House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) made a shocking discovery this week and immediately alerted President Donald Trump and Americans.
The long-awaited FISA spy report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz was released on Monday, which detailed the reasoning for the FBI’s spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Buried deep in the 434-page report is an explosive piece of information that Democrats have lied about for years.
Jordan revealed the FBI spied on at least four individuals serving on Trump’s 2016 campaign — not the “two” that were originally reported.
Jordan sounded the alarm on the Obama administration spying on at least four members of the Trump campaign, raising serious questions about a violation of their civil liberties.
And, most importantly, it’s important to note that Obama’s FBI obtained FISA warrants to spy on members of the Trump campaign by using the discredited dossier, which was bought and paid for by Democrats and Hillary Clinton.
Jordan said in a statement Monday:
We thought they spied on two Americans, we now know it was four. The Inspector General’s report confirms what many of us feared: James Comey’s FBI ignored guidelines and rules in spying on President Trump’s campaign in 2016. We now know that within one week of the investigation opening, the FBI was surveilling the campaign and four specific individuals associated with it.
The U.S. government’s powerful tools designed and authorized for international intelligence gathering were deployed to monitor the activities of a Presidential campaign. This is a grave matter that should deeply trouble Americans of all political stripes. There are many lingering questions and I expect both Chairman Nadler and Chairwoman Maloney to convene hearings with Inspector General Horowitz as soon as possible.
The IG audit on the FISA Application report detailed the reasoning for the FBI’s spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Below are some high-points of what Horowitz found:
-There was extreme bias against then-candidate Trump.
-The FBI deliberately doctored evidence it presented to the nation’s top spy court in order to gain authority to spy on a key Trump affiliate.
-The FBI and the Justice Department’s review committee failed to comply with attorney general guidelines requiring timely validation.
-Investigators uncovered issues with FBI employees who conducted validation reviews, noting they did not “review the full scope” of a long-term source’s work for the FBI.
-The inspector general found “at least 17 significant errors or omissions” concerning FBI efforts to obtain secret FISA warrants against brief Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Shortly after the report went public, Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham — the prosecutor leading the investigation into the overall Russia investigation — disagreed with the findings in the IG report that there was “no political bias” in the FBI opening the probe.
Beyond Jordan’s discovery that Obama officials spied on even more Trump campaign officials than originally known, Barr and Durham’s investigation is going to send shock waves.
Last month, we learned that Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation had shifted into a criminal inquiry.
This means that Barr and Durham now have the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury, and file criminal charges.
It certainly appears that Barr and Durham have already found evidence of criminal wrongdoing regarding the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
They wouldn’t have turned their investigation into criminal inquiry if there wasn’t evidence of Obama officials potentially breaking the law.
Barr and Durham have also flipped a top Comey-Obama ally, who is now working with the DOJ and assisting in the probe.
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