Posted on 12/09/2019 9:21:30 AM PST by bitt
The Justice Department inspector general’s report into the Russia collusion investigation lays out incontrovertible evidence that the FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court through false information and omissions, according to sources familiar with its findings.
The evidence that the judges were misled is so sweeping that it could provide grounds, if Attorney General William Barr chooses, to withdraw the FBI’s application for the surveillance warrants that began in October 2016 to target ex-Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the sources added.
Such a move, while mostly legally symbolic since the probe is long since closed, would still amount to a resounding rebuke to an FBI probe that the bureau, Democrats and their media allies relentlessly defended.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment on Monday morning.
“The evidence of false statements, false information, deception through omission is going to raise an important debate about FISA,” one source told me.
The report is expected to conclude the FBI’s decision to open a counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia in 2016 was adequately predicated but that its subsequent reliance on the so-called Steele dossier and execution of FISA warrants to assist the probe were problematic.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnsolomonreports.com ...
Did not read. Is report a nothing burger as expected?
IG doesn’t indict. As you full well know. So just stop with the shite-posting every time.
can we expect the end result to be..
A Harshly worded memo???
The horror!! The Shame!!
“Your honor, my client’s plot to overthrow the President was an error.”
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Right .... sedition in now a series of errors.
The country is sick and near death.
Everyone needs to wake the F. up.
Where is John Roberts?
It isnt out yet.
These are just posts projecting conclusions based whatever they think such and such will say or do based on whatever.
Durham won’t be producing a report, though. He will either get indictments or he won’t.
It takes some criminals to raze a republic.
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
No truth, no justice. No justice, no America.
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It took BOTH parties to abrogate the Constitution.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
Words have meaning or the Constitution is an illusion.
I hope this is explained to the American people since the majority does not know the legal process. And hope it is put in terms everyone understands.
Meanwhile Trump is the evil one. This is sickening but not suprising. Civil war is the only solution.
“The IG doesn’t have the authority to make indictments”
Correct. However I believe he does have the authority to recommend indictments.
I’m really not sure what the point of this article is when the report is expected out in a few hours.
The New York Times and Washington Post will 'buy the excue' because they always stand with white liberal 'elites' against the rest of us. Must be nice to be a powerful thug and have the press kissing your butt...
My layman's understanding is that the threshold for launching a counterintelligence investigation is rather low. The FBI gets a whiff of suspicious behavior, or a report from a source thought to be credible, and it checks it out. It may well be that Horowitz acknowledged this fact, and that this is what the leakers and the media are madly spinning.
BUT: then we come to "errors and omissions." An American citizen can't simply be assumed to be guilty and surveilled without evidence. Rumor, innuendo, and uncorroborated hearsay aren't enough. The question is not whether the opening of a probe was warranted; the question is whether the move to surveillance and wiretapping was warranted. That is a separate question.
If this is all about Carter Page -- Naval Academy grad, former Navy intelligence officer, a past target of Russian recruitment efforts, a cooperator with the FBI in nailing said Russians, etc. -- one should assume, absent some smoking gun, that he was a good guy. A counterintelligence probe should have begun by interviewing Page himself. That wasn't done. He was treated as a hostile target from the beginning, apparently solely on the basis of the Steele dossier.
So: Horowitz could well conclude that there was a basis for opening an investigation, but that there was no basis for surveillance, for wiretapping, for four warrants from the FISA court, etc. A decision to go Inspector Javert on an American citizen based on an unsubstantiated Steele dossier shouldn't be minimized as a mere error. And misrepresentation of the Steele dossier to the FISA Court, the claim that it was verified, and failure to disclose that it was a democrat oppo research trash heap shouldn't be dismissed as a mere "omission."
Horowitz's words will need to be parsed very carefully. He may well be an agency lifer who is attempting to minimize the scandal. He may well provide language that the democrats and the media can exploit. But the facts will stand independently of tricks of wording.
But at least they didn’t have bias while doing it.
ABSOLUTELY
The D.C. (Divide & Control) POWER CENTER has no regard for the Constitution.
Witness events
Approaching 2020
See Clearly
Yep. That road leads right back to the compromised Roberts , who, coincidentally, will be overseeing the Senate sham impeachment “trial”.
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Neat arrangement, isn’t it?
“Misled?
That’s what we used to call LYING...................”
Yeah. And doing it to a FISA court might be confused with breaking the law.
We were kind of expecting the white wash from this IG but the facts are still there that show rational folks this was an illegal witch hunt. And a real investigation could proabably track it right up to the kenyan.
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