Posted on 11/22/2019 7:24:23 AM PST by Red Badger
Quite entertaining to watch Wolf Blitzer break the news to his audience.
Anti-Trump Preet Bharara seems stunned by the news.
.@CNN reporting an FBI agent under investigation for altering FISA-related document in Russia probe. Panel, including @jimsciutto, in scramble mode. "We always knew there'd be some mistakes that would come out, but this doesn't change the reason for the investigation."
— Jason Beale (@jabeale) November 21, 2019
Jim Sciutto in scramble mode…
Exclusive: FBI official under investigation after allegedly altering document in 2016 Russia probe
CNN — An FBI official is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, several people briefed on the matter told CNN.
The possibility of a substantive change to an investigative document is likely to fuel accusations from President Donald Trump and his allies that the FBI committed wrongdoing in its investigation of connections between Russian election meddling and the Trump campaign.
The finding is expected to be part of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of the FBI’s effort to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide. Horowitz will release the report next month.
Horowitz turned over evidence on the allegedly altered document to John Durham, the federal prosecutor appointed early this year by Attorney General William Barr to conduct a broad investigation of intelligence gathered for the Russia probe by the CIA and other agencies, including the FBI. The altered document is also at least one focus of Durham’s criminal probe.
It’s unknown how significant a role the altered document played in the FBI’s investigation of Page and whether the FISA warrant would have been approved without the document. The alterations were significant enough to have shifted the document’s meaning and came up during a part of Horowitz’s FISA review where details were classified, according to the sources.
Horowitz’s investigators conducted more than 100 witness interviews in their review. During one of interviews this year, they confronted the witness about the document. The witness admitted to the change, the sources said.
The identity or rank of the FBI employee under investigation isn’t yet known, and it’s not clear whether the employee still works in the federal government. No charges that could reflect the situation have been filed publicly in court.
The Justice Department and inspector general’s office declined to comment.
Horowitz is expected to release his report on December 9 and testify before the Senate two days later.
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EXCLUSIVE: An FBI official is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, sources say https://t.co/tLoWrRRJz8
— CNN (@CNN) November 21, 2019
THAT is exactly what it was.
He was NOT WORRIED.
THEY HAD AN ‘INSURANCE POLICY’!.............
BHO................................
I’m thinking this dude has already flipped on his partners in crime. Let the roll-up begin.
Is this person just now being investigated? If so, what the hell has Horowitz been doing. By this time the perp should have been thoroughly investigated and headed for indictment.
That is going to give me nightmares.
It should.......................
I have a very sick stomach feeling that the report will be mostly a dud. I feel Horowitz has one foot in the deep state. Hope I am wrong. The constant delay allows the communists Democrats to set up a rebuttal.
You're in good company, that's what RUSH thinks.
Strzok, I believe
ct got it right then...
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