The Republican chairmen of two Senate committees asked Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday to declassify information in four footnotes in a Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign.
The letter stirs mystery over what is behind the redactions and suggests that the inspector general's report is even more damning for the FBI than already known.
The 434-page report blasted the FBI for providing inaccurate and incomplete information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in four applications to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The report said FBI agents failed to disclose information that undercut the bureau's theory that Page was working as a Russian agent and that he conspired with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election.
FBI agents also failed to inform the FISC that the main source for former British spy Christopher Steele disputed information in a dossier that the bureau cited in its warrant applications to the FISC. The errors and omissions were so egregious that the FISC issued a public order reprimanding the FBI. "The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above," Judge Rosemary Collyer, who then presided over the FISC, wrote in a letter on Dec. 17.
Grassley and Johnson do not identify the four footnotes in question, and a spokesman for Grassley did not respond to a request for additional information about the footnotes.
Another fully redacted footnote refers to information about Steele's main dossier source, identified as "Primary Sub-Source" in the report.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/28/mystery-footnotes-fisa-carter-page/
The letter stirs mystery over what is behind the redactions and suggests that the inspector general's report is even more damning for the FBI than already known.
The 434-page report blasted the FBI for providing inaccurate and incomplete information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in four applications to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The report said FBI agents failed to disclose information that undercut the bureau's theory that Page was working as a Russian agent and that he conspired with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election.
FBI agents also failed to inform the FISC that the main source for former British spy Christopher Steele disputed information in a dossier that the bureau cited in its warrant applications to the FISC. The errors and omissions were so egregious that the FISC issued a public order reprimanding the FBI. "The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above," Judge Rosemary Collyer, who then presided over the FISC, wrote in a letter on Dec. 17.
Grassley and Johnson do not identify the four footnotes in question, and a spokesman for Grassley did not respond to a request for additional information about the footnotes.
Another fully redacted footnote refers to information about Steele's main dossier source, identified as "Primary Sub-Source" in the report.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/28/mystery-footnotes-fisa-carter-page/
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