Maria Bartiromo: DOJ inspector general report due out Friday and covers 'more than just FISA abuse'

https://www.washingtonexaminer...than-just-fisa-abuse

Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo says her sources are telling her an extensive report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the Justice Department and the FBI will be released by the end of next week.

Bartiromo, who is the first journalist to report an exact release date, discussed what she had learned on her Fox News show, Sunday Morning Futures, with two Republican congressmen who deduced former high-ranking government officials are bracing for a scathing critique.

"I’m hearing the IG report will be out this upcoming Friday, Oct. 18, and my sources say it’s as thick as a telephone book," Bartiromo said, adding that it covers "more than just FISA abuse."



It has been exactly one month since Horowitz announced the completion of the investigation by his team, who pored over more than 1 million records and conducted 100-plus interviews. The inspector general gave a draft to the Justice Department and FBI for a classification review.

Upon the completion of that process, the report will first be delivered to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who has pledged to do a "deep dive" of his own into FISA that will run concurrently with U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the early stages of the Russia investigation. The South Carolina Republican said his "No. 1 goal" is to have as much of the report declassified as possible.

Republicans allege top Justice Department and FBI officials misled the FISA court by using an unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain warrants to electronically monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in an attempt to dig up damaging information about Trump.

Spurred in part by GOP investigations and the declassification of hundreds of pages of FISA documents related to Page in July 2018, Republicans argue the dossier's Democratic benefactors — Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee — and its author's bias against President Trump were not made clear in the FISA applications.

Democrats have dismissed the allegations of wrongdoing by the Justice Department and the FBI during the Trump-Russia investigation and are concerned that Durham's review, being overseen by Attorney General William Barr, may be an effort to discredit the work of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Neither of Bartiromo's guests Sunday, Reps. Doug Collins of Georgia and Mark Meadows of North Carolina, appeared to have any insider knowledge of the contents of the FISA report, but they offered deductions of what to expect.

Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, surmised that former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe have been "ramping up" an "I'm innocent" defense during recent appearances on MSNBC and CNN respectively. Lumping in comments by former FBI Director James Comey, Collins concluded the report is "not going to be very good" for them.

Comey, who was fired by Trump in May 2017 and has been very critical of the president since, signed and approved three of the four FISA warrant applications and renewals starting in October 2016, and some Republicans speculate he will be charged for misleading the court's judges. Horowitz has harshly criticized Comey in two prior high-profile investigations and even sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department over Comey’s memos, although the Justice Department declined to prosecute. Comey said last month he is "highly confident" he will not be indicted.

Meadows predicted Horowitz's report will be a "scathing rebuke" of the FBI based on documents he provided to the inspector general and said he sees some areas that warrant criminal referrals to Barr. At a minimum, the North Carolina Republican said he expects there will be a "strong recommendation" to change FISA application protocols.

U.S. District Judge John Bates, who was the presiding judge of the FISA court from 2009 to 2013, said recently he expects the report from Horowitz to be "very fair" and "pretty lengthy."

Given the way Horowitz did past reports, he will probably address each of the 4 warrants separately. Many of the things we know are wrong were written in each of the warrants. So we will most likely be reading some of these issues 4 separate times.

There are certainly plenty of things that could be addressed other than FISA abuse, but I hope Horowitz hits that hard. I hope the 4 FISC judges get some criticism too. They have sat quietly for 3 years knowing they signed warrants based on falsehoods. They watched people be destroyed by the FBI and Mueller.

Comey has argued in the past that the warrants were "verified" because Steele had been reliable in the past. That is a very weak standard.

The judges will argue they aren't investigators and have to rely on being told the truth. IMO, all 4 of these judges should be removed from the FISC. They failed the country by not demanding real evidence. Something a lot better than newspaper stories.

At a minimum the agents who signed the warrants should be banned from ever doing a FISA warrant again. Depending on how bad the report is, and how knowingly fraudulent they were, that "under penalty of perjury" should apply.

