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Campaign official surveilled by the fbi back in 2016. the report indicates an application known as fisa was approved in october of 2016 and given three separate extensions. while the applications were approved, inspector general michael horowitz found several glaring problems. at least 70 and errors or omissions in the speech and applications. an fbi attorney change the body of an email used to apply for the warrants. the fbi relied on the steele dossier for that page application. according to the report, the fbi did not focus on steele's funding source but rather discover the source was fusio...

>> once you get the foot in the door, it can give you a basis to conduct much broader surveillance. >> in some cases, agents can search a target's historical data. >> if you can persuade a judge that there are communications that are out there that are relevant to what you are doing and readily accessible and, again, linked to the purpose of the surveillance, you can go back. >> the assembly of the documents. the sculpting of the document is not a one-man operation. >> jim maxwell is familiar with the fisa process from his three decades at the fbi. >> we need to know ahead of time whether or n...

Page at the center. >> once you get the foot in the door, it can give you a basis to then conduct much broader surveillance. >> in some cases, agents can search a target's historical data. >> if you can persuade a judge that there are communications that are out there that are relevant to what you are doing and are readily accessible and, again, linked to the purpose of the surveillance, you can go back. >> the assembly of the documents. the sculpting of the document is not a one-man operation. >> jim maxwell is familiar with the fisa process from his three decades at the fbi. >> we need to kn...

The page application before the fisa court was not made until october. the other points that schiff's memo makes is that the doj subsided multiple sources in seeking this fisa warrant on carter page. and that it made only, quote, narrow use of information from the steele dossier. republicans have really tried to argue that the steele dossier was a primary source of launching the entire russia investigation. what schiff's memo was saying it was only narrowly used in one fisa application here on carter page. the other point that's made, which is something that we want to i think continue to read...

You have to actually reconfirm probable cause. meaning you had to get something off of that wire. >> reporter: the memo also alleges that the fbi and justice department did not inform the fisa court that former british intelligence agent christopher steele who compiled the dossier was funded by the democratic party. adam schiff said that it is, quote, not accurate that the secret court waunss unaware of steele's political motivations, he says that the court knew of a likely political motivation behind steele. >> what it ends up delivering is criticism of a single fisa application and its renew...