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2019-12-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-

DOJ inspector general unable to say if bias tainted Carter Page FISA process

[Washington Examiner] Bias may have crept into the process by which the FBI sought the authority to monitor electronically a onetime member of President Trump's campaign, according to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

An assessment from the DOJ watchdog found the Trump-Russia investigation was opened on a sound legal footing and was unable to "find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced" the genesis of that investigation.
"We even did a word search for 'bias' but didn't find any exact references"
But Horowitz, who released a report on Monday regarding the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump team, distinguished between the opening of the inquiry in late July 2016 and the investigatory actions related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that followed.

"We asked all the witnesses ‐ not just him ‐ as to whether bias or other improper considerations had any impact, but we also looked for emails, text messages, documents that could show what we found, frankly, with Strzok and Page," Horowitz said while answering a line of questioning by Idaho Republican Sen. Mike Crapo during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Horowitz was referring to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former FBI officials who were part of the Russia investigation before being removed due to the discovery of anti-Trump text messages that the inspector general found in a prior investigation. One revelation in Horowitz's latest report is that Strzok was involved in the decision to initiate the counterintelligence investigation, but it was his superior, Bill Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, who made the actual authorization.

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-12 01:29|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 It's that 'intent' thingy again? /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-12 06:45|| 2019-12-12 06:45|| Front Page Top

#2 It was wrong, he was unjustly prosecuted, he was destroyed by overzealous agents, but there was no intent. And he said that with a straight face? Our nation is crumbling, and he is mincing words. Don't they understand that the swamp will get burned off the face of this nation if they don't start acting like adults??

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-12-12 10:40|| 2019-12-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 So says Inspector General Clouseau.

Posted by Creling Pelosi3622 2019-12-12 12:23|| 2019-12-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#4 The DOJ IG report was soomewhat vanilla in presentation but there were bombshells in it too.

For many it will be an eye-opener. In the beginning every MSM news outlet laughed when Trump said he was wire-tapped. They are not laughing so much now.

I think we are in for a long showing of War and Peace. There are many moving parts. Our country has many internal enemies. Russia has not done as much damage.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-12 22:59|| 2019-12-12 22:59|| Front Page Top

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