They told us the FBI spying on Trump was a conspiracy theory

Once we get the report I'm going to start reading and threading it and not be able to read other peoples tweets or replies until I'm done so thank you all in advance everyone who reads and likes and shares my thread and replies to it. I'll try to get to as…

Lots and lots of Confidential Human Sources 🙄

Thread: Analysis of the IG Report on the Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation https://t.co/6Bg17WQLeV

1) IG Report Thread: https://t.co/fN9RJvBrKd

https://t.co/rTUPI0tpHd

Full DOJ IG Report into FISA: https://t.co/mgAH6Hb8XG

"Two witnesses, Glenn Simpson and Jonathan Winer (a former Department of State official), declined our requests for voluntary interviews, and we were unable to compel their testimony"

The DOJ IG determined that Steele's bogus dossier played "a central and essential role in the decision by FBI OGC to support the request for FISA surveillance targeting Carter Page, as well as the FBI's ultimate decision to seek the FISA order."

DoJ rpt: We further found that while Strzok was directly involved in the decisions to open Crossfire Hurricane and the four individual cases, he was not the sole, or even the highest-level, decision maker as to any of those matters.

bastards

AG Barr has responded: 'The IG;s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken'. @POTUS @LisaMei62

In fact, IG specifically says "our role in this review was not to second-guess discretionary judgments by Department personnel about whether to open an investigation" -- something spin from media and their sources on IG's view of opening investigation neglected…

SEVEN significant omissions and errors in the first Carter Page FISA application. TEN more in the following three renewal applications. !!!

Of applications for warrants to spy on US citizen Carter Page, IG says "numerous instances in which factual representations in those applications were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation."

The IG report is a FISA opponents worst nightmare. It is everything critics said would happen to include the ineffective nature of a watchdog to police it. The audit should lead to dissolution in its current form.

#BREAKING: U.S. attorney John Durham issues a response to the DOJ IG report, saying his office does "not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.”

AG Bill Barr - "The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken."

BREAKING: FBI withheld exculpatory evidence from Halper's recorded convos w FISA target Carter Page of Page denying meeting w Kremlin officials, denying knowing anything about DNC hacks or having anything to do with GOP's Ukraine platform & instead relied…