John R. Houk
© June 15, 2018
The Horowitz IG Report on the FBI/DOJ handling of Crooked
Hillary’s email server investigation came out June 14. I have no doubt the
Leftist MSM will report this underlying theme: Horowitz found no political
bias.
I haven’t personally read the 568-page report
yet, but a quick read of primarily Conservative sources commenting the report,
Michael Horowitz both let’s the FBI off the hook relating bias and singles out
bias of certain FBI/DOJ members. How Horowitz can generalize no overall bias
and individual bias simultaneously is beyond me. I believe another instalment
of Horowitz’s IG investigation is in the future.
Here are some salient observations that Conservative sources
are observing:
§ Obama administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch acted
improperly in not cutting short a meeting aboard an aircraft with former
President Bill Clinton during the investigation of Hillary Clinton. Both Lynch
and Bill Clinton denied discussing the ongoing email probe during the meeting.
§ The FBI improperly permitted two Clinton aides who were witnesses in the investigation to sit in on the FBI's questioning of Clinton
§ Comey drafted an initial statement exonerating Clinton months before the investigation ended. FBI agents' actions surrounding the DOJ/FBI interview of Hillary Clinton were 'inappropriate' and created appearance of bias
§ The draft statement exonerating Clinton also removed the term "gross negligence"—a condition that could have been used for prosecution—and replaced with "especially concerning." - Comey usurped the authority of the attorney general when he announced during a July 2016 press conference that the FBI would not be recommending charges against Clinton, then the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
§ An initial assessment in the Comey draft statement saying foreign spy services were "reasonably likely" to have accessed the classified data on the Clinton server was replaced with "possible."
§ FBI ethics officials "did not fully appreciate" the potential conflict of interest by former FBI Director Andrew McCabe's wife receiving $675,288 in 2015 from Clinton associate Terry McAuliffe, then-governor of Virginia, for her political campaign for a state senate seat. McCabe became head of the email probe in early 2016.
§ The FBI improperly regarded a parallel investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 to be more important the Clinton email probe.
§ New texts between FBI lovers Strzok and Page were 'disappointing' and cast a shadow over the integrity of the entire Clinton email probe - Strzok's and Page's text messages expressing pro-Clinton and anti-Trump views raised questions about whether they allowed their political leanings to interfere with their work. - The senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page may have had a "willingness to take official action" to hurt Donald Trump's chances of winning the 2016 election.
§ Five unnamed FBI employees -- including one lawyer who later worked on the Mueller probe -- are under scrutiny for anti-Trump bias
§ President Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Hillary Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account
§ Despite Clinton connections, former Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe didn't fully recuse themselves
§ 'Insubordinate' Ex-FBI Director James Comey repeatedly violated policy and inaccurately described the legal situation surrounding Clinton's emails - While Comey's conduct was "insubordinate," his actions and those of others in the FBI were not affected by bias.
§ Comey departed "clearly and dramatically" from FBI and DOJ guidelines while overseeing the Clinton investigation. Comey's decisions "negatively impacted the perception of the FBI" and the DOJ.
§ Comey often used a personal email account to conduct official FBI business. (These observed points are a blended mix from three sources: Fox News, Business Insider and Washington Free Beacon)
§ The FBI improperly permitted two Clinton aides who were witnesses in the investigation to sit in on the FBI's questioning of Clinton
§ Comey drafted an initial statement exonerating Clinton months before the investigation ended. FBI agents' actions surrounding the DOJ/FBI interview of Hillary Clinton were 'inappropriate' and created appearance of bias
§ The draft statement exonerating Clinton also removed the term "gross negligence"—a condition that could have been used for prosecution—and replaced with "especially concerning." - Comey usurped the authority of the attorney general when he announced during a July 2016 press conference that the FBI would not be recommending charges against Clinton, then the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
§ An initial assessment in the Comey draft statement saying foreign spy services were "reasonably likely" to have accessed the classified data on the Clinton server was replaced with "possible."
§ FBI ethics officials "did not fully appreciate" the potential conflict of interest by former FBI Director Andrew McCabe's wife receiving $675,288 in 2015 from Clinton associate Terry McAuliffe, then-governor of Virginia, for her political campaign for a state senate seat. McCabe became head of the email probe in early 2016.
§ The FBI improperly regarded a parallel investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 to be more important the Clinton email probe.
§ New texts between FBI lovers Strzok and Page were 'disappointing' and cast a shadow over the integrity of the entire Clinton email probe - Strzok's and Page's text messages expressing pro-Clinton and anti-Trump views raised questions about whether they allowed their political leanings to interfere with their work. - The senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page may have had a "willingness to take official action" to hurt Donald Trump's chances of winning the 2016 election.