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At a minimum the agents who signed the warrants should be banned from ever doing a FISA warrant again. Depending on how bad the report is, and how knowingly fraudulent they were, that "under penalty of perjury" should apply

No, they should be fired. If I lied on a search warrant or if I lied during testimony before a magistrate or a district judge or any other judge, I would be labeled as having “Giglio” issues and I’d never be able to go in front of the court again, effectively ending my career. And if someone lied on these FISA court affidavits, they should be fired and their certification revoked.

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if someone lied on these FISA court affidavits, they should be fired and their certification revoked.

At a minimum.

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if someone lied on these FISA court affidavits, they should be fired and their certification revoked.

If you lie to them you get criminal charges. If they lie they loose their jobs (maybe)?

John Solomon commented on Hannity last week or so that the inspectors report is designed to embarrass some people but beyond that not much will happen. That would seem to fit with the pattern of recent history. Only thing is these people can't be shamed or embarrassed.

just seems odd

https://www.politico.com/magaz...trump-adviser-228758

Fiona Hill left the Trump administration in July 2019.

She was the top Russia advisor.

Born in the U.K., she has dual U.K. - U.S. citizenship by marriage to a U.S. citizen

But she entered the White House with a particularly heavy piece of baggage that either didn’t bother Trump or never crossed his radar: a former working relationship with Steele.

According to people familiar with their relationship, the two British Russia hands are not exactly friends. But they have known each other for years, beginning when Hill was working on Russia at the National Intelligence Council and Steele was on MI6’s Russia desk.

“She had a high opinion of Steele, and thought he was very smart,” a foreign policy veteran, and one of Hill’s close friends, told POLITICO. Hill spoke to Steele in 2016 and discussed him with friends in 2017, after BuzzFeed published his memos outlining a potential conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to win the election.

Hill told McMaster “as soon as she was hired” that she knew Steele and had worked with him in the past, according to a former NSC official. But she confided in some that she wasn’t in a position to judge whether the former spy’s assessments were accurate, and even thought Steele might have been played by the Russians into spreading disinformation.

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from Wiki:

Hill was at the National Intelligence Council as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia from 2006 to 2009

Christopher Steele left MI6 in 2009

Our "top Russia advisor" wasn’t in a position to judge whether the former spy’s assessments were accurate. ??

just seems odd #2

https://dailycaller.com/2019/1...book-steele-dossier/

The founders of opposition research firm Fusion GPS will defend their work on the infamous Steele dossier in a book set to be published just before Thanksgiving.

In “Crime in Progress: The Secret History of the Trump-Russia Investigation,” Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch will lay out the dirt they gathered on President Donald Trump’s alleged links to Russia, and describe their work with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the anti-Trump dossier.

“The never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia ties — culminating in the Steele dossier , and sparking the Mueller report — from the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS,” reads the book description on Amazon.com, which includes an endorsement from CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

The book, published by Penguin Press, will hit shelves on Nov. 26.

“It feels like time to explain our work in our own words,” Fritsch said, according to The Guardian. “We were witnessing what we thought was a crime in progress that needed to be investigated.”

“I think we give a pretty careful exegesis of the [Steele] dossier, what is in it and what has been substantiated. We conclude it’s a pretty prescient document.”

prescient - having knowledge of events before they take place

Despite that defense, the special counsel’s investigation all but debunked several of the dossier’s major allegations. A Justice Department inspector general’s report is expected to come out this month scrutinizing the FBI’s handling of the dossier. The bureau relied on Steele’s information to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.

Steele, who relied on sources and sub-sources inside Russia, alleged that there was a “well-developed conspiracy of coordination” between the Trump campaign and Russian government to influence the 2016 election. But Robert Mueller, the special counsel, said that there was no evidence of a conspiracy between the campaign and Kremlin.

Steele also alleged that Page came up with the idea to release stolen DNC emails through WikiLeaks in July 2016. Mueller said that there was no evidence that any Americans, including Trump associates, were involved in hacking or releasing stolen emails.

Perkins Coie paid Fusion more than $1 million in 2016 to investigate Trump. Fusion in turn paid Steele around $170,000.

The dossier project had several components. Steele gathered the information on Trump from sources he knew from his days as an MI6 officer in Moscow. Simpson helped put Steele in touch with reporters to discuss his Trump findings.

