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Download IG Report HERE [right click pdf]. While we're looking for our own personal bottom lines, others will be looking for cover and how to spin it. Still others will prefer to tune in C-SPAN on Wednesday and listen to Horowitz testify about it.
It's hard to be an American these days. Buck up.
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The AG's position on the matter HERE.
The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken. It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory. Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump’s administration. In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source. The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory. While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General’s report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.And he's had time to review the report extensively, without redactions.
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Lindsey Graham's press conference on the IG report HERE and he starts talking at around minute 11:30.
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Durham, too, disagrees with Horowitz. See statement HERE.
Statement of U.S. Attorney John H. DurhamI think all this amounts to solid evidence that the government intends to proceed with investigation and indictment of felonious activity in the Nosbaracktu Administration.
“I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff. However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component parts of the Justice Department. Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S. Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.”
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Oh, and Devin got his wish....
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Brennan Lied About Not Including Steele Dossier In Intelligence Community Assessment On 2016 Russian Election Interference....
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The Comey FBI’s 17 worst failures, inaccuracies and omissions flagged in the Russia FISA report....
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And, Kunstler updated as promised, too.
If you’ve gotten this far in the update, note that I may add further updates to the story as the Horowitz report is parsed further in the days by people who can cut through the jargon, gaslight, and bullshit in this report.He's so reliably a good read, and you should keep going back to see what he adds.
pipe up any time....
