No political bias in the opening of the investigation, BUT, oh, by the way, at least three dozen instances of errors, omissions and deviations from FISA protocol, all in the direction of keeping an active wiretap against the Donald Trump Presidential Campaign.

Clearly the talking point has been circulated. The mainstream media’s only focus on the long awaited Inspector General’s Report on SpyGate: No political bias in the origins of that investigation into utterly fabricated allegations of Russian collusion by the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. A conclusion that is repudiated by general knowledge of evidence, including massive and oblate anti-Trump bias in the upper echelons of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, revealed in published statements and digital communique from agents and leadership of both organizations and the willfully knowing use of DNC opposition research in composing and leveraging the infamous and unverified Steele Dossier as the foundational piece of evidence in obtaining FISA permissions to wiretap Trump team members Carter Page and George Papadopolous.

Closer inspection of the 500 page report however tells the story of an FBI and Department of Justice desperate to justify a counterintelligence operation against Donald Trump and his inner circle, specifically for the purposes of gaining insight into the campaign that could then be used to the advantage of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, a plot betrayed by no less than 31 identifiable violations of FISA court requirements for intelligence surveillance of American citizens and making repeated efforts to massage evidence, alter witness testimony and pad damaging statements and evidence, while omitting exculpatory evidence that flew in the face of the Trump-Russia narrative necessary to keep spying on the Trump campaign. And one needs look no further than the Inspector General’s executive summary to find damning evidence of illegality by a glaringly anti-Trump DOJ.

Among the highlights:

• • Deliberate concealment of a prior working relationship by Carter Page with either the CIA or the NSA in a context involving frequent contact with Russian intelligence operatives that would have been wholly consistent with his both his security clearance and responsibilities as an official operational contact.

    In the words of the report,“Omitted information the FBI had obtained from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Page, including that Page had been approved as an “operational contact”for the other agency from 2008 to 2013, and that Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers, one of which overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application;”

• The DOJ vastly exaggerated the prior track record and importance of previous surveillance and evidence collected by Christopher Steele all while covering up the source of Steele’s funding for the research that produced the infamous “Dirty Dossier,” flatly ignoring Democrat Party ties and Steele’s repeated contact with members of Democrat friendly organizations and personnel.  Quote:
  
  “Included a source characterization statement asserting that Steele’s prior reporting had been “corroborated and used in criminal proceedings,”which overstated the significance of Steele’s past reporting and was not approved by Steele’s handling agent, as required by the Woods Procedures;”

• Repeated instances after the Papadopolous and Page wiretaps were in place of omitting clearly exculpatory statements obtained via consensual surveillance, while tamping up or massaging the significance of statements that supported the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.  In one instance early in the investigation, completely ignoring a direct statement by Papadopolous denying that anyone associated with the Trump campaign was collaborating with Russia or with outside groups like Wikileaks in the release of the Hillary-Podesta emails.
• Absolute omission that the initial contact with Trump team member George Papadopolous was none other than intelligence asset, Joseph Mifsud, who  provably lied about his initiated contact with Papadopolous and the soliciting of information about a possible Russian assist in gaining opposition research on Hillary Clinton.

In all, Horowitz’s inquest identified seven application deficiencies in the initial FISA warrant process against the Trump campaign and found that FBI personnel fell far short of the requirement in FBI policy that they ensure that all factual statements in a FISA application are “scrupulously accurate.” Even more troublingly, Horowitz concludes that NOTHING was done to rectify said deficiencies and violations of FISA statute even in cases where those violations were identified and provably known to FBI and DOJ personnel.