{"id":140530,"date":"2019-12-14T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/jeff-sessions-on-ig-report-a-stunning-development\/"},"modified":"2019-12-14T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:40:11","slug":"jeff-sessions-on-ig-report-a-stunning-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/jeff-sessions-on-ig-report-a-stunning-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sessions on IG Report: A Stunning Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he was stunned by some of the details disclosed in Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitzs report on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Horowitz report, it was revealed that an FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who doesnt work for the agency any longer, altered an email involved in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process to ultimately surveil candidate Donald Trumps campaign staffer Carter Page in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my experience, as 15 years as a federal prosecutor, Ive never seen anything like that,\u201d Sessions told Fox Newss \u201cThe Ingraham Angle\u201d on Wednesday. \u201cI think thats a stunning development in the seriousness of a FISA warrant involving a presidential campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and criticized the FBI for a systematic failure in overseeing a flawed effort to gain authority to surveil Page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate, hand-picked investigative teams; on one of the most sensitive FBI investigations; after the matter had been briefed to the highest levels within the FBI; even though the information sought through use of FISA authority related so closely to an ongoing presidential campaign; and even though those involved with the investigation knew that their actions were likely to be subjected to close scrutiny,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/439371125\/Horowitz-Testimony#from_embed\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horowitz said<\/a> in his opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/ig-horowitz-doesnt-rule-out-political-bias-may-have-played-role-in-fisa-abuse_3171742.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After questioning,<\/a> Horowitz stated that he could not outright determine that a bias was involved in the process of applying for a FISA warrant. In the report, he said there was no political bias.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions, who had served as a Republican senator from Alabama, told Fox that the FBI should have told Trump if there was troubling information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, the right thing to do is to say, Mr. President, campaign manager, these individuals, we have troubling information about them. You should be very careful with them. We suggest you should not associate with them,&#039;\u201d Sessions said. \u201cInstead of trying t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/jeff-sessions-on-ig-report-a-stunning-development_3172601.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he was stunned by some of the details disclosed in Depart..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jeff Sessions on IG Report: A Stunning Development - Business News Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he was stunned by some of the details disclosed in Depart..\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/jeff-sessions-on-ig-report-a-stunning-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jeff Sessions on IG Report: A Stunning Development - 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