information, other information that cast carter page in a more favorable light. what i want you to know is that in january 2017, the whole foundation for surveilling carter page collapses, exculpatory information is ignored. they high to the court about what the interview was all about. is that a fair summary so far? it was misleading to the court. fair enough. in january about six months later when they find more information that could be helpful to mr. page, they lie about it. do you feel like mr. page was treated fairly by the department of justice and the fbi? i don t think the department of justice fairly treated these fisa s and he was on the receiving end.
investigation. justice department watchdog michael horowitz testified before the senate judiciary committee about the findings in his 434 page report. chairman lindsey graham press horowitz on the alleged abuses regarding a fisa warrant to survey all trump and carter page. they lied to the court about what the interview is about. is that a fair summary so far about the january 2,017th it was misleading to the court. insisting that the fbi lied to the 2016 campaign and horwitz did note that they sent agents to interact with and even record trump associates. they sent spies to record senior members of the campaign in the middle of a presidential campaign. they send confidential human sources to do those. the watchdog says he uncovered troubling actions. picked by three investigative
the dossier. i dispute this idea that this is a rorschach test of some kind. absolutely true that the media did originally spin this somehow vindicating of the fbi and doj p that should be completely put to rest through a reading of the report but also by washing today s hearings. one of the first questions ask asked, is this vindicating of james comey? michael horowitz says this is not syndicate anybody who had nothing to do with the fisa. it was good, he s a democratic appointee, sober and understated. to lay out the case of all the wrongdoing done throughout the entire step in the process of surveilling carter page, i just want to make another point. i want to say that electronic surveillance, wiretaps, human informants, overseas intelligence assets is not spying. typically find someone like horwitz to use the legal term of surveillance for the rest of us can acknowledge that is expiring. bret: where does this going to we get john durham which will not come until spring or summer
relatively low level fbi what lawyer, i just want to read you one statement in the opening statement. if we are deeply concerned of that basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate handpicked investigative teams on one of the most sensitive fbi investigations and that s the point. that wasn t just a one off. he made mistakes when putting in the original application but they had to review the application several times. that goes to the argument that i heard andy mccarthy making. can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a political bias there? no. but it sure does stink when you have three different teams and they are all pushing the same way and it s all for investigating and surveilling carter page. on the other hand i think that in our zeal to talk about the fisa warrant, and it s a serious deal, and i can understand the outrage about what was done and
accuracy reviews known as the woods procedures, designed to ensure that fisa applications contain a full and accurate presentation of the facts. department lawyers and the court should have been 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