Hmmmm... who could it be? There are so many to choose from 🤔
EXCLUSIVE: FBI official under investigation after allegedly altering document in 2016 Russia probe amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/11/21…
EXCLUSIVE: FBI official under investigation after allegedly altering document in 2016 Russia probe amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/11/21…
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.
Because altering FBI documents is a crime, right CNN? 🙄
“The possibility of a substantive change (ALTERING) to an investigative document is likely to fuel accusations from Trump and 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.
Horowitz turned over evidence on the allegedly altered document to John Durham, the federal prosecutor appointed early this year by Attorney General William Barr to conduct a broad investigation of intelligence gathered for the Russia probe by the CIA, other agencies, and the FBI
The altered document is also at least one focus of Durham's criminal probe.
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.
Horowitz's investigators conducted more than 100 witness interviews in their review. During one of interviews this year, they confronted the witness about the document. The witness admitted to the change, the sources said.
The identity or rank of the FBI employee under investigation isn't yet known, and it's not clear whether the employee still works in the federal government. No charges that could reflect the situation have been filed publicly in court.
