How can anyone, most of all civil libertarians, pass this off as no big deal? The absolution is supposedly that Mr. Horowitz concludes that the FBI decision to open a counter-intelligence probe against the Trump campaign in July 2016 "Was sufficient to predicate the investigation" under current FBI rules.
Mr. Horowitz confirms what the FBI had already leaked to friendly reporters, which is that the bureau's alarm in July 2016 was triggered by a conversation that former Trump aide George Papadopoulos had with Australian Alexander Downer.
The FBI abuses escalated when it was presented with the now infamous Steele dossier.
Mr. Horowitz confirms that the FBI then used the Steele dossier to trigger its application to the FISA court to spy on Mr. Page.
In other words, the FBI was using Mr. Page's Russian contacts as evidence against him to the FISA court even as the other agency considered his reports on those Russians to be helpful to the U.S. Mr. Horowitz says the FBI never disclosed this information to the FISA judges.
His report does show that political bias was conveyed to the FISA court from the Clinton campaign via the Steele dossier through the FBI. It was conveyed by Bruce Ohr, a senior Justice Department official whose wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS. Mr. Horowitz may not have found a memo with the words "Let's get Trump," but his evidence shows that getting Mr. Trump was the goal of Mr. Steele and Fusion GPS. Mr. Ohr met 13 times with the FBI to discuss the Steele findings.
Even a year after the first FISA warrant, in September 2017, the report says the FBI had only "Corroborated limited information in the Steele election reporting." Robert Mueller later spent two years looking for proof of collusion and found nothing, while the Trump Presidency was besieged.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-trail-of-fbi-abuse-11575938300?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
Mr. Horowitz confirms what the FBI had already leaked to friendly reporters, which is that the bureau's alarm in July 2016 was triggered by a conversation that former Trump aide George Papadopoulos had with Australian Alexander Downer.
The FBI abuses escalated when it was presented with the now infamous Steele dossier.
Mr. Horowitz confirms that the FBI then used the Steele dossier to trigger its application to the FISA court to spy on Mr. Page.
In other words, the FBI was using Mr. Page's Russian contacts as evidence against him to the FISA court even as the other agency considered his reports on those Russians to be helpful to the U.S. Mr. Horowitz says the FBI never disclosed this information to the FISA judges.
His report does show that political bias was conveyed to the FISA court from the Clinton campaign via the Steele dossier through the FBI. It was conveyed by Bruce Ohr, a senior Justice Department official whose wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS. Mr. Horowitz may not have found a memo with the words "Let's get Trump," but his evidence shows that getting Mr. Trump was the goal of Mr. Steele and Fusion GPS. Mr. Ohr met 13 times with the FBI to discuss the Steele findings.
Even a year after the first FISA warrant, in September 2017, the report says the FBI had only "Corroborated limited information in the Steele election reporting." Robert Mueller later spent two years looking for proof of collusion and found nothing, while the Trump Presidency was besieged.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-trail-of-fbi-abuse-11575938300?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
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