How many material falsehoods and omissions did the FBI and Obama administration Department of Justice make when applying for warrants to spy on the Trump campaign?
Correct Answer
In 2019, the Obama-appointed Inspector General (IG) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) documented that the FBI and Obama administration DOJ made "at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications, and many additional errors in the Woods Procedures." Carter Page was one of the Trump campaign officials who the FBI spied upon, "FISA" stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Woods Procedures "require that every factual assertion in a FISA application be 'verified'." Likewise, the FISA Court itself found "violations of the government's duty of candor in all four applications" to spy on Page. The IG also reported, "While we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct on the part of the [FBI] case agents who assisted" Obama's DOJ in preparing the warrant applications, "we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or problems we identified."
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