Investigative reporter John Solomon says that a source has told him the IG Michael Horowitz’s report will say that there is absolute proof that Obama’s FBI misled the FISA court…
And they did so to get warrants on Carter Page.
If that is true, AG Bill Barr could take the unusual step to recall all four FISA applications and to destroy all reports about Carter Page.
John Solomon wrote:
The evidence that the judges were misled is so sweeping that it could provide grounds, if Attorney General William Barr chooses, to withdraw the FBI’s application for the surveillance warrants that began in October 2016 to target ex-Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the sources added.
“The evidence of false statements, false information, deception through omission is going to raise an important debate about FISA,” one source told me.
The report is expected to conclude the FBI’s decision to open a counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia in 2016 was adequately predicated but that its subsequent reliance on the so-called Steele dossier and execution of FISA warrants to assist the probe were problematic.
That reliance became even more troubling in early 2017 when the FBI conducted an interview with one of Christopher Steele’s sources that raised further concerns about the reliability of a dossier that was funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
One question, the sources said, is whether FBI officials with access to the facts failed to adequately divulge issues in the case to those officials who signed the warrant, which was approved Oct 21, 2016 and renewed three times in 2017.
Reauthorization for FISA is coming up soon in the Senate and under the circumstances, it’s not far fetched that Republicans will kill the FISA court because it has become so corrupt.
The bigger question is:
what will Bill Barr do if Horowitz does not recommend charges against all of those who deceived the court and those who signed off on the applications without following all disclosure laws
