[ April 24, 2024 ]
The Department of Justice’s inspector general just announced an investigation into the Justice Department and the FBI to see if certain members of those agencies violated federal law by surveilling a member of President Donald Trump’s campaign team.
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Remember when Trump said his campaign had been wiretapped and all the elites in the media and on the left howled and mocked?
Well now — here’s the next look at that whole matter.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has kicked off the review in response to requests from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and members of Congress.
Breitbart has more:
The Department of Justice Office of Inspector General announced Wednesday it is launching a review into whether the Justice Department and the FBI violated the law and applicable policies when using the Steele dossier to obtain a surveillance warrant on a former Trump campaign member.
DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz is launching the review in response to requests from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and members of Congress, according to a statement.The probe will review information that was known to the DOJ and the FBI at the time the warrant applications were filed from or about Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who authored the dossier.
The DOJ and FBI did not tell the secret court that issued the surveillance warrant on former Trump adviser Carter Page that the dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
As confirmed by a memo issued by the House Intelligence Committee’s Democrat members, the DOJ and FBI — who submitted the warrant application and renewals — only vaguely referenced the dossier’s political origins. The application said Steele:
“was approached an identified U.S. Person, who indicated to Source #1 [Steele] that a U.S. based law firm had hired the identified U.S. Person to conduct research regarding Candidate #1’s ties to Russia. (The identified U.S. Person and Source #1 have a long-standing business relationship.) The identified U.S. Person hired Source #1 to conduct this research into Candidate #1’s ties to Russia. The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. Person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign.”
In reality, the “U.S. Person” was Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, and the “U.S. based law firm” was Perkins Coie, the law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
In addition, FBI guidelines require its employees to use verified information when applying for surveillance warrants. According to former FBI Director James Comey in January 2017, the dossier was “salacious and unverified.” However, the FBI did use the dossier as part of its application in October 2016.
The probe will also look into the DOJ’s and FBI’s relationship and communications with Steele, and if circumstances warrant, “other issues that may arise during the course of the review.”
The announcement of the probe comes after nearly two dozen members of Congress have called for a second special counsel to examine potential bias and improper conduct at the DOJ and FBI related to the investigation of the Trump campaign.
They argue that a inspector general review is not enough, since the office does not have the ability to interview non-government employees and has no prosecutorial or subpoena power.
Earlier this month, four senators — Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Senate Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined House lawmakers’ calls for a second special counsel.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) also joined over a dozen lawmakers calling for a second special counsel.
The inspector general probe is unlikely to quell calls for a second special counsel, though the Justice Department can now argue they are looking into the matter.
Sessions has said he is “seriously” considering the appointment of a second special counsel, and has appointed a former official to examine the need for one. Breitbart News reached out to the DOJ as to whether a second special counsel was still under consideration.
A DOJ spokesperson said, “No announcements on that front.”
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51 Comments
6 years ago
how about looking into the pdf of the so-called birth certificate of the muslim? it is high time to unleash the power of our federal government on proving that the election of the illegal alien muslim was a fraud perpetrated on us by the fbi and cia. my guess is that every intelligence agency in every country knows that the muslim was an illegal alien constitutionally disallowed for the presidency
6 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
Perhaps you need to learn how to write properly before commenting on issues. Really, your writing is pathetic and you should be embarrassed.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
that the best you got girl? Pathetic. Stick to the facts and not your opinion which is worthless.
up the hill
airborne
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
And, your writing is FAR worse. Do you “comment”, solely to humiliate yourself? You are doing a fine job of that. Continue to humiliate yourself. Human beings find it amusing.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Perhaps you need to learn how to think properly before commenting on issues. Really, your knowledge on anything is pathetic and you should be embarrassed to call yourself even a muslim..
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
It is comforting to know that no one, but no one, was placed on this Earth to live up to or down to your expectations.
6 years ago
A necessary start, but the bad thing about this is that AG Jeff Sessions refused to appoint a special prosecutor to inspect this ala Mueller style. The IG does not have the legal powers that a special prosecutor has. Again, Jeff Sessions is helping the Dems break the back of the Trump administration. Pathetic that he refuses to act where and when he can.
We also now know that Obama did recieve briefings from the FBI about investigations into the Trump campaign.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jimbo
Agree. Hillary Left/Liberal media/Mafia runs fake investigation. Nobody is touching the mafia itself. And Hillary mafia killed another witness to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
Nobody even investigates it bcoz Hillary gang is running FBI/DOJ/state dept/NSA.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jimbo
“[Sessions]…he refuses to act when and where he can.”
Sessions was a supporter of Trump and member of his campaign. How much can he do before demoRats and the media start screaming conflict of interest or obstruction. I can’t imagine how frustrated Trump is. He and Sessions still don’t seem to be in a position to fire everybody and drain the swamp.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Jimbo
I don’t know what Sessions is up to, but he is methodical and is very careful to not do anything that would hinder an investigation that would allow a guilty party to claim innocence because some rule or law had been violated or that a conflict of interest has occurred.
