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2019-11-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

The First Glimpse into Horowitz's FISA-Abuse Report

[National Review] Is this the tip of a scandalous iceberg? Or is it a signal that Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s much anticipated report on investigative irregularities in the Trump-Russia probe will be much ado about nothing much?

A low-ranking FBI lawyer altered a document that was somehow related to the Obama Justice Department’s application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for a national-security surveillance warrant. The application, approved by the FISC in October 2016, targeted former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page ‐ an American citizen, former naval intelligence officer, and apparent FBI cooperating witness ‐ as a clandestine agent of Russia. Apparently, the document tampering made at least one of the application’s factual assertions seem more damning than it actually was.

The FBI attorney, who has not been identified, is also said to have falsified an email in an effort to provide back-up support for the fabricated claim. The lawyer, who was reportedly pushed out of the Bureau when the tampering incident came to light, was interviewed in Horowitz’s inquiry and is said to be a subject of the related criminal investigation being conducted by Connecticut U.S. attorney John Durham.

The news was broken on Thursday night by CNN. That in itself is noteworthy. The FBI’s former deputy director Andrew McCabe is a CNN contributor, and the Bureau’s former general counsel James Baker is a frequent CNN guest. The IG’s probe has scrutinized the conduct of both. CNN commentators also include other former federal law-enforcement officials, who have ties to the Bureau and to some of the former officials under scrutiny. CNN’s news story about the evidence tampering is sourced to "several people briefed on the matter," who were not identified. The IG report is scheduled to be released on December 9, and witnesses have recently been permitted to review a draft of it under tight restrictions.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-24 06:38|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Horowitz was sworn in as the Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice on April 16, 2012. That is, Obama appointee.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-24 07:09|| 2019-11-24 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this going to be the same old same old? Find a low level puppet patsy and throw them under the bus while the puppeteers who pulled the strings go free...again?

If that is the conclusion of Horowitz's FISA abuse report, the report isn't worth the paper it is written on.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-24 15:43|| 2019-11-24 15:43|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem with a vast sea of unelected civil service aristocrats is they are ruthlessly protective of their rice bowls. We are now facing their certainty that their rice bowl includes actually running the government despite the tiresomely noises made by the passing parade of annoying elected officials. Their certitude that they deserve to manage and govern us is now openly on display as the praetorian SES witnesses demonstrated. They have staged a coup and the outcome is not yet stymied. I thought the glide slope into the darkness would be shallow enough to allow me to get to my shelf stockage end date beforehand. Seems I might have been in error...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-11-24 17:21|| 2019-11-24 17:21|| Front Page Top

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