The press corps is portraying Monday's report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz as absolution for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but don't believe it.
The FBI corrupted the secret court process for obtaining warrants to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page.
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.
We learn for the first time that the FBI immediately ramped up its counter-intelligence probe to include four Trump campaign officials: Messrs.
The FBI's justification, as related to Mr. Horowitz, is that the risk of Russian disruption of the 2016 election was too great to ignore.
The bureau never told anyone in the Trump campaign, or even Donald Trump, whom or what it was investigating so he could reduce the danger or distance himself from those advisers.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/wall-street-journal-horowitz-report-reveals-a-trail-of-fbi-abuse
The FBI corrupted the secret court process for obtaining warrants to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page.
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.
We learn for the first time that the FBI immediately ramped up its counter-intelligence probe to include four Trump campaign officials: Messrs.
The FBI's justification, as related to Mr. Horowitz, is that the risk of Russian disruption of the 2016 election was too great to ignore.
The bureau never told anyone in the Trump campaign, or even Donald Trump, whom or what it was investigating so he could reduce the danger or distance himself from those advisers.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/wall-street-journal-horowitz-report-reveals-a-trail-of-fbi-abuse
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