Posted on 08/04/2020 2:17:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
An internal audit of 29 warrant applications submitted by the FBI to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found only minor clerical errors in a process that has come under heavy political scrutiny in recent years.
The findings were revealed in a court filing Wednesday and stem from an independent review of the FBI's application process for surveillance warrants by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
The DOJ watchdog concluded in a report earlier this year that the FBI had made over a dozen errors in its applications to look into Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to President Trump's 2016 campaign.
According to last week's court documents, the internal review looked over "hundreds of pages of facts contained in the 29 applications audited by the Office of the Inspector General" and found "only one material misstatement and one material omission."
"The complete absence in the twenty-nine applications of material errors impacting probable cause should instill confidence in the FBI's use of its FISA authorities," FBI Acting General Counsel Dawn Browning said in a sworn statement, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
"The overwhelming majority of factual assertions -- approximately 6,568 -- were determined not to be erroneous at all, materially or otherwise. Of the errors that were identified, many were minor typographical errors, such as a misspelled word, and date errors," Browning added.
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The bank robbery was mostly non-violent. Except for the dead teller. Just give her family a few grand and call it good. See how easy that was?
The FBI only committed a couple of small felonies. Nothing to see here. A slap on the wrist and off you go. Maybe a strongly worded letter in the personnel jacket.
Does that mean we get to do our own IRS audits?
Audit the Auditors
We need independent audits.
You are missing the story my man....that’s the point, the ig was saying the fisa abuse was not special to trump Russia ... turns out, it full of it... it was special after all Trump was targeted in a unique way and the ig tried to cover it up.
I think most are reading this wrong. So how come so many HUGE errors WERE made in the Russia Gate investigations.
I’ve read this several times and am still not sure. Terrible journalism.
These FISA’s do not appear to be the ones that were for Carter Page, the ones that IG Horowitz said were not adequately predicated, right? Are these 29 picked at random? What are these?
L/E usually considers falsified official documents as the MO to cover-up an even larger crime.
....sniffle, ....I keep forgetting Obama is so perfect.....sob......
Minor errors like the DOJ attorney who deliberately inserted the word “not” in order to completely change the meaning of his pleading.
What a pile of crap.
This is just cover for Durham and Barr issuing a report instead of indictments.
So that keeps the total number, to date, of deepstate/democrats being held accountable for a massive amount of crimes to, let’s see........zero!
The findings were revealed in a court filing Wednesday and stem from an independent review of the FBI's application process for surveillance warrants by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
This PROVES that the investigation was minor, and does not take into consideration any violated Constitutional Rights.
It demonstrates that the FBI is unable to investigate itself;
furthermore, that the 'good ole boy' network is alive and well, and is part of the SWAMP !
Our most trusted Law Enforcement Organization currently is no more trustworthy than the BLM extortion racket in St. Louis.
An internal audit? Like THAT waa going to find anything amiss..
The minor errors were intentional in order to subvert foia requests ... for example spelling Clinton with a 1 instead an l like so C1inton so they don’t show in requests
“found only minor clerical errors”
This was the “Spell check” review for punctuation and using the correct font and spacing so they could tell everyone that everything was really all right, move along!
“The audit did not specify whether the FBI’s Russia investigation, which Trump has repeatedly referred to as a “hoax,” was included in the review.”
Without this we have no more information than we had before.
Space Shuttle Challenger suffered “minor errors”.
Only minor errors with Desert One.
Only minor errors with Lewinsky.
Only minor errors with Fast and Furious.
Only minor errors with Benghazi.
"...According to last week's court documents, the internal review looked over "hundreds of pages of facts contained in the 29 applications audited by the Office of the Inspector General" and found "only one material misstatement and one material omission..."
The material misstatement they referred to from page 1 of the FISA application:
Carter W. Page [REDACTED] knowingly engage in clandestine intelligence activities (other than intelligence gathering activities) for or on behalf of such foreign power, which activities involve or are about to involve a violation of the criminal statutes of the United States, or knowingly conspires with other persons to engage in such activities and, therefore is an agent of a foreign power as defined by 50 U.S.C 1801(b)(2)(E). This application targets Carter Page. The FBI believes Page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian Government [REDACTED] undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election in violation of a U.S. criminal law. Page is a former foreign policy adviser to a Candidate for U.S. President (Candidate #1).
The material omission they referred to:
The Entire Woods Procedure Log that validates their information and is required by LAW when submitting a request for a FISA warrant. Yes, that has not been "found".
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
Partisan Media Shills update.
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