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- A long-awaited report by the Justice Department's watchdog rebuts President Donald Trump's depiction of the government's probe into Russian election interference as a politically biased plot against him. The report also criticized parts of that inquiry.
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Nov 16, 2021 · Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today the release of the DOJ Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) annual report identifying the top management and performance challenges facing the DOJ. This year’s report identifies nine challenges that we believe represent the most pressing concerns for the DOJ:
Dec 9, 2019 · NBC News. Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz releases watchdog report into origins of probe into President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.
- The FBI Did Not Use The Steele Dossier to Open Russia Probe
- Lynch, Comey Sat For IG Interviews
- Peter Strzok, Lisa Page Involved But Not Decision-Makers
- Carter Page Was only Trump Official Under FISA Surveillance
- First Carter Page FISA Contained ‘Seven Significant Inaccuracies and Omissions’
- Steele Dropped as FBI Source After Mother Jones Article
- Steele Had Prior Relationship with Ivanka Trump
- Ohr Committed ‘Consequential Errors in Judgement’
- ‘Shit Just Got Real’: Texts Show Some FBI Agents with Pro-Trump Bias
A key accusation among Trump’s allies has been that the FBI predicated its investigation of Trump campaign officials Carter Page, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn on information the bureau received from former British spy Christopher Steele. But Horowitz found that the Crossfire Hurricane team — the code name agents gave to the ...
The inspector general wasn’t lacking in materials. According to the report, Horowitz’s team got to examine more than 1 million documents and conducted 170 interviews with more than 100 witnesses. Pretty much all the key players who were integral to the Russia probe agreed to meet with the investigators, including former Attorney General Loretta Lyn...
The IG review puts some distance between the big decisions at the center of the Russia probe and the two top FBI officials who have been castigated by Trump and his allies for exchanging politically biased text messages. According to the Horowitz report, FBI attorney Lisa Page didn’t play a role in the bureau’s decision to open Crossfire Hurricane ...
The IG found no evidence that the Crossfire Hurricane team sought or obtained FISA warrants on any other subjects of the investigation besides Page. “Although the team also was interested in seeking FISA surveillance targeting Papadopoulos, the FBI [Office of General Counsel] attorneys were not supportive,” Horowitz wrote. “FBI and [National Securi...
Horowitz found the Crossfire Hurricane team omitted several important details from its applications for a FISA warrant on Page, “including information the FBI had obtained from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Page.” That information included the relevant fact that Page, Horowitz wrote, “had been approved as an ‘...
The FBI dropped Steele as a confidential source after he admitted to the bureau in November 2016 that he’d been a source for a Mother Jones story published that Halloween. That article suggested the intelligence official was helping U.S. officials investigate whether Russians were trying to develop a secret relationship with Trump and develop him a...
Steele told OIG investigators that the idea he had a predisposed bias against the Trump family was “ridiculous” because he had “visited a Trump family member at Trump Tower and ‘been friendly’ with [the family member] for some years. He described their relationship as ‘personal’ and said that he once gifted a family tartan from Scotland to the fami...
Horowitz’s team had sharp words for Ohr, saying the senior DOJ lawyer who also has come under fire by Trump and conservative allies had “committed consequential errors in judgment” by keeping his bosses out of the loop about what he was doing in relaying information to the FBI and by making himself a witness in the entire investigation. According t...
Trump has gone on obsessively about the Page-Strzok texts showing their concerns over him winning the White House. Monday’s IG report makes it clear that the FBI also had agents working with sources tied to the Russia probe who were excited about Trump’s victory. The texts and instant messages were sent the day after Election Day 2016. A supervisin...
Dec 9, 2019 · Dec. 9, 2019. WASHINGTON — A much-anticipated report on the early stages of the F.B.I.’s investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia heavily criticized how the F.B.I....
Dec 9, 2019 · These errors were so significant that IG Horowitz’s report launched an internal Department of Justice audit into the way the FBI applies for warrants to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens.
Dec 10, 2019 · In the report, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, the DOJ’s independent watchdog, discredits the right-wing conspiracy theory that the FBI was motivated by political...
Dec 11, 2019 · Dec 11, 2019 6:45 PM EDT. Transcript Audio. In 434 written pages and more than five hours of live testimony, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz shared his perspective on how...
