[ April 18, 2024 ]
The long-awaited DOJ Inspector General (IG) report concludes that, although many FBI officials “exhibited inappropriate hostility and political opposition to then-candidate Donald Trump,” their biases did not harm the integrity of the investigation.
The report is oddly reminiscent of Comey’s Hillary Clinton exoneration statement. It lists numerous violations of standard DOJ/FBI operating practices in their investigation, yet the IG concludes that none of them affected the core judgement of top officials.
The IG excused one wrongful act after another in this stunning report. Allegations were made, and then dismissed, due to the lack of evidence connecting specific allegations to the key decisions of the case.
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Similarly, there were so many small, and not so small, pieces of evidence of intentional wrongdoing on the part of DOJ/FBI officials in the handling of this case and together, they add up to an enormous case against them. Yet somehow, the IG looks at each one separately and finds that none of them affected the outcome of the case.
Sean Hannity breaks it all down in his Thursday night opening monologue (please see video below). His key takeaway is that the IG report is a “swamp document. And the swamp always protects the swamp.”
He reminds us that “the facts of this case are not in dispute. The evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible.” He outlines the facts below:
1. Hillary violated the espionage act.
2. She mishandled and destroyed classified, top-secret, special access information.
3. She deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails.
4. She acid-washed her hard drive with Bleach Bit so they couldn’t retrieve the subpoenaed emails. She had her aides destroy her mobile devices with hammers.
It sure looks like criminal behavior to me.
Kristian Saucier, who I wrote about here, (recently pardoned by Trump) spent a year in prison for taking several photos of the classified section of the submarine he was working on. He is preparing to sue the DOJ, James Comey, and former President Obama for unequal treatment under the law. He claims, correctly, that a two-tier justice system exists in the U.S. The conclusions of the IG report prove this.
The full IG report can be read here.
The report includes evidence that the DOJ withheld from Congress such as newly revealed text exchanges between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Page: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Strzok: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”
The following is only a partial list of other noteworthy takeaways from the report:
1. James Comey is attacked for writing a letter to notify Congress that the FBI was reopening the email case against Hillary 11 days before the election.
2. Unsurprisingly, Comey was attacked for issuing his Hillary exoneration statement without speaking to his superior, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and other acts of insubordination.
3. Comey’s July 2016 exoneration statement said it was “possible” that Hillary’s emails were hacked by a foreign actor. The IG report said the email accounts of her aides were “definitely” hacked and allowed hostile foreign actors access to her emails.
4. The report states that Comey “used a personal email account to conduct unclassified FBI business” and that he did so in circumstances that were “inconsistent with Department policy.” The report also says that Strzok and Page used personal email accounts to conduct FBI business as well.
5. Barack Obama was one of 13 individuals who communicated with Hillary on her private email account.
6. Loretta Lynch was attacked for meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Phoenix days before Hillary’s exoneration. Bill Clinton last night said he was “offended” by this criticism. Bill, please!
7. The report criticizes Loretta Lynch and then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates for being “excessively passive in asserting their own authority. Faced with an FBI director whose modus operandi was to make important decisions on his own authority and dare his superiors to order him to stop, they consistently failed to take that action. If Comey’s behavior in July 2016 was insubordination, they tolerated it. And if his October letter was bad judgment, they didn’t try to stop him.”
I have a question for IG Horowitz: At what point do all of these so called improprieties, errors in judgement, miscommunications and minor violations of standard operating procedure, taken together, amount to a rigged outcome?
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47 Comments
5 years ago
Lots of Laughs!
5 years ago
Reply to
Patrick
Leave it to the most CORRUPT female we have ever had exonerate herself in such a smug way.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
But is she, really, at fault? Or are we for not holding her responsible for decades of criminality?
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
She did not exonerate herself… she has a whole criminal conspiracy to do that.
5 years ago
5 years ago
the whole world knows this report is BS, and it just drives another spike into the coffin of the silly notion that the federal government works for the american people. the swampers have no clue how much they are loathed, and how much closer the productive half of america is coming to just burning DC to the ground or cheering on one of our foreign enemies to do it for us
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
Agree.
Clinton mafia still active after Trump takeover as they kill another witness
to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
They know their hold overs in FBI / DOJ /NSC will help them out !
Unless they are totally purged including Left/Liberal judges
to keep out their bias …its uphill task to prosecute them.
