On December 9, 2019 the US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released their 478-page review of “Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation” known as the IG Report on “FISA abuse” or the Horowitz report.
On that same day (curiously) at exactly 1:29 pm both US Attorney John H Durham and Attorney General Bill Barr tweeted their response to the IG Report. Durham hints at what’s to come in “Criminal Investigation Into Origins Of Russia Probe.” [1]
John Durham, who’s running a criminal investigation into the matter has “broken his silence in what is a pretty stunning statement” of not agreeing “with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.” The FBI director Christopher Wray accepted the finding of the report. For Durham “to come out and make this statement carries some serious weight.”[2]
Barr stated: “While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General’s report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.” [4]
The fact checkers use the report to accuse Trump of “false” claims! such as “The report also discounted the role of a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, saying it “played no role” in the FBI’s decision”!
“The report revealed…the FBI defrauded the FISA court and purposely omitted exculpatory information from the FISA judges in order to obtain FOUR FISA warrants on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.” [3]