I am still working one executive summary. They may not cart off current and past FBI employees in handcuffs, but the report fairly ugly so far in my opinion. My take is the IG is pushing major incompetence by FBI leadership..
From page xiv:
“In our view, this was a failure of not only the
operational team, but also of the managers and
supervisors, including senior officials, in the chain of
command. For these reasons, we recommend that the
FBI review the performance of the employees who had
responsibility for the preparation, Woods review, or
approval of the FISA applications, as well as the
managers and supervisors in the chain of command of
the Carter Page investigation, including senior officials,
and take any action deemed appropriate. In addition,
given the extensive compliance failures we identified in
this review, we believe that additional OIG oversight
work is required to assess the FBI’s compliance with
Department and FBI FISA-related policies that seek to
protect the civil liberties of U.S. persons. “
So far we have direct confirmation of quite a bit of the “conspiracy theory”.
...Interspersed with terms that people don’t understand.
The one comment everyone is hanging on is a misunderstanding of what it means when they say “authorized purpose”. It means mostly that they cited a clause that is actually in the law that provides authority to conduct the wiretaps and that the correct people signed off on it. The phrase means nothing in regards to whether the application was justified.