Posted on 04/10/2020 5:46:15 PM PDT by bitt
Previously redacted footnotes from Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report expected to raise questions about prior FBI assessment of key informant.
U.S. intelligence has decided to declassify several redacted footnotes from a recent Justice Department report that will expose more problems with the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s campaign, including that agents possessed evidence their main informant may have been the victim of Russian disinformation, Just the News has learned.
The previously redacted footnotes are likely to raise new concerns that the FBI ignored flashing red warning signals about the informant Christopher Steele and gave a false picture in briefing materials supplied to Congress.
The declassified sections from Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s December review of FBI FISA abuse could be made available to key Senate and House committees as early as the end of this week, according to people familiar with the effort.
The unredacted footnotes are expected to provide new data points in the timeline showing when the FBI learned, or should have suspected, that its key evidence suggesting Trump was colluding with Russia was erroneous and how high up those concerns were known, the sources said.
The new information “will make clear the FBI possessed information at multiple levels that undercut the evidence it was using to sustain a collusion investigation” and will be specific enough to renew a debate in Washington over “whether the FBI intentionally ignored red flags or simply was blinded by ambition from seeing them clearly,” one source with direct knowledge said.
The evidence could also raise new questions about whether statements made to Congress during the Russia probe were false or misleading, and whether the intelligence community’s official assessment that Vladimir Putin was solely trying to help elect Trump was contradicted by some evidence in FBI files, the sources said.
The declassification was prompted in part by a letter sent in January by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., that requested four footnotes from the Horowitz report be declassified.
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it’s heating up, folks!
The entire Obama apparat-——intel/DOJ gang ——was fixated on sabotaging Trump’s presidency.
They went so far as to collude with House Democrats Speaker Pelosi, Schiff, Hillary and Senator Schumer to set impeachment in motion.
Even as the new Pres was hanging his clothes in WH closets, preparing to govern the nation, he was apparently being watched, monitored, stalked, and “set-up” for impeachment by this evil cabal.
AG Barr said “the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness.”
“There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it.”
Any fool can see Obama and company were engaged in a vast criminal conspiracy…….which no one was supposed to find out about.
B/c the fix was in. Miss Hillary was a “shoo-in” and would sweep it all under the rug.
These people have committed huge crimes ….. they created one diversion after another……all of which have failed.
Time to face the music.
By exposing the corrupt prosecution of Gen Flynn, Barr and Durham have not only (A) an opportunity to bring justice to General Flynn, they (B) help build the public narrative of an Obama-enabled vast criminal conspiracy that included Andrew Weissmann, Rod Rosenstein, and James Comey (remember he bragged about setting up Flynn)......
......and Andrew McCabe (“First we f*ck Flynn, then we F*ck Trump”)......
Channeling evidence through Sidney Powell into the Flynn case, Barr and Durham get it introduced into the public domain through court filings.
Plus, by having the evidence introduced in the Flynn case, the argument that Barr’s investigation is simply revenge by President Trump is shot to pieces.
And who better than Sidney Powell to handle the gutting of Andrew Weissmann? She literally wrote the book on his corrupt tactics: “Licensed to Lie.”
Release the footnotes!
Why was it redacted?
It’s more sinister than targeting Trump in 2016. Hillary’s henchmen began using FISA immediately after Obama’s election in 2008 to target whomever her opponent would be. It just happened to be Trump. Chances are there are files of information and contingency plans against all of Trump’s primary opponents from 2016.
Exactly. And who redacted it?
There is no lawful reasons for these redactions in the first place. No “sources or methods” were disclosed.
My guess is that it went right to the top, Comey and Obama.
Putting on the screws and tightening them ever so slowly but steadily. Might get a few suicides from Deep Staters who don’t want to be interviewed/questioned/subpoenaed or put under oath. They will not be missed.
AG Barr told Laura Ingraham in a recent interview there was no basis for an investigation of Trump's campaign. They had no verifiable evidence to even begin one. Sounds to me like Barr doesn't agree with Horowitz's conclusion that was OK to open up Crossfire Hurricane.
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