foundationation for a warrant let the witness answer the question. go ahead. do you need to say anything else? i m sorry. okay. the incident, the event, the meeting was a briefing and the fbi considered and decided to send that agent there to do the briefing. so the sath was actualagent was the briefing but also for the purpose of investigation. okay. i hope that doesn t happen to us tomorrow. i ll be really pissed if it does. okay. so let s play this out. they never told trump about the concerns. is it fair to say there came a point to where surveilling carter page became unlawful? i will let the court decide that. the court has this report and will make that decision. let s put it this way, if you don t have a legal foundation to surveil somebody and you keep doing it, is that bad?
agent race reviews, known as the woods procedures, which are designed to assure fisa applications contain a full and accurate presentation of the facts. department lawyers and the court should have ben given complete and accurate information so they could have meaningfully evaluated probable cause before authorizing the surveillance of a u.s. person associated with a presidential campaign. that did not occur. and as a result, the surveillance of carter page continued even as the fbi gathered information that weakened the assessment of probable cause and made the fisa applications less accurate. we concluded that investigators did not give appropriate consideration or attention to facts that cut against probable cause and that as the investigation progressed and more information tended to undermine or weaken the assertions in the fisa applications, investigators did not reassess the information
take issue with that statement? certainly our findings were that there were significant problems. so when comey speaks about fisa, you shouldn t listen? you should listen to mr. horowitz. he s not indicated and to be concerned about the fisa warrant process is not nonsense. christopher steelee, is it fair to say that he had a political bias against donald trump? he, given who he was paid for, there was a bias that needed to be disclosed to the court. does it seem that he personally had advice, not because he was on the payroll of the democratic party? well, we found in the course of this and heard from mr. orr about his comment to him that he was desperate to prevent mr. trump s election. again, this is the guy that provides the dossier that gives the warrant over the top against carter page. he s paid for by the democratic party and he personally believes it s bad for donald trump to win
people. are they representative of the department as a whole in your view? i certainly hope that that is not the way others are following these practices. yeah. me too. okay. so, let s fast forward now to june of 2016. mr. klein smith. who s he? i m going to defer on speaking about people who we don t name basically in the report. okay. who s the guy that altered. tell me about the guy that altered the e-mail from the cia? so there was a lawyer in the office of general council of the fbi who was the line attorney working with the agents and counterparts of the national intuition on fisa. and that in june of 2017 as the last application was being prepared and immediately following mr. page, carter page,
gave steele all the information to disastrou dossier, that not only they should have told the court, they should have slowed down, do you think the second and third warrants set a legal basis after that point? you know, we don t reach that conclusion and i m not going to would you have submitted a warrant application as a lawyer? let me put it this way, i would not have submitted the one they put in. okay. no doubt about it. it has no business going in. what i want you to know in january 2017 the whole foundation for surveilling carter page collapse exculpatory information is ignored, they lie to the court about what the interview was all about. is that a fair summary so far about the january 2017 on i ll, they certainly misled, it was misleading to the court. okay. fair enough. in january about six months later when they find more