WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Monday that it found numerous errors but no evidence of political bias by the FBI when it opened an investigation into contacts between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia in 2016.
But he also found a total of 17"basic and fundamental" errors and omissions in its applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that made the case appear stronger than it was.For example, the FBI continued to rely on information assembled by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele in its warrant applications even after one of Steele's sources told the agency that his statements had been mischaracterized or exaggerated.
The report also singled out an FBI lawyer for altering an email in a renewal of the warrant application to claim that Page was not a source for another U.S. government agency, when in fact he did work from 2008 to 2013 with another agency that was not identified in the report. The lawyer, identified by Republicans as Kevin Clinesmith, did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump called the investigation a witch hunt and assailed FBI leaders and career staffers who worked on it. "Those who attacked the FBI for two years should admit they were wrong," Comey said in a Washington Post op-ed.
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