Can someone please explain this to me?
I heard there were 17 different issues that should be looked at...
Well 17 specific "
Inaccuracies And Omissions"
... Perhaps the existing rules should be changed in some of those cases, or existing procedures modified...
Or, perhaps the FBI should be accurate and complete. Their problem wasn't the "rules" or "procedures" but that they didn't follow them.
His Civil Rights Were Massively Violated By A Thoroughly Corrupt FBI
1) Omitted information from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Page, including that Page had been approved as an operational contact for the other agency from 2008 to 2013, and that Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers, one of which overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application;
The CIA repeatedly informed the FBI, in writing, that Carter Page interacted with Russian Intelligence, on OUR behalf. The FBI deliberately concealed this from FISC and used his contacts with Russian Intelligence as Probable Cause that he was a spy for Russia!
So what rule or procedure would you like modified? It's already against rules and procedures for the FBI to lie to FISC, and to withhold information.
2) Included a source characterization statement asserting that Steele’s prior reporting had been “corroborated and used in criminal proceedings,” which overstated the significance of Steele’s past reporting and was not approved by Steele’s FBI handling agent, as required by the Woods Procedures;
It's already against both rules and procedures to lie to FISC about the FBI's experience with sources and to lie about the quality of their resumes. It's already a rule and a procedure to get the approval of the Source's FBI handling Agent before furnishing the sources resume to The Court.
3) Omitted information relevant to the reliability of Person 1, a key Steele sub-source, namely that (1) Steele himself told members of the Crossfire Hurricane team that Person 1 was a “boaster” and an “egoist” and “may engage in some embellishment”
It's already a rule and a procedure that when you have a source that is a boaster, an egoist, known for exaggeration, that one must inform the Court. How exactly would you like to modify this rule and/or procedure?
4) Asserted that the FBI had assessed that Steele did not directly provide to the press information in the September 23 Yahoo News article, based on the premise that Steele had told the FBI that he only shared his election-related research with the FBI and Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson; this premise was factually incorrect (Steele had provided direct information to Yahoo News) and also contradicted by documentation in the Woods File-Steele had told the FBI that he also gave his information to the State Department;
It's already a rule and a procedure that the FBI is NOT SUPPOSED TO LIE TO FISC. How would you like to "modify this rule and/or procedure"?
5) Omitted Papadopoulos’s statements to an FBI CHS in September 2016 denying that anyone associated with the Trump campaign was collaborating with Russia or with outside groups like WikiLeaks in the release of emails;
When your spy learns that the suspect furnished information that undercuts your case that you are trying to make to FISC, it's already a rule and a procedure that you have to furnish the Court this information. How would you like to modify that rule or procedure?
6) Omitted Page’s statements to an FBI CHS [Confidential Human Source] in August 2016 that Page had “literally never met” or “said one word to” Paul Manafort and that Manafort had not responded to any of Page’s emails; those statements were in opposition with claims in Steele’s Report that Page was participating in a “conspiracy” with Russia by acting as an intermediary for Manafort on behalf of the Trump campaign;
When your spy learns that the suspect furnished information that undercuts your case that you are trying to make to FISC, it's already a rule and a procedure that you have to furnish the Court this information. How would you like to modify that rule or procedure?
7) Selectively included Page’s statements to an FBI CHS in October 2016 that the FBI believed supported its theory that Page was an agent of Russia but deliberately omitted other statements Page made, including denying having ever even met with Sechin and Divyekin, or even knowing who Divyekin was. Those statements directly contradicted the claims in Steele’s Report that Page had met secretly with Sechin and Divyekin about future cooperation with Russia and shared derogatory information about candidate Clinton.
When your spy learns that the suspect furnished information that undercuts your case that you are trying to make to FISC, it's already a rule and a procedure that you have to furnish the Court this information. How would you like to modify that rule or procedure?
8) Deliberately omitted the fact that Steele’s Primary Sub-source, who the FBI found credible, had made statements in January 2017 raising significant questions about the reliability of allegations included in the FISA applications, including, for example, that he/she had no discussion with Person 1 concerning WikiLeaks and there was “nothing bad” about the communications between the Kremlin and the Trump team, and that he/she did not report to Steele in July 2016 that Page had met with Sechin;
When the FBI interviewed Steele's source, they furnished exculpatory information that contradicted Steel's claims that formed the probable cause case that Page was a spy in the service of Russia engaged in a criminal conspiracy with the Trump campaign.
It is already a rule and a procedure that this exculpatory information must be provided to FISC, how would you like to modify or change this rule or procedure?
9) Omitted Page’s prior relationship with another U.S. government agency, despite being reminded by the other agency in June 2017, prior to the filing of the final renewal application, about Page’s past status with that other agency; instead of including this information in the final renewal application, the FBI OGC [Office of the General Counsel] Attorney altered an email from the other agency so that the email stated that Page was “not a source” for the other agency, which the FBI affiant relied upon in signing the final renewal application;
It's already a rule and a procedure that the FBI cannot engage in forgery and submit the forgery in a FISA application. How would you like to alter this rule and procedure?
10) Omitted information provided by persons with direct knowledge of Steele’s work-related performance in a prior position about Steele’s professional judgment, including statements that Steele had held a “moderately senior” position (not “high-ranking” as noted in the applications), had no history of reporting in bad faith but demonstrated “poor judgment,” “pursued people with political risk but no intelligence value,” “didn’t always exercise great judgment,” and it was “not clear what he would have done to validate” his reporting;
It's already a rule and a procedure that the FBI is not supposed to lie about the quality, resume, judgment, position and validation of their sources, how would you like to modify or alter this rule and procedure?
IG Report: Here Are The 17 Specific ‘Inaccuracies And Omissions’ In The FBI’s FISA Warrants Against Carter Page