The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:05, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
... that an Inspector General review did not find evidence of political bias in the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, but found "serious performance failures" regarding FISA applications? Source: TIME: Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined that the FBI had adequate cause in July 2016 to justify opening an investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia and did not find hard evidence of political bias in that decision.National Law Journal: there were “serious performance failures” in obtaining surveillance warrants against a former Trump aide [...] The numerous missteps, Horowitz added, "raised significant questions regarding the FBI chain of command’s management and supervision" of the process for obtaining warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
Other problems: - Not really clear what the topic is about without checking the "Crossfire Hurricane investigation". Also, the FISA part is not really that interesting.
Thanks SoWhy. I will need time to expand the article to (1) clarify the topic and (2) make the FISA part more interesting. Perhaps let me ping you once I have finished that?
I feel that ALT2 is a bit inaccurate - the actual quote by Barr is The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken, so proposing ALT3 below in the meantime. starship.paint (talk) 23:52, 16 January 2020 (UTC)