Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

1. Do not overlook the importance of this Deep State two-step admission by IG Michael Horowitz.

He is calling out FBI Director Chris Wray big time !!

oig.justice.gov/reports/manage…

2. On its face the OIG release outlines a review and finding, actually a warning, by Horowitz’s office about FBI contractor access to “a certain national security database.”

3. The release is titled: “Management Advisory: Notification of Concerns Identified in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Contract Administration of a Certain Classified National Security Program”.

oig.justice.gov/reports/manage…

4. On the surface of the current release the OIG is noting concerns and a warning shared with the FBI about ongoing contractor access to the NSA database; thus, a “classified national security program” becomes defined.

It's the bulk metadata NSA database.

5. However, in the background of this current release it appears the OIG is using this public notification as a CYA of sorts. Meaning the OIG is saying publicly they have advised the FBI of “concerns” with this database being abused.

6. Indeed, we know the OIG was reviewing FBI contractor access to the NSA database as a result of both FISA judge Rosemary Collyer and FISA judge James Boasberg reports.

7. It was little discussed on January 19, 2019, when the OIG revealed “Misconduct by Two Current Senior FBI Officials and One Retired FBI Official While Providing Oversight on an FBI Contract.”

oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f…

8. As specifically, and in my opinion *intentionally* noted by the OIG, the FBI used their intelligence authority to “classify” their response to IG Horowitz warning; and now Horowitz is informing the public of that opaque FBI approach.

9. Essentially, this can be looked at as Horowitz calling out the FBI for hiding information, yet the IG is using carefully worded public information to do so.

10. The FBI hid their response to the IG warning behind the cloud of “classification”, leaving the IG with no alternative except to say the classified response (March 2020) has to be accepted as the final FBI response to the IG warning.

11. Horowitz: […] "The classification marking of the working draft report ... have contributed to the delays in finalizing this review."

12. Horowitz: "So that we can begin the process of resolving issues that we identified during the review ... we have determined that it would be in the OIG’s and the FBI’s interests to conclude our review by treating the OIG’s working draft report ... as a management advisory."

13. Horowitz: "Further, based on the oral and written feedback previously provided by the FBI on the working draft report, we consider the 11 recommendations contained within the working draft report to be final and their status “resolved.”

14. The IG is then saying to the FBI you have 90 days to tell us what you did to address the contractor access abuses.

The OIG is covering his ass, and telling us why.

oig.justice.gov/reports/manage…

15. Keep in mind this contractor access to the bulk NSA metadata is a big deal. All of the FISA audits in the past six years have pointed out FBI contractors abuse their access to the database and unlawfully extract information without following fourth amendment protections.

16. The scale of the abuse is actually stunning; and now the OIG has reviewed the same FBI process and found the same issues uncorrected.

The FBI is attempting to retain an unlawful process.

17. The valid purpose of the NSA database has been exploited to: (1) gain opposition research on political entities; AND (2) the NSA database is being exploited to retrieve information useful for financial gains (insider information).

18. The FBI contractors inside the network are in the business of selling information which they obtain from their access to the NSA database.

Horowitz and FISC says it needs to stop.
Wray says notsomuch.

19. Everyone inside the system is compromised by the extracted data. We can only imagine the blackmail material floating around DC in the hands of those who weaponize it and refuse to relinquish power.

FUBAR !

20. This database is the source, the root source, of all things currently happening in/around politics.

Whoever controls it, controls EVERYTHING !

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