The FBI received a slap on the wrist this week over flaws in surveillance applications. The flaws were discovered by the inspector general of the Justice Department. On April 3, Judge James Boasberg ordered the FBI to turn in the names of targets in the 29 applications which were audited by the inspector general due to missing files.

It's long been known that Stefan Halper served as a confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI. Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse, while not identifying Halper by name, added many details concerning his extensive role in spying on the Trump campaign: Halper secretly recorded several conversations with Trump campaign advisors Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and, more troublingly, the FBI tasked Halper to tape an extensive conversation with Sam Clovis-a co-chair of the Trump presidential campaign.