7 new things we learned from the Horowitz report
CNNWashington CNN — The Justice Department inspector general’s report released Monday amounted to a massive fact-finding that shaded in contours of the Russia investigation. Here are some of the revelations from Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review: Carter Page was a US intel informant When investigators applied for a FISA warrant against Carter Page in October 2016, they mentioned his past connections to Russian intelligence officers. Some FBI agents were Team Trump in 2016 Anti-Trump text messages have peppered Horowitz’s investigations into the Russia investigation – and Trump has grasped onto them as evidence of political bias. FBI eyes were on Michael Flynn in a campaign meeting When Office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed the Trump campaign about Russian counterintelligence in 2016, the FBI had an investigator in the room watching for what then-Trump adviser Michael Flynn said, the report said. The FBI badly bungled its applications to surveil Carter Page The Horowitz report cites several ways the FBI botched its application to surveil the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, and ways it could improve the process – much of which the FBI is working on fixing.