Simpson arranged meetings for Steele with journalists from Yahoo! News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and Mother Jones.

Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones’ David Corn published stories based on Steele’s information prior to the election.

Fusion GPS continued investigating Trump even after the election. The firm worked with Daniel Jones, a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who operates the non-profit groups The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP) and Advance Democracy, Inc.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reported that TDIP paid Fusion GPS more than $3.3 million in 2017, and paid Steele more than $250,000 . Jones told the FBI in March 2017 that he was working with Fusion GPS and Steele on a project funded by seven to ten wealthy progressives from New York and California.

George Soros, the billionaire financier, donated at least $1 million to the group.

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Daniel Jones - former Feinstein staffer

Should be quite a book by Fusion GPS. Especially since the dossier didn't get anything significant correct

Dan Jones gave Fusion 3.3 million and Steele 0.25 million in 2017. So who really wrote the dossier ?

Interesting title of the book
"Crime in Progress: The Secret History of the Trump-Russia Investigation"

think about it

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George Soros seems to be the one person tied to the Russian collusion hoax,Ukraine scandal,providing a fund to pay for whistleblower lawyers and many more things.

Why has the Senate not opened hearings and hauled him before them to answer some questions?


George Soros-backed group gave millions of dollars to firms tied to Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele

https://www.washingtonexaminer...s-christopher-steele



A group backed by liberal billionaire George Soros contributed millions of dollars to firms connected to Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, the author of the so-called Trump dossier.

Internal Revenue Service filings reveal The Democracy Integrity Project, founded in 2017 by a former staffer to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., $3.3 million was paid to Bean LLC., a holding company that oversees Fusion GPS. Separately, $250,000 was paid to London-based Walsingham Partners Ltd., which is owned by Steele and his business partner Christopher Burrows, the Daily Caller reports.

Similarly, hundreds of thousands of dollars were also paid to other firms with ties to Fusions GPS as contractors or law firms that represented Fusion GPS on legal matters concerning the dossier, according to TDIP’s tax filings.

Jones claimed he oversaw a “shadow media organization helping the government” investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and that he intended to share his findings with federal investigators, the media, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

A lawyer from Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Clinton campaign and the Democratic national committee, hired Fusion GPS to conduct anti-Trump research and paid the firm a total of $1 million.

Fusion GPS then paid Steele almost $170,000 for a project that led to the dossier, which contains salacious information about President Trump and his relationship with Russia, and was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.

Jones told the FBI in 2017 that seven to 10 donors financially backed the nonprofit. Additionally, attorney Adam Waldman who has ties to Steele, told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 that Soros was one of the donors behind the nonprofit. The New York Times reported in 2018 that Soros contributed at least $1 million to the group.

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this whole thing sure is complicated

Marie Yovanovitch

She was appointed by Obama in Aug 2016 to be US Ambassador to Ukraine. She was recalled May 2019.

Last week she testified to congress that Donald Trump pressured the State Dept to remove her.

Now, Judicial Watch just announced this:

Note: there is a hedge here by Judicial Watch. They aren't saying this without caveat. They are investigating this.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/...alists-trump-allies/

JW INVESTIGATES IF OUSTED UKRAINE AMBASSADOR ORDERED STATE DEPT. TO MONITOR JOURNALISTS, TRUMP ALLIES

The prominent conservative figures — journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump — allegedly unlawfully monitored by the State Department in Ukraine at the request of ousted U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch include:

Jack Posobiec

Donald Trump Jr.

Laura Ingraham

Sean Hannity

Michael McFaul (Obama’s ambassador to Russia)

Dan Bongino

Ryan Saavedra

Rudy Giuliani

Sebastian Gorka

John Solomon

Lou Dobbs

Pamella Geller

Sara Carter

Judicial Watch continues its investigation of these matters and will update its reporting as the situation unfolds.

Devin Nunes warned of something like this a few days ago

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https://www.judicialwatch.org/...alists-trump-allies/

Judicial Watch is investigating if prominent conservative figures, journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump were unlawfully monitored by the State Department in Ukraine at the request of ousted U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, an Obama appointee. Yovanovitch testified “in secret” to the House impeachment inquiry against Trump on Friday, October 11, 2019. Her “secret” testimony was leaked to the New York Times during the hearing.

