Election fraud scheme on L.A.'s skid row got homeless to sign fake names for cigarettes and cash, D.A. says

This is the 4th article I've read so far concerning voter fraud and were a long way from November!. The upcoming election is going to be ripe with voter fraud probably the most extensive in our history! I don’t blame Trump for telling Wallace if he loses he won’t accept the election results until a full investigation is conducted. This article fails to mention if they were illegally registering them to vote as a Democrat or a Republican. We're left in a quandary. 

PS:

This happened in (Newsom loving) LA. Surprised they didn’t look the other way like they do with illegals.

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A forged signature swapped for $1 — or sometimes a cigarette.

The crude exchange played out hundreds of times on L.A.’s skid row during the 2016 election cycle and again this year, prosecutors said Tuesday as they announced criminal charges against nine people accused in a fraud scheme.

Using cash and cigarettes as lures, the defendants approached homeless people on skid row and asked them to forge signatures on state ballot measure petitions and voter registration forms, the district attorney’s office said. The defendants — some of whom were scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday — face several criminal charges, including circulating a petition with fake names, voter fraud and registering a fictitious person.

The charges, which were filed three weeks ago but made public Tuesday, followed a Los Angeles Police Department crackdown on suspected election fraud on skid row earlier in the year.

“They paid individuals to sign the names,” Officer Deon Joseph, the senior lead officer on skid row, told The Times in September. “That’s an assault on our democracy.”

State officials said petition signature scams aren’t widespread in California, but Joseph said they do pop up from time to time on skid row. People hired to help qualify initiatives for the ballot are often paid per signature collected, typically $1 to $2, but officials said a recent slew of proposed ballot initiatives had pushed the rate as high as $6 a signature. It is illegal for the collectors, however, to pay people for signatures.

Los Angeles police Capt. Marc Reina said officials used undercover officers and security camera video before arresting Kirkland Kauzava Washington, 38, one of the nine individuals charged by prosecutors. Washington allegedly set up a card table outside the Midnight Mission, where homeless people line up for meals and shelter, Reina said.

Two other people arrested at the same time as Washington were either homeless or living in a single-room-occupancy apartment on skid row, but neither of them were among the nine defendants charged by L.A. County prosecutors.

“We didn’t charge any homeless people,” said district attorney spokeswoman Shiara Davila-Morales.

L.A. County elections chief Dean Logan previously said it was unlikely the forgeries eluded his staff, who manually compare petition signatures with those on registration forms. But, Logan said, he worried about “any activity that causes voters to lose faith in the process.”

Washington, Harold Bennett, 53, and Louis Thomas Wise, 36, face up to six years and four months in prison. The others charged — Richard Howard, 62, Rose Makeda Sweeney, 42, Christopher Joseph Williams, 59, Jakarta Fati Mardis, 35, Norman Hall, 61, and Nickey Demelvin Huntley, 44 — face up to four years and eight months in prison.

Election fraud scheme on L.A.'s skid row got homeless to sign fake names for cigarettes and cash, D.A. says

Armed BLM protester shot dead by a motorist in Austin was on camera earlier calling critics ‘pu**ies’

Garrett Foster learned the hard way. 

Austin, Texas is not Portland, Oregon.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/07/26/armed-blm-protester-shot-dead-by-a-motorist-in-austin-was-on-camera-earlier-calling-critics-puies-951567

About have way through the article (link above) this imbecile protester says this:

Facebook user Robert (Defund the Police) Garrett shared a video of the incident.

“Sorry there isn’t sound as I had to record this with my phone off the computer, but when you see the big dude with the blackshirt walk behind the car he banged on the trunk, and that was my clue to get out. As soon as shots were fired I called 911,” he wrote.

The dispatcher

Armed BLM protester shot dead by a motorist in Austin was on camera earlier calling critics ‘pu**ies’

The 3 stages of the BLM outrage scale

71 blacks shot in Chicago... ten of those shot were under the age of 18.

Black cop kills a black perpetrator.

White cop kills a black perpetrator.

