DOJ OIG FISA Report
July 31, 2016 – August 2019: The FBI agent who interviews Gen. Flynn, Joseph Pientka, plays a critical role in Trump campaign investigation
August 2016 – January 2017: Stephen Somma, FBI counterintelligence investigator, made significant errors and omissions in Carter Page FISA applications
September 29, 2016 – Stuart Evans, one of the few DOJ officials to raise concerns about surveilling Carter Page
October 3, 2016 – The FBI offered to pay Christopher Steele ‘significantly’ to dig up dirt on Flynn
October 3, 2016 – Brian Auten is among 8 FBI supervisory intelligence analysts who play key role in several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane
October 2016-2017: The FBI official at the heart of surveillance abuses is also a professor of spying ethics
November 2016 – FBI’s Bill Priestap travels to UK then withholds negative information re Steele because of agreement w/Brits
December 16, 2016 – Andrew McCabe pushes to include the Clinton/DNC/Steele dossier in the January 2017 Intelligence Assessment
February 9, 2017 – Steele’s primary subsource is interviewed by the FBI, DOJ-NSD David Laufman negotiates the terms
May 16, 2017 – A Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit releases a new McCabe memo that offers new insight
July 13 & 29, 2017 – FBI conducts two premise searches and collects improper cell phone pictures while spying on Carter Page
September 8, 2017 – Susan Rice’s testimony on being out of Russiagate loop doesn’t add up
January 29, 2018 – An email states Joseph Pientka was pressured by McCabe to change his Flynn 302 report and it’s noted in the Horowitz report
July 12, 2018 – A DOJ letter to FISA court highlights severe institutional corruption
May 2, 2019 – NYT admits Obama admin deployed multiple spies against Trump campaign In 2016
June 14, 2019 – Wray promotes Jennifer Boone after she oversees Page FISA; her connection to Ohr; and the interview of primary sub-source
August 2019 – FBI agent, Joe Pientka, who interviews Adm. Flynn, lies to the FISA court about Carter Page, and is not available for congressional hearings, is transferred to the SF FBI field office
December 8, 2019 – Examining Carter Page’s lifelong ties to the intelligence community
December 9, 2019 – DOJ OIG FISA Report PDF Copy
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report shows the Mueller team replicated FBI abuses
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA Report ratifies the oft-denounced “Nunes memo”
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA Report reveals the main source of the Clinton/DNC/Steele dossier is the subject of an “open FBI counterintelligence investigation” – FISA court is not told
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report states John McCain continued to provide Comey with Steele reports after the British intel officer was terminated as a source by the FBI
December 9, 2019 – Buried in IG Report: An FBI team in Rome gave Steele highly guarded secrets
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report reveals Brennan lied to the House Intelligence Committee
December 9, 2019 – Details of FBI’s targeting of Trump emerge in Horowitz report
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report reveals the Mueller team knew Joseph Mifsud denied telling Papadopoulos the Russians could help Trump and failed to inform the FISA court
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report suggests the FISA court is complicit in the FBI FISA abuses
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report reveals Glenn Simpson was paying Steele to ‘discuss his reporting’ with the media
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report states seven significant inaccuracies and omissions in the first FISA application
December 9, 2019 – Sketchy changes to IG FISA report covers up major discrepancy in first version
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report reveals Baker, Comey, Strzok and Bruce Ohr contradictions
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report reveals James Comey and Loretta Lynch contradictions
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report writes McCabe pushed the “Golden Showers” hoax and Comey approved its inclusion in the intel report
December 9, 2019 – IG FISA report footnote 474 – Confidential Human Source w/ Delta file was inside Trump campaign
December 9, 2019 – The DOJ IG report misses yet another lie from the FBI
December 9, 2019 – IG Report: The FBI doctored evidence to falsely paint Carter Page as a Russian spy
December 9, 2019 – The IG FISA report notes James Comey’s inconsistencies in his statements re Carter Page
December 10, 2019 – Full Interview: Barr criticizes IG Report on the Russia investigation
December 11, 2019 – IG Horowitz testifies he cannot confirm the FBI didn’t act out of any “political bias”
