After the FBI was busted fabricating evidence to mislead the top-secret court that approves surveillance warrants, the Justice Department's Inspector General has vowed to conduct a "Deep dive" to determine the extent of other potential abuses by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Horowitz says he launched an inquiry into wiretap orders after finding 17 'significant errors or omissions' in the FBI's applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Horowitz said he found no political bias in the FBI's decisions but that his office was given unsatisfactory answers by FBI officials on the failures in the Page warrant applications.
On Tuesday, the FISA court issued a rare public statement, slamming the FBI over Horowitz's findings.
"The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightned duty of candor" required by federal investigators, adding "The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable," wrote the court, which called the recent watchdog report from the DOJ's Inspector General "Troubling."
Barr lambasted the FBI last week for the failures identified in Horowitz's report, saying the bureau's probe was a "Complete sham" and was marred by "Gross abuse." On Wednesday he praised current FBI Director Christopher Wray as his "Good friend" while standing alongside him.
Few applications are ever rejected by the FISA court - which makes it all the more damning that Carter Page's was denied until the FBI fabricated evidence and included the now-discredited Steele dossier to make their case.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/horowitz-vows-deep-dive-potential-fbi-surveillance-abuse
Horowitz says he launched an inquiry into wiretap orders after finding 17 'significant errors or omissions' in the FBI's applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Horowitz said he found no political bias in the FBI's decisions but that his office was given unsatisfactory answers by FBI officials on the failures in the Page warrant applications.
On Tuesday, the FISA court issued a rare public statement, slamming the FBI over Horowitz's findings.
"The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightned duty of candor" required by federal investigators, adding "The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable," wrote the court, which called the recent watchdog report from the DOJ's Inspector General "Troubling."
Barr lambasted the FBI last week for the failures identified in Horowitz's report, saying the bureau's probe was a "Complete sham" and was marred by "Gross abuse." On Wednesday he praised current FBI Director Christopher Wray as his "Good friend" while standing alongside him.
Few applications are ever rejected by the FISA court - which makes it all the more damning that Carter Page's was denied until the FBI fabricated evidence and included the now-discredited Steele dossier to make their case.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/horowitz-vows-deep-dive-potential-fbi-surveillance-abuse
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