OIG Report on FISA Abuse Released

originally posted by: dashen

Starting in December 2016, FBI staff
participated in an interagency effort to assess the
Russian government's intentions and actions concerning
the 2016 U.S. elections. We learned that whether and
how to present Steele's reporting in the Intelligence
Community Assessment (ICA) was a topic of significant
discussion between the FBI and the other agencies
participating in it. According to FBI staff, as the
interagency editing process for the ICA progressed, the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) expressed concern
about the lack of vetting for the Steele election
reporting and asserted it did not merit inclusion in the
body of the report. An FBI Intel Section Chief told us
the CIA viewed it as "internet rumor." In contrast, as
we describe in Chapter Six, the FBI, including Corney
and McCabe, sought to include the reporting in the ICA.
Limited information from the Steele reporting ultimately
was presented in an appendix to the ICA.

Wtf !

Whatever happened to the old "17 US intelligence agencies agreed...." thing!

a reply to: TooCloseToTheSun

Although I do call everyone who wrongs me in any way at all treasonous that really doesn't take away from the fact that there are no less than 17 invalidating circumstances that would have prevented this spying from happening in the first place.

a reply to: SonOfTheLawOfOne

Right, but this is not because of bias. These are like clerical errors or something that could have happened to anyone. There was no conspiracy against Trump - some errors were simply made.

Fisa warrants should be effing perfect.

And VERIFIED by credibile evidence.

What they are calling errors are straight out lies.

I guess we all know what the Dem talking points consist of by now.

"It's a nothingburger."

Imagine what they would be saying if Trump's FBI had done this.

a reply to: butcherguy

Imagine what they would be saying if Trump's FBI had done this.

They'd say IMPEACH him, but after Impeaching him for slavery as Al Green says or some snip.

If anyone is bother reading this thing it is very clearly laying out that every single person involved in this fisa application business personally expressed strong urgency in keeping Trump out of office and or subverting him when he was elected.

They put spies Into The Campaign which ended up in the White House and making foreign policy decisions.
The group of people acted independently and met in secret outside of oversight procedures.
They kneu the evidence they're using to get these fisae application was regarded as nothing better than internet conspiracies by the Central 👁 and they knowingly used it as the basis for wiretapping a presidential candidate and then the president himself.
It clearly shows hypocrisy when they said oh no we can't use this in this person as our plans because they already admitted that they don't want to be part of the campaign and we are forcing them in the campaign spy but they would also have a serious job to do. And then the very next day they're proceeding using this guy as a source.

TREASON

originally posted by: darkbake
a reply to: SonOfTheLawOfOne

Right, but this is not because of bias. These are like clerical errors or something that could have happened to anyone. There was no conspiracy against Trump - some errors were simply made.

OK, we know you didn't bother to read even the news summaries.

Many/most of the omissions were the FBI failing to include exculpatory information, which they are required by law to include.

a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

Which in plain English means they lied to illegally wiretap a presidential campaign

a reply to: dashen

If anyone is bother reading this thing it is very clearly laying out that every single person involved in this fisa application business personally expressed strong urgency in keeping Trump out of office and or subverting him when he was elected.

You don't fake Fisa warrants unless out of bias.

a reply to: SonOfTheLawOfOne

I have not started to read this report, nor am I likely too.

Based on the summary it is pretty clear it is a whitewash for the swamp, which is just what I assumed it would be, since that is exactly what the last IG report was.

But - what is actually newsworthy is both Durham and Barr's responses. If you have any ability to read between lines at all it makes it clear they do intend to prosecute people for falsely starting the investigation.

It seems pretty clear they know Papadapolous was setup and probably others intentionally to go after the Trump campaign.

They do not release the statements they did today if they don't intend to charge somebody for something.

Horowitz literally put lipstick on a pig.

I mean even Fox is going with nothing burger... it feels like you guys are just desperate.

This is like the Mueller thread all over again but with an extra dose of hypocrisy.

DOJ watchdog finds no bias in launch of Trump-Russia probe, but uncovers ‘significant’ FBI errors

That's the best the right wing MSM have got! You guys are reeeee-aching.

Maybe its time for a new line of enQuiry, this one seems like another flop.

a reply to: neo96

Interesting to me is that we see from this report that Peter strzok and Lisa Page work on the crossfire hurricane conspiracy against Trump and then go on to work for the Mueller conspiracy. It was already leaked to the news that they were planning on keeping Trump out of office and had set up an insurance policy.

Why in Sam hell is that not in this report?

I like this part:

Priestap also told us that he originally
wanted to assign the investigation to a Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) other than
Strzok because, although he had confidence in Strzok's counterintelligence
capabilities, he had concerns about Strzok's personal relationship with Lisa Page
affecting the Crossfire Hurricane team. According to Priestap, he told Steinbach
about his concerns and Steinbach was supportive of his decision to remove Strzok
from the team, but his decision was overruled by McCabe. Steinbach told us that
he had concerns about Strzok and Lisa Page working together because he was
aware of instances where they bypassed the chain of command to advise McCabe
about case related information that had not been provided to Priestap or Steinbach.
Priestap and Steinbach said they did not know why McCabe kept Strzok assigned to
the investigation. Strzok told the OIG he did not ask McCabe to keep him on the
investigation and does not know whether Lisa Page requested Strzok remain on the
investigation in conversations with McCabe. We found no evidence that Page made
any such request of McCabe.

p64

a reply to: dashen

Why in Sam hell is that not in this report?

Don't know.

But this still isn't over yet.

Durham.

a reply to: neo96

HUBER

Even without the report creator saying it.

We know the Fisa's were snip.

And if nothing is done about it.

Who will be the next victims of KGB tactics.

I'm still reading the report, but it is already clear by
the statements issued by Barr and Durham that the
Wa Po and NYT lied about Durham's position on the
findings. They intentionally misled people to believe
that Durham did not disagree with the "properly
predicated", when in fact he does disagree.

American Pravda.

The same soviet style propaganda that allowed
the seditious coup plotters to advance their plan
to overthrow a duly elected president.

It is plain to see that there were in fact no
errors made, this was all part of a plot.

Yes, most of the rats have been fired or
resigned, but unless some feet are held
to the fire this will happen again.