Even CNN Now Admitting FBI's Alleged Doctoring of FISA Doc 'Is a Big Deal'

[Billiejeens]

Reports indicate that the long-awaited Justice Department Inspector General’s report on alleged FBI abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016 will be released on Dec. 9, but it appears one of the potentially criminal findings has already been leaked to the media.

President Donald Trump and his allies have argued for years that the FBI broke laws and regulations to obtain a 2016 FISA warrant that was used to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and promulgate an FBI investigation into supposed Russian collusion that led to the two-year special counsel investigation that ultimately debunked that false narrative.

The bulk of the liberal media, chief among them CNN, dismissed that assertion as a baseless conservative conspiracy theory.

Yet, that network was just forced to report that Inspector General Michael Horowitz has referred for criminal prosecution a former FBI lawyer that is accused of altering a document in the application for the FISA warrant — pretty much confirming what conservatives have suggested for years, BizPac Review reported.

Evan Perez, CNN’s chief justice reporter, broke the grim news for the left to host Wolf Blitzer, and after giving a run-down of what he had learned from his anonymous sources about this particular snippet from the FISA report, Perez noted that it was a “big deal, obviously, to make a change to a document.”


Even CNN Now Admitting FBI's Alleged Doctoring of FISA Doc 'Is a Big Deal'


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[Billiejeens]

(Via The New York Times)

The email Mr. Clinesmith handled was a factor during the wiretap renewal process, according to the [people briefed on the soon-to-be-released draft of the Justice Department's inspector general report on the origins of the Russia investigation]. Mr. Clinesmith took an email from an official at another federal agency that contained several factual assertions, then added material to the bottom that looked like another assertion from the email’s author, when it was instead his own understanding.

Mr. Clinesmith included this altered email in a package that he compiled for another F.B.I. official to read in preparation for signing an affidavit that would be submitted to the court attesting to the facts and analysis in the wiretap application.

The details of the email are apparently classified and may not be made public even when the report is unveiled.

While the media is referring to Clinesmith as a low-level lawyer, the inspector general has described Clinesmith as the primary lawyer in Bob Mueller's Russia investigation in 2017. Clinesmith conducted one of the interviews of former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulous, according to Real Clear Investigations. Clinesmith is credited with connecting Papadopoulous with Joesph Mifsud, "a supposedly Kremlin-tied diplomat in London."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

USMB Progressives bring out their Stats & Starkey Agitprop and Internet Outreach approved talking points:

Meh. A little Fascism never hurt anyone

 

[Slade3200]

True if anybody doctored a document for a warrant they should be held accountable. Let’s just note the spectacular dud this report appears to be after the exhaustive narrative the right wing was pushing. Remember, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were all supposed to be incriminated for starting an illegal investigation... but no, that’s fake news and the investigation was proper. Oops. But let’s focus on the crooked lawyer and pretend that justifies all the lies and hyperbole

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Proper? What was proper about a false narrative knowingly being pushed in order to remove a sitting president from office?

 

[Silent Warrior]

True if anybody doctored a document for a warrant they should be held accountable. Let’s just note the spectacular dud this report appears to be after the exhaustive narrative the right wing was pushing. Remember, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were all supposed to be incriminated for starting an illegal investigation... but no, that’s fake news and the investigation was proper. Oops. But let’s focus on the crooked lawyer and pretend that justifies all the lies and hyperbole

You apparently don't understand the meaning of proper.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

True if anybody doctored a document for a warrant they should be held accountable. Let’s just note the spectacular dud this report appears to be after the exhaustive narrative the right wing was pushing. Remember, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were all supposed to be incriminated for starting an illegal investigation... but no, that’s fake news and the investigation was proper. Oops. But let’s focus on the crooked lawyer and pretend that justifies all the lies and hyperbole

I said it was 50/50 weather the Horowitz report would lead to military tribunals and the gallows or "Some people did something"

Apparently, some people did something

 

[Slade3200]

True if anybody doctored a document for a warrant they should be held accountable. Let’s just note the spectacular dud this report appears to be after the exhaustive narrative the right wing was pushing. Remember, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were all supposed to be incriminated for starting an illegal investigation... but no, that’s fake news and the investigation was proper. Oops. But let’s focus on the crooked lawyer and pretend that justifies all the lies and hyperbole

You apparently don't understand the meaning of proper.

how so?

 

[Slade3200]

True if anybody doctored a document for a warrant they should be held accountable. Let’s just note the spectacular dud this report appears to be after the exhaustive narrative the right wing was pushing. Remember, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were all supposed to be incriminated for starting an illegal investigation... but no, that’s fake news and the investigation was proper. Oops. But let’s focus on the crooked lawyer and pretend that justifies all the lies and hyperbole

I said it was 50/50 weather the Horowitz report would lead to military tribunals and the gallows or "Some people did something"

Apparently, some people did something

Right... a month ago all the top dogs were all going to jail. Now some people did something. Wow