, living voters only; the dead and illegals will continue voting for democrats.]

38 posted on 12/10/2019 5:41:40 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Yo-Yo

Fire Christopher Wray and Hire Michael Flynn as FBI director after judge throws out his conviction


39 posted on 12/10/2019 5:43:19 AM PST by ballplayer (By)
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To: Yo-Yo

There is no oversight, no accountability, no management in gov’t. The IG report shows that there are no rules regarding surveillance on US citizens.

It is a free-for-all where nothing is questioned because nobody will be held responsible.....therefore, there is no responsibility to do things properly.

Entrenched management, mostly socialist, can do whatever it wants.


40 posted on 12/10/2019 5:49:26 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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