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Remember the OIG report on the FBI's unwarranted FISA warrants?

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The Justice Department has released the results of an investigation into the validity of applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Trump and others were so happy with the IG's report that had 'proved' there were Deep State operatives in the FBI lying to the FISC judge in order to obtain surveillance warrants.

It was so bad that even the 'librul' media reported the story -- Justice Department released the results of an investigation into the validity of applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

BUT, those Deep State types have done a bit of digging in response to the OIG's report and in an obvious attempt to undermine the president have released their findings.
Statement of Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers on the Public Release of the Department’s Findings with Respect to the 29 FISA Applications that Were the Subject of the March 2020 OIG Preliminary Report

The Department of Justice has completed its review of the 29 FISA applications that were the subject of preliminary findings by the DOJ Inspector General (OIG) in March 2020. We are pleased that our review of these applications concluded that all contained sufficient basis for probable cause and uncovered only two material errors, neither of which invalidated the authorizations granted by the FISA Court.
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The OIG did not determine whether any factual assertions in the applications were inaccurate, materially or otherwise. In addition, when the OIG found a fact unsupported by a document in the Woods file, the OIG did not give the FBI the opportunity to locate a supporting document for the fact outside the file.
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Isn't this interesting, the OIG didn't allow those accused the chance to locate information that could validate the warrant requests. Think there might have been political motivation behind the OIG's refusal to accept the efforts of the FBI?

Based on the Department’s findings, of the hundreds of pages of facts contained in the 29 applications audited by the OIG, the Department has identified only one material misstatement and one material omission, neither of which we assess to have invalidated the authorizations granted by the FISC. These findings have been provided to the FISA Court and were posted publicly today.

The filing can be found here.
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Does this mean that career bureaucrats cover their asses?
 
Thoreau72 said:
Does this mean that career bureaucrats cover their asses?
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Many on this forum said the investigation would prove that the FISA applications were illegal and that a number of people would be prosecuted and go to jail as a result of the findings, none of which happened. The investigation was hand-picked by AG Barr and Demers was sure to get to the bottom of "this". The bottom has been reached. Nada, zip, zero, zilch of any of what was alleged by the RWrs.
 
bluesmoke said:
Many on this forum said the investigation would prove that the FISA applications were illegal and that a number of people would be prosecuted and go to jail as a result of the findings, none of which happened. The investigation was hand-picked by AG Barr and Demers was sure to get to the bottom of "this". The bottom has been reached. Nada, zip, zero, zilch of any of what was alleged by the RWrs.
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I have said many times that Barr and Mueller and so many more are career government men. They protect each other. Nobody is going to be prosecuted and imprisoned except for the whistleblowers like Assange, Kiriakou, Sterling, Snowden, Manning and all the rest. Washington DC is very much a gangster's paradise.

Flynn is as innocent as any career military man can be, far more innocent than Pompeo or Powell.

The FISA court was misled and the record is clear on that matter. Russiagate was a big scam and pretty much everybody but life-long democrats know that.

Barr "made his bones" in the Iran-Contra event, protecting Bush and other guilty government men.
 
Thoreau72 said:
I have said many times that Barr and Mueller and so many more are career government men. They protect each other. Nobody is going to be prosecuted and imprisoned except for the whistleblowers like Assange, Kiriakou, Sterling, Snowden, Manning and all the rest. Washington DC is very much a gangster's paradise.

Flynn is as innocent as any career military man can be, far more innocent than Pompeo or Powell.

The FISA court was misled and the record is clear on that matter. Russiagate was a big scam and pretty much everybody but life-long democrats know that.

Barr "made his bones" in the Iran-Contra event, protecting Bush and other guilty government men.
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You may be one of the few that believe Barr would do/does whatever he can to protect Mueller. That’s laughable on it’s face. It was clear from the beginning Barr wanted dirt on anyone having anything to do with investigating the obvious Russia election intervention. I agree, though, that both Dem and Rep admin hate WBs.

Flynn lied to the FBI during investigation, twice, Pence said so and Flynn was fired by Trump as a result and since convicted. That is hardly “as innocent as any career military man can be”.

For the record, nothing in the FISA investigation found the court was misled. At least, not that you can cite. It was AG Barr’s opinion, as given in his written statement, that the court was misled. Nothing in the DOJ/FBI report said any such thing. In fact, the types of errors found were typical of other applications studied, meaning those involving the Russia investigation were not peculiar or more severe than was typical of other application:

“The FBI and the Department of Justice claimed in a Wednesday filing that an investigation of 29 FISA court applications that had been audited by the DOJ inspector general showed that there were no errors that affected how the court ruled.”

FBI, DOJ claim errors in FISA court filings did not impact orders see (see 1st para):
FBI, DOJ claim errors in FISA court filings did not impact orders | Fox News

There has been nothing in any report that conclude any investigation involving Russia was unjustified or, as you say, a "scam" (fraudulent) that you can cite.

Barr’s job in the Iran-Contra Affair was to make sure all of the operatives could do their jobs without fear of exposure or arrest. There ended up to be eleven convictions, so I don’t know how great a job you’d call that. All those convicted were pardoned by GHW Bush.
 
danielpalos said:
Or, that politics should only go so far in the actual operation of Government.
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Or, that Madison was right, and that all men holding power ought to be mistrusted.
 
But OBAMA!

You should be outraged!
 
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