Horowitz Bombshell: FBI Lawyer Lied

Things are heating up in the impeachment inquiry. But it’s not the news Democrats were hoping for.

We’ve known all along that something important would emerge with the Horowitz report. Now, we learn the first revelation. (Trust me, many more will follow.)

Apparently, an FBI lawyer lied and manipulated an integral document related to the secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser. And this wasn’t just a small play on words. This manipulation was huge. It completely changed the meaning of said documents.

Fox News elaborates:

The show-stopping development comes as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News that Horowitz’s comprehensive report on allegations of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant abuse against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page will be released on Dec. 9. “That’s locked,” Graham said.

The new evidence concerning the altered document, which pertained to the FBI’s FISA court warrant application to surveil Page, is expected to be outlined in Horowitz’s upcoming report. CNN first reported the news, which was largely confirmed by The Washington Post.

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.

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.”

Durham’s Probe

I’m willing to bet this entire impeachment inquiry is just an elaborate ruse to deflect attention from the truth bombs about to go off.

Once AG Barr appointed John Durham to dig into this witch hunt, it quickly turned from a probe to a criminal investigation. Last month, news emerged that linked the Horowitz report to Durham’s investigation.

Fox Continues:

Durham has reportedly taken up Horowitz’s findings concerning the falsified FISA document, meaning the ex-FBI lawyer who made the changes is now under criminal investigation. The Post indicated, however, that the document was not central to the legality of the FISA warrant obtained against Page.

Republicans have long argued that the FBI’s alleged FISA abuses, which came as the bureau aggressively pursued ultimately unsubstantiated claims of criminal links between the Trump team and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, were politically motivated. In recent months, a slew of unearthed documents has strengthened those claims.

Just nine days before the FBI applied for its first FISA warrant to surveil Page, bureau officials were battling with a senior Justice Department official who had “continued concerns” about the “possible bias” of a source pivotal to the application, according to internal text messages previously obtained by Fox News.

The 2016 messages, sent between Lisa Page and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, also revealed that bureau brass circulated at least two anti-Trump blog articles, including a Lawfare blog post sent shortly after Election Day that called Trump possibly “among the major threats to the security of the country.”

Fox News is told the texts were connected to the ultimately successful Page application, which relied in part on information from British ex-spy Christopher Steele – whose anti-Trump views are now well-documented – and cited Page’s suspected Russia ties. In its warrant application, the FBI inaccurately assured the FISA court on numerous occasions that media sources independently corroborated Steele’s claims, and did not clearly state that Steele worked for a firm hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

All this brings us back, once again, to the Steele Dossier.

This document was never worth the paper it was printed on. Democrats should be embarrassed that they wasted so much time putting all their eggs in that basket.

According to the article:

Much of the Steele dossier has been proved discredited or unsubstantiated, including the dossier’s claims that the Trump campaign was paying hackers in the United States out of a non-existent Russian consulate in Miami, or that ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague to conspire with Russians. Special Counsel Robert Mueller also was unable to substantiate the dossier’s claims that Carter Page had received a large payment relating to the sale of a share of Rosneft, a Russian oil giant, or that a lurid blackmail tape involving the president existed.

Despite being accused by the FBI of being a Russian agent in the FISA application, and being secretly surveilled for more than a year, Page has not been charged with any wrongdoing. He has since sued numerous actors — including the DNC — for defamation related to claims that he worked with Russia.

Now we have Brennan and Comey locked in a cat fight, both arguing over who pushed the dossier to begin with. Meanwhile, there is a slew of facts spilling out to back Trump’s assertions. This is nothing more than a vicious partisan attack.

And the FBI was in on it.

Page is not the only Trump official to allege misconduct by the FBI. Last month, an explosive court filing from Michael Flynn’s legal team alleged that FBI agents manipulated official records of the former national security adviser’s 2017 interview that led to him being charged with lying to investigators. Flynn’s attorneys demanded the FBI search its internal “Sentinel” system to find more evidence of allegedly doctored files.

Last month, Horowitz said his report is almost finished. Of course, this drew some frustration. This report was expected back in the Spring. However, apparently Horowitz’ attacked this job with a thoroughness unmatched by the left. In fact, Horowitz has democrats so scared, many of them flocked back to correct their previous testimony before words such as perjury popped up. Soon, AG Barr will set the record straight once and for all. Donald Trump is not the enemy of the people. Lying leftists are.

 

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