The 3 stages of the BLM outrage scale

FDNY official defends excluding famed 9/11 firefighter from procession for being white

This is the 2nd time they tried to pull this kind of crap off. I remember right after 911 they tried to replace one of these 3 white firefighters in this iconic photo with a black guy so as to be 'more inclusive'. 

Just another attempt at rewriting history. Some people don't like the fact Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record. So in an attempt to placate them should we make him white?

Imagine all 3 of them were black and now Joe Whiteguy the department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer suggested the color-guard procession would be all-white.

Oh, and remember after 911 how everybody loved the cops and the firefighters "We'll Never Forget"...well things have sure changed.

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A top FDNY official says it’s “most definitely” acceptable to exclude a white firefighter from a ceremonial unit based solely on his skin color, The Post has learned.

Cecilia Loving, the department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, is defending a decision to kick Lt. Daniel McWilliams — one of three firefighters in the iconic 9/11 Ground Zero flag-raising photo — off a color-guard procession so it would be all-black.

Loving testified at a state Divsion of Human Rights trial on McWilliam’s complaint that he was the victim of racial bias.

When McWilliams showed up at a 2017 memorial mass to honor deceased members of the Vulcan Society, a fraternal group of black FDNY firefighters, he was barred from holding a flag in the color guard.

Regina Wilson, then Vulcan Society president, asked McWilliams to “help in a different capacity” because he is not black.

Loving, who is black, testified there is nothing wrong with that.

“So, a request for an all-black color guard is not discriminatory?” McWilliam’s lawyer, Keith Sullivan, asked in the trial.

“No, it isn’t,” Loving replied.

Asked if it’s acceptable to request an all-black color guard, she said, “Most definitely.”

Loving said it’s okay to replace a white member with an African-American to “uplift our identities and our separate ethnicities in order to instill a sense of pride and community and support for one another.

In a written brief, Sullivan called the rejection of McWilliams “deplorable,” and evidence of a stark double standard in the FDNY.

“If you’re black and you discriminate against a white person in the workplace, you get a slap on the wrist at best,” he wrote. A white person who discriminates gets “heavy-handed discipline and punishment.”

Wilson received “one hour of counseling” as discipline for her treatment of McWilliams.

(How come the firefighters aren’t rioting and looting the stores in NY?)

“The FDNY has created a policy and procedure for bending over backwards, coming up with excuses and accommodating members of the Vulcan Society … who commit racist acts, and it has to stop,” Sullivan wrote.

McWilliams declined to comment, but he was upset and “embarrassed” by the incident, Sullivan said.

After filing his complaint, McWilliams was the target of retaliation and intimidation by Wilson’s supporters, Sullivan argues. One put his hands on McWilliams, and said, ”I’ve heard about you, they told me you’d act this way, and now you know me.”

The FDNY declined to comment because a final decision is pending.

FDNY official defends excluding famed 9/11 firefighter from procession for being white

BREAKING: “NFAC” Black armed militia has Louisville march planned for today

NFAC

 (Not F—ing Around Coalition)

It’s uncanny don’t you think? I’m part of the silent majority. What I can’t comprehend… the more insurrection, the more insane this gets, the more Biden’s poll numbers increase! Sure as hell must be a lot of people who are just eating this shit up. I mean, when they procure a tank why bother holding an election? Biden's a lock.

(Look at these SOB’s they got everything but a bazooka and hand grenades) 

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July 25, 2020

The NFAC black armed militia group is back in the news and planning a march in Louisville Kentucky today.

Friday Louisville Councilman Kevin Kramer, a Republican urged residents to stay clear from the city’s downtown area on Saturday while the militia’s march is underway.

“The potential for violence will be heightened as we will more than likely have a number of highly armed groups representing very different viewpoints as well as other groups all situated within a block of each other. While efforts are being made to ensure a safe environment to all persons present, I would caution you that the potential for violence will exist.” Kramer said to WDRB

Kramer continued “I don’t have a lot of confidence that the police department is going to have the resources that they need should something go wrong.”

