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Justice Dept watchdog finds political bias didn't taint top officials running the FBI’s Russia probe
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<blockquote data-quote="whatbogsends" data-source="post: 74489813" data-attributes="member: 11978"><p><em><strong>The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is expected to find in a forthcoming report that political bias did not taint top officials running the FBI investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016, while at the same time criticizing the bureau for systemic failures in its handling of surveillance applications, </strong>according to two U.S. officials.</em></p><p></p><p><em>The report due out Dec. 9 from Inspector <strong>General Michael Horowitz will allege that a low-level FBI lawyer inappropriately altered a document that was used as part of a controversial application for electronic surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, the officials said. The inspector general referred that finding to U.S. Attorney John Durham, so that he may investigate it as a possible crime, they said.</strong></em></p><p></p><p><em>But <strong>Horowitz will conclude that the application still had a proper legal and factual basis, according to the officials</strong>, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive report.</em></p><p></p><p><em><strong>In broad terms, the report refutes accusations of a political conspiracy by senior law enforcement officials against the Trump campaign to favor Democrat Hillary Clinton, while also knocking the bureau for procedural shortcomings</strong>, said the officials. <strong>On balance, they said, it provides a mixed assessment of the bureau and department’s undertaking of a probe that became highly politicized and divided the nation.</strong></em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-watchdog-finds-political-bias-did-not-taint-top-officials-running-the-fbis-russia-probe-but-documents-other-errors/2019/11/22/4b2f51de-0d48-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-watchdog-finds-political-bias-did-not-taint-top-officials-running-the-fbis-russia-probe-but-documents-other-errors/2019/11/22/4b2f51de-0d48-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whatbogsends, post: 74489813, member: 11978"] [I][B]The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is expected to find in a forthcoming report that political bias did not taint top officials running the FBI investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016, while at the same time criticizing the bureau for systemic failures in its handling of surveillance applications, [/B]according to two U.S. officials.[/I] [I]The report due out Dec. 9 from Inspector [B]General Michael Horowitz will allege that a low-level FBI lawyer inappropriately altered a document that was used as part of a controversial application for electronic surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, the officials said. The inspector general referred that finding to U.S. Attorney John Durham, so that he may investigate it as a possible crime, they said.[/B][/I] [I]But [B]Horowitz will conclude that the application still had a proper legal and factual basis, according to the officials[/B], who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive report.[/I] [I][B]In broad terms, the report refutes accusations of a political conspiracy by senior law enforcement officials against the Trump campaign to favor Democrat Hillary Clinton, while also knocking the bureau for procedural shortcomings[/B], said the officials. [B]On balance, they said, it provides a mixed assessment of the bureau and department’s undertaking of a probe that became highly politicized and divided the nation.[/B][/I] [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-watchdog-finds-political-bias-did-not-taint-top-officials-running-the-fbis-russia-probe-but-documents-other-errors/2019/11/22/4b2f51de-0d48-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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