Posted on 01/28/2020 9:14:29 PM PST by Ken H
The two lawmakers suggested in a letter to Attorney General William Barr that the footnotes contradict key claims made in Inspector General Michael Horowitz's declassified version of his spy abuses investigative report.
Two top Republican senators on Tuesday alleged that claims made in a report from Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz mischaracterized evidence about the government’s secret surveillance of the Trump campaign during and after the 2016 presidential election. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., wrote to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday demanding that the Justice Department declassify four footnotes in the inspector general’s report on FISA abuses released last December.
The senators sent two letters to the attorney general, one classified and one unclassified, identifying four footnotes they are requesting be made public. The unclassified letter was made available online.
In their letter to Barr, the two Republican senators insinuate that the footnotes in question were classified in the IG report only because they contradict certain claims made in the public version of the inspector general’s report on FISA warrants documenting misconduct in the FBI’s spying operation of the Trump campaign.
“We are concerned that certain sections of the public version of the report are misleading because they are contradicted by relevant and probative classified information redacted in four footnotes,” Grassley and Johnson wrote. “This classified information is significant not only because it contradicts key statements in a section of the report, but also because it provides insight essential for an accurate evaluation of the entire investigation.”
Direct link to article => https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/28/grassley-johnson-demand-declassification-of-four-key-footnotes-in-ig-report-on-fisa-abuses/
Keep probing, Republicans. The truth is still being concealed.
Kudos to the eagle eye who read the report carefully enough to discover this.
Pls send me a Text when anything has been resolved.
Thx!
If we were Democrats, the un-redacted footnotes would have been published on the front page of the New York Times - six weeks ago!
Well thulus is a start
“”””””How come it took seven weeks before the GOP leadership noticed this issue?””””””””””
Linda will get to the bottom of this with some hearings next week. Or maybe the month after that. But definitely at some point, maybe.
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