Horowitz inexplicably stated early in his report that his office "did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the FBI's decision" to begin surveilling Trump campaign associate Carter Page back in 2016.AG Barr takes a sterner view:
Yet, just three pages later, the report says that Horowitz's investigation found seven times where FBI agents relied on "inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported" information in order to continually seek reauthorization for the surveillance of Page and others in the campaign.
In one instance, Horowitz notes that the FBI's original theory (since debunked) that Carter Page was a Russian agent was complicated by his denials to intelligence sources of having met with a pair of Russian oligarchs, whom the FBI believed had in fact been in touch with Page. When the FBI wanted re-authorization to continue spying on Page, it concealed Page's denials from the court.
When relying on information provided by Christopher Steele, the former British spy and author of the Steele dossier, to seek surveillance reauthorization, the FBI told the FISA court that Steele's reporting was "corroborated and used in criminal proceedings." As Horowitz writes, this characterization was misleading. The FBI "overstated the significance of Steele's past reporting" and that the intelligence provided by Steele had not even been approved for use in the re-authorization application by the agent who supervised him.
Horowitz's ridiculous declaration that there was no "political bias or improper motivation" in the FBI's spying on the Trump campaign is simply not true, and anyone who actually reads his report knows it.
Attorney General William Barr announced on Dec. 9 that the surveillance operation against the Trump campaign in 2016 amounted to a "clear abuse" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process.The investigation creeps ever closer to the Obama White House:
Barr made the remarks in a statement responding to the Justice Department inspector general's report on the handling of the FISA applications for warrants to spy on Trump-campaign associate Carter Page.
"In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source," Barr said.
"The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory. While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General's report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process."
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded in a report released on Dec. 9 that the four applications for warrants to spy on Page contained 17 significant errors. The errors and other failures amounted to "serious performance failures by the supervisory and non-supervisory agents."
The DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Monday released his 476-page report on FISA abuses committed by Obama's corrupt FBI and DOJ before, during and after the 2016 election.
Comey told Inspector General Michael Horowitz that he briefed Barack Obama on the Trump-Russia investigation in August of 2016 shortly after FBI counterintel chief Peter Strzok opened a CI investigation into the Trump campaign dubbed "Crossfire Hurricane."
Barack Obama was also in the infamous Oval Office meeting in January of 2017 just days before Trump's Presidential Inauguration where Comey, Brennan, VP Biden and Susan Rice discussed the phony Russia dossier.
The day after this meeting in the Oval Office, Comey traveled to Trump Tower in New York to brief then-President elect Donald Trump about the salacious, unverified portions of the dossier.
Comey lied to Trump's face and told him not to worry because he was not under investigation, despite the fact that there were several open and ongoing investigations into Trump and his camp.
What did Obama know? How involved was Barack Obama? He should be dragged in to Capitol Hill to publicly testify to lawmakers.
"According to members of Netanyahu's inner circle, these bombs will be given to Israel once it signs the mutual defence agreement that Netanyahu has been working on."And though Israel's security establishment historically have opposed a full pact, Caspit explains that the PM's associates "are referring to a 'partial' defence pact focused on Iran alone." Netanyahu's associates insist that "the prime minister wants to make history in the next half year."
"Netanyahu's people, headed by minister Yuval Steinitz clearly state that a widespread war is likely to erupt in the next six months between Iran and its adversaries in the region, including Israel."And the new Defence Minister, Bennett, threatens Iran on an almost daily basis.
"Of course, now, when I watch these shows on television, my name often comes up, and I see people there whom I recognize, whom I met and know. That is their personal opinion, especially the positions they expressed while under oath. I have my own truth. I know what I know."The most crucial point at which Yermak's recollection contradicts the testimony of the inquiry's witnesses relates to a meeting in Warsaw on Sept. 1, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. The meeting was part of an ongoing effort by the Zelensky administration to improve ties with the Trump administration.
Comment: Bibi isn't content with Hebron, but doubling down on his annexation demands. claiming the entire Jordan Valley and its mineral riches: