On March 31, 2020, Michael Horowitz wrote an administrative memorandum to Christopher Wray informing him that OIG had reviewed 29 FISA applications. 5 of them were missing Woods files altogether. That’s sloppy. The remaining cases had an average of about 20 errors apiece. Errors being used here to refer to representations that were not consistent with the Woods file.
That’s not just damning evidence against the “Deep state” “coup” nonsense, it’s case closed. Unless all 29 of those individuals was an associate of some “establishment outsider” campaign, the DC police just came out and said the building doesn’t even have a basement.
Errors, like the ones in the Page application, occurred in every single case. IIRC, the Page app was even below average in terms of number of errors. The government made up their minds that there was a crime and assumed that the facts would support them in the end. It’s what law enforcement does every day in every US jurisdiction.
Setting aside all your attempts at straw men, it’s impossible to support a president who expands that authority and still retain the credibility to bitch about any person for not caring enough or doing enough to stop specific instances. Attempts to do so, particularly when the subject is a lawmaker who has attempted to end systemic abuses, just show that the source of the bitching places no value on their own integrity or values the privacy of their politician more than their own privacy.
Either way, their commentary is of no value. Which is why I stopped reading your post after like 3 sentences.
Again, I'm already familiar with the report and memo, thanks, and rightly assumed that TDSers would try to write off the industrial-grade abuse directed at the Trump campaign. It goes beyond sloppiness:
"My own view is that the evidence shows that we're not dealing with just the mistakes or sloppiness," Barr told host Laura Ingraham. "There was something far more troubling here. We're going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted."
Trump "has every right to be frustrated" by the investigation, Barr added.
"What happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history -- without any basis," Barr said. "They started this investigation of his campaign. And even more concerning, actually, is what happened after the campaign. A whole pattern of events while he was president ... to sabotage the presidency ... or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency."
During Thursday's show Barr also addressed what he described as abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), saying he believed "safeguards" would "enable us to go forward with this important tool."
" I think it's very sad and the people who abused FISA have a lot to answer for," he said, "because this was an important tool to protect the American people.
"They abused it. They undercut public confidence in FISA but also the FBI is an institution and we have to rebuild that."
Barr isn't winging this, it's what Durham's investigations are telling him.
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It's childlike to just be against something, even FISA, when you are unable to position an argument that it should or should not exist, in part or totality.
It isn't a Republican thing, or a Trump thing, especially among military and national security personnel and not babbling leftist politicians and media. Your disqualifier is ludicrous; if you're erroneously or purposely convicted of rape unjustly, should you be told "you deserve it for supporting laws against rape, ya' d*ck!" - ? Of course not.
Either you've the discretion and objectivity to recognize that "Trump & Co" were greatly wronged and a system of abuse to produce a result occurred, and that protecting their rights are protecting your own, or you don't.
If you don't, I hope you're falsely convicted of rape. I'll be glad to speak on your behalf, because I value
our rights more than my personal feelings about you.
But I will say "told you so".