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
We are rotting from within.
Muslims sit back and watch and laugh.
Why bother to attack is when we are self destructing?
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
There was a documents put out in the eighties from a saudi that stated how to distroy America from within. Education, healthcare, and local government, and unions were just some of the areas named best to infiltrate. Obama was a conduit for our long road down that slippery slope. They knew at the time they couldn’t beat outr military. Obama even tried to distroy that.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I just read your post (after writing my own). We, both, have a biblical worldview so I’m not, at all, surprised at the similarity of thought and commentary.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
After this I’d NEVER EVER trust the FBI, CIA or any other federal government investigative arm. What they don’t seem to understand is that JUSTICE needs to be served for people to have any confidence in them. LAWS were broken here.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I had an uncle in the FBI during WWII who was part of Einstein’s protection detail. There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that he would have been part of this type of poitical corruption. What we are seeing right now is Obhammud’s legacy.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
After the original investigation of Clinton, the FBI agents involved in the investigation, anonymously said they were shocked and mad that Comey exonerated Hillary.
5 years ago
Reply to
Beverly
Imagine their shock and anger when Comey floated the excuse that he drug his feet investigating the classified messages on Anthony Weiner’s laptop because he was unaware he was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin, probably the only person in the Western Hemisphere that didn’t know that.
5 years ago
A grand jury should be impaneled immediately. All these traitors should stand trial for espionage, sedition, and treason!
5 years ago
Reply to
bluemama1955
The Sargent in arms should have arrested Louis Turner for the IRS targeting conservatives and contempt. Remember that? That wasn’t done either. What did Sessions do? He told them to not do that again. They were naughty. So those doing it retired on a FAT PENSION that we paid for with tax dollars. The swamp sat back and let it happen.
5 years ago
Reply to
bluemama1955
Correct…but they won’t. Therefore, the future of our once-great Republic looks dire indeed.
5 years ago
As predicted, it’s a whitewash. A corrupt department investigating a corrupt department? gimme me a break
5 years ago
Reply to
Kevin Cowlishaw
And all given the imprimatur from another swamp creature, AG Sessions.
5 years ago
It is exactly like Comey’s cover up. Dry language used to obfuscate the truth. In this case, Horowitz is excusing the entire FBI/DOJ from being a tool of the Democratic Party with no level of corruption deserving of concern.
And remember this: The FBI knew to a man, every single agent, that Hillary Clinton was absolutely corrupt, not just in politics, but in petty and very serious crimes, yet still chose to support her.
5 years ago
Michael E. Horowitz is an OBAMA appointee….
Does that help?
5 years ago
Hillary violated laws with her private hack-ready email server yet Judge Jeanine on Hannity essentially claimed that she will not be prosecuted because no prosecutor will take up that job.
http://www.foxnews.com/shows/hannity.html
Really? Why not? Fear? We can’t have justice for super elite law breakers out of fear?
5 years ago
The Clinton Crime family is Teflon coated and loved by the MSM.
5 years ago
All the negotiations and delays we heard about were likely over the Executive Summary, which is a press release/talking point for the corrupt, collaborator mainstream media something to obfuscate the whole issue with.
Calling Comey “insubordinate” is another huge cover-up mechanism (since we know Lynch told him to “call it a matter”) inasmuch as it builds a firewall between Comey and the sinister Svengali and most-ignominious traitor at the epicenter of all that is sick in our politics, media and Federal Law Enforcement today — imam obama.
5 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
CORRUPTION WITHOUT FEAR OF CONSEQUENCES…This report was negotiated down to where it appears official and complete to most of the public,and like Vaughn observed that similar to Comey’s recommendation regarding Hillary, this listed all the facts supporting criminal prosecution followed by a recommendation of no action. Like Hillary’s case the public knew enough facts that some had to be admitted on the record without admitting anything more. Comey like Hillary knew that they are protected from criminal prosecution. If there is any prosecution regarding the revealed pervasive govt corruption from our chief law enforcement agencies, it will fall only on someone they think is expendable, and then only for appearances, but the main lesson intended for the rest of us is that they have unlimited power. Nothing makes it more obvious than targeting some with the lying to the FBI rap or perjury indictment, while the protected flaunt their lies under oath or to FBI investigators with impunity.
5 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
Its not over until its over. Undoubtedly, the FBI and the DOJ will continuing stalling until the November election hoping democrats will knock out Nunes. Hopefully, Nunes stays in the House and continues his push to reveal the corruption.