December 17, 2019 – Devin Nunes questions FISC presiding judge Rosemary Collyer’s lack of candor and again calls for the dismantling of FISA Court
December 18, 2019 – The Horowitz Report & testimony provide historic condemnation of FBI’s surveillance actions—Jeff Carlson
December 20, 2019 – Adam Schiff says he has no sympathy for Carter Page, doesn’t regret writing memo defending FBI
December 20, 2019 – The FISA court does not call for a review of all FBI FISA deceptions
January 10, 2020 – FBI director Christopher Wray tells the FISA court in a letter that he “deeply regrets” the many errors in FISA warrants
January 10, 2020 – Another top FBI official is caught leaking sensitive information to the media and will not be prosecuted
January 10, 2020 – An Ex-DOJ official who is chosen by FISC Judge James Boasberg to assist in FISA reform, was ardent defender of FBI’s surveillance of Carter Page
January 17, 2020 – John Durham is investigating a ‘strong paper trail’ during the months before Mueller appointment
January 28, 2020 – Grassley and Johnson request AG Barr declassify four footnotes in Horowitz Report, saying section of report misleads public
January 28, 2020 – Senators Grassley and Johnson: The IG FISA abuse report misleads the public about Crossfire Hurricane
February 17, 2020 – Ex-DOJ official named In FISA Abuse Report signs petition calling on William Barr to resign
February 24, 2020 – Christopher Steele’s firm touts ex-FBI official’s Dossier assessment
February 24, 2020 – The Daily Caller and Citizens United sue DOJ and its Inspector General Michael Horowitz
February 24, 2020 – FBI Agent faulted In FISA Report for ‘significant’ errors is identified
February 25, 2020 – Carter Page: Abuses uncovered by Horowitz is the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and ‘there is much more to come’
March 4, 2020 – FISA court bans officials involved in Carter Page wiretaps from seeking surveillance…order does not lay out consequences for FISC abuses
March 6, 2020 – Christopher Steele speaks publicly for first time, defends the dossier, attacks Mueller Report and Trump
March 30, 2020 – DOJ IG Horowitz identifies 93 percent non-compliance within FISA review
April 9, 2020 – Russia case footnotes in Horowitz FISA abuse report to be declassified
April 10, 2020 – The DOJ unredacts and releases 3 of the 4 footnotes requested by senators Grassley and Johnson
April 15, 2020 – ODNI/DOJ declassifies more IG FISA report footnotes
April 15, 2020 – DOJ OIG FISA footnotes declassified and released by ODNI Grenell
April 16, 2020 – Senate Judiciary Cmte. releases Carter Page FISA applications; Schiff memo proves deliberately misleading
April 16, 2020 – Judiciary Committee releases key material related to FISA abuse investigation
April 26, 2020 – WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel: Spygate Realities, Media “Failings”
April 27, 2020 – Graham requests source documents that substantially undercut Steele dossier and the legitimacy of Carter Page FISA warrants
June 3, 2020 – Four issues highlight how Lindsey Graham’s Senate hearings are a Deep State cover operation
June 10, 2020 – FBI knew Steele’s Russia research was connected to Clinton, Dems from earliest interactions
June 30, 2020 – Bruce Ohr meets with Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors
July 14, 2020 – Lindsey Graham aims to declassify FBI memo on Steele’s Russian source who undermined dossier
July 15, 2020 – Sen Graham tells Hannity, Steele’s subsource was also his employee
July 17, 2020 – Senate Judiciary Committee releases FBI briefing with primary sub-source
July 26, 2020 – It’s Not Just What is “In” The Documents, It’s What’s “On Them” That Tells The Story
July 30, 2020 – Senate investigators expand Russia probe and target CIA, State records
September 4, 2020 – Did Mueller prosecutors find problems with Page FISA; approve it anyway; recreate the Woods File; and cover up?
September 6, 2020 – There never was a “Woods File” underpinning the Carter Page FISA application
September 11, 2020 – Understanding the FBI’s two-hop FISA surveillance of the Trump campaign
September 24, 2020 – The FBI releases an overview of the counterintelligence investigation of Steele’s primary sub-source
September 24, 2020 – Graham releases newly declassified summary indicating FBI knew dossier source was likely a Russian agent
March 30, 2021 – Top FBI Russiagate intelligence analyst, Brian Auten, cannot verify any allegations in the Steele Dossier then says nothing for years
September 30, 2021 – A new IG Horowitz report reveals more FBI abuses of the FISA process
February 14, 2022 – Page 119 of the 2019 DOJ OIG FISA report says the FBI debunked Alpha Bank claims by early February 2017
May 15, 2023 – Durham Report: Sunlight on detail never released by IG Michael Horowitz about FBI Targeting Trump