IG Horowitz hearing exposes deliberate FBI misconduct in investigating Trump campaign

[artichoke]

Even as this Obama-appointed IG tries to spin the overwhelming evidence of FBI and DOJ corruption, crimes, and abuses of power to protect the system that Obama lawlessly hijacked and weaponized for partisan gain, his report ended up clearly and unmistakably demonstrating their deliberate bias and lawlessness. It is now a matter of record that Democrats used the FBI to rig an election for themselves...and still lost.

When the FBI discovered that the anti-Trump Steele dossier was garbage, the bureau concealed that vital evidence. Instead of promptly terminating its surveillance of Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser Carter Page, the FBI persisted in its quest to prove a Trump-Russia “collusion” conspiracy that officials knew was unsupported by credible evidence. This was the most significant result of Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee questioning of Michael Horowitz, the inspector general (IG) at the Department of Justice, in the aftermath of his damning 476-page report on the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign that was released this week.

The dossier, which was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was assembled by maladroit ex-British spy Christopher Steele. [Contrary to everything Democrats spent YEARS lying to us about], his collection of memos was, according to the IG, “central and essential” to the FBI’s application to the court hearing cases under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to surveil Page through four successive warrants.

Horowitz found 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” made by fired FBI Director James Comey’s team to the FISA judges. However, there is more to the story. If you turn to “Appendix 1” on pages 418 to 423 of the IG report, there were a total of 51 false representations made to the court. That is a breathtaking number. It is not remotely plausible to dismiss this appalling conduct as sloppy or careless work. It cannot be minimized (or trivialized) as just a case of “performance failures,” as Horowitz would have us believe. No, the sheer volume and magnitude of this shameful misconduct leaves little doubt that it was willful and deliberate.

IG Horowitz hearing exposes deliberate FBI misconduct in investigating Trump campaign

[Darth Omar]

I don’t think Horowitz spun anything.

Whether he would have liked to but couldn’t—only Horowitz knows. I’ll give him the benefit of doubt. The facts in his report speak well enough on their own and he even said ‘people can draw their own conclusions’.

[Earl]

It is reminiscent of Comey listing the crimes of Hillary and then saying he couldn’t say that he found evidence of a crime.

His firing as FBI Director was probably worse than jail.

[Darth Omar]

It is reminiscent of Comey listing the crimes of Hillary and then saying he couldn’t say that he found evidence of a crime.

His firing as FBI Director was probably worse than jail.

I don’t think it’s necessary to compare Horowitz to Comey lol.

A weasel move on Horowitz’s part would be burying/spinning facts but the facts in his report are damning. If Horowitz was out to save any butts he did a lousy job of it. What he DID do an excellent job of is providing a solid basis for further investigation by someone who is ‘unconstrained’.

For that, Horowitz gets a solid A.

[canceled.2021.2]

I don’t think Horowitz spun anything.

Whether he would have liked to but couldn’t—only Horowitz knows. I’ll give him the benefit of doubt. The facts in his report speak well enough on their own and he even said ‘people can draw their own conclusions’.

Horowitz did his job. He wasn’t independent. He could only operate within the parameters of his charter. He couldn’t compel testimony.

The bar for starting an investigation is incredibly low so of course he couldn’t find bias with regards to that.

However, and it is a BIG however the bias occurred after they realized that they had no reason to keep the investigation going. And it was clear they didn’t.

1) Carter Page never charged with a crime
2) Nobody in Trump campaign never charged with Russian collusion or conspiracy
3) Steele dossier was exposed as bogus and FBI knew it earlier than later.

[Darth Omar]

Horowitz did his job. He wasn’t independent. He could only operate within the parameters of his charter. He couldn’t compel testimony.

The bar for starting an investigation is incredibly low so of course he couldn’t find bias with regards to that.

However, and it is a BIG however the bias occurred after they realized that they had no reason to keep the investigation going. And it was clear they didn’t.

1) Carter Page never charged with a crime
2) Nobody in Trump campaign never charged with Russian collusion or conspiracy
3) Steele dossier was exposed as bogus and FBI knew it earlier than later.

Sounds a bit like an ‘insurance policy’ in the event Trump did get elected lol.

[artichoke]

I don’t think Horowitz spun anything.

Whether he would have liked to but couldn’t—only Horowitz knows. I’ll give him the benefit of doubt. The facts in his report speak well enough on their own and he even said ‘people can draw their own conclusions’.

From where I sit, documenting FBI bias in painstaking detail and then concluding "only errors, no bias" is clearly spin. Those two disparate realities cannot be reconciled any other way.

I think this guy is just an Obama appointee and therefore literally incapable of concluding anything that's honest or accurate.

[artichoke]

It is reminiscent of Comey listing the crimes of Hillary and then saying he couldn’t say that he found evidence of a crime.

His firing as FBI Director was probably worse than jail.

J Edgar Hoover is finally replaced as the most corrupt and lawless FBI director ever.

[artichoke]

Horowitz did his job. He wasn’t independent. He could only operate within the parameters of his charter. He couldn’t compel testimony.

The bar for starting an investigation is incredibly low so of course he couldn’t find bias with regards to that.

However, and it is a BIG however the bias occurred after they realized that they had no reason to keep the investigation going. And it was clear they didn’t.

1) Carter Page never charged with a crime
2) Nobody in Trump campaign never charged with Russian collusion or conspiracy
3) Steele dossier was exposed as bogus and FBI knew it earlier than later.

Agree completely.