BREAKING NEWS: Mueller investigation rendered moot by IG report. SHUT IT DOWN

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...investigation/

Given Comey's behavior, Trump had no choice but to fire him. Since Trump was not under investigation (Comey told him so), then Trump couldn't obstruct the investigation

SHUT IT DOWN

[Aarr!]

BS. The IG report has nothing to do with Mueller's investigation.

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BS. The IG report has nothing to do with Mueller's investigation.

Not directly. But tangentially yes. Sorry if the post is too nuanced for you.

I will have you retroactively thread banned to spare you further embarrassment

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Nuanced be damned. You mean you WANT the IG report to have some bearing on Mueller's investigation, but it doesn't. How disappointing for you.

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Here is the IG report in full.

https://thegoldwater.com/news/28697-...ad-It-Yourself

[Legion]

Here's what the report shows, as redacted and watered down as it is:

• Comey decided to let Hillary off in Spring 2016. Comey didn’t announce his decision until July 2016.
• He made a decision in Spring 2016 that Hillary was off the hook.
• He also determined that he should make an independent announcement in order to protect “a sense of justice more broadly in the country – that things are fair not fixed, and they’re done independently.” He threatened to appoint a special counsel, but never seriously considered it, according to the report.

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-317.0-319.430

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• The original draft statement on Hillary said she’d been “grossly negligent”; that was changed to “extremely careless.”
• The statement was changed from “reasonably likely” that Hillary had been hacked by hostile actors to “possible.”
• The original statement mentioned that President Obama had been in an email exchange with Hillary; his name was removed.

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-327.0-327.364

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• Comey had already concluded before the tarmac meeting that he was likely to make his own statement on Hillary.
• He “acknowledged that he made a conscious decision not to tell Department leadership about his plans to make a separate statement because he was concerned that they would instruct him not to do it.”
• The IG’s language is damning: “We determined that Comey’s decision to make this statement was the result of his belief that only he had the ability to credibly and authoritatively convey the rationale for the decision to not seek charges against Clinton, and that he needed to hold the press conference to protect the FBI and the Department from the extraordinary harm that he believed would have resulted had he failed to do so. While we found no evidence that Comey’s statement was the result of bias or an effort to influence the election, we did not find his justifications for issuing the statement to be reasonable or persuasive.”

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-335.2-335.943

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• The IG says that based on precedent, Hillary would have had to have demonstrated a state of mind that was “so gross as to almost suggest deliberate intention.”
• That’s not part of the law.

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-343.0-343.187

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• The IG report found that the Anthony Weiner case agent had spotted Hillary emails on September 26, and he informed the New York Field Office on September 28.
• Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe knew about it the same day. He then mentioned it to Comey – and nobody mentioned it again for nearly a full month, until just prior to the election.
• As the report states, “We found that, by no later than September 29, FBI executives and the FBI Midyear team had learned virtually every fact that was cited by the FBI in late October as justification for obtaining the search warrant for the Weiner laptop.”
• Comey said that he didn’t realize Weiner was married to Huma Abedin.

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-351.0-355.362

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it should be shut down today. Since Justice is subverted military tribunals are in order for the sentencing of these traitors. this is the time for Trump to really shine and do a great service to this land. shut it down and lock them up at least. I really do hate those bastards With a just hatred.

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Nuanced be damned. You mean you WANT the IG report to have some bearing on Mueller's investigation, but it doesn't. How disappointing for you.

• According to the report, “The FBI’s failure to act in late September or early October is even less justifiable when contrasted with the attention and resources that FBI management and some members of the Midyear team dedicated to other activities in connection with the Midyear investigation during the same period.”
• What was the FBI focused on? A Comey speech that would fight back against public perception of his July 5 announcement; and the Russia investigation.
• The IG report explains: “Moreover, given the FBI’s extensive resources, the fact that Strzok and several other FBI members of the Midyear team had been assigned to the Russia investigation, which was extremely active during this September and October time period, was not an excuse for failing to take any action during this time period on the Weiner laptop.
• In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop, we were particularly concerned about text messages sent by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made were impacted by bias or improper considerations.
• Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation, and the implication in some of these text messages, particularly Strzok’s August 8 text message (“we’ll stop” candidate Trump from being elected), was that Strzok might be willing to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. Under these circumstances, we did not have confidence that Strzok’s decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias.”

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-363.0-363.1780

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• This is what the report explicitly says: “we found that his decision was the result of several interrelated factors that were connected to his concern that failing to send the letter would harm the FBI and his ability to lead it, and his view that candidate Clinton was going to win the presidency and that she would be perceived to be an illegitimate president if the public first learned of the information after the election.”
• Comey didn’t speak with anyone at the DOJ about releasing the letter.

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-371.1-371.500

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As exculpatory as the IG report tries to be, it is brutal when these points are considered:

• Not only does it state that five FBI agents discussed their support for Clinton, but that they “appeared to mix political opinions with discussions about the Midyear investigation.”
• One agent texted that “no one is going to pros[ecute] [Hillary Clinton] even if we find unique classified” after the discovery of Weiner’s laptop; Page texted about the possibility of interviewing Clinton with fewer agents in the room since “she might be our next president,” to which Strzok agreed; Page texted Strzok, ”maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace,” to which Strzok responded, “I’ll try and approach it that way…I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps…”; Strzok texted Page, “We’ll stop it,” it being Trump’s election; Strzok texted Page about an “insurance policy” against a Trump victory, then excused it by saying he was just pushing for a quicker investigation; another FBI attorney texted, “Vive le resistance” after the election; after the election, Strzok texted regarding the special counsel investigation, “For me, and this case, I personally have a sense of unfinished business.”

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-379.1-379.1199

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• Former Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik should have recused.
• While Hillary was under investigation, Kadzik tried to get his son a job on Hillary’s campaign.
• He also sent an email to John Podesta, head of the Clinton campaign, which included the schedule of the release of Clinton’s emails in FOIA litigation.

http://archive.li/vUhYn#selection-401.0-403.248