Judicial Watch has obtained information indicating Yovanovitch may have violated laws and government regulations by ordering subordinates to target certain U.S. persons using State Department resources. Yovanovitch reportedly ordered monitoring keyed to the following search terms: Biden, Giuliani, Soros and Yovanovitch. Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the State Department and will continue gathering facts from government sources.

Prior to being recalled as ambassador to Ukraine in the spring Yovanovitch reportedly created a list of individuals who were to be monitored via social media and other means. Ukraine embassy staff made the request to the Washington D.C. headquarters office of the department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. After several days, Yovanovitch’s staff was informed that the request was illegal and the monitoring either ceased or was concealed via the State Department Global Engagement Center, which has looser restrictions on collecting information.

“This is not an obscure rule, everyone in public diplomacy or public affairs knows they can’t make lists and monitor U.S. citizens unless there is a major national security reason,” according to a senior State Department official. If the illicit operation occurred, it seems to indicate a clear political bias against the president and his supporters. Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who has also led American embassies in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, was appointed ambassador to Ukraine by Obama in 2016. She was recalled by the State Department in May and remains a State Department employee in Washington D.C.

In the public records request to the State Department Judicial Watch asks for any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the monitoring of any U.S.-based journalist, reporter, or media commentator by any employee or office of the Department of State between January 1, 2019 and the present. That includes all records pertaining to the scope of the monitoring to be conducted and individuals subject to it as well as records documenting the information collected pursuant to the monitoring. The FOIA request also asks for all records of communication between any official, employee or representative of the State Department and any other individual or entity.

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President Trump has asked the new govt of Ukraine to help figure out if and how the former Ukraine govt tried to interfere in the 2016 election. And because he is fighting back against the wide spread coup attempt, DEMs want to impeach him for doing that. (The impeachment is to bring down President Trump, but it also hinders getting Ukraine cooperating w us)

Talk about frustration

Maria Bartiromo:

IG report NOT out this Friday 10/18.
Classifications being made. Likely end of the month.

seen at CTH

This is really crazy. All the bad actors are out there writing books, giving interviews, and DoJ crawls along taking forever to put out an investigation report.

Declassify the whole damn thing.

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Talk about frustration

Maria Bartiromo:

IG report NOT out this Friday 10/18.
Classifications being made. Likely end of the month.

seen at CTH

This is really crazy. All the bad actors are out there writing books, giving interviews, and DoJ crawls along taking forever to put out an investigation report.

Declassify the whole damn thing.

Frustrating yes. John Solomon has already said it will be a scathing report that will embarrass some people and Rep Jim Jordan has basically said the same thing with the end result most likely being some changes made to the FISA process and nothing more. Now that's frustrating to hear. We are already being softened up for the "This is what we know but nothing is really going to be done about it" thumb in our eye. Again.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Talk about frustration

Maria Bartiromo:

IG report NOT out this Friday 10/18.
Classifications being made. Likely end of the month.

seen at CTH

This is really crazy. All the bad actors are out there writing books, giving interviews, and DoJ crawls along taking forever to put out an investigation report.

Declassify the whole damn thing.

Frustrating yes. John Solomon has already said it will be a scathing report that will embarrass some people and Rep Jim Jordan has basically said the same thing with the end result most likely being some changes made to the FISA process and nothing more. Now that's frustrating to hear. We are already being softened up for the "This is what we know but nothing is really going to be done about it" thumb in our eye. Again.

Maybe they are waiting until Steamroll Schiff pushes through the DNC impeachment. That way any revelations made against Democrats can be called out as retaliation.

The transcontinental railroad was finished in 6 years using mules and men. No wonder we are losing patience with this circus.

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John Solomon commented on Hannity last week or so that the inspectors report is designed to embarrass some people but beyond that not much will happen. That would seem to fit with the pattern of recent history. Only thing is these people can't be shamed or embarrassed.

Perhaps that’s why Barr and Durham are themselves out and about in Europe. Hopefully they’ll do more than embarrass some people.

