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Accuracy reviews known as the woods procedures, designed to ensure that fisa applications contain a full and accurate presentation of the facts. department lawyers and the court should have been given complete and accurate information so they could have meaningfully evaluated probable cause before authorizing the surveillance of a u.s. person associated with a presidential campaign. that did not occur. and as a result, the surveillance of carter page continued even as the fbi gathered informatio...

Disturbing about that event, which is the initial application said, as you noted, that the fbi assessed that steele was the direct source or was a direct source, and on october 14th the drafts changed to the exact opposite. what we found is the fbi had no basis for the first statement, no evidence in their file -- it turned out the first statement was, in fact, the accurate statement. the point is they had no evidence to support that. when they flipped that, they had no evidence to support that ...

That apparent concealment of facts from the fisa court, especially as relate to the accuracy of steeles reporting, can you explain why there were no more criminal referrals? >> what we ultimately decided wasat that the conduct here warranted sending the entire report to the fbi and the departmentrt for review. for review from the line agent all the way to the top of people who were still at the fbi. and, as we said, we didnt see documentary and testimonial evidence of intent. but we also didnt h...

Our review identified significant concerns with how certain aspects of the investigation were conducted and supervised. particularly, the fbis failure to adhere to its own standards of accuracy and completeness when filing applications with a foreign surveillance -- applications for foreign intelligence surveillance act authority, known as fisa, to surveil carter page, a u.s. person, who was connected to the trump for president campaign. >> welcome back. lets get right to democratic senator shel...

>> none of the discussions changed our findings. >> tasked by attorney general barr to also investigate the origins of the russia investigation stated and i quote, last month, we advised the ig that we do not agree with some of the reports conclusions as to predication and how the fbi case was open. whats your reaction to that? >> i was surprised by the statement that i didnt know was going to be released on monday. we did meet with mr. durham as i mentioned. we provided him with a copy of the r...

The department keep list of who could see it or could not. he was not on the list. we provided to him in the november as part of our factual accuracy. >> november when, do you remember? >> i could check, it was probably roughly mid november. >> are you familiar of whattest under taking at all. he notes that he does not agree with some of your report conclusion of how the fbi case was opened. what information do you think he has access to that you did not have access to? >> i have no idea. >> whe...

We did meet with mr. durham, as i mentioned. we provided him with a copy of the report, as we did others, through our factual accuracy review process. we met with him in november. with regard to that we did discuss the opening issue. he said he did not necessarily agree with our conclusion about the opening of a full counter intelligence investigation, which is what this was. but there is also an investigative means by which the fbi can move forward with an investigation. its called the prelimin...

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Anti-trump dossier for fisa accusations. steve: finds the fbi was unable to corroborate any of the specific substantive allegations against cart err page contained in the election reporting and relied on the fisa application and only able to confirm the accuracy of a limited number of circumstantial facts most of which were in the public domain. apparently im going to read the whole thing. brian: evidently. is that the warning label on my box of dete detergent? here to weigh in is host of libert...