CrimsonPhantom
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IG Horowitz Found ‘Apparent Errors Or Inadequately Supported Facts’ In Every Single..
Quote:The Justice Department inspector general said it does “not have confidence” in the FBI’s FISA application process following an audit that found the Bureau was not sufficiently transparent with the court in 29 applications from 2014 to 2019, all of which included “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts.”
Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report in December which found that the FBI included “at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications and many errors in the Woods Procedures” during its Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign. After releasing the report, Horowitz said that he would conduct a further investigation to see if the errors identified in the Page application were widespread.
“The concern is that this is such a high-profile, important case. If it happened here, is this indicative of a wider problem — and we will only know that when we complete our audit — or is it isolated to this event?” Horowitz told lawmakers during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. “Obviously, we need to do the work to understand that.”
Horowitz’s office said in a report released Tuesday that of the 29 applications — all of which involved U.S. citizens – that were pulled from “8 FBI field offices of varying sizes,” the FBI could not find Woods Files for four of the applications, while the other 25 all had “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts.”
“While our review of these issues and follow-up with case agents is still ongoing—and we have not made materiality judgments for these or other errors or concerns we identified—at this time we have identified an average of about 20 issues per application reviewed, with a high of approximately 65 issues in one application and less than 5 issues in another application,” the report reveals.
The Woods Procedure dictates that the Justice Department verify the accuracy and provide evidentiary support for all facts stated in its FISA application. The FBI is required to share with the FISA Court all relevant information compiled in the Woods File when applying for a surveillance warrant.
“FBI and NSD officials we interviewed indicated to us that there were no efforts by the FBI to use existing FBI and NSD oversight mechanisms to perform comprehensive, strategic assessments of the efficacy of the Woods Procedures or FISA accuracy, to include identifying the need for enhancements to training and improvements in the process, or increased accountability measures,” the report states.
The OIG concludes by recommending that the FBI “systematically and regularly examine the results of past and future accuracy reviews to identify patterns or trends in identified errors” relating to the Woods Procedure, as well as double-checking “that Woods Files exist for every FISA application submitted to the FISC in all pending investigations.”
In a letter acknowledging the audit, FBI Associate Deputy Director Paul Abbate said that the issues “will be addressed” by the Bureau’s already-issued correctives after the Carter Page review, and added that “the FBI fully accepts the two recommendations.”
President Trump has relentlessly attacked the FBI’s FISA process and the abuses it allowed during the surveilling of his 2016 campaign. He has argued that the FISA abuses invalidate the entire investigation, which he has referred to as an “illegal attempted coup,” and slammed the officials involved, including former FBI director James Comey and former acting FBI director Andy McCabe.
McCabe admitted in January that the FBI has an “inherent weakness in the process” of obtaining FISA warrants.
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If the target were Hillary, he would have the perps in jail by now.
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SuperFlyBCat
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RE: IG Horowitz Found ‘Apparent Errors Or Inadequately Supported Facts’ In Every Single..
Pathetic.
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Kaplony
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RE: IG Horowitz Found ‘Apparent Errors Or Inadequately Supported Facts’ In Every Single..
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shere khan
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RE: IG Horowitz Found ‘Apparent Errors Or Inadequately Supported Facts’ In Every Single..
Because Hillary was supposed to win and Obama didnt care.
Police state prog filth
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RE: IG Horowitz Found ‘Apparent Errors Or Inadequately Supported Facts’ In Every Single..
You think he's found any bias yet? or no?
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shere khan
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RE: IG Horowitz Found ‘Apparent Errors Or Inadequately Supported Facts’ In Every Single..
(04-01-2020 05:39 PM)UofMstateU Wrote: You think he's found any bias yet? or no?
you serious clark?
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