The epidemic of non-compliance James Comey left behind still ails the FBI

1. The record of FISA compliance under Comey and current FBI Director Chris Wray’s leadership is so deficient that it “undermines the FBI’s ability to achieve its 'scrupulously accurate' standard for FISA applications,” Horowitz warned in an extraordinary memo made public Tuesday.
2. The Comey FBI’s long-held defense that it properly handled the British spy Christopher Steele as a confidential human source came crashing down when it was revealed that Steele’s own source disavowed the evidence attributed to him, that the retired MI6 agent had expressed extreme political bias, and had been caught leaking while working for the bureau.
3. His review of warrant applications in more than two dozen FISA cases over the last five years that found that every one of them failed to meet the requirements of the Woods Procedures, which mandate the compilation of documentary evidence in support of each fact in a warrant application.
4. The FBI’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act compliance is a “labor-intensive” and “top-tier” program that protects Americans civil liberties by ensuring evidence is “very, very carefully scrubbed” for accuracy, Comey told House members in a closed-door deposition back in December 2018.
5. Often one to claim the high ground, ex-FBI Director James Comey lectured lawmakers in the aftermath of the bungled Russia collusion investigation, assuring them that the bureau’s procedures for securing a warrant to spy on Americans were top-notch and conscientiously followed.
6. Tuesday’s memo made clear the failure to follow the Woods Procedures in FISA applications was pervasive, found in multiple offices over multiple years dating to Comey’s time as FBI boss.
7. The FBI’s former chief of intelligence Kevin Brock, who served under prior Director Robert Mueller, said the new IG findings add to a body of evidence that Comey’s tenure at FBI was infected with a record of noncompliance.
8. But in December, Horowitz disclosed that the FISA warrant that Comey himself approved to start spying on the Trump campaign was riddled with errors, uncorroborated information and other misconduct.

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