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Former US attorney expects 'blockbuster' FISA abuse report from DOJ inspector general
washington examiner ^ | 8/20/2019 | daniel Chaitin

Posted on 08/20/2019 10:44:48 AM PDT by bitt

Former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis predicted the Justice Department inspector general's report on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses will be "hard-hitting," with multiple recommendations for prosecution.

During an interview Monday on Fox News, Lewis said he used to work with Inspector General Michael Horowitz at the Justice Department and called him as "tough as a nail." Lewis added, "He’s tough, he is smart, and I think the report will be a blockbuster." He expects Horowitz's findings to make special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election "look like a sixth grade book report."

Asked to explain why, Lewis said, "It’s going to come out. It’s going to be hard-hitting. [Horowitz] spent almost two years interviewing various people — witnesses. Looking at what he describes [as] almost a million documents. And I think he’s going to make recommendations regarding prosecution and turn this whole FISA — this Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the submissions, I think he will turn them on their head."

British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to surveil one-time Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, an American citizen who was never charged with any wrongdoing.

Republicans have argued the dossier's Democratic benefactors and its author's anti-Trump bias were left out of the FISA applications and have demanded accountability. Democrats countered that the FBI acted appropriately, saying the Justice Department and the FBI met the rigor, transparency, and evidentiary basis for probable cause.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bang; boom; breakingnews; brokennews; declassification; fbi; fisa; fizzle; horowitz; impeachment; jamescomey; lisapage; peterstrzok; robertmueller; squeak
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To: Jack Black

Thank you for that.


81 posted on 08/20/2019 2:38:01 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: dfwgator

https://youtu.be/XrmJ0mFUO9A

Great pumpkin caught on camera.


82 posted on 08/20/2019 3:09:38 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Texas resident

I’ve been avoiding paying much attention to the tic-toc. I guess I’ll have to continue doing the same until, and if, something actually happens.


83 posted on 08/20/2019 3:47:51 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: janetjanet998
"stop speculating...don’t set the bar to high....prepare for phrases like “isolated mistakes were made” and “poor judgement” and “no conspiracy” and “no intent” etc...."

Yup...mistakes were made and changes have been....

84 posted on 08/20/2019 4:12:25 PM PDT by blam
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To: dfwgator

Simply smashing!


85 posted on 08/20/2019 4:22:37 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: bitt

Yawn.


86 posted on 08/20/2019 4:41:28 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: bitt
...with multiple recommendations for prosecution.

I could swear this dumbass referred McCabe in a previous investigation.

I ain’t holding my breath...

87 posted on 08/20/2019 4:46:53 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: karnage
Like “military intelligence,” “jumbo shrimp,” and “logical leftist.”

And:

Republicans have argued the dossier's Democratic benefactors....

88 posted on 08/20/2019 4:49:07 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ScottinVA

“Tick tock, tick tock!!”

Hannity, tomorrow.


89 posted on 08/20/2019 10:15:02 PM PDT by Deo volente ("Paging Mr. Charles Martel. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.")
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To: Nothingburger

Yep - and let’s not forget it takes time to actually gather evidence legally and get one’s ducks in a row...the Dems come up with a ‘concept” wish it was real and already proven, and then railroad convenient victims by abusing the system...we voted for a guy who wouldn’t do that.


90 posted on 08/21/2019 2:46:22 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Texas resident

In my lifetime?


91 posted on 08/21/2019 6:57:19 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Texas resident

I am appalled this has taken so long.


92 posted on 08/21/2019 7:02:37 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: ScottinVA

The stars will burn cold before we see this. A media crafted recession will sweep the GOP out, apparatchiks at the DOJ will quietly drop it, and “all will be well.”


93 posted on 08/21/2019 7:07:40 AM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: trebb

Thanks for your sensible reply to my post, FRiend.

Of course, the time may come when the Left becomes so unhinged that there will be no alternative but to start shooting immediately.

We’re not there ... yet.


94 posted on 08/21/2019 7:19:57 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: 50sDad

Not only a media crafted recession, but even sooner, a scheduled “mass shooting,” if this does in fact turn the heat up on the enemy.


95 posted on 08/21/2019 10:03:02 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
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