An FBI lawyer will plead guilty to altering Carter Page evidence in order to support FISA warrant in 2016: Here’s more from the NY Times: A former F.B.I. lawyer intends to plead guilty to falsifying a document as part of a deal with prosecutors conducting their own criminal inquiry of the Russia investigation, according to three […] More
The FBI routinely violates its own procedures when applying for warrants to spy on American citizens, a new report from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found. In a memo dated March 30, Inspector General Michael Horowitz followed up on an earlier report from December 2019, which found the FBI violated its own […] More
Reports are beginning to float to the surface that Attorney General Bill Barr — who has been overseeing U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion investigation — does not agree with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s conclusion in his forthcoming report that the FBI had sufficient evidence to open the […] More
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is adamant about revealing what went on behind the scenes of the Russia investigation — and is looking forward to the American people learning about what happened. “I believe the Horowitz report will be ugly and damning,” Graham told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” That report has been anticipated […] More
A bit of news broke late last night. It was relayed by Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas, who says he spoke directly to IG Horowitz, the man leading the investigation into possible abuse of the FISA system by FBI officials. Per Ratcliffe, the investigation is done and the report is currently being drafted. The Daily Caller has […] More
The New York Times reports that Attorney General William Barr is getting serious about finding out just how it was that the FISA surveillance was approved against Trump campaign officials. And he will not spare the top officials at the CIA: The Justice Department plans to interview senior CIA officers as part of its investigation into […] More
James Baker – the Obama FBI’s top attorney (general counsel) said on Friday that he was skeptical about the Steele dossier, and “concerned” about its veracity when the agency received it prior to the 2016 US election, according to the Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross. “It was more information that we viewed, that I viewed, skeptically from […] More
An FBI lawyer told Congress last year that investigators were assessing the reliability of Christopher Steele as of late November 2016, a month after the bureau cited the former spy’s anti-Trump dossier to obtain a warrant to snoop on Carter Page. Sally Moyer, an attorney in the FBI general counsel’s office, described a meeting held […] More
AG Barr is before the Senate this morning and was asked about his counterintelligence investigation that was announced last night. In his testimony this morning he testified that he believes there was spying by counterintelligence agencies on the Trump campaign in 2016, and that’s a big deal. Watch his full comments, as opposed smaller soundbites […] More
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that an inspector general’s investigation into whether the FBI abused the surveillance court process during the Russia probe will be completed by May or June. Barr also told lawmakers during a House Appropriations Committee hearing that he is reviewing how the FBI handled the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump […] More
California Rep. Devin Nunes said Sunday he plans to submit eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week related to the Obama administration’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation. Nunes said on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that the referrals will be made for alleged leaks of classified information to the media, for manipulating intelligence and […] More
A 2012 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court motion contained a little-noticed provision expanding the FBI’s ability to share information with foreign officials, which could have laid the groundwork for abuses against U.S. citizens, Rep. Louie Gohmert said. “This motion and order would allow the FBI to collude with foreign governments about U.S. citizens,” Gohmert, a Texas […] More
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