Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova anticipates an “explosive” Justice Department inspector general report on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.
After it was reported Wednesday that a public copy is expected to be released at about Thanksgiving or later, diGenova appeared with his wife and legal partner, Victoria Toensing, on Fox Business to talk about what they have heard.
Host Lou Dobbs asked diGenova to describe his expectations for the report’s findings.
“I would say explosive,” he replied. “And I would say for people at the highest levels of the FBI and at the highest levels of the Justice Department — more important the Justice Department — it’s going to be devastating. It’s going to ruin careers.”
Little is known about the exact contents of the report, but it is said to be lengthy. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz provided an update to Congress on Oct. 24, saying a classification review by the Justice Department and FBI was “nearing completion.” He also said he intends for the final report to “be released publicly with few redactions” and does not “anticipate a need to prepare and issue separate classified and public versions of the report.”
Republicans believe it will show top Justice Department and FBI officials misled the FISA Court by using an unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain warrants to electronically monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Democrats, as well as current and former FBI officials, have dismissed allegations of wrongdoing.
DiGenova and Toensing, who in September were revealed to have worked with President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to find dirt on Joe Biden from Ukrainian officials, have been regular guests on Dobbs’s show, Lou Dobbs Tonight. They claim to have insider knowledge about both the FISA investigation as well as U.S. Attorney John Durham’s now-criminal inquest into the Russia investigation.
DiGenova previously said Horowitz determined all four FISA warrants against Page were illegally obtained and on Wednesday said Durham has a “new grand jury” which exists “because people are going to be indicted.”
In dismissing the anonymous officials who sourced the Washington Post‘s latest report on Horowitz’s work, Toensing said she and her husband have “darn good sources.”
Claiming the Horowitz report will be “very bad” for officials from the Obama administration, she added, “My source said to me, ‘It’s going to be worse than you can imagine.'”
