Sorry. Wrong on that front too. From Page 6 of the report
"The decision to seek to use this highly intrusive investigative technique was known and approved at multiple levels of the Department, including by then DAG Yates for the initial FISA application and first renewal, and by then Acting Attorney General Boente and then DAG Rosenstein for the second and third renewals, respectively."
...and while there were some error/inadvertent omissions from the FISA applications..."While we do not speculate whether Department officials would have authorized the FBI to seek to use FISA authority had they been made aware of all relevant information..."
You better believe they would have "speculated" if they thought a different decision would have been made in the FISA warrants.
BLUF. Some mistakes were made, but no deliberate bias or significant wrong-doing.
That said, as is the case with most investigations (and why I love them so much) the IG identified areas where processes could be improved. So, not a waste of tax-payer dollars,
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