Exclusive: FBI official under investigation after allegedly altering document in 2016 Russia probe

[Imperialism Inc.]

Source: CNN

An FBI official is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, several people briefed on the matter told CNN.

The possibility of a substantive change to an investigative document is likely to fuel accusations from President Donald Trump and his allies that the FBI committed wrongdoing in its investigation of connections between Russian election meddling and the Trump campaign.

The finding is expected to be part of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's review of the FBI's effort to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide. Horowitz will release the report next month.

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It's unknown how significant a role the altered document played in the FBI's investigation of Page and whether the FISA warrant would have been approved without the document. The alterations were significant enough to have shifted the document's meaning and came up during a part of Horowitz's FISA review where details were classified, according to the sources.

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/politics/fbi-fisa-russia-investigation/index.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I dont believe it, if Barr and a few others had ANYTHING to do with this, nope...

[Adsos Letter]

2. Is it possible that the document was recently altered?

Asking for a friend.

[Imperialism Inc.]

3. Ha!

Good point!

[iluvtennis]

10. + 1. don't trust anything coming from this trump requested investigation.

[lagomorph777]

19. If there is a document at all. Probably the whole thing is made up.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Altered how? In Trump's favor?

Or otherwise? Yet another Rovian ploy?

[Maxheader]

5. The wingers are all in a tizzy about this...

Handjobs figure this exonerates the yellow haired bastard..of any wrong doing over its entire life...

[mjvpi]

6. And let the leaking begin.

I wonder how many news cycles they will try to subvert with Barr’s Follies?

[MartyTheGreek]

7. More trial balloons, raise doubt, plant seeds, false narratives, feed the base.

[FakeNoose]

8. Huge grain of salt on this

I won't believe anything until they show us the before and after shots of the document in question.
Anybody think that will happen soon?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Say it: FAKE NEWS!

I think they should look into the authenticity and pristine condition of said document.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. "Prooof the that DEEEEP STATE is out to get Trump!!1!"

I'd say the intelligence agencies have been extremely reserved, nonpartisan, and professional considering the shit that orange fuckstain has been slinging at them.

...but no, Barr must find a document in which the i wasn't dotted in order to advance Trump's conspiracy theories. He'll gladly ruin some career FBI agent just to satisfy his insane boss.

[rlegro]

12. Note the contrast

Democrats just spent months reconstructing events spanning more than a year, and despite White House stonewalling they have produced many witnesses and mountains of evidence that Trump engaged in a bribery or extortion scheme to feather his own political fate while harming the national security of Ukraine. But Republicans insist it all amounts to nothing. And they plan to make very short work of impeachment in the Senate, sending the message that this is much ado about nothing.

But if the Barr association is able to produce just ONE document it claims was improperly altered by one FBI agent in the FBI inquiry into Russian meddling, then: Hillary did it, the DNC was in league with Russia, the news media were in the tank against the GOP and everyone should be locked up. At least that's where this little revelation is likely to be pushed by the wingnuts even if the revelation turns out to be inconsequential or not a real thing at all.

Now, if one agent indeed altered one document, deal with it. But conflating it into something more sweeping without further evidence is unwarranted. So, the Barr BQ gang will do what Repubs usually do -- spend years and tens of millions of dollars on serial hearings, accusing Democrats of spending years and tens of millions of dollars. Project much?

The Barr inquiry will never be over until he and his minions manufacture a result to trumpy's liking.

[asiliveandbreathe]

13. This CNN report has been updated this morning - to reflect

After CNN first reported on the investigation, the Washington Post reported that the inspector general concluded the alteration did not change the validity of the surveillance application.

[BlueIdaho]

14. Classic Gaslighting...

Headline on page one, retraction on page 14.

[asiliveandbreathe]

15. I am so disgusted with CNN and Even Perez for NOT vetting this

RW/RT bs...I tried to chase the story last night and stupidly clicked on a site, that I locked up my computer..had to unplug and remove battery just to clear..was frozen..and then CNN updates this morning..

So, what do we do - wait a day, or week or month for the truth to bubble to the top..there is so much weighing down the truth..it is going to take us awhile to dig out from under..

I am usually very careful, but, because of the explosive information (now disinformation)..in my former life, as a researcher for info at work, my instinct, trust but verify, to validate that story, got me in trouble and locked up computer..

[BlueIdaho]

16. I understand and share your frustration...

CNN really screwed the pooch on this one. On top of that they added to the disinformation and chaos the GOP depends on. I guess we need to go back to the tried and true “two sources” rule of journalism.

A good lesson for us all as we move into what will no doubt be - an active Russian disinformation campaign designed to re-elect the lunatic in the White House.

[asiliveandbreathe]

17. Yes, thank you, "two sources" rule of journalism cannot be stressed enough..

I know I am on alert....thanks again..

[BlueIdaho]

18. Take Care! nt.