The following from Foxnews:-
"The Justice Department’s inspector general told lawmakers Friday his team is nearly finished with its long-awaited review of alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and FBI during the Russia investigation, saying they have submitted a draft to Attorney General Bill Barr and are “finalizing” the report ahead of its public release.
“We have now begun the process of finalizing our report by providing a draft of our factual findings to the department and the FBI for classification determination and marking,” Michael Horowitz wrote in a Friday letter to several House and Senate committees. “This step is consistent with our process for reports such as this one that involve classified material.”
Barr has received the draft report from Horowitz and will begin the process of reviewing it, according to a source familiar with the situation. The inspector general said his team has “reviewed over one million records and conducted over 100 interviews, including several of witnesses who only recently agreed to be interviewed.”
Horowitz and his investigators have probed how the infamous anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was used to secure the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant for former Trump aide Carter Page in October 2016, as well as for three renewals. Horowitz’s team has questioned why the FBI considered Steele a credible source, and why the bureau seemed to use news reports to bolster Steele’s credibility.
In his letter Friday, Horowitz indicated that once the Justice Department and the FBI send back a marked document relating to classified material, his team will “proceed with our usual process for preparing final draft public and classified reports, and ensuring that appropriate reviews occur for accuracy and comment purposes.”
Meanwhile, a key FBI player during the time frame, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, is facing the prospect of federal charges after Horowitz faulted him in a separate inquiry over statements he made during a Hillary Clinton-related investigation. The review found that McCabe "lacked candor" when talking with investigators, but the former FBI official has denied wrongdoing.
As Fox News reported Thursday, Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has recommended moving forward with charges against McCabe, a CNN contributor, though no indictment has been handed down.
The Horowitz letter also comes amid other similar inquiries related to the 2016 election:
Barr has assigned John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, to conduct an inquiry into alleged misconduct and alleged improper government surveillance on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
And U.S. Attorney John Huber was appointed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review not only alleged surveillance abuses by the Justice Department and the FBI but also their handling of the investigation into the Clinton Foundation and other matters."
The reason why the draft report is to be looked at by the Justice Department is to ensure that classified documents and info are not released without approval. The same happened with the Mueller Report, The full report was released and has since been a hot topic of discussion. On the whole the report is totally misused at present and that will land some people in serious political trouble.
However, back to the FISA report, I think the Trump administration is very interested in letting the Public know what really happened and the whole show will be released. It could become a serious political embarrassment for the DP and a lot of illegal operators - both the staff used and the Obama Administration would be in serious trouble. Two reports has already been released, namely -
* the report on Comey; and
* the report on McCabe
The latter's problem is that his wife was running her own election campaign to get elected and accepted money from the Clinton Foundation - hence the curious reference to financial interest of McCabe in the IG report. Although not formally charged criminally - the charges are bound to be laid. The curious reaction of CNN is weird - after all McCabe is now employed by CNN and they are on an all-out campaign to justify what McCabe did.
As to the other two reports mentioned the indications are that senior Obama officials and even Obama himself will be exposed as co-ordinating the Russian Hoax campaign. One can be sure the DP will be severely embarrassed and can accept that the media and the DP will try and belittle the outcome of the investigations by either ignoring it or calling it Trump propaganda.
Their problem is that it will not help their cause. Court cases are coming and the unfortunate problem is that to save their bacon some of the culprits will turn state witness and irrespective of how the media and the DP twists and turns they will not be able to hide that evidence.
The whole story was dangerous and the problem is that none of the conspirators thought that Trump may win the election and thought that in the event of a Clinton win their actions will not be exposed and they will be richly rewarded for what they did Bad news for them was the fact that Clinton did not win and she herself is now under investigation. She has two problems, namely -
* her use of her private computer for official purposes with all messages being automatically sent to a Chinese company and her destruction of evidence;
* the fact that Russians paid $145 million to the Clinton Foundation allegedly in compensation for her role in the uranium debacle and what actually happened with that money. This was covered up by the FBI; as well as
* Clinton' role in the fraudulent Steele Dossier for which the Clinton Foundation payed.
EINA