You don’t have to do something to get caught as Richard jewel found out. Same for the living hell through which the FBI Richard Jewel. Clint Eastwood’s movie Richard Jewel shows the sequences involving law enforcement that are among the movie’s most damning, as they show the FBI subjecting Jewell to an intense and humiliating investigation, often under misleading pretenses, based on no substantive evidence against him—and then concocting ever-more-implausible theories to explain his guilt when the facts don’t prove their suspicions.

At the highest levels of law enforcement in the world, James Comey and the FBI warrant application to spy on Trump aide was fraught with errors. That’s dangerous to personal Liberty and needs to be throughly investigated and changed. Same for Peter Szrocks “insurance policy” where he as an FBI agent went after the duly elected president of the United States…

Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz found that FBI agents working on the investigation into alleged ties between President Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign submitted exaggerated or incomplete information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

An FBI attorney doctored evidence against Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign, to get the FISA warrant renewed in 2017, he determined.

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https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/20180202_memo/HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf

So what chance do you have if they target you? Same goes for the president as the highly partisan, political Impeachment witch hunt against the president shows.  Horowitz found a total of 17 inaccuracies or omissions in the FBI’s application to monitor Mr. Page, which launched the Russia collusion investigation that dogged Mr. Trump well into his presidency.

There were “serious performance failures” by both agents running the investigation and top FBI officials supervising the probe, Mr. Horowitz said. … “We 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 … and even though those involved with the investigation knew that their actions were likely to be subjected to close scrutiny,” he wrote.

HEADLINE: Obama spied on an opponent and the FBI lied repeatedly. Trump is being impeached? WTF!

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Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Sunday said the United States government owes former Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page an apology regarding the federal surveillance application that enabled the investigation into Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.

CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked Durbin about Page being treated “unfairly.”

“Does the U.S. government owe Carter Page an apology?” she quizzed.

“I can certainly tell you based on what we saw, they do,” Durbin replied. “And here’s the bottom line: many of us have been looking at this … secret FISA court for years saying this isn’t first and won’t be the last time the FBI misrepresents evidence before this court and proceeds. We have tried to reform the proceedings. Senator Lee, Republican, Senator Leahy, Democrat, myself, and others have been pushing for FISA reform. We couldn’t get the Republicans to join us in that effort. Maybe now they will. This should be a bipartisan effort to clean up the FISA court. What happened in this situation was inexcusable.”

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) wrote to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), on Sunday, suggesting that after a series of lies, “it is clear you are in need of rehabilitation.”

Nunes took Schiff on over his defense last February of the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) and its efforts to mislead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in applications for surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. After then-Chairman Nunes released a four-page memo detailing his concerns about FBI abuses, then-Ranking Member Schiff released a response that defended the FBI’s conduct.

Last Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz released his investigative report into the matter. Almost everything Nunes said was correct, and almost everything Schiff said was wrong.

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