Fox News reports Grand Master Jay, head of the “Not F—ing Around Coalition,” refers to the U.S. Constitution when talking about his Black armed militia group, which plans to march in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday.

“Once it gets to that point where it looks like the government is non-responsive to the will of the people, the Constitution says to [form a] militia to address the grievances of the people,” he told Louisville FOX affiliate WDRB-TV.

“I didn’t write it,” he says about one of America’s founding documents. “They wrote it. We just abide by it. So that’s our destination, because when it looks like the government is being indifferent to the people, the people have the right to form themselves – and arm themselves — to ask those questions.”

The focus of the group’s march, he says, will be an attempt to seek justice for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman who was fatally shot March 13 during a police raid in her Louisville home.

Other militias also plan to be in the area Saturday, but Major Aubrey Gregory of the Louisville Metropolitan Police says the department has a plan for maintaining peace and separating groups that have opposing political views.

“We expect nothing but a peacful protest this weekend,” Gregory told WAVE3 of Louisville.

Taylor’s death came after police executed a “no-knock warrant” at the address, in search of a drug suspect who did not live there, and no drugs were found in Taylor’s home.

Family members and supporters of Taylor have called for the officers involved in the shooting to be arrested but none of them has been charged with a crime – although the FBI launched an investigation in May after the family filed a lawsuit.

Grand Master Jay’s coalition has called for those joining its march Saturday to open-carry their weapons, wear black and remain peaceful, WDRB reported.

The group’s leader says he has already spoken with city officials about the Taylor case, hoping to see results – but is now advocating for the mayor and city council members to be replaced, the station reported.

The Louisville organization of Black Lives Matter has distanced itself from Grand Master Jay’s coalition, accusing the armed group of being “outside agitators” – noting the militia had staged a march in Stone Mountain, Ga., on July 4, WDRB reported.

TCO reported earlier this month, a video of Grand Master Jay, the leader of a black militia group that describes themselves as the “NFAC” (Not F*cking around coalition) recently went viral on Twitter, and now has over 785k views.

In the clip, Grand Master Jay advocates for a separate black ethnostate and says “We don’t want to talk no more, we don’t want to negotiate. We don’t want to sing songs, we don’t bring signs to a gunfight. We’re an eye for an eye organization. So when they decide to act right, we’ll act right. And we do it all legally.”

Jay is now under fire on social media for sharing a fake Hitler quote as internet sleuths have also uncovered a history of anti-Semitic messages.

April 1st, a Twitter user wrote “FBI raiding cribs in Williamsburg for hoarders of medical mask smh if your from NYC you already know who it was smh”

Grand Master Jay replied “So the Jews are hoarding masks? How ironic.”

More recently, June 27th, Grand Master Jay tweeted a completely fake Hitler quote that has been declared “false” by Snopes. 

Many mainstream media outlets, including Newsweek and Reason, published coverage of the NFAC organization without mentioning any anti-semitic leanings of their leader.

Reason concluded “The arrival of militia members and armed private citizens is to be expected in cities where there is intense fallout from fatal use-of-force incidents. Black activists, some inspired by the likes of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, are using their guns to remind the public that they, too, have a voice.”

However, many social media users have expressed disappointment in Grand Master Jay’s spreading of a fake Hitler quote and anti-semitic rhetoric.

One Twitter user replied “Fake quote. Only for the gullible.”

BREAKING: “NFAC” Black armed militia has Louisville march planned for today

Four People Charged with Mail-In Election Fraud as Dems Continue To Push Vote-by-Mail

A prelude to this article and a harbinger of things to come:

Dead cat gets voter registration application in mail

BTW...the cat had been dead for 12 years!

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The opening salvo in Twitter’s fact-check fight against Donald Trump didn’t exactly unwind as they had planned it.

Last month, the social media giant took the president to task over a tweet involving mail-in ballot fraud, appending a big warning to Trump’s tweets that linked to a fact-check which stated “there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud.”

