Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation is a report by the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General which was released on December 9, 2019 by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.[1][2] The report reviewed the Crossfire Hurricane investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which looked into whether people associated with the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign coordinated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[3]
Several issues examined by the report were: the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the FBI's usage of reports from Christopher Steele, the FBI's applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, and the FBI's use of confidential human sources as part of the investigation, among other issues.[4]
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- ^ Holden, Dominic (December 9, 2019). ""No Evidence": An Official Probe Has Debunked Trump's Claim The FBI Planted A Spy In His Campaign". Buzzfeed News. Archived from the original on December 11, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ Berenson, Tessa (December 9, 2019). "Inspector General Finds FBI Probe into Trump Campaign Was Justified, But Not Perfect". Time. Archived from the original on December 11, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ Barrett, Devlin; Zapotosky, Matt; Demirjian, Karoun; Nakashima, Ellen; Helderman, Rosalind (December 9, 2019). "FBI was justified in opening Trump campaign probe, but case plagued by 'serious failures,' inspector general finds". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.