§ Five unnamed FBI employees -- including one lawyer who later worked on the Mueller probe -- are under scrutiny for anti-Trump bias
§ President Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Hillary Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account
§ Despite Clinton connections, former Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe didn't fully recuse themselves
§ 'Insubordinate' Ex-FBI Director James Comey repeatedly violated policy and inaccurately described the legal situation surrounding Clinton's emails - While Comey's conduct was "insubordinate," his actions and those of others in the FBI were not affected by bias.
§ Comey departed "clearly and dramatically" from FBI and DOJ guidelines while overseeing the Clinton investigation. Comey's decisions "negatively impacted the perception of the FBI" and the DOJ.
§ Comey often used a personal email account to conduct official FBI business. (These observed points are a blended mix from three sources: Fox News, Business Insider and Washington Free Beacon)
These points are hardly exhaustive, but they provide a
decent snapshot of political bias even though the Horowitz IG Report erroneously
claims no political bias affected the FBI/DOJ investigation of the Crooked
Hillary illegal private email server.
I don’t know if you noticed. The Horowitz IG Report sounds
an awful lot just Comey going down a list of Crooked Hillary practices that any
two-bit lawyer could match to U.S. Statutes violated. Violations that have
had criminal prosecutions!
I will cross post some of Conservative sources I felt
aligned more with my thoughts, but first here are a few titles that I perused
through.
IG report finds Comey 'insubordinate' in Hillary probe;
By Art Moore; WND;
6/14/18
'F--- Trump,' candidate's supporters 'retarded'; By ART MOORE; WND;
6/14/18
‘WILLINGNESS’
TO IMPACT THE ELECTION: IG’S CLINTON REPORT IS LOADED WITH BOMBSHELLS;
By Peter Hasson;
The Daily Caller; 06/14/2018 6:16 PM
‘A
Cloud’: 4 Top Takeaways of Watchdog Report on FBI’s Clinton Email Probe;
By Fred Lucas;
Daily Signal; June 14, 2018
Senior FBI agent threatened to prevent Trump election
in text message; agents took gifts from reporters; By Bill Gertz; Washington Free Beacon;
6/14/18 5:02 pm
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HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Another Lawyer Was Removed From
Mueller’s Team This February Over Anti-Trump Text Messages
By Cristina Laila
June 14, 2018
The IG report released Thursday revealed ANOTHER lawyer
was removed from Mueller’s team of liberal hacks February of this year after
anti-Trump text messages surfaced.
‘Viva Le Resistance,’ said the unidentified Trump-hating
(future) Mueller lawyer in a November 2016 text message.
Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reported:
An FBI attorney who worked on
the special counsel’s Russia investigation until earlier this year sent
anti-Trump text messages to a colleague, including one exclaiming: “Viva le
Resistance.”
The attorney’s comments are
revealed in a Justice Department inspector general’s report released on
Thursday.
The lawyer is not identified,
but he worked on the Hillary Clinton email investigation and was the FBI’s lead
attorney on the investigation into Russian election interference. He was
assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation soon after it began
in May 2017 and left in late February of this year after some of his private
messages were shared with the special counsel.
The unidentified FBI lawyer said he was “numb” just days
after Trump was elected to the White House.
Apparently the FBI lawyer became galvanized in his effort to
resist Trump, reported Chuck Ross:
“Is it making you rethink your
commitment to the Trump administration?” one FBI lawyer wrote on Nov. 22, 2016.
“Hell no. Viva le
resistance,” the future Mueller attorney responded.
According to the report, this Trump-hating FBI lawyer
claimed in an interview with the Office of Inspector General he didn’t let his
political feelings or beliefs impact his work on Hillary’s email investigation
or the Russia probe.
RIGHT.
And Horowitz said there was no political bias at the FBI…
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CNN: Strzok and Page Didn’t Attack Trump, HE Attacked
Them!
Biggest takeaway from IG report: With all odds stacked
against him by a crazed, frenzied mainstream/social media,
Hollywood/Entertainment, Never Trumpers, backstabbers in his own party, an
Obama-weaponized FBI, Trump was elected President
By Judi McLeod
June 15, 2018
“We’ll stop it.” Three now infamous little
words that can never be walked back and ones that prove beyond any shadow of a
doubt that the media of the day and a rogue Obama-weaponized FBI were on the
same choir page during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
How the mighty are falling like dominoes before the very
eyes of the masses—in spite of intense media backup. The same masses that
Hillary Rodham Clinton called “deplorables” and that some unidentified
FBI yob described as “mostly poor and middleclass” members of society who
voted Donald Trump.
