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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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
You said it not me.
An internal audit found only minor clerical errors. I investigated myself once and found myself completely innocent. “The complete absence of material errors should instill confidence in the FBI,” FBI Acting General Counsel Dawn Browning said in a sworn statement. In a sworn statement. Oh that’s good. Now we know it’s true because the FBI would not lie under oath.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight
Folks, this is why the government cannot be trusted. It cannot check itself against fraud.
“found “only one material misstatement and one material omission.””
The founding fathers are turning in their graves. Under the Constitution there should be no secret FISA courts.
The fourth amendment could not be clearer “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
The 4th amendment requires describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. It does not permit listening in on conversations or fishing expeditions to search for evidence of crimes. It clearly does not permit civil forfeiture. It also does not permit entrapment. Unfortunately rogue justices and Congress have allowed the protections of the 4th amendment to be relaxed for expediency and to facilitate the spying of government on citizens taking advantage of technologies unknown to the founding fathers.
Sadly, today’s elected representatives, unlike the founders, enjoy exercising power over the people. Instead of fearing an all powerful big government they are drawn to the exercise of power like a moth to a lighted candle. Unfortunately the moth isn’t getting burned, it is we the people who are increasingly feeling the heat from the heavy hand of tyranny.
Exactly.
There is no "everybody makes those kind of errors" "they are routine".
Nope. They were most definitely *not* routine.
They were part of the intended coup.
Time to get the Neuralyzer out again—here, just look at this light.
Somebody did....somethig
So which 29 were picked? 29 at random? Or were these the 29 legit warrants out of thousands processed?
Government clears government.
No problem here folks. Move along.
So the actual errors should have been red flag obvious.
It became worthless after that.
Yes, only 4 misspellings and punctuation mark errors. Thank you...drive through!
The message here is that, in general, the FBI does NOT MAKE MAJOR ERRORS in their FISA applications.
Which means that the Carter Page errors were an anomaly, which points to intent. With a real media, they would report that this shows the Obama administration took active steps to mislead the FISA court to spy on their political enemies.
We investigated ourselves and found nothing!
I'm taking that it was only the Trump-related FISA requests that were deliberately altered and the procedure abused for political purposes.
I think most are reading this wrong. So how come so many HUGE errors WERE made in the Russia Gate investigations.
horseshtalin.
Jeffrey Epstein’s offenses were mostly minor ones...
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Right, an internal audit done by Wray’s FBI. Wray has been stonewalling and covering up for the FBI since be became the Director. Nothing out of the FBI today is trustworthy, especially if it relates the FBI actions during the Russia hoax. The Deep State has never been deeper than it is in the FBI.
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