5 years ago
Anyone else having problems with fb trying to share this in a group?????
Just tried copy / paste the link, and get this, GELLERREPORT.COM
You are being redirected…
The report is oddly reminiscent of Comey’s Hillary Clinton exoneration statement.
5 years ago
Reply to
Janet Mohrman
Yes, same here, but this time even the redirecting wasn’t working, so I posted directly in the comments, no problems.
5 years ago
If the focus of this IG report was HRC’s email activity in the run-up to the 2016 election, why is Trump negativity the only motif that emerges from it? No bias, my ass!
5 years ago
Everyone is disgusted with the lack of justice. What is the saying, Satan takes care of his own. Clinton is
protected. How can she live with herself. She is evil incarnate.
5 years ago
Reply to
glenda lafont
“How can she live with herself?” The Bible refers to it as ‘seared conscience.’ In other words, she has a conscience but it no longer works. Indeed that is, exactly, what evil does to the human soul.
5 years ago
The Mueller investigation was a farce to begin with. Even Strzok admitted, when commenting on Trump colluding with Russia, said “My gut feeling is there is no there there”.
5 years ago
This is one of the principal reasons once-great empires fall: Legalized lawlessness and crippling corruption…They collapse under their own weight of irredeemable evil and utter wickedness.
I, often, wonder who will ultimately be responsible for our downfall and destruction: Islam, our other enemies (and they are legion) or ourselves. Think about it.
5 years ago
I guess it’s just a coincidence that the United States is beset by Third World police state thuggery, cronyism and fraud in its Federal Law Enforcement and intelligence agencies when it elects its first Third World thug, crony, fraud president.
5 years ago
The Fox anchors are still praising the FBI. I despise all these alphabet soup agencies. They’d protect their ow and will destroy those they hate. That is why many cops around the country cal the FBI the Federal Bureau of incompetence.
5 years ago
Horrorwitz concluded that the FBI tried but failed to stop Trump.
“Investigation” is Code for “Plot”…nothing contributed to the successful outcome of the plot!
5 years ago
This is the kind of bullshit that ruined Rome. The whole damn Clinton Cartel, inclusive of that nasty little bithch Chelsea, should long have been put in prison.
5 years ago
WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES TO VOTE OUT COME NOV 2018,THE ENTIRE LYING CORRUPT, TREASONOUS, DEMOCRAT PARTY, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT END THE WASHINGTON PEDOPHILE CARTELS
5 years ago
The entirety of our swamp government needs to be expunged from power. This would be a bipartisan effort as both parties are represented in this morass. We need to get rid of the criminals who are presently running the major departments (especially Justice and the Inspector General. The shadow government, presently running the country, is a BS operation all the way…they have no concern, whatsoever, for the Constitution. Their every thought is toward keeping themselves in power. By allowing this, the people are setting themselves up to lose everything.
5 years ago
Agent 1 Said, “Awesome. Lied his ass off…aint noone gonna do sh*t”
http://www.independentsentinel.com/agent-1-said-awesome-lied-his-ass-off-aint-noone-gonna-do-sht/
Asked how the interview with Clinton’s IT tech went, Agent 1 responded, “Awesome. Lied his ass off…aint noone gonna do sh*t”
There is strong evidence contained in the OIG’s report that shows the Agents involved in the HRC email case knew people were lying and they also believed no one would be prosecuted.
5 years ago
Andrew McCarthy pointed-out that the key-defect in this report is its failure to recognize the fact that the law doesn’t excuse misbehavior due to invoking the parameter of “intent.”
5 years ago
Just make sure ALL “deplorables ” vote out ALL identified “RINOS” in the coming mid term elections…
That will make us “CANUCKS” feel a lot better !
5 years ago
So much corruption in our government….
5 years ago
The IG report presented the facts very well, but was very disappointing in its conclusions and that it did not recommend any prosecutions or any consequences at all for the many violations of law it uncovered. The conclusions of the report are not supported by the facts uncovered. One unavoidable conclusion is that the Hillary email investigation (as well as many others) needs to be re-opened and this time conducted correctly, since the first one was inept and clearly its purpose was only to cover up. The deep state is also widespread within the Republican side of the aisle. It is going to be a very hard fight to retake this country and MAGA. It will take all of us deplorables!