“All the people who were initially
voting for her would not, and were not, swayed by any decision the FBI put
out,” the employee wrote. “Trump’s supporters are all poor to middle class,
uneducated, lazy POS (sic) that think he will magically grant them jobs for
doing nothing. They probably didn’t watch the debates, aren’t fully educated on
his policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm.” (Fox
News, June 14. 2018)
All Obama’s voters were ever after, Mr. Yob, were kitchens,
welfare for life and Obama phones.
“Despite Strzok’s extremely
inappropriate texting — it’s wildly improper for someone in his position to
express animus or favoritism toward a particular candidate — the inspector
general found no evidence that Strzok acted on his text to Page.” (CNN,
JUNE 14, 2018.)
No acting on his text other than turning the political world
upside down, inside out and on its head.
[Posted by Fox News
Published on Jun 14, 2018]
The biggest three little words, which came in August 2016
from disgraced FBI agent, Peter Strzok, once deputy head of counterintelligence
at the FBI, working on both the Trump-Russia probe and the ‘investigation’ into
Hillary Clinton’s private email server, were referenced in yesterday’s
massively toned down, 500-page IG report, but the biggest laugh comes a day
later from Fake News Grand Central CNN:
“The massive report from Department
of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz makes clear that while several
FBI officials broke with bureau protocol in their handling of the investigation
into Hillary Clinton’s private email server during the 2016 campaign, they were
not motivated by political bias against Donald Trump.” (CNN)
ONLY “several FBI officials “broke with bureau protocol” in
their handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email
server. And they “WERE NOT” motivated by political bias against Donald
Trump.”
Take THAT, President Trump, you paranoid, “not-MY-president,
you!
The biggest reaction to the questionable IG report didn’t
come from the public, media-teased for weeks before its final inelegant
release—but from the media—shown as working for the same goals as Strzok and
his mistress Lisa Page.
Unforgettable LOLs for today’s CNN headline: ‘How 7 words in
the 500-page IG report give Donald Trump all the ‘deep state’ ammo he wanted’.
Trump had his Deep State ammo from the get-go. Video
proof exists in the hysterics, wailing and weeping of the networks’ talking
heads in the wee hours of Nov. 9, 2016.
In their unprofessional, desperate lovers’ texts, Strzok and
Page were only putting into words the collective fervent wishes of the
mainstream and social media.
Evidence of the ill will the pair bore for Donald Trump:
PAGE: “[Trump’s] not ever
going to become president, right? Right?!”
STRZOK: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”
STRZOK: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”
“Even before the release of these
new text messages between Page and Strzok, who were having an extramarital
affair during the campaign, Trump has focused on the duo as aligned against
him. (CNN)
Wow, Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015. SPYGATE is in full force! Is the Mainstream Media interested yet? Big stuff!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
“SPYGATE is in full force! Is the
Mainstream Media interested yet? Big stuff!” (There’s no evidence that Strzok,
Page or the broader FBI were spying on Trump’s campaign.)
No, they were only trying to dump it.
And this is richest of all: “Trump has attacked the two
since, at least last December, when emails and text between Strzok and Page
were released, showing that both were skeptical of Trump. (Strzok was dismissed
from the special counsel probe being run by Robert Mueller in summer 2017.)
This meme advances the outrageous lie that Trump was
“attacking” Strzok and Page, rather than them attacking him.
Nor was Strzok merely dismissed from the special counsel
being run by Robert Mueller in the summer of 2017, he was demoted and
will some day be handsomely pensioned off.
Page left the scene returning to the same kind of obscurity
she had before becoming FBI agent Strzok’s mistress.
The media will be falling over backwards to keep the masses
from thinking about the report’s real biggest takeaway:
The biggest takeaway from the IG report is this: With all
odds stacked against him by a crazed and frenzied mainstream/social media,
Hollywood/Entertainment Industry, Never Trumpers, backstabbers in his own party
and an Obama-weaponized FBI, etc., etc., etc, Donald Trump was handily elected
as President of the United States.
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Strassel: ‘Don’t believe anyone
who tells you Horowitz didn’t find bias. I can still hear the echoes of the
howls…’
By Tom Tillison
June 15, 2018
Wall Street Journal opinion columnist Kimberley Strassel
took to Twitter to say what many Americans are thinking about Thursday’s
release of the Department of Justice inspector general’s report, that
something’s amiss because what’s in the report does not match the summary of
the report.
