IG Report Reveals Someone’s Not Telling the Truth
AG Lynch, Comey, McCabe and Rosenstein All Caught in Conflicting Accounts
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General’s (IG’s) Report on FISA Abuse points out a number of conflicting statements. One of the biggest whoppers is between Obama’s Attorney General (AG) Loretta Lynch and former and now fired FBI Directors James Comey and Andrew McCabe. Not to be outdone, former Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rod Rosenstein makes suspect claims himself.
In the IG’s report there are conflicting accounts of when the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation started and various accounts of who knew what and when.
Obama’s AG Lynch claims that she doesn’t recall having a briefing on this investigation (p. 74):
This was the biggest FISA warrant that the Obama administration ever filed and she supposedly was unaware of it? Either she is lying or very, very incompetent in her duties.
In the first paragraph below, AG Lynch claims that she didn’t “recall providing any guidance or direction to the FBI on the investigation”. She said she didn’t have any awareness of the Carter Page FISA applications before she left office on January 20, 2017.
We know that this is not accurate because the US Attorney General signs off on all FISA applications. We first reported this in March of 2017: