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Misstatements, these omissions were not satisfactorily explained, and i think that leaves open the possibility to infer bad faith. >> reporter: i think a lot of people will hear what youre saying here and think well, thats just bill barr defending trump your concern about the fbis investigation is what civil libertarian? >> i think our nation was turned on its head for three years. i think based on a completely bogus narrative that was largely fanned and hyped by an irresponsible press, and i th...

Collect intelligence about the trump campaign. the score statement in my opinion by the i.g. is that these irregularitieirregulariti misstatements, these omissions were not satisfactorily explained, and i think that leaves open the possibility to infer bad faith. >> do you still stand by your statement that the campaign was spied upon? >> oh, clearly spied upon. i mean, thats what electronic surveillance is. i think wiring people up to go in and talk to people and make recordings of their conver...

Supporting probable cause. further, the agents and supervisory agents did not follow or even appear to know certain basic requirements in the woods procedures. although we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct, we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for any of the errors or omissions we identified. we found and as we outline here, are deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate hand picked investigative te...

Fanned and hyped by an irresponsible press. and i think that there were gross abuses of fisa. and inexplicable behavior that is intolerable in the fbi. in one area, i do disagree with the ig. and that was whether there was sufficient predication to open a full-blown counterintelligence investigation, specifically using the techniques that they did. to collect intelligence about the trump campaign. the core statement, in my opinion, by the ig is that these irregularities, these misstatements, the...

Fbi policies and procedures have established important safeguards to protect the fisa application process from irregularities and abuse. among the most important are the requirements in fbi policy that every fisa application must contain a, quote, full and accurate, closed quote, presentation of the facts and that agents must ensure that all factual statements and fisa applications are, quote, scrupulously accurate, closed quote. these are the standards for all fisa applications regardless of th...

Irregularities, these misstatements, these omissions were not satisfacsatisfactorily explained. the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state principally the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies in order to spy on political opponents but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election. >> well, the i.b. did not find evidence to support the claim of spying, nor did he find the investigation into the...

Detailing its prior relationship with carter page including that carter page had been approved as an operational contact for that other agency from 2008 to 2013, that page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain russian intelligence officers and that an employee of that other agency assessed that carter page had been candid with them. the fbi never followed up on that information. as a result of these seven significant inaccuracies and omissions, r...

>> attorney general barr is voicing his objections to the ig report. here is what he told our colleague, pete williams. >> in one area i do disagree with the ig, and that was whether there was sufficient predication to open a full-blown counterintelligence investigation, specifically using the techniques that they o did to collect intelligence about the trump campaign. >> the core statement in my opinion by the ig is that these irregularities, these by misstatements, these owe omissions were not...

Investigation into the trump campaign and its possible links to russia, but the attorney general bill barr has a problem with one key finding in that report -- that the fbi was not politically motivated when opening the investigation into the trump campaign. he voiced those concerns in an exclusive sit-down with our own pete williams yesterday. >> so, thats hard to explain, and i -- the core statement, in my opinion, by the ig, is that these irregularities, these misstatements, these omissions w...

Shiny object wehe hear in the weeks ahead. >> thats a strategy they are banking on, the president and his attorney general have made no secret about their deep sadness and disappointment in the fbi director christopher wrayi for not going along. they both contradicted him and horowitz and really been singing offbe a different song sheet. i agree with frank. i worked in a white house that relied very much for controversial national security purposes the fisa court and the fisa process. it is pain...