FBI 'insurance policy' still classified and was related to getting FISA warrants

Sarah Lee:

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In the book, on pg. 98 in a chapter called, “The Insurance Policy,” Nunes tells Lee that the policy was a specific thing that was done to ensure that the FISA warrant was granted. And that his committee knows what it is.

According to Nunes, the “insurance policy” that Strzok and Page texted about, the issue they’d discussed in McCabe’s office, was not simply the operation against Trump that they planned to roll into a coup in the event he was elected.

“It has a deeper meaning, it’s more specific than that,” [Nunes] says. “It’s what else they did to get the FISA, to ensure they got the warrant on Page. It’s as bad or worse as using the dossier. It’s another thing they hid as part of a counterintelligence investigation.”

What did they do? Nunes spreads his arms in the air. “Something we hope to have declassified. Something the American public should know about.”

Well…that sounds downright corrupt.

Since Smith’s book was published before DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report on FISA abuse, it’s tempting to think that what Nunes is referring to here is perhaps the information that came out later that a top lawyer at the DOJ changed the text of a key investigative document to conceal the fact that Carter Page, the subject of the warrant, was working for the US.

But this tweet from Nunes just before Horowitz’s report was released at the beginning of December seems to separate the two things.

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The only information we need from IG Report today...Also do you think Horowitz gets to the bottom of the insurance policy?

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“If the new story is true about the head lawyer doctoring evidence, that would be massive,” Nunes tells Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. And then, a few sentences later, he says this: “We also want to know if [Horowitz] got to the bottom of the insurance policy. We know what the insurance policy is, it’s something very specific, and we want to know if he got to the bottom of that.”

It doesn’t sound like they’re the same thing, and there’s been no statement from team Nunes that the insurance policy has finally been revealed.
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I get the impression that there was more wrong with the FISA warrant than just the changing of some words by a lawyer.  At this point, I see little reason to keep the matter classified especially if there are going to be charges against those in the FBI responsible for getting the warrants.