; (3) unlike the FBI’s opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information , the FBI applied a completely different standard to the Clinton campaign; and (4) based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department [of Justice] and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report ; Whereas the FBI continued to weaponize the Steele dossier even after being told by an associate of Christopher Steele that the associate’s statements may have been misleading; Whereas Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz indicated that the investigation into Mr. Trump’s campaign was possible due to 17 significant inaccuracies or omissions spread across 4 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications for Trump campaign aide Carter Page, and Mr. Horowitz went on to criticize the Crossfire Hurricane investigative team, arguing that they failed to meet the basic obligation to ensure that the Carter Page FISA applications were scrupulously accurate ; Whereas Mr. Horowitz disingenuously also argued that the impetus for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was not due to political bias, even after being made aware of incriminating text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page; Whereas it is clear that the Obama administration and the FBI committed espionage against a United States citizen (Carter Page); Whereas Congress, despite the FBI’s abuse of FISA’s title VII authorities against the Trump 2016 campaign, still chose to reauthorize title VII for another 16 months in December 2023, providing the Biden administration the resources it needs to replicate what the Obama administration did in 2016; Whereas, in light of the Obama administration’s abuse of FISA, the law should not have been reauthorized without significant reform