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Joecanada13, The Inspector General’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Report: A Quick and Dirty Analysis

JUST so i know you have been given it.

"IG Destroys GOP Claims Of FBI Spying On Trump"

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Note an interesting feature of this passage. The investigation was not an investigation of the Trump campaign. It was four investigations of individuals—Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn—associated with the campaign but about whom there was specific reason for concern. In other words, investigators were not spying on the Trump campaign. They had concerns about specific people and their relationship with Russia, just as the FBI has always said.

This, of course, raises the question of whether the FBI had adequate predication for these investigations. What does Horowitz say on this point?

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We ... concluded that the FBI had sufficient predication to open full counterintelligence investigations of Papadopoulos, Page, Flynn, and Manafort in August 2016. The investigation of Papadopoulos was predicated upon his alleged statements in May 2016 to an employee of [an allied foreign government]. According to the opening [electronic communication], Papadopoulos was “identical to the individual who made statements indicating that he is knowledgeable that the Russians made a suggestion to the Trump team that they could assist the Trump campaign with an anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to the Clinton campaign.” The three other cases were predicated on information developed by the Crossfire Hurricane team through law enforcement database and open source searches, conducted to determine which individuals associated with the Trump campaign may have been in a position to have received the alleged offer of assistance from Russia.
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This brings me to the next key point: The investigation did, in fact, begin when the Australian government communicated to the U.S. information about Papadopoulos’s conversation with the former foreign minister, Alexander Downer, in London:

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=152747716

and in reply - Appeals court refuses to revive Carter Page lawsuit
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=152806261

Go read it all. Then think about all the crap you have posted over years, 99% of which on that topic would have been counterfactual.

That's it for today from me.