Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Thursday issued a report (pdf) on the FBI’s applications to surveil American citizens, finding “widespread” failure that “raises serious questions.” The inspector general (IG) reviewed about 7,000 applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants—the same used to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in 2016—and found the agency failed to follow a key rule, the Woods Procedures, in the program. In late 2019, Horowitz discovered 17 significant errors and omissions in the FISA surveillance application targeting Page. The audit of the agency’s Woods Procedures—rules that the FBI follows to ensure that FISA applications are “scrupulously accurate”—found sweeping “non-compliance” that “raises serious questions about the adequacy and execution of the supervisory review process in place at the time of the applications we reviewed,” Horowitz concluded, saying that the FBI’s quality-control officials apparently missed these problems. His office also identified 183 FISA applications that had …