In a series of tweets, Strassel began by noting the careful
play on words by inspector general Michael Horowitz when he stressed
that they “did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper
considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific
investigative actions we reviewed.”
“Don’t believe anyone who claims Horowitz didn’t find bias,”
she tweeted. “He very carefully says that he found no ‘documentary’ evidence
that bias produced ‘specific investigatory decisions.”
2) It means he didn't catch anyone doing anything so dumb as writing down that they took a specific step to aid a candidate. You know, like: "Let's give out this Combetta immunity deal so nothing comes out that will derail Hillary for President." #IGReport— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) June 14, 2018
Strassel notes that while no one actually put it in writing
that they were politically motivated, Horowitz “in fact finds bias everywhere.”
And that “this same cast of characters who the IG has now
found to have made a hash of the Clinton investigation” is now to be trusted
working the Trump-Russia probe.
4) Meanwhile this same cast of characters who the IG has now found to have made a hash of the Clinton investigation and who demonstrate such bias, seamlessly moved to the Trump investigation. And we're supposed to think they got that one right? #IGReport— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) June 14, 2018
6) People failing to adhere to their recusals (Kadzik/McCabe). Lynch hanging with Bill. Staff helping Comey conceal details of presser from DOJ bosses. Use of personal email and laptops. Leaks. Accepting gifts from media. Agent affairs/relationships.— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) June 14, 2018
She also highlighted “stunning examples of incompetence,”
such as former FBI director James Comey explaining that he didn’t grasp the
importance of Anthony Weiner’s laptop because he wasn’t aware of Weiner being
married to Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin.
8) And I can still hear the echo of the howls from when Trump fired Comey. Still waiting to hear the apologies now that this report has backstopped the Rosenstein memo and the obvious grounds for dismissal.— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) June 14, 2018
And people dared to question President Donald Trump’s
decision to fire Comey?
One thing is certain, the wording of the report allowed the
anti-Trump media to run with headlines screaming that the IG report “found no
political bias.”
But there’s a theory on what that was all about, as seen in
a tweet from social media account The Last Refuge — that also happens to
support the idea that the summary, “written post facto by administrators in
FBI/DOJ leadership,” fails to correspond with what’s in the report.
“The ‘executive summary’ was written to protect the
institutions and that’s where the media are getting ALL of their headlines,”
the tweet reads. “However, the internal body, the investigative report inside,
is entirely contradictory to the summary. The facts are DEVASTATING.”
Others commented, saying that Horowitz “pulled his punch
just like Comey did with Hillary [Clinton].”
“I see some really damning stuff in this IG report,” tweeted
social media user Brian Wilson. “But I’ll just go ahead and say it: The IG
pulled his punch just like Comey did with Hillary. I’m stunned by the gathered
evidence of bias … and shocked the IG doesn’t think the bias impacted the
investigation.”
I see some really damning stuff in this IG report. But I’ll just go ahead and say it: The IG pulled his punch just like Comey did with Hillary. I’m stunned by the gathered evidence of bias ... and shocked the IG doesn’t think the bias impacted the investigation.— Brian Wilson (@BrianWilson997) June 14, 2018
The liberal media has been quick to dismiss the IG’s
findings, but as former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino noted, the report is
“devastating.”
“The IG report is only a ‘nothing-burger’ to people who know
nothing about the case. It’s a devastating report which will damage Obama,
Comey, Hillary, Page, Strzok, and more. Read it and you’ll clearly see the
troubling pieces of it,” he tweeted.
The IG report is only a “nothing-burger” to people who know nothing about the case. It’s a devastating report which will damage Obama, Comey, Hillary, Page, Strzok, and more. Read it and you’ll clearly see the troubling pieces of it.— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) June 14, 2018
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No Overall Bias?
OIG Pulls a Comey in Horowitz
Report
John R. Houk
© June 15, 2018
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HUGE BREAKING NEWS:
Another Lawyer Was Removed From Mueller’s Team This February Over Anti-Trump
Text Messages
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CNN: Strzok and Page
Didn’t Attack Trump, HE Attacked Them!
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Strassel: ‘Don’t believe
anyone who tells you Horowitz didn’t find bias. I can still hear the echoes of
the howls…’
I am not well versed in many things but I have read enough to believe this FBI episode is tied to the globalists. And yes, GLOBALISM AND SECRET SOCIETIES are no longer the stuff of conspiracy theorists or mythical nonsense. There are tons of books to read. Get informed.
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