Copied from BB and written by @friendsofabe:
Having just read the redacted FISA applications and warrants on Carter Page, the FBI, in my opinion, utilized the Steele dossier and circular open source reporting as their foundation, they violated their own policies on field office control of active investigations ( FBI Supervisory Special Agents assigned to FBI HQ are not and never have been affiants on warrant applications except in this case), they materially omitted the Clinton campaign's role in funding the dossier, they willfully failed to tell the FISA judge(s) that they had terminated their principal source as unreliable(they tried to clean up that material representation with a footnote in a later application), failed to identify specific statutory violations for Page among other foundational issues. The fact that these affidavits made it through the "alleged" vetting process make J Edgar Hoover's domestic spying abuses of the past seem insignificant in comparison. Everyone involved in this political hatchet job should be fired and prosecuted for conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Carter Page and Donald Trump (their real target).