IG blasts Comeyothers at FBI showed willingness to take official action to hurt Trump

[Phantasmal]

Well again lol, I thought they were using ‘informants’ to ‘protect’ the Trump campaign from Russians.

Were they protecting them or investigating them? Which version was Strzok supposed to leak to the media?

They we’re doing both, they informed the Trump campaign and were also investigating them.
He could have leaked that Trump’s campaign was under investigation but didn’t.

[Darth Omar]

They we’re doing both, they informed the Trump campaign and were also investigating them.
He could have leaked that Trump’s campaign was under investigation but didn’t.

So they were spying after all?

[Phantasmal]

So they were spying after all?

No, good try, no cigar, it’s called investigating.

[Darth Omar]

No, good try, no cigar, it’s called investigating.

Let me see if I got this straight.

They were investigating Trump while they were protecting him with informants? So the informants could go back and forth between spying and informing as the need arose?

[Tranquillus in Exile]

Well again lol, I thought they were using ‘informants’ to ‘protect’ the Trump campaign from Russians.

I'm not much of a conspiracy believer but here's my theory.

There was a conspiracy in the FBI to hand the election to Trump. That's why, as the IG noted, they delayed looking into the newly discovered Clinton emails until ten days before the elction. Then and only then, master conspirator Comey announced that he was reopening the investigation. It was a bombshell, exactly as planned!

That's also why none of them - Comey, McCabe, Strzok - leaked the fact that the Trump campaign was under investigation for Russian collusion. (They had been forced to start the investigation by Brennan, who was seriously concerned about national security, but they were determined not to let it have any effect on the election.)

The anti-Trump emails that we keep hearing about were an insurance policy in case Hillary won. Then they could say - look, we were against Trump all along!

It fits the facts.

[domer76]

The inspector general found “no evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations.” The report acknowledged that certain emails appeared to contain classified information, but investigators determined the FBI’s conclusion that Clinton did not intend to expose classified information was legitimate.

The report is a blistering public rebuke of Comey, who has spent recent months on a book tour promoting his brand of ethical leadership. Inspector general Michael Horowitz accused Comey of insubordination, saying he flouted Justice Department practices when he decided only he had the authority and credibility to make key decisions and speak for the Justice Department.

Comey made a “serious error of judgment” in sending a letter to Congress on Oct. 28 announcing he was reopening the investigation of Clinton’s use of the server while secretary of state, the report found, and called it “extraordinary that Comey assessed that it was best” for him not to speak directly with either the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General about his decision beforehand.

ome senior bureau officials, the report found, exhibited a disturbing “willingness to take official action” to hurt Trump’s chances to become president.

Perhaps the most damaging new revelation in the report is a previously-unreported text message in which Peter Strzok, a key investigator on both the Clinton email case and the investigation of Russia and the Trump campaign, assured an FBI lawyer in August 2016 that “we’ll stop” Trump from making it to the White House.


In a statement Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the “significant errors” cited in the report had taken place during the Obama administration.

For Trump, the report provides chapter upon chapter of fresh ammunition for his attacks on the FBI, which he has accused of political bias in investigating whether any of his campaign associates may have conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

To Clinton and her supporters, who have long argued that Comey’s decisions robbed her of an election victory, the report will likely be received as bitter vindication of her claims the FBI Director veered far beyond official policy in speaking publicly about her case, and reopening it in the final days before the election.

"Willingness"?

And you Trumpsuckers keep telling us to watch what he DOES and not what he SAYS.

Duped cretins

[dukkha]

So they were spying after all?

their bullshit falls apart on the timeline.
In no way EVER did the FBI "inform" the campaign ( Rana's words) they were under surveillance by informers.

Also they were running an informant BEFORE the July 31 2016 date the investigation supposedly started.
That's important because it was a counterintelligence investigation, and you can't spy on an American target
before the investigation starts

[Darth Omar]

I'm not much of a conspiracy believer but here's my theory.

There was a conspiracy in the FBI to hand the election to Trump. That's why, as the IG noted, they delayed looking into the newly discovered Clinton emails until ten days before the elction. Then and only then, master conspirator Comey announced that he was reopening the investigation. It was a bombshell, exactly as planned!

That's also why none of them - Comey, McCabe, Strzok - leaked the fact that the Trump campaign was under investigation for Russian collusion. (They had been forced to start the investigation by Brennan, who was seriously concerned about national security, but they were determined not to let it have any effect on the election.)

The anti-Trump emails that we keep hearing about were an insurance policy in case Hillary won. Then they could say - look, we were against Trump all along!

It fits the facts.

A Russian collusion enthusiast who isn’t a conspiracy theorist lol. If you quack, you’re a duck.

You’re theory falls apart at the outset. If they wanted to hand the election to Trump it would have been ridiculously easy: simply indict Hillary in the email investigation.

But they [Comey] engaged all manner of legal contortions and word games to keep from doing it.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

A Russian collusion enthusiast who isn’t a conspiracy theorist lol ... If they wanted to hand the election to Trump it would have been ridiculously easy: simply indict Hillary in the email investigation.

You think it would have been that easy? Course you do, you're a true believer.

I'm undecided about Trump-Russia collusion. But I believe there were solid, even compelling grounds to investigate it.

[Darth Omar]

You think it would have been that easy? Course you do, you're a true believer.

I'm undecided about Trump-Russia collusion. But I believe there were solid, even compelling grounds to investigate it.

Yes! It would have been easy!

Just follow the law, and Hillary’s indicted. Then Trump becomes practically inevitable.

Maybe that’s why they didn’t indict her. You can take that to the bank, actually.

[archives]

Funny reading the above conservative post, regurgitating the same old debunked inneundos, they just can't accept the obvious that their anticipated smoking gun IG report turned out to be the nothingburger

The FACTS

"Our review did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the specific investigative decisions we reviewed"
http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...clinton-emails

"Despite the "cloud" that the text exchanges between Strzok and Page cast on the investigation, Strzok was not the sole decisionmaker in any of the investigations the inspector general examined."
http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...-clinton-probe

"A long-awaited report by the Justice Department's watchdog Thursday found no indication that political bias affected decisions in the FBI's 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton."

"In a response appended to the report, the FBI — led by Trump appointee Christopher Wray — said it accepted the conclusion that political bias played no role in the decision-making by the FBI in the Clinton investigation"
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...mueller-645588

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