jimnyc
11-22-2019, 11:46 AM
Yup, been saying it forever. And slowly the proof is coming out. Who is going to cover for who though and who will go down?
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Former FBI Lawyer Accused of Altering Document to Obtain a FISA Warrant for Carter Page Surveillance
Justice Department officials are saying that a lawyer for the FBI altered a key document that was then used in the application for a FISA warrant to initiate surveillance of the 2016 Trump campaign.
DoJ Inspector General David Horowitz is expected to release his report on FISA warrant abuses by the Obama administration on December 9. No doubt, this incident will figure prominently in that report.
Interestingly, the Washington Post originally reported that the lawyer worked for Peter Strzok, the FBI's disgraced former head of counterintelligence and notorious anti-Trump investigator who, along with his mistress Lisa Page, played a key role in the bureau's Russian collusion investigation.
According to Fox News, the Post later dropped references to Strzok.
The Post, hours after publishing its story, conspicuously removed the portion of its reporting that the FBI employee involved was underneath Peter Strzok, the FBI's since-fired head of counterintelligence. The Post did not offer an explanation for the change, which occurred shortly after midnight. Earlier this week, the DOJ highlighted a slew of anti-Trump text messages sent by Strzok when he was leading the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the probe into the Trump campaign.
While the exact nature of the alteration isn't known, PJ Media reported earlier that U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said, "If there was an FBI agent, who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, who can be proven to have altered a document in connection to a legal proceeding including the attaining of a FISA warrant, that's really serious. It doesn't get much more serious than that."
Horowitz reportedly found that the FBI employee who modified the FISA document falsely stated that he had "documentation to back up a claim he had made in discussions with the Justice Department about the factual basis" for the FISA warrant application, the Post reported. Then, the FBI employee allegedly "altered an email" to substantiate his inaccurate version of events. The employee has since been forced out of the bureau.
In its initial 2016 FISA warrant application, the FBI flatly called Page "an agent of a foreign power."
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/former-fbi-lawyer-accused-of-altering-document-to-obtain-a-fisa-warrant-for-carter-page-surveillance/
Former U.S. Attorney: 'It Doesn't Get Much More Serious Than' Changing a Document to Get a FISA
CNN contributor and former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is shocked by the news that an FBI agent allegedly altered a document used to attain a FISA warrant to spy on former Trump adviser Carter Page back in 2016, and through him on the entire Trump campaign.
You know it’s bad when CNN is reporting this...@PreetBharara on altering a document to obtain a FISA Warrant:
"really serious, it doesn’t get a lot more serious than that." pic.twitter.com/Z5QDd0dacA
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 22, 2019
"Well, that's kind of an alarming bit of news," Bharara told Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. "Obviously, based on what [CNN reporter] Evan is saying, there's a lot we don't know, but given the description he has provided... If there was an FBI agent who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, who can be proven to have altered a document in connection to a legal proceeding including the obtaining of a FISA warrant, that's really serious. It doesn't get much more serious than that."
"I'd like to know the details, what the nature of the change was, if there was a mistake in some way... [but] based on the reporting it doesn't sound like it was. I want to keep an open mind about it," he went on to say, "but that is not a good thing. [It's] a terrible thing."
"Law enforcement agents and prosecutors who work with them are sworn to uphold the Constitution, sure, but [they have to] actually exceed the protections of the Constitution. They have to be of the utmost integrity, of the utmost candor, especially when making a representation to the court, which is what a FISA application is, it's got to be on the up-and-up."
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/former-u-s-attorney-it-doesnt-get-much-more-serious-than-changing-a-document-to-get-a-fisa/
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Former FBI Lawyer Accused of Altering Document to Obtain a FISA Warrant for Carter Page Surveillance
Justice Department officials are saying that a lawyer for the FBI altered a key document that was then used in the application for a FISA warrant to initiate surveillance of the 2016 Trump campaign.
DoJ Inspector General David Horowitz is expected to release his report on FISA warrant abuses by the Obama administration on December 9. No doubt, this incident will figure prominently in that report.
Interestingly, the Washington Post originally reported that the lawyer worked for Peter Strzok, the FBI's disgraced former head of counterintelligence and notorious anti-Trump investigator who, along with his mistress Lisa Page, played a key role in the bureau's Russian collusion investigation.
According to Fox News, the Post later dropped references to Strzok.
The Post, hours after publishing its story, conspicuously removed the portion of its reporting that the FBI employee involved was underneath Peter Strzok, the FBI's since-fired head of counterintelligence. The Post did not offer an explanation for the change, which occurred shortly after midnight. Earlier this week, the DOJ highlighted a slew of anti-Trump text messages sent by Strzok when he was leading the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the probe into the Trump campaign.
While the exact nature of the alteration isn't known, PJ Media reported earlier that U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said, "If there was an FBI agent, who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, who can be proven to have altered a document in connection to a legal proceeding including the attaining of a FISA warrant, that's really serious. It doesn't get much more serious than that."
Horowitz reportedly found that the FBI employee who modified the FISA document falsely stated that he had "documentation to back up a claim he had made in discussions with the Justice Department about the factual basis" for the FISA warrant application, the Post reported. Then, the FBI employee allegedly "altered an email" to substantiate his inaccurate version of events. The employee has since been forced out of the bureau.
In its initial 2016 FISA warrant application, the FBI flatly called Page "an agent of a foreign power."
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/former-fbi-lawyer-accused-of-altering-document-to-obtain-a-fisa-warrant-for-carter-page-surveillance/
Former U.S. Attorney: 'It Doesn't Get Much More Serious Than' Changing a Document to Get a FISA
CNN contributor and former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is shocked by the news that an FBI agent allegedly altered a document used to attain a FISA warrant to spy on former Trump adviser Carter Page back in 2016, and through him on the entire Trump campaign.
You know it’s bad when CNN is reporting this...@PreetBharara on altering a document to obtain a FISA Warrant:
"really serious, it doesn’t get a lot more serious than that." pic.twitter.com/Z5QDd0dacA
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 22, 2019
"Well, that's kind of an alarming bit of news," Bharara told Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. "Obviously, based on what [CNN reporter] Evan is saying, there's a lot we don't know, but given the description he has provided... If there was an FBI agent who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, who can be proven to have altered a document in connection to a legal proceeding including the obtaining of a FISA warrant, that's really serious. It doesn't get much more serious than that."
"I'd like to know the details, what the nature of the change was, if there was a mistake in some way... [but] based on the reporting it doesn't sound like it was. I want to keep an open mind about it," he went on to say, "but that is not a good thing. [It's] a terrible thing."
"Law enforcement agents and prosecutors who work with them are sworn to uphold the Constitution, sure, but [they have to] actually exceed the protections of the Constitution. They have to be of the utmost integrity, of the utmost candor, especially when making a representation to the court, which is what a FISA application is, it's got to be on the up-and-up."
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/former-u-s-attorney-it-doesnt-get-much-more-serious-than-changing-a-document-to-get-a-fisa/