Let's not let the continued work of Inspectors General Horowitz and his investigation in the FBI and in particular the Obama/Comey/McCabe FBI and abuses of FISA and other warrants and how it was politicized. Let's hope this gets to Durham. And I believe Senator Graham is already scheduling hearings, his statement today “I have just been briefed on Inspector General Horowitz’s audit of FISA applications involving American citizens. This random audit shows discrepancies regarding verification of the information under the Woods Procedures. “I intend to have Inspector General Horowitz come to the Committee to explain his findings and receive his recommendations about how to change the program,” said Graham." Watchdog finds new problems with FBI wiretap applications "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department inspector general has found additional failures in the FBI's handling of a secretive surveillance program that came under scrutiny after the Russia investigation, identifying problems with dozens of applications for wiretaps in national security investigations. The audit results, announced Tuesday by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, suggest that FBI errors while eavesdropping on suspected spies and terrorists extend far beyond those made during the investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. They come as the FBI has scrambled to repair public confidence in how it uses its surveillance powers and as lawmakers uneasy about potential abuses have allowed certain of its tools to at least temporarily expire. The new findings are on top of problems identified last year by the watchdog office, which concluded that the FBI had made significant errors and omissions in applications to eavesdrop on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page during the early months of the Russia investigation. Those mistakes prompted internal changes within the FBI and spurred a congressional debate over whether the bureau's surveillance tools should be reined in. After the Russia report was submitted last December, Horowitz announced a broader audit of the FBI's spy powers and the accuracy of its applications before the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The watchdog office selected for review a subset of applications in both counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations covering the period from October 2014 to September 2019. It found problems in each of the more than two dozen applications it reviewed, including “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts." https://local21news.com/news/nation-world/watchdog-finds-new-problems-with-fbi-wiretap-applications
I blame the FISA judges along with the FBI. Both entities DID NOT do their jobs to ensure the 4th Amendment Rights of U.S. Citizens. Screw them... it's time for them to go away and start over. It could easily be argued that the FBI broke the laws and these judges should have figured that out, but they didn't want to.
If you want FISA abuses on US citizens to stop, then you must stand in opposition of renewing section 702 of the FISA amendments. We've known for years that section 702 has been used to spy on US citizens without a due warrant, but every time a bill is proposed to limit these FISA powers to be used only within the jurisdiction of a due warrant, the bill gets shot down by the leadership in both the legislative and the executive. Hell, even president Trump threatened to veto said bill when the house of representatives was about to vote on it. The fact of the matter is our political leaders only care about FISA abuses when they are used against themselves.
The whole problem is that there isn't an advocate for the persons that are to be surveilled. There is almost no oversight to make sure steps weren't skipped or ignored because its "secret".
