GRAHAM asks if @comey is vindicated by IG report, as he's claiming.
HOROWITZ: "The activities we found here don't vindicate anybody who touched this."
HOROWITZ: "The activities we found here don't vindicate anybody who touched this."
@Comey Horowitz tells Graham he is unable to say if political bias did or didn't motivate FBI agents to withhold information that undercut Steele dossier.
@Comey Horowitz is now highlighting one of the craziest deceptions in FISA applications
FBI said that Steele's main source was deemed "credible," but did *not* say that the source repudiated Steele's claims in dossier
FBI said that Steele's main source was deemed "credible," but did *not* say that the source repudiated Steele's claims in dossier
@Comey Horowitz says he would not have submitted FISA renewal applications with the information that FBI used.
"I would not have submitted the one they put it. No doubt about it. It had no business going in."
"I would not have submitted the one they put it. No doubt about it. It had no business going in."
Horowitz: "I don't think the Department of Justice fairly treated these FISAs, and he (@carterwpage) was on the receiving end of this."
@carterwpage Horowitz demurs on whether DOJ/FBI conducted illegal surveillance, but says that FISC has the report and is reviewing the matter.
@carterwpage Horowitz, asked if Carter Page was ever a Russian agent: "At the end of this, the FBI, at the end of these FISAs told us they had found no evidence to corroborate the allegations in the Steele dossier related to (Carter Page)."
@carterwpage Horowitz says IG found no evidence that initiation of Crossfire Hurricane was motivated by political bias...but he says it gets "murkier" regarding the motivations for the abuses of FISA.
@carterwpage Horowitz tells Grassley that FBI agents did not ask Steele in Oct. 3, 2016 meeting if he was source for @isikoff's article on Carter Page because they did not want to jeopardize relationship with Steele.
@carterwpage @Isikoff Horowitz says that DOJ did not get around to telling FISA Court that Steele had confirmed contacts with the media until *June 2018*, a year after the final FISA application. It was known well before then that Steele acknowledged media contacts.
@carterwpage @Isikoff Horowitz says that FBI gave identical briefings in August 2016 to Clinton and Trump campaigns, but the briefing to the Trump campaign was put into the FBI's counterintelligence file for Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
@carterwpage @Isikoff Horowitz says that Steele's Primary Sub-Source was accompanied by his lawyer(s) in meetings with FBI. DOJ lawyers were also present because sub-source's lawyers were involved.
