OPINION_ IG report suggests FBI might cheat on all its FISA wiretap requests

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OPINION

IG report suggests FBI might cheat on all its FISA wiretap requests

By Jacob Sullum
December 17, 2019 | 8:33pm | Updated




Former FBI Director James Comey
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Former FBI Director James Comey initially portrayed last week’s damning report on the bureau’s probe of Russiagate as a vindication. This week, Comey admitted that Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered “real sloppiness,” which is “concerning.”

That characterization does not begin to cover the problems described by Horowitz, which this week prompted a highly unusual public rebuke from the court that reviews secret warrant applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FISA court called the FBI’s conduct “antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” that applies in such cases.

Comey may take comfort in the fact that Horowitz didn’t find political bias. The rest of us can hardly be reassured by the implication that the FBI is inept rather than corrupt.

Comey, who ran the FBI from September 2013 to May 2017, is not just self-interested but demonstrably untrustworthy on this subject. Last year, he claimed information from former British spy Christopher Steele, which according to Horowitz “played a central and essential role” in the decision to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page, was merely “part of a broader mosaic of facts” supporting the four warrants issued by judges under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Comey also said he had “total confidence that the FISA process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way.” Yet Horowitz found that the first warrant application included “seven significant inaccuracies and omissions” that weren’t corrected in the three renewal applications, which were marred by “10 additional significant errors.”

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