Trump had, of course, begged to differ: “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,” he tweeted. “Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone … living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one.”

“That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!”

Well, it turns out they didn’t exactly get that right, having to revise their original fact-check to correct the number of states that were doing mail-in voting.

When it comes to the number of actual documented and suspected cases of voter fraud, that’s also a matter of contention — and it just got a whole lot more contentious late last week.

Take a wild guess.

In Paterson, New Jersey, four men were indicted last week on vote-tampering charges in a municipal election last month.

Should more states allow mail-in voting for the presidential election?

Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced the charges against 1st Ward Councilman Michael Jackson, 3rd Ward Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez, Shelim Khalique and Abu Razyen last week after the four allegedly committed fraud on mail-in ballots in the May 12 special election.

(Can't say I'm surprised...they look like terrorists)

 The men are charged with second- third- and fourth-degree crimes that can carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison at most.

“Today’s charges send a clear message: if you try to tamper with an election in New Jersey, we will find you and we will hold you accountable,” Grewal said, according to a statement from his office. “We will not allow a small number of criminals to undermine the public’s confidence in our democratic process.”

The charges relate in part to improprieties in how the ballots were collected.

“Generally speaking, a voter who receives a mail-in ballot completes the ballot themselves and then returns the ballot by mailing it, placing it in a specially designated ‘drop box,’ or delivering it to the County Board of Elections,” a statement from the attorney general’s office read.

“However, New Jersey also allows a voter to provide the completed ballot to a ‘bearer,’ who must complete the bearer certification on the ballot envelope in the presence of the voter and then return the ballot on behalf of the voter. Under state law, a bearer may collect and deliver ballots for no more than three voters in an election, and a candidate in the election is never permitted to serve as a bearer.”

It’s alleged that the candidates acted as bearers, that they didn’t provide information as to who the bearer was, that they collected ballots from individuals they knew to be ineligible to vote and that some of the individuals collected more than three ballots in their role as bearers.

This is probably just what prosecutors can prove, as well. Reports alleged mail-in ballots were stolen in high-rise buildings; in one case, a garbage bag full of undelivered mail was found on a street in Paterson, according to the New Jersey Globe.

For those of you not from the Garden State, Paterson isn’t exactly some small town tucked away in the forest hinterlands. Nor was this a minor election, either.

As Mark Hemingway pointed out at RealClearPolitics, “control of the council hangs in the balance. Paterson is New Jersey’s third-largest city and the election will decide the fate of a municipal budget in excess of $300 million, in addition to hundreds of millions more in education spending and state aid.”

And most of the problem involves vote-by-mail ballots. Of the 16,747 votes mailed in, only 13,557 were counted by the board of elections, according to the Paterson Press.

A total of 3,190 ballots were disqualified for various reasons — 19 percent, nearly one-in-five. Particularly given the fact that several of the races were close, this is a substantial number. Some of the alleged fraud wasn’t exactly subtle, either.

“Over 800 ballots in Paterson were invalidated for appearing in mailboxes improperly bundled together — including a one mailbox where hundreds of ballots were in a single packet,” Hemingway wrote. “The bundles were turned over to law enforcement to investigate potential criminal activity related to the collection of the ballots.”

Most of the alleged fraud involved the signatures on the ballots, which differed from the signatures on record with the board of elections.

The subtext here is obvious — so obvious that Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh, a Democrat, spelled it out.

“We don’t want Donald Trump to tweet about us,” he told NorthJersey.com, which said he sounded “almost as if he was pleading with the president to take his finger off his Twitter feed.”

“Nonetheless, Sayegh conceded that even though he welcomed the voter fraud charges in his city — the winning council candidates and their campaign workers were Sayegh opponents — it was still a ‘sad chapter’ for Paterson.”

“I’m very fearful of vote by mail,” Sayegh said. “I’m a purist. I like to go to the actual polling site, pull the curtain and cast my ballot.”

He added that it’s “ripe for corruption.”

There was no “fact-check” on that, of course, no talk about how the mayor was distorting the facts — because, according to what we know thus far, he wasn’t.

