The IG report that was due out before summer is still being hidden from the American people. Now, Rep. John Ratcliffe is claiming that once the IG report comes out, it will likely prompt criminal probes. I’m not the most patient person in the world. I’m tired of all the big talk and no actions by Barr, Durham etc. I’ll believe it when I see it.
| Rep. John Ratcliffe says IG report on FISA warrant likely to prompt criminal probes |
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Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said on Sunday that he believes the upcoming Inspector General report on the counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign is going to be damning evidence of wrongdoing by FBI and Justice Department officials and could lead to a full-fledged criminal investigation.
“It doesn’t take 500 pages to tell the inspector general that everything was done properly,” Ratcliffe said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “The IG report is going to find that there were problems.”
For more than a year and a half, Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been investigating alleged misconduct related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, warrants delivered by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). The Justice Department and FBI obtained warrants in 2016 to surveil Trump adviser Carter Page. It is unclear, at this point, if Page was the only Trump official that the DOJ obtained a FISA warrant against.