The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a bombshell report detailing serious allegations against the FBI on Tuesday for abuse of power in the FISA process.
The Inspector General conducted an investigation into the spy warrants filed by the FBI after finding “17 significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the warrants against President Trump’s campaign associate Carter Page.
The Inspector General says that he has a “lack of confidence” in the FBI’s ability to file spy warrants.
The investigation focused on 29 applications filed between October 2014 and September 2019. They were replete with errors and the required documents backing up four of the warrants did not even exist.
“As a result of our audit work to date and as described below, we do not have confidence that the FBI has executed its Woods Procedures in compliance with FBI policy,” said the OIG.
Not a single FISA application reviewed met the requirements.
Director Wray says the FISA process is indispensable in the fight against terrorism and crime.
The FBI doesn’t believe that much of this is deliberate, and it’s hard to imagine that they can solve the problem while not recognizing it. There is incompetence and malfeasance.
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Government was weaponized against all Americans under Chicago Jesus.
The coup attempt against Trump has brought this out in the open which is why I call the Trumpster a revelator.
A few weeks back the alphabet soup agency came out with some bizarre ‘white nationalist’ plot to spread Kung Flu by coughing on people that they don’t like which even the dullards had to laugh at.
It sounds like they have too much time on their hands after the overthrow of Trump failed.
Of course, Barr (Wray’s boss) will do nothing about it. Barr is nearing completion of his “investigations”. Barr is against FISA reform. Barr is the primary person with responsibility to suggest reforms.
Of course, Mitch will do nothing about it, he has avoided any serious investigations of the coup for 4 years, and had to be aware of the spying from the start, due to a legal requirement.
This present story has new information, but we knew about this about 2 years ago, when former FISA head judge Rosemary Collyer cited systematic abuse. She at least gave the nation a warning, but no official stepped in to help. Imagine how totally irresponsible that was, for the senate judiciary committee, led by Grassley, then Graham, to not do anything. The central figure there is Mitch, who had been notified for years of FISA warrants.