This appears to be systematic voter fraud bad enough that the elections will potentially be invalidated.

If this turns out to be what happened in one New Jersey city, we’re to believe this can’t happen on a national scale, particularly in Democrat-run cities like Paterson where the conditions are ripe for voter fraud?

And yet, this isn’t going to stop the Democrats for pushing for as much mail-in voting as possible this fall. None of this will deter them, nor will it induce them to include protections to stop this from happening.

Oh, and about hoping Trump wouldn’t tweet about Paterson? Too late.

For whatever reason, Twitter neglected to put a fact-check on this tweet about the risks of mail-in voting.

Four People Charged with Mail-In Election Fraud as Dems Continue To Push Vote-by-Mail

What's not to love about Candace?

Hot too!

What's not to love about Candace?

Don't know who wrote this...but makes a lot of sense.

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Are you sickened and despondent with the current campaign and upcoming presidential election? 

I consider myself a conservative and do truly believe our country is at a political/economic/moral/ social crossroads. I need to let you know I could/would never vote for Joe Biden to lead this country. To me, he represents everything that is wrong with our current political structure. On the flip side, I look and listen to Donald Trump and I cringe at every rude, insulting comment he makes.

If you find yourself in a similar state of mind, please read the following article:

“A Message For Christians About Donald Trump”

Here's a famous joke about God and how he talks to us:

"A deeply faithful Christian man is stuck on the roof at home with massive flooding up to the 2nd floor. Rowboat comes. He says "No, I'm waiting for God. I prayed and I know he's coming." 2nd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God." 3rd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God."

Water rises. The man drowns. 

Now he's meeting God in heaven. The religious man says, "Where were you God? I prayed. I was faithful. I asked you to save me. Why would you abandon me?"

God says, "Hey, I sent you 3 rowboats."

Did you ever consider Trump is our rowboat? Maybe God is trying to tell us something important--that now is not the time for a "nice Christian guy" or a "gentleman" or a typical Republican powder puff. Maybe now is the time for a natural born killer, a ruthless fighter, a warrior. Because right about now we need a miracle, or America is finished. Maybe the rules of gentlemen don't apply here. Maybe a gentleman and "all-around nice Christian" would lead us to slaughter.

Or do you want another Mitt Romney, Bob Dole, John McCain, John Kasich or Paul Ryan? Did any of them win? Did they lead the GOP to "the promised land?" Did they change the direction of America ? No, because if you don't win, you have no say.

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Dogs all 3 of them.

And this creep is going to speak at the Democratic convention in support of Creepy Joe !

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/508088-report-john-kasich-to-speak-at-dnc-on-behalf-of-biden

Politically, in my book, all 3 of them are more dead than John Lewis. 

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Paul Ryan couldn't even deliver his own state, Wisconsin! Nice, but obedient. I mean Paul Ryan...not my dog. My dog is actually a pretty good defender and loyal.

Maybe God is knocking on your door loudly, but you're not listening. Maybe God understands we need a "war leader" at this moment in time. Maybe God understands if we don't win this election, America is dead. It's over. The greatest nation in world history will be gone. Finished. Kaput. Adios.

And with one last breath, maybe what we need to save us at the last second, is someone different. Someone you haven't ever experienced before-- because you weren't raised in rough and tumble New York where nothing good gets accomplished unless you're combative, aggressive, outrageous, on offense at all times, and maybe just a tad arrogant too. Someone with a personality you've never seen on stage at your church. Maybe, just maybe, being a nice gentlemanly Christian would not beat Biden and his billion dollars, and his best friends in the media who will unleash the dogs of hell upon the GOP nominee.

I guess you think God is only nice and gentlemanly. Really? Then you've missed the whole point of the Bible. When necessary, God is pretty tough. When necessary, God strikes with pain, death and destruction. When necessary, God inflicts vengeance.

Maybe you think God couldn't possibly be associated with someone like Trump. Trump is too vicious, rude and crude.

