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Trump On The I.G. Report: It Was An "Attempted Overthrow" Of The Government

The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General released the highly anticipated report yesterday on the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign & Russia.

The report is a damning indictment of the FBI.

Michael Horowitz, Inspector General of the DOJ found 17 "serious performance failures" relating to warrants obtained by the FBI through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendment (FISA) courts for the purposes of monitoring Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

So basically, the FBI used bad information in order to get court approval in secret proceedings to spy on a private citizen.

Reason.com’s Robby Soave writes:

“The FISA warrant, which was reauthorized three times, contained false and misleading information about Page. It omitted that he had previously disclosed his Russian contacts to a government agency; it overstated the government's confidence in the Christopher Steele dossier and ignored Steele's own doubts about one of his sources; it declined to mention that Page had said he and Paul Manafort had "literally never met"; and in general it ignored information that rendered unlikely the theory that Page was a Russian asset.
These are alarming failures. They undercut the government's position that FISA courts are a sufficient guardian of Americans' civil liberties, and that the FBI is capable of responsibly exercising the vast powers granted to it. No one should feel confident that a court would block the FBI from engaging in surveillance, even if the information was flawed or faulty.”

Horowitz concluded that the failures by the FBI “represent serious performance failures by the supervisory and non-supervisory agents with responsibility over the FISA applications."

President Trump responded saying “[T]hey fabricated evidence and they lied to the courts and they did all sorts of things to have it go their way. This was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it, and they got caught. It is an embarrassment to our country, it is dishonest, it is everything that a lot of people thought it would be except far worse. It is a disgrace what has happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. It should never again happen."


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