This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, December 12th.

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Now on to our top news.

Another heated hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, this time with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz,

discussing his team's new report out on the FBI's use of the FISA courts

and surveillance of Trump AIDS.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, said this via ABC.

According to the IGs report, the FBI complied with existing department and FBI policies in opening the investigation.

And the IG, quote, did not find documentary or

testimonial evidence the political bias

or improper motivation influenced this decision end quote

or any specific investigative steps taken by the FBI. That's the finding.

Here's one comment from Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, VSC Spann.

So we're faced with two possibilities. Either one, these FBI agents purposely use the

power of the federal government to wage a political war against a presidential candidate they despised, or two, these agents were so incompetent

that they allowed a paid foreign political operative to weaponize the FISA program

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