When we won WWII, was God "nice?" Were we gentlemanly when defeating Hitler? Were we gentlemanly when firebombing Germany? Were we gentlemanly when dropping atomic bombs on Japan? Is God ever "nice" on the battlefield? Or does he send us vicious SOB's like General George S. Patton so the good guys can defeat evil?

It's pretty clear to me God sends unique people to be "war leaders." That's a different role than a pastor or church leader. God understands that.

And maybe it's time to re-define "nice." Maybe Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan aren't nice at all--because they led us to defeat. And losing again would mean the end of America. And God can't allow that. Maybe Romney and Ryan mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or maybe they're just jealous they had their chance and blew it. Maybe they'd rather help elect Biden than allow a Trump victory that would make them look weak, feckless and incompetent.

"Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint." (Isiah 40:30-31)

God is about miracles. We don't need a "nice guy" or a "gentleman" right now. It's the 4th quarter and we're losing 14-0. We need a miracle.

So let me repeat my message to Christians: "YOU'RE MISSING THE BOAT."

I believe Trump is our miracle.

I believe Trump is our rowboat. Except he's more like a battleship!

No one is saying Trump is perfect. No one is saying Trump is a perfect conservative. But he is a patriot. He is a warrior. He is a capitalist. He is the right man, at the right time. Yes, he's a bit rude and crude and offensive. But that may make him the ‘perfect warrior’ to save America, American exceptionalism, capitalism and Judeo-Christian values. The choice should be easy for Christians.

It's Trump...or it's the end of the American dream. 🇺🇸

Don't know who wrote this...but makes a lot of sense.

Meadows signals imminent indictments in Durham probe: 'It's time for people to go to jail'

The Justice Department's watchdog has identified critical errors in every FBI wiretap application

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that it's "time for people to go to jail" as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham's probe into FBI misconduct -- prompting ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos to sound a celebratory note on Twitter.

The comments came as Fox News learned this weekend that Jennifer Boone, a senior FBI official who oversaw the flawed probe into former Trump adviser Carter Page, has received a major promotion to lead a field office -- and the bureau won't say why.

Meadows, during his Sunday interview with Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," also previewed the Trump administration's soon-to-be-released plans for reopening schools and implementing new economic stimulus measures. More details, Meadows said, would be coming this week.

However, Meadows' comments on the Durham probe were among his most suggestive yet. They followed Attorney General Bill Barr's comments to Fox News earlier this year that Durham's findings have been "very troubling" and that familiar names are currently being probed.

"I think the American people are expecting indictments," Meadows told anchor Maria Bartiromo. "I expect indictments based on the evidence I've seen. Lindsey Graham did a good job in getting that out. We know that they not only knew that there wasn't a case, but they continued to investigate and spy."

'WHERE IS CHRISTOPHER WRAY'? GOP DEMANDS INTERVIEW WITH MYSTERY AGENT PIENTKA

Internal FBI documents that emerged in April showed that Peter Strzok -- the now-disgraced anti-Trump former head of FBI counterintelligence -- ordered the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to remain open even after it was slated to be closed due to a lack of so-called "derogatory" information. Strzok pursued an investigation based on the Logan Act, a law never used in a successful prosecution and that was intended to prevent individuals from falsely representing the U.S. government abroad in a pre-telephone era.

"And yes, I use the word spy on Trump campaign officials and actually even doing things when this president was sworn in," Meadows continued. "And after that and doing in an inappropriate manner, you're going to see a couple of other documents come out in the coming days that will suggest that not only was the campaign spied on, but the FBI did not act appropriately as they were investigating. It's all starting to come unraveled. And I tell you, it's time that people go to jail and people are indicted."

The Justice Department's (DOJ's) watchdog has identified critical errors in every FBI wiretap application that it audited as part of the fallout from the bureau's heavily flawed investigation into former Trump adviser Carter Page, who was surveilled during the campaign in part because of a largely discredited dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The FBI repeatedly accused Page of being a "foreign agent" in its warrant applications. Page has not been charged with any wrongdoing, and the DOJ has since admitted that its warrant applications lacked probable cause and should not have been sought.

