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Article snippet: The Department of Justice's (DOJ) inspector general formally announced Wednesday that he will launch a separate investigation into the DOJ’s handling of a surveillance warrant application for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The inquiry comes “in response to requests from the attorney general and members of Congress,” according to the statement from Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Conservatives for weeks have trumpeted allegations that the DOJ and the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), detailed in a controversial memo authored by staff for House Intelligence Committee Chairman MORE (R-S.C.). Broadly, the GOP lawmakers believe that officials inappropriately used a controversial piece of opposition research into then-candidate MORE to obtain a politically-motivated warrant on Page. According to the statement, Horowitz will examine whether the bureau and the department complied “with legal requirements and with applicable policies and procedures in applications filed … related to a certain U.S. person.” Horowitz will also review the FBI’s relationship and communications with the “alleged confidential source," as well as what officials knew “from or about” that source at the time the applications were filed. The "confidential source" is a former MI6 agent named Christopher Steele who assembled the dossier under contract with the intelligence research firm Fusion GPS. The statement does not cite Page or Steele by name. The Nunes m... Link to the full article to read more