Consensus reached after multiple days and meetings among officials. We reviewed Department Policies and concluded Assistant Director pre steps exercise of description in opening the investigation was in compliance with those policies. We also reviewed, as we detail in the report, the emails, Text Messages and other documents of those involved in that decision, particularly mr. Pre steps. We didnt find documentary or Testimonial Evidence that indicated political bias or improper motivation influencing his decision to open the investigation. While the information in the fbis possession at the time was limited, in light of the Throw Threshold established by department and fbi predication policy which, by the way, is not a legal requirement but a prudential one in the fbi and Department Policies, we found that Crossfire Hurricane was opened for an authorized
investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication. This decision to open Crossfire Hurricane which involved the activitie
that authoritarian regimes paid for the democracy and it is a great threat to democrat see and to our way of life. i think it s very sad what they ve done with this fake dossier. while donald trump bitterly complained about the dossier, others were swept up in it. the dodgy dossier began with the false allegations about me. the fbi monitored carter paige, a former trump campaign adviser to get a wiretap on him in october 2016. u.s. officials thl cnn that r it used a dossier for russian allegations to donald trump s campaign as part of a justification to get approval to secretly monitor trump associate carter paige. michael horowitz determined the fbi couldn t confirm serious claims about paige. just last year, the doj declared two of the fisa warrants to be invalid. think the activities we found here don t vindicate anybody who
james comey said this week that your report vindicates him. is that a fair assessment of your report? you know, i think the activities we found here don t vindicate anybody who touched this. paul: that was inspector general michael horowitz before the senate judiciary committee on wednesday, responding to claims that his 434 page report vindicates former fbi director james comey under whose leadership the investigation into the trump campaign was launched. let s bring in our panel, wall street journal column fifth, dan henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. kim, you ve been following this from the very beginning. you had kind of reported the horowitz report before horowitz. but what was in your view, where does this leave the credibility of the steele dossier and the fusion gps attempts to start all this off? where does it leave them in
horowitz makes the truth clear. you know, i think the activities we found here don t vindicate anybody who touched this. okay. so donald trump was right from the beginning. he said they were spying on him and wiretapping him, and they made fun of him, and they ridiculed and condemned him and belittled him. and although his law enforcement terminology may not have been on point, he was right. wasn t he? and every one of the 17 errors identified by the i.g. going against the president and in favor of the radical leftist idealogues indicate no conclusion other than bias. strzok and page are the premier examples. quote: he s an f-ing idiot. quote: he s never going to become president. no, we ll stop it. and so they created their insurance policy just in case he actually got in.
you know, i think the activities we found here don t vindicate anybody who touched this. okay. so donald trump was right from the beginning. he said they were spying on him and wiretapping him, and they made fun of him, and they ridiculed and condemned him and belittled him. and although his law enforcement terminology may not have been on point, he was right. wasn t he? and every one of the 17 errors identified by the i.g. going against the president and in favor of the radical leftist idealogues indicate no conclusion other than bias. strzok and page are the premier examples. quote: he s an f-ing idiot. quote: he s never going to become president. no, we ll stop it. and so they created their insurance policy just in case he actually got in.