Additionally, an ex-FBI lawyer in that case even falsified a CIA email submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in order to make Page's communications with Russians appear nefarious, the DOJ inspector general found. The FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, was allegedly told by the CIA that Page had reported his Russian contacts and was essentially acting as an informant -- only for Clinesmith to allegedly omit that exculpatory information in a surveillance warrant application that framed Page's communications with Russians as a sign that he was a secret foreign agent.

OBAMA KNEW DETAILS OF FLYNN CASE, SHOCKING TOP DOJ OFFICIAL, DOCS SHOW

Separately, Fox News has learned that senior FBI official Jennifer Boone, who the IG said was "at Headquarters overseeing" the Page investigation, received a promotion to head the bureau's Baltimore field office last year. Boone was at the same level as Strzok in the FBI hierarchy.

The IG report indicates that Boone also handled outreach to Bruce Ohr, who was a key contact inside the Justice Department for ex-British spy Christopher Steele -- the author of the now-discredited anti-Trump dossier produced by the research firm Fusion GPS as opposition research for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS at the time.

"Boone did not recall who ultimately decided to move forward with [Page FISA] Renewal Application No. 2, and available documents do not indicate," the IG wrote.

IG REPORT CONTRADICTS EXPERTS' REPEATED CLAIMS ON FISA PROCESS

Boone also "told us that [she] did not recall being advised that the information from the [Steele] Primary Sub-source significantly differed from the information in Steele's reporting," the IG added.

The FBI declined to comment specifically about Boone's promotion when reached by Fox News this weekend.

"As I'm sure you know, Director [Christopher] Wray recently sat for an interview with your colleague Bret Baier where he talked about the corrective measures he has instituted in response to the FISA IG Report," an FBI spokesperson told Fox News. "We won't have a comment beyond what the director said to Mr. Baier."

Republicans have complained that Wray hasn't responded to their requests to interview other key officials who oversaw aspects of the Page probe, including Joe Pietnka -- who was scrubbed from the FBI website after Fox News inquired about him. Sources say Pientka received a major promotion that moved him from Virginia to a senior role in the San Francisco field office, and public records reviewed by Fox News confirm that Pientka has moved residences.

On Friday, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee released newly declassified documents that they say “significantly undercut” the “reliability” of the infamous Steele dossier from the Russia probe, as well as the accuracy and reliability of the factual assertions in the FISA warrants against Page.

HOROWITZ REPORT SPOTLIGHTS ROLE OF LITTLE-KNOWN AGENT PIENTKA

The first document, which the committee said spanned 57 pages, is a summary of a three-day interview with Steele's primary sub-source. The document revealed that the dossier was “unsubstantiated and unreliable,” according to sources who reviewed it, and showed that the FBI was on notice of the dossier’s credibility problems, yet continued to seek further FISA warrant renewals for Page.

Moreover, the document demonstrated that the information Steele’s primary sub-source provided him was “second and third-hand information and rumors at best.”

FBI DOUBTED STEELE DOSSIER RELIABILITY, NEW DOCS SHOW

The document also revealed that Steele’s primary sub-source “disagreed with and was surprised by” how information he gave Steele was then conveyed by Steele in the dossier.

The documents were not the first evidence showing the FBI had reason to doubt the Steele dossier. It emerged in April that the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane team investigating the Trump 2016 campaign received multiple indications that Steele was part of an elaborate "Russian disinformation campaign," according to several declassified footnotes from the IG report.

The information flatly contradicted numerous media reports.

The FBI's legal counsel has described the warrant to surveil Page as "essentially a single source FISA" wholly dependent on the dossier, which also made numerous other unsubstantiated claims about Russian hackers in a nonexistent consulate in Miami, Cohen's purported trips to Prague, and lurid blackmail tapes. Special Counsel Robert Muller couldn't find any evidence supporting those allegations.

Meadows signals imminent indictments in Durham probe: 'It's time for people to go to jail'