This week’s DOJ report highlights the danger of shrouding law enforcement tactics in secrecy.
. They also focused on the IG report’s revelations that the application sent to a FISA court requesting a wiretap on Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page contained “significant inaccuracies and omissions,” including a failure to reveal that Page had provided information about Russia to the CIA. Indeed, one FBI agent had altered an email to withhold that information from the court. This transcript of their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
So what do we, as citizens, do with these competing narratives? In one world, this was a properly predicated investigation, and in the other, it was a politically motivated investigation.I wish I had like the biggest Magic Marker in the world to draw a really thick line between the two lessons of the Horowitz report. In the world of “Donald Trump is the president and we’re talking about politics,” what matters is that there was a sound basis for opening this investigation.
Perhaps even criminal charges against officials who the inspector general has effectively cleared. And I especially wonder about this in the context of Christopher Wray, the FBI director. He gave a factually sound, reality-based reaction to the inspector general’s reports, which he accepted. It said there were lots of problems to address at the FBI with their procedures for getting FISA applications.
For years civil libertarians have been skeptical of the FISA court, of the standards of evidence, that there really were no checks on anybody seeking a FISA warrant. Now we have detail after detail after detail, particularly in the Carter Page context. Page didn’t play a very big role in the Mueller report, but he played a big role in the public debate about how this was all being carried out. The FBI sure did hide a bunch of exculpatory evidence, pumped-up evidence to make it look bad.
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