Yes...the only thing they had was the Steele Dossier.....they lied to the FISA court, they spied on Trump....
Everything we told you about the FBI and the FISA court is true....it is all in the IG report, and from the reaction of Barr and Durham their report is going to lead to arrests.....
I hope so.
Horowitz reported:
“multiple instances in which factual assertions relied upon in the first FISA application were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession at the time the application was filed.”
They filed lies and false claims that the KNEW were lies and false claims.
One particularly galling omission was a failure to notify the FISA court of information the FBI received from “another agency” (CIA) that Page was in fact their intelligence asset on Russia, and considered to be reliable. Not only was this known to FBI investigators and managers, they relied on Page’s work for the other agency as part of their cause to seek surveillance of Page. At the same time, the FBI had already determined the Christopher Steele “dossier” on Trump not only couldn’t be corroborated but in fact conflicted with information developed in the investigation. And yet the FBI never bothered to inform the court of these issues, essentially cooking up a case for surveilling Page.
Horowitz concluded that the FBI’s senior management had enough knowledge of the situation that it “should have resulted in questions being raised regarding the reliability of the Steele reporting and the probable cause supporting the FISA applications, but did not.” That failure did not only reflect incompetence or worse by the investigators, but “of the managers and supervisors, including senior officials, in the chain of command.” That followed on the heels of
Horowitz’ systematic criticism of Comey’s leadership in the Hillary Clinton investigation published 17 months earlier.
And what about the claim that political bias didn’t drive these “errors”? Horowitz corrected that misperception in his Senate Judiciary testimony as well. All he found was that there was “no evidence” of political bias. When asked whether he could say the FISA court misrepresentations weren’t the result of political bias, Horowitz responded, “I don’t know.”
The FBI to abused its power for political purposes. We have the FBI committing fraud on the FISC by altering evidence without any fear of consequence. If this hadn’t blown up into a political scandal — largely by Democrats wanting to reverse the 2016 election — who would have never known.
Then-chair of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes openly accusing the FBI of abusing its authority and the FISC of being suckered — which
turned out to be largely correct.
Had the FBI been required to make a case for targeting Page to a Congressional panel consisting of both Republicans and Democrats with intel oversight experience, would they have even attempted it at all?
I doubt it.