Techno Fog twitter is the original source

Conservative TreeHouse posted a follow up

Techno Fog has been a great source for the Russia collusion farce

https://theconservativetreehou...berries/#more-173778

Inside an otherwise innocuous court filing (full pdf below), General Mike Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, files a motion to compel (MTC) in an effort to gain discovery of the content from two cell phones belonging to Joseph Mifsud

Apparently, according to the information within the filing, the DOJ has somehow gained custody of two cell phones belonging to Mr. Mifsud

The filing notes that “western intelligence” likely tasked Mr. Mifsud against General Flynn as early as 2014 in order to set up “connections with certain Russians” for later use against him. Essentially, an intelligence entrapment scheme.

Something is certainly happening here. The cell phone models are from 2011 and 2014.

With U.S. Attorney John Durham and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr traveling to Italy to listen to the taped deposition of Joseph Mifsud last month….. and now the discovery that the DOJ has his cell phones from a period of keen interest in the Russia collusion-conspiracy framework…. It would appear Mr. Mifsud might just be the Maltese Fulcrum.

In response to the defense Motion to Compel, the U.S. Dept of Justice told Ms. Powell: “if they determine the information is discoverable or relevant to sentencing” they will produce them.

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The motion by Sidney Powell was filed today

can't begin to describe how explosive this could be if Mifsud was a western intel plant to set up Flynn and later Papadopoulos

I think treason is a very appropriate word

sometimes we lose sight of the big picture. The FBI targeted Michael Flynn in the summer of 2016 as working w the Russians. (as told by Andrew McCabe)

Michael Flynn was Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from July 2012 to Aug 2014

adding: from the Sidney Powell motion:

"Michael Flynn requests the govt be ordered to produce evidence that has only recently come into its possession "

Did AG Barr bring something back from Italy ?






Ms Sidney has some real good sources

DOJ Obtained Cell Phones of Central Figure at Origin of Russia Probe
Michael Flynn's legal counsel says phones that belonged to Joseph Mifsud likely contain exculpatory evidence
BY PETR SVAB
October 16, 2019
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EPOCH TIMES > https://www.theepochtimes.com/...a-probe_3118323.html
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"The Department of Justice (DOJ) has obtained two phones of Joseph Mifsud, one of the central figures of the 2016 Russia investigation, and the lawyer of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has requested them, saying they likely contain exculpatory evidence.

The phones, two BlackBerry models, “only recently” came into the government’s possession, said Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, a former prosecutor, in an Oct. 15 court filing (pdf).

Data and metadata on the phones “is material, exculpatory, and relevant to the defense of Mr. Flynn,” she said."
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"OCONUS Lures
Powell said the phone data is specifically relevant “to the ‘OCONUS LURES’ and agents that western intelligence tasked against [Flynn] likely as early as 2014.”

The agents were “to arrange—unbeknownst to him—’connections’ with certain Russians that they would then use against him in their false claims,” she argued.

Powell has argued that the investigation of Flynn was improper, specifically that he was targeted for “concocted and political purposes.”

“OCONUS Lures” refer to offensive counterintelligence operations outside the continental United States, according to Chris Farrell, a former counterintelligence officer who ran double-agent operations for the U.S. Army.

A “lure” is an operation where a counterintelligence operative will pretend to be compromised by money, ideology, coercion, or extortion, and therefore “open to manipulation and recruitment,” said Chris Blackburn, political analyst and counterterrorism expert. If a foreign intelligence service takes the bait and attempts to recruit the operative, the relationship could then be used for various purposes, such as to identify the recruiting agents and collect information.

Text messages between former high-level FBI attorney Lisa Page and the former FBI counterintelligence lead on the Russia probe, Peter Strzok, indicate that Strzok was trying to get approval for multiple “oconus lures” in December 2015. At the time, he was working on the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state."
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lots of indicators that Intel IG Atkinson is a snake and full participant in the coup attempt

Grassley Ltr to him from today

ICWPA = Intel Community Whistleblower Protection Act











How convenient. "In June 2019 the newly hired Dir for the Center for Protected Disclosures entered on duty"

The old form required first hand knowledge. The "whistleblower / CIA spy" signed the old form. Atkinson said the WB/CIA spy checked both boxes: a) have first hand knowledge and b) have second hand knowledge

Letter posted by blogger Paul Sperry

If this is correct Brennan and Clapper will have a say in what is redacted. Just crazy if true.

