{"id":1931283,"date":"2023-05-15T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-responds-to-durham-report-acknowledges-missteps\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T22:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:44:19","slug":"fbi-responds-to-durham-report-acknowledges-missteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-responds-to-durham-report-acknowledges-missteps\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI admits mistakes in response to Durham Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-responds-to-durham-report-acknowledges-missteps%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The FBI Acknowledges Mistakes in Trump Campaign Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has responded to Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s report on the agency\u2019s 2016-2017 investigation of the Trump campaign. The FBI acknowledged mistakes and noted that it had implemented reforms in response to those mistakes.<\/p>\n<h3>Reforms Could Have Prevented Missteps<\/h3>\n<p>The FBI stated that \u201chad those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented.\u201d The agency also acknowledged the importance of continuing to work with rigor, objectivity, and professionalism.<\/p>\n<h3>Flaws in FBI\u2019s Decision to Surveil Trump Campaign<\/h3>\n<p>Special Counsel Durham found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/che-guevara-loving-smithsonian-enriched-by-stimulus-bill\/\" title=\"Che Guevara-Loving Smithsonian Enriched by Stimulus Bill\">flaws<\/a> in the FBI\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-partially-bends-the-knee-acknowledges-ballots-were-counted-unlawfully-and-in-secret\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary of State Partially Bends The Knee, Acknowledges \u2018Ballots Were Counted Unlawfully And In Secret\u2019\">surveil<\/a> the Trump campaign ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Durham indicated that the FBI broke its own rules in pursuing this unjustified surveillance due to confirmation bias against then-Republican candidate Donald Trump, over-reliance on information provided by Trump\u2019s political opponents, and a lack of attention to accuracy and completeness in pursuing surveillance measures.<\/p>\n<h3>Reforms Recommended by Durham<\/h3>\n<p>Durham recommended that the FBI take potential reforms to improve sourcing practices and put checks and balances on potential bias in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fishing-industry-pushes-back-on-biden-admin-mega-wind-project\/\" title=\"Fishing Industry Pushes Back On Biden Admin Mega Wind Project\">agency personnel<\/a>. In response to a press inquiry, the FBI sent a letter to Durham detailing the steps the agency has taken to prevent similar incidences going forward.<\/p>\n<h3>Improvements Made by the FBI<\/h3>\n<p>The FBI has installed more rigorous requirements for applying for surveillance, required personnel training for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dojs-top-national-security-lawyer-slammed-investigation-into-government-wrongdoing-in-surveillance-of-trump-aide\/\" title=\"DOJ\u2019s Top National Security Lawyer Slammed Investigation Into Government Wrongdoing in Surveillance of Trump Aide\">surveillance applications<\/a>, updated agency guidelines on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-responds-to-durham-report-acknowledges-missteps\/\" title=\"FBI admits mistakes in response to Durham Report.\">vetting confidential human resources<\/a>, required additional approval for opening \u201csensitive\u201d investigative measures, and expanded its internal oversight and auditing programs.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI added that the questionable conduct uncovered in Durham\u2019s report occurred under the previous leadership and that \u201call senior executives overseeing the Crossfire Hurricane investigation have left the FBI as a result of termination, resignation, retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI admitted errors in its 2016-2017 probe of the Trump campaign, following the release of Special Counsel John Durham&#8217;s report. The agency stated that it had implemented reforms in response to the mistakes. The FBI acknowledged that the conduct examined by Durham was the cause of current concerns about the agency&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":1931284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[5216,11773,5591,15649,3819,4115],"class_list":["post-1931283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-admits","tag-durham","tag-fbi","tag-mistakes","tag-report","tag-response"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}