Posted on 02/24/2020 9:26:51 AM PST by EVO X
The Justice Department Inspector watchdog referred FBI agent Stephen Somma for disciplinary review after an investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.
Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the FBI's New York field office, was identified only as "Case Agent 1" in Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report, released in December. Sources told the New York Times that Somma is that official. The FBI did not comment for the report.
Somma was primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions" during the process of obtaining FISA warrants to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016 and 2017, according to Horowitz. Horowitz confirmed the FBI relied heavily upon British ex-spy Christopher Steeles salacious and unverified dossier when pursuing the secret surveillance.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I haven’t seen anything new on Clinesmith and suspect we won’t for quite sometime. They have to review all his past FISA inputs and I would think case work as well.
With all these so-called “errors” and “failures” in the process, the only conclusion a sane person can come to is that the FBI/DOJ’s hiring procedures need to be extensively overhauled if all they’re getting are large numbers of mentally, and morally challenged individuals on their payroll.
Line agents are all cool eh Sean?
Law Enforcement at ALL levels is crooked.
And, Sean is a buffoon.
Oh but all those in management who repeatedly signed four separate FISA warrants are responsible too - the scapegoat will not be sufficient.
You have a point. I would assume the people on the CH team were the best and brightest in CI. Makes me wonder about qualifications of junior agents.
I've read the IG report. The top officials whom signed off insinuated they rubber stamped the applications because their staff said everything was on the up and up. Trisha Anderson in the FBI general council office testified something to the effect the FISA was pre-approved by senior DOJ leadership for the first FISA application in Oct 2016.
Here is related article by Lee Smith on John Solomon’s new website.
Title: Declassified FBI memos undercut Mueller team claims that Papadopoulos hindered Russia probe
Link:
I’ve read the IG report. The top officials whom signed off insinuated they rubber stamped the applications because their staff said everything was on the up and up.
If that is the case then the institution needs to take the fall: Abolish FISC.
The FISC is going to stick around. The court employees are likely to pay closer attention and ask a few more questions before advising the judges. The question I have is why were there 4 different judges involved in the same case? Why we’re several reorganizations made within the CH Team at the FBI? This was a counter intelligence investigation, not a counter terror investigation. There was no need to hurry the F up as Strzok tweeted.
The question I have is why were there 4 different judges involved in the same case? Why were several reorganizations made within the CH Team at the FBI? This was a counter intelligence investigation, not a counter terror investigation. There was no need to hurry the F up as Strzok tweeted.
For the same reason 4 high level prosecutors assaulted Stone over a process crime. This wasn’t a CI investigation. It was a Get Trump coupist investigation. And they all wanted a piece of that action.
I agree. Strzok, Page, and Cinesmith tweets imply they were all in on the coup.
for disciplinary review, how sweet and kind
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