Posted on 10/03/2020 7:47:39 PM PDT by bitt
The FBI says it cannot release records of internal disciplinary reviews of investigators from the Crossfire Hurricane team because of “pending or prospective law enforcement proceedings,” according to a letter the bureau sent the Daily Caller News Foundation this week.
The DCNF filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Feb. 9 for all referrals that the FBI submitted to the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) as part of its review of the Crossfire Hurricane probe, which looked at the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 5 that the FBI had referred all current employees mentioned in an inspector general’s (IG) report on Crossfire Hurricane to OPR for disciplinary review.
“Those people have all been referred to our disciplinary arm,” Wray testified.
The IG report said the Crossfire Hurricane team made 17 “significant” errors and omissions in applications to surveil former Trump aide Carter Page. Investigators withheld exculpatory evidence regarding Page and other Trump campaign aides, as well as information that undercut the credibility of the Steele dossier.
A federal judge who granted the surveillance orders accused the FBI of misleading the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Though the IG report faulted numerous FBI officials, agents, analysts and lawyers in its scathing report, only one lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, has faced any charges for activities during Crossfire Hurricane.
Clinesmith, a former FBI attorney, pleaded guilty on Aug. 19 to altering an email from a CIA analyst regarding Carter Page in June 2017.
t is unclear which FBI personnel have been referred to OPR.
The head of the FBI’s information management division told the DCNF this week that the bureau is closing the FOIA request and withholding all of the OPR records.
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The swamp still protecting itself.
Pending indefinitely.
If the Defund movement needs a place to start I recommend the FBI.
I think most of us are tired of federal agencies getting caught and then hiding behind a “pending investigation” for a hundred years.
Heres a slogan or bumper sticker I think most of us would support and that kinda goes along with “Black Lives Matter” and that is “Defund the FBI”.
Coverup. Gotta keep Hillary-Obama-Comey campaign scandal out of the news until after November 3rd
Most likely it seems these days
IOW investigations/grand juries.
Too bad there isn’t SOMEONE in Justice above this guy.(/SARC)
Nice try kids You tricks are over
I want to personally smash Christopher Wray’s face in.
I wasn’t he fired a month after he got in there and show them what a wimp he was? This is Chris Christy’s nomination. Good old boy friends.
Chris Wray is so full of it.
Fire the traitorous Wray
I'm sure that "disciplinary arm" will mete out some severe punishment....
Here is another FOIA rejection. Hat tip Brennan’sOrangeJumpsuit.
https://mobile.twitter.com/15poundstogo/status/1312125031200116736
FBI Denies Foia Request for Crowdstrike/FBI Contract after Years of Stalling on “National Security” Grounds. Swamp Swamp Swamp !!!!
PHONY BA$TARDS!
The FBI is garbage and Wray should get the boot.
But, but, but,
99.9999% of FBI personnel are fine, upstanding law-enforcement folks, doncha know?
The corruption of the FBI is one of the most frightening—and dangerous—events in US history.
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