Inspector General report to find the FBI omitted details of the Russian dossier to the FISA court

  It looks like Michael Horowitz’s Inspector General report on alleged FISA abuses and the origins of the Russia investigation might actually be released next week as promised after multiple delays. We already know that in the report it was found that somebody in the FBI altered documents when applying for the FISA warrant used to spy on Donald Trump and now it is being reported here that the report has found key details were omitted from the FISA application. Here is more:

The Justice Department watchdog found omissions in renewal applications the FBI submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking warrants to monitor onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

A draft of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, due out next week, shows the FBI failed to convey to the court that not all of the information it used from British ex-spy Christopher Steele was entirely reliable, according to the Washington Post.

Steele was an FBI informant enlisted to research then-presidential candidate Donald Trump by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that had been hired by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Steele’s Democratic funding, his strong desire for Trump to lose, and the possible flaws with his dossier were not revealed to the court governed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

  We have heard these rumors before but now it looks like the Inspector General report is going to confirm what we have already heard: The FBI falsified some documents it needed for the FISA warrant and omitted other documents which might have negatively affected their desired income.

  Despite this I read elsewhere, and I apologize for not having the link, that the report is going to find that the FBI had enough evidence to initiate an investigation into Donald Trump. If all these stories are true this is shaping up to be another James Comey/Hillary Clinton moment when he listed all the reasons the former Secretary of State should be prosecuted and then claimed no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges. It is pretty scary to the the FBI could get away with creating the evidence it needs while neglecting the evidence it does not need.

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