They couldn’t help themselves. It was in their nature.
The Justice Department inspector general said it does “not have confidence” in the FBI’s FISA application process following an audit that found the Bureau was not sufficiently transparent with the court in 29 applications from 2014 to 2019, all of which included “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts.”
Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report in December which found that the FBI included “at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications and many errors in the Woods Procedures” during its Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign. After releasing the report, Horowitz said that he would conduct a further investigation to see if the errors identified in the Page application were widespread.
“The concern is that this is such a high-profile, important case. If it happened here, is this indicative of a wider problem — and we will only know that when we complete our audit — or is it isolated to this event?” Horowitz told lawmakers during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. “Obviously, we need to do the work to understand that.”
Horowitz’s office said in a report released Tuesday that of the 29 applications — all of which involved U.S. citizens – that were pulled from “8 FBI field offices of varying sizes,” the FBI could not find Woods Files for four of the applications, while the other 25 all had “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts.”
“While our review of these issues and follow-up with case agents is still ongoing—and we have not made materiality judgments for these or other errors or concerns we identified—at this time we have identified an average of about 20 issues per application reviewed, with a high of approximately 65 issues in one application and less than 5 issues in another application,” the report reveals.
Finally! It becomes clear that we will see some real accountability. There will be blood in the cubicles.
At a minimum, I fully expect that severely worded letters of reprimand will be issued to those who violated laws, DOJ regulations, and FBI rules and policies. And those punishments won’t be expunged from their permanent files for at least 12 months!
So. The FBI now, cleverly, reveals that their ENTIRE Bureau behavior is so flawed … across the board … in ALL cases … so that the Spying on a sitting president, his campaign, and anyone who ever associated with him … was “normal”. Crossfire Hurricane was a nothingburger. Just incompetent business as usual.
And the FBI continues to cover up their misdeeds. And label anyone who disagrees with their shrugging-off Trump Spying as … “conspiracy theorists”. This is NO accountability. Quite the opposite … more cover-up, and foot-dragging … “we need more study”.
The entire FBI must be fumigated and rebuilt from the ground up. Yes, even the “sacrosanct” rank and file.
Kenji, and now we have the corona diversion.
Kenji at 10:48
I say BURN IT TO THE GROUND!
Take their pay, their perks and their PENSIONS!
Then make it impossible for ANY of them to ever draw any kind of government paycheck again!
We are still waiting for the FISA judge outrage.
You would think that any judge who was a victim of this cabal, not a participant in it, would be absolutely outraged. You would think.
Guilt or severe TDS are about the only feasible reasons I can see for this silence.
We are still waiting,… but we are not holding our breath,.. are we.?
How many errors have they not looked into, those that had been admitted in the low-profile cases?
Ah, oh, Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!
All that he is doing is entrenching his own interests. How about abolishing the BATFE and pardoning everyone that BATFE criminals had railroaded?
Anybody who read about the fibbies behavior in the Richard Jewell Atlanta Olympic bombing case isn’t surprised at anything these mooks do.
A while back at a legal symposium a presenter claimed that eighty percent of judges and DA’s believe that some or all of a police officer’s testimony in a criminal trial is suspect and officers routinely withhold exculpatory evidence. In other words, they expect the officer to lie because he gets paid to close cases, not find the truth. What the IG report declares is if an FBI agent is testifying in any case no matter how high or low the court, we can be 100% certain he’s lying and/or withholding exculpatory evidence.