'Food fight' over FISA report could lead to extensive redactions

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses may be covered in redactions when it is released.

Former Republican Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, now a Fox News contributor, said this week that this report, eagerly anticipated by Republican allies of President Trump, could be more heavily concealed than previous reports from the DOJ watchdog.

“Evidently, there’s an intra-agency debate and really a food fight if you will about the classification issues,” Chaffetz said on Sean Hannity's show on Monday. “Remember in the last report put out by Horowitz, there were only seven words or so that were redacted. The Democrats threw a fit that they couldn’t see the whole thing. This could have 10-20% of the report redacted.”

Chaffetz also said he has not seen any evidence to suggest FBI Director Christopher Wray has been "cooperative" and speculated that former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper may be involved in "behind-the-scenes fighting" as they are also "fighting" to defend themselves on TV.



Horowitz announced the completion of his investigation a little more than one month ago, an effort in which his team pored over more than 1 million records and conducted 100-plus interviews. The inspector general gave a draft to the Justice Department and the FBI for a classification review, after which the final draft will be delivered to Congress.

There has been scattered reporting about when the report will be released. Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo announced over the weekend that her sources were telling her it would be released on Oct. 18, as well as calling it "thick as a telephone book" and covering "more than just FISA abuse." On Monday, Bartiromo updated her report, tweeting, "IG report NOT out this Friday 10/18. Classifications being made. Likely end of month."

An official who spoke with Fox News disputed there being a tumultuous debate over redactions. “The FBI and the DOJ are working together smoothly on the declassification process,” the official said.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, President Trump noted that the release of the FISA report is "coming out soon" and will shed light on a "corrupt election." Trump said he believes the string of misconduct "goes right up" to his predecessor, former President Barack Obama.

Republicans argue top Justice Department and FBI officials misled the FISA court by using an unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain warrants to electronically monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Democrats have dismissed the allegations of wrongdoing during the Trump-Russia investigation and are concerned that U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the early stages of the Russia investigation, being overseen by Attorney General William Barr, may be an effort to discredit the work of special counsel Robert Mueller.

SPYGATE INVESTIGATION

Carter Page’s Privacy Act Request Remains Unfulfilled

THE EPOCH TIMES > https://reader.epoch.cloud/?to...a55&selDate=20191017


Former Trump campaign adviser at the center of looming spy abuse report by IG has yet to see what the government gathered

IVAN PENTCHOUKOV

A U.S. citizen at the center of an 18-month inquiry into abuses of government spying has yet to be allowed to exercise his legal right to review what the investigators say they found out about him over the course of a one-year surveillance campaign that started during the 2016 presidential election.

Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, had no say when the Justice Department and the FBI labeled him an agent of Russia in a secret court proceeding and obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant in October 2016.

He said he was kept in the dark as the existence of the warrant was illegally leaked to the press, he received no satisfactory answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for more than a year after filing a formal Privacy Act request in May 2017, and that the pattern continued when he was handed a copy of the partly declassified FISA warrant application days after The New York Times received it.

Now, as the final report by the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is reportedly within weeks of release, Page has yet to receive a federally mandated opportunity to review what’s in the report and request amendments. He’s negotiating with the DOJ’s Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties, but he isn’t optimistic, considering the government’s pattern of potential Privacy Act violations.

“So far, the right thing has not been done,” Page told The Epoch Times on Oct. 16. “I just want it to be accurate. So far, everything they’ve done has been inaccurate. I have no agenda. I just want the truth.”

The Privacy Act of 1974 prohibits the government from releasing.........
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"With IG Report Imminent, DOJ Has Yet to Grant Carter Page Review Mandated by Privacy Act"....
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Does anyone know how the DOJ obtained the two Mifsud cellphones? That sounds like a story. And I wonder if they’ve cracked their encryption.