His position was belied somewhat by the inspector general’s finding no direct evidence of political bias in the launching of the probe.
President Donald Trump on Monday claimed victory in the mixed findings of a Justice Department watchdog report into surveillance of his 2016 presidential campaign and the origins of the ensuing Russia investigation — a position belied somewhat by the inspector general’s finding no direct evidence of political bias in the launching of the probe, despite serious faults with the FBI’s applications for surveillance warrants of Trump’s campaign.
“It should never again happen to another president,” he said, proclaiming later that “it’s everything that a lot of people thought it would be, except far worse.” Story continues“We are deeply concerned,” Horowitz wrote in his report, “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 the use of FISA authority related so closely to an ongoing presidential campaign; and even though those involved with the investigation knew that their...
“What they were doing and what they would have done if I didn’t make a certain move — a certain move that was a very important move because it would have been even worse, if that’s possible,” he asserted at the White House. “And they might’ve been able to succeed. This was an overthrow of government. This was an attempted overthrow, and a lot of people were in on it, and they got caught.”
The president’s defenders in Congress jumped to highlight the number of faults Horowitz found within the FBI, assailing investigators’ continued reliance on the Steele dossier despite concerns about its reliability. Trump additionally received support from his attorney general, who endorsed the criticism laid out by Horowitz but also rejected his finding that the Russia probe was adequately predicated.
Congressional Democrats held up the Horowitz report as proof positive that the Russia investigation was legitimate after it was assailed as a “hoax” and a “witch hunt” by the president over the past few years, but they downplayed its scathing critiques of the FISA process. “The IG’s report shows that the investigation Special Counsel Mueller took over was not politically motivated and that officials acted appropriately in opening the investigation,” Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said, though they acknowledged that the president’s allies would find ammunition of their own in the report.
“Mr. McCabe did not know about any of these issues and the report makes clear that there is no way he could have known unless someone specifically brought them to his attention,” his lawyer said. “The report makes clear that no one did.”
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