Friday, November 22, 2019

It will be interesting to read what concerned the Inspector General. It changes nothing to the FACT Russia hacked the 2016 elections.

The Special Counsel Report still stands. The information is factual. The Russian hacking, the Russian intelligence activities have nothing to do with a FISA warrant and neither does the president's obstruction or the meeting between the Trump campaign and Russians.

The people in jail are in jail or prison for a real reason and it has nothing to do with a FISA warrant. I am concerned Trump will seek to use the information to issue pardons.

November 22, 2019
By Devlin Barrett, Ellen Nakashima and Matt Zapotosky

The Justice Department inspector general (click here) has found evidence that an FBI employee may have altered a document connected to court-approved surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser but has concluded that the conduct did not affect the overall validity of the surveillance application, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The person under scrutiny is a low-level FBI lawyer who has since been forced out of the agency, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss material that has not yet been made public. They declined to identify the lawyer.

The allegation is contained in a draft of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report analyzing the FBI’s Russia investigation, which witnesses have in recent weeks been allowed to review, people familiar with the matter said. The report is scheduled to be released publicly Dec. 9....

...That conduct did not alter Horowitz’s finding that the surveillance application of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had a proper legal and factual basis, the officials said....