OIG Report on FISA Abuse Released

a reply to: dashen

You just said 'when we me up'. We met up on November 12th.

We concluded that Ohr committed
consequential errors in judgment by ( 1) failing to advise
his direct supervisors or the DAG that he was
communicating with Steele and Simpson and then
requesting meetings with the FBI's Deputy Director and
Crossfire Hurricane team on matters that were outside
of his areas of responsibility, and (2) making _himself a
witness in the investigation by meeting with Steele and
providing Steele's information to the FBI. As we
describe in Chapter Eight, the late discovery of Ohr's
meetings with the FBI prompted NSD to notify the FISC
in July 2018, over a year after the final FISA renewal
order was issued, of information that Ohr had provided
to the FBI but that the FBI had failed to inform NSD and
01 about (and therefore was not included in the FISA
applications), including that Steele was "desperate that
Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about
him not being the U.S. President."

TREASON

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

I know i know, the point was by the time we met up I said President Donald Trump we all just laughed in disbelief.

I should have clarified in the first post

a reply to: dashen

Sorry I missed that meet up.
Clearly nobody remembers anything.

Which one of you roofied the drinks?

a reply to: IAMTAT

The barmaid was so sloshed she gave me 2 halftumblers of bourbon when I ordered one shot

Congress should REVOKE the FBI's spying privileges.

As described in more detail in Chapter Nine, in
November 2016, Ohr told CRM Deputy Assistant
Attorney General Bruce Swartz and Counsel to the CRM
Assistant Attorney General Zainab Ahmad about
information he was getting from Steele and Simpson
about Manafort. Between November 16, 2016 and
December 15, 2016, Ohr participated in several
meetings that were attended, at various times, by some
or all of the following individuals: Swartz, Ahmad,
Andrew Weissmann (then Section Chief of CRM's Fraud
Section), Strzok, and Lisa Page. The meetings involving
Ohr, Swartz, Ahmad, and Weissmann focused on their
shared concern that MLARS was not moving quickly
enough on the Manafort criminal investigation and
whether there were steps they could take to move the
investigation forward. The meetings with Strzok and
Page focused primarily on whether the FBI could assess
the case's relevance, if any, to the FBI's Russian
interference investigation. MLARS was not represented
at any of these meetings or told about them, and none
of attendees had supervisory responsibility over the
MLARS investigation.
There were no meetings about the Manafort
case involving Ohr, Swartz, Ahmad, and Weissmann
from December 16, 2016 to January 30, 2017. On
January 31, 2017, one day after Yates was removed as
DAG, Ahmad, by then an Acting CRM Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, after consulting with Swartz and
Weissmann, sent an email to Lisa Page, copying
Weissmann, Swartz, and Ohr, requesting a meeting the
next day to discuss "a few Criminal Division related
developments." The next day, February 1, Swartz, Ohr,
Ahmad, and Weissmann met with Strzok, Lisa Page,
and an FBI Acting Section Chief. None of the attendees
at the meeting cou ld explain to us what the "Criminal
Division related developments" were, and we did not
find any. Meeting notes reflect, among other things,
that the group discussed the Manafort criminal
investigation and efforts that the Department could
undertake to investigate attempts by Russia to
influence the 2016 elections. MLARS was not
represented at, or told about, the meeting.

Conspiracy to commit treason

a reply to: SonOfTheLawOfOne

The same claim is made every time a report comes back saying the opposite of what this gang believes.
Oh the next one is gonna get them. For sure... next one without a doubt.

originally posted by: dashen
I know i know, the point was by the time we met up I said President Donald Trump we all just laughed in disbelief.

I should have clarified in the first post

No worries. You gonna take my bet?

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Which one of you roofied the drinks?

We both did. If it were just a single dose Slayer would have been fine but the double put him over the edge.

originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: dashen

Supposedly the report lists 17 separate errors or omissions in the FISA application.

These will be passed on to Durham's criminal investigation into the same subject.

I'll read through it now...

S&F OP!

Durham has already released a statement that says he does *NOT* agree with the Inspector General's conclusions. This almost certainly means that he feels he has plenty of evidence of malicious intent.

a reply to: Sillyolme

The oig reports are building blocks that will culminate in legal actions from the Department of Justice.

a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

Durham shifted his team from an administrative investigation to a criminal investigation earlier this year as evidence was uncovered.

a reply to: TooCloseToTheSun

What happened neo?

The usual suspects are either Trolling or in denial.

That's what happened.

While we concluded that the investigative
activities undertaken by the Crossfire Hurricane team
involving CHSs and UCEs complied with applicable
Department and FBI policies, we believe that in certain
circumstances Department and FBI policies do not
provide sufficient oversight and accountability for
investigative activities that have the potential to gather
sensitive information involving protected First
Amendment activity, and therefore include
recommendations to address these issues.

The same people who started the investigation into Trump with Crossfire hurricane are the same people who are working on the Mueller investigation.

And here it is in black and white they had under cover plants Gathering Intel on the Trump campaign

Did anyone else see McCains name mentioned in the OIG report ?

I didn't.

Did I miss it?

a reply to: TooCloseToTheSun

If by digging out of a hole you mean quoting verbatim proof of crimes from the report which it seems that you are a crazy desperate not to do then yes