6 years ago
Reply to
Beverly
I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head. Slow and steady, get the goods on these slimy folk, and nail Schrillary to the wall. It took years for the filth to build their army — let’s make sure we knock it to Leavenworth the FIRST time.
6 years ago
How quaint, another study in the ongoing illusion that justice is applicable to important people. This is going nowhere as if it is followed, it will lead to the embarrassment and expose criminal activity of too many of societies betters.
6 years ago
Reply to
aebe
This is only a space filler on a slow news day, it will have the same non result of the previous pile.
6 years ago
Reply to
aebe
This is only a space filler on a slow news day, it will have the same non result of the previous pile.
6 years ago
Reply to
aebe
This is only a space filler on a slow news day, it will have the same non result of the previous pile.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I guess I still have a spark of belief in the system, when it is run by right-minded folks. Let’s let it play out awhile.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
The one defining characteristic of being a moslem: One must be the descendant of the cross-breeding of monkeys with pigs.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Now hold on. Donkeys are a vital part of that “chain” as evidenced by some North African teens who couldn’t keep their um, ‘hands,’ off the neighborhood ass and got diseased from it.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Although donkeys are a sexual passion, among moslems, somehow … the breeding simply does not take effect.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Yes. I see your point. They’re just viewed as a piece of ‘ass.’
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Yes, santashandler. The moslems don’t really look at them as marriage material … BTW: LOVE your pun.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
You’re welcome. That, you have to admit … even with a normal smattering of modesty …. was a good one.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Another defining characteristic of being a muslim, is being able to fu*k a goat, then slaughter it properly and have it cooked and prepared on the dinner table faster than muhamud can grab a six year old girl.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
On the neighbor’s table , it would not be halal if eaten at home .
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
On the neighbor’s table , it would not be halal if eaten at home .
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Need only know one – Islum . From the top down it must have been the model for mussolini , hitler and hirohito .
Syphilis and Gonorrhea have been islum’s most valuable contributions to civilisation . Leading one to believe that turning arabia and persia into radioactive wastelands would be high on anyone’s list .
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Islum is fascism allahtard — as is proven by any place in which you muslum vermin gain political power.
6 years ago
Until I see an indictment and people doing perp walks I will consider this fake news to placate the right. It would be nice to have the mother of all October surprises and see Democrats and liberals arrested in Mass
6 years ago
What do you call a law enforcement agency that monitors the political opposition to the current regime? Secret police?
The F_I-B needs to be disbanded lock, stock and barrel.
6 years ago
Of course the law was broken. Who’s running the show over there at the IG’s office and DOJ. This has been known for months by the average person and only now they getting with the program. We’re paying these people with our tax dollars for what reason.
6 years ago
Ah S-. Horowitz has been in office since 2012. Is he a deep state BHO holdover, if so, then WTF can we expect?
6 years ago
You need only have your local sheriff or governing body call for a militia and they will buy the bullets .
6 years ago
Little pistols are cute and have their place , but something guaranteed to put an end to your target should be primary .
Watched a man have a magazine full of .25 acp shot into him . He plucked a couple of bullets out of his chest and then stomped the shooter into a bloody mudhole .
6 years ago
Little pistols are cute and have their place , but something guaranteed to put an end to your target should be primary .
Watched a man have a magazine full of .25 acp shot into him . He plucked a couple of bullets out of his chest and then stomped the shooter into a bloody mudhole .
6 years ago
There are two conclusions to draw from this:
1. If obvious shoddy political campaign opposition research can be used to obtain a FISA warrant to conduct surveillance on the other party, then the standards of the court do not pass constitutional muster regarding the Fourth Amendment strictures on unreasonable search and seizure. And,
2. If the upper echelons of the FBI can enact a tyrannical plot using such methods to attempt to subvert a presidential election, the possibilities of weakening, amending, or repealing the Second Amendment rights of private citizens to keep and bear arms just left the planet.
6 years ago
Tawk, tawk, tawk….. that’s all I hear. When are they going to ARREST Bull & Hillaryous??? Indict them? I believe Hillary knows her crimes are worthy of hanging.
She is already is practicing letting her feces come out, hence the brown spot on her anus when boarding the plane. Good for her!!
Practice makes perfect.
6 years ago
Get rid of Jeff Sessions — what a jerk, what an unpatriotic coward.
6 years ago
This will go nowhere
6 years ago
Got to bring the creeps down.
What worries me the most is this Russia spy and how Trump is following the world.
Back down Trump, I do not want war because of Clinton’s, Soros. Obama, EU and many others
We the West are the victims in war as well as Russia for what more lies.
