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The FISA Scandal Is about Corruption, Not ‘Sloppiness’
NRO ^ | 4-2-2020 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 04/03/2020 5:28:46 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

When 96 percent of spy warrants reviewed contain serious errors or omissions — that’s wholescale fraud, not a few little slip-ups.

Consider this scenario: A federal lawyer is filling out applications requesting FISA warrants to spy on American citizens who work for a major presidential campaign to determine whether the campaign staffers are collaborating with a foreign power to steal the presidency of the United States. ....

So what are the chances that a good-faith investigation would botch nearly every request to spy on the campaign when the FISA court is already signing off on over 99 percent of applications?

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Put it this way, the new IG report found a total of 390 problems in 39 of the 42 applications that “including unverified, inaccurate, or inadequately supported facts, as well as typographical errors,” and it found another 20 issues per application in the new audit. If you’re keeping score at home, only three of 75 FISA applications (4 percent) used to spy in the investigation, starting in October 2014, were not problematic. Whoops!

It’s even worse than it looks, because Horowitz didn’t scrutinize the raw-evidence case files, which, for all we know, is teeming with mitigating evidence and facts omitted from the applications. If agents were this “sloppy” with warrants, what makes anyone believe that they collected the foundational evidence in a more professional manner?

So how does the New York Times frame this amazing discovery? As “a broader pattern of sloppiness”— the word “sloppiness,” in fact, is twice used to editorialize, in what is presented as a news story. The audit makes no such claim of “sloppiness and instead chalks up the problem to “errors and omissions.”

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
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A break from Covid-19 coverage.

Don't forget the role Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Elijah Cummings, (most of all Nancy Pelosi), NYT, WaPo, etc. etc. played to perpetuate THE HOAX.

1 posted on 04/03/2020 5:28:46 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Notice how the Chinese and the CIA and the FBI and the Democrats have gotten it removed from the headlines? But of course the virus slipped out by accident.


2 posted on 04/03/2020 5:30:48 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Apparently 100% of errors just happen to go against President Trump and his associates.

And whenever solid evidence of crimes by Hillary Clinton turns up, the decision is that “no reasonable prosecutor” would pursue them. Because he’d wind up dead.

If we don’t have executions when this is all over, then we won’t have justice.


3 posted on 04/03/2020 5:36:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Their only ‘sloppiness’ was their failure to insure the coronation of HilLIARy

-OOOPS


4 posted on 04/03/2020 5:39:21 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: CincyRichieRich

This chit storm of lies by the left and deep state better not disappear. Heads need to roll for the continuation of the Country and the rule of law!


5 posted on 04/03/2020 5:39:39 AM PDT by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals! They are the party of death, cheating and taxes.)
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To: oust the louse

bttt


6 posted on 04/03/2020 5:40:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The government never admits corruption. Let alone systemic corruption.
As most of them are passively,if not aggressively, involved in it.
Sort of like the argument about systemic racism back in the days of slavery.
The idea that the people who didn’t owned slaves.. but did nothing to stop the people who did.. were just as guilty as if they actually owned slaves.


7 posted on 04/03/2020 5:45:33 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
If we don’t have executions when this is all over, then we won’t have justice.

We won't have justice.

8 posted on 04/03/2020 5:51:11 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Sir Napsalot

You know this abuse was going on while Mueller was in charge. IG only looked at Comey’s and Wray’s time. The abuse didn’t just start on Comey’s first day...


9 posted on 04/03/2020 5:53:01 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: Sir Napsalot

Real convenient that the FBI chose to release this info in the midst of the Covid19 storm hoping that it will be forgotten after the storm subsides. Has all the ear markings of a Friday evening news drop.


10 posted on 04/03/2020 5:55:09 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: Sir Napsalot

What difference does it make now? Now one is held accountable or responsible. No one goes to jail. Some people are above the law. If only there be ten righteous men....


11 posted on 04/03/2020 6:10:26 AM PDT by FES0844
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