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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 the investigation's sensitivity, regardless -- it is incumbent upon the fbi to meet them in every appl...

According to the ig's report the fbi complied with existing department and fbi policies in opening the investigation and the ig, quote, did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced this decision, end quote, or any specific investigative steps taken by the fbi. that's the finding. and this is important. why? in public statements, beginning last spring, the attorney general expressed his belief that senior government officials may have, quote, put a thumb on the scale, end quote, because of political bias against trump. his comments echoe...

We concluded current department and fbi policies are not sufficient to ensure appropriate oversight and accountability when such operations potentially implicate sensitive, constitutionally protected activity and that requiring department consultation at a minimum would be appropriate. we make a recommendation to that effect. one investigative tool which the department and the fbi policy does expressly require express advance approval by a senior department official is the seeking of a court order under fisa. when the crossfire hurricane team first proposed seeking a fisa order targeting carte...

The decision had a proper factual basis and there is no evidence that, quote, political bias or improper motivation indplunsfluenced it. so based on your investigation, personal, political views expressed in text messages did not motivate the opening of the investigation of ties between trump campaign advisers and russia. is that correct? >> that's correct. ultimately we concluded those text messages which we found last year were entirely inappropriate, didn't ultimately play the role in mr. pre stap's decision to open the investigation. >> so your investigation also uncovered text messages be...

Division security chief said it would have been, quote, a dare ligs licks of duty and responsibility of the highest order not to commit the appropriate resources as urgently as possible to run these facts to the ground and find out what was going on, end quote. the decision to open the investigation was unanimous. not a single official disagreed. as a result america ultimately learned extensive details about russia's sweeping and systemic attack on the 2016 election including that the trump campaign knew about, welcomed and, quote, expected it would benefit electorally, end quote, from russia'...