Sept 19, 2016 the Crossfire Hurricane team receives its

Posted on: December 11, 2019 at 00:08:56 CT

first set of Steele reports. No later than Oct 31, 2016 the first FISA is signed. They begin discussing FISA on Page the DAY they get the first Steele report. They don't even TRY to verify it first.

Sept 19,2016 the FBI internally begins discussing trying again for a FISA warrant on Page.


Sept 22,2016 an attorney was assigned to work on the Carter Page FISA warrant.

from the IG report: "The FISA request form drew almost entirely from Steele's reporting in describing the factual basis to establish probable cause to believe that Page was an agent of a foreign power"

"The only additional information cited in the FISA request form to support a probable cause finding as to Page was (1) a statement that Page was a senior foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign and had extensive ties to various state-owned or affiliated entities of the Russian Federation, (2) Papadopoulos's statement to the FFG in May 2016,
and (3) open source articles discussing Trump campaign policy positions sympathetic to Russia, including that the campaign's tone changed after it began to receive advice from, among others, Manafort and Page."

On Sept 30, 2016 the FBI submits a request for an expedited FISA application

Oct 5, 2016 the first draft of the FISA is shared with OI and NSD management

Horowitz: "when the drafting process began, the Crossfire Hurricane team had only just begun the process of conducting the evaluation process (described in Chapters Four and Six) to assess Steele, his source network, and the information provided in his reports. That source evaluation process and the FISA drafting process were taking place simultaneously, and the FBI had not corroborated the Steele information being considered for the FISA application.

Oct 20, 2016 the SSA signs that the FISA on Page is "verified".

Oct 20, 2016 signed off by Comey

Oct 21, 2016 sent to Yates

The final FISA application included proposed orders, which were signed by then Chief Judge of the FISC, Rosemary Collyer, on October (redacted) 2016. According to NSD, the Chief Judge signed the final orders as proposed by the government in their entirety, without holding a hearing.

but let's give them the benefit of the doubt on the first one. the problem is by the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones they KNEW the dossier information was largely debunked.

Edited by blake1771 at 00:10:13 on 12/11/19