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DOJ Inspector General Report on FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton
The Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton has been released. You can read the (568 page!) document yourself here. Share any revelations you find in it here in the comments.
The Washington Post reports that:
The Justice Department inspector general on Thursday castigated former FBI Director James B. Comey for his actions during the Hillary Clinton email investigation and found that other senior bureau officials showed a ‘willingness to take official action’ to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.
The Wall Street Journal:
The inspector general also blasted FBI personnel who exchanged text messages that were critical of President Donald Trump during his campaign, saying the missives “cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigations and sowed doubt about the FBI’s” handling of the probe.
Nevertheless, the inspector general concluded in its 500-page report, that it found no evidence that the FBI or Justice Department allowed political bias to influence the investigative steps the watchdog examined as part of its wide-ranging inquiry.
A recently discovered text exchange, however, between FBI agent Peter Strzok, who led the Clinton investigation, and an FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, raised concerns about how the FBI handled the discovery of Clinton-related emails on a laptop once used by one of her aides, Huma Abedin.
The IG Report states on page 13 (I’m a slow reader):
Published in PoliticsWe found that Strzok used his personal email accounts for official government business on several occasions, including forwarding an email from his FBI account to his personal email account about the proposed search warrant the Midyear team was seeking on the Weiner laptop. This email included a draft of the search warrant affidavit, which contained information from the Weiner investigation that appears to have been under seal at the time in the Southern District of New York and information obtained pursuant to a grand jury subpoena issued in the Eastern District of Virginia in the Midyear investigation.
Gentlemen,
This is a wonderful example of “look a squirrel”. Yes Page & Stzrok are idiots and Stzrok needs to be fired but so what? Comey claimed that he couldn’t recommend prosecution of Hillary because he couldn’t prove intent. This is an unbelievable joke. The woman exposed every communique of the Secretary of State to easy hacking access for 4 years. She did this with full knowledge of the proper procedure, the law, and the consequences.
I think it’s time to bring up a subject that we have all been trying to avoid. If Sessions were to fire Rosenstein or Mueller or both, the immediate unified scream from the Dems & Media would be “SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE” they would be barking for impeachment. This is what they have been hoping for all along. These brainless left-wing hack bastards would destroy this country with their banal garbage just to hang onto undeserved power a little longer. They don’t care about the American people that’s obvious. They don’t care about Western Civilization that’s obvious. What isn’t obvious but really should be is that they don’t give a damn about the human race itself. They are full of crap and everything they would eagerly do would be a complete disaster, you know, GLOBALLY!
Right at this moment, I am reaching a point where I couldn’t be satisfied by Rosenstein or Mueller just being fired. Their hopelessly soulless actions could result in the deaths worldwide of millions possibly billions of people. They have no respect for Freedom only their infantile obsession with professionalism. Adolf Eichmann was extremely professional too.
Donald Trump isn’t the threat to Democracy they are! I think I need to go and pray.
Regards,
Jim
Take a breath, Jim! :-D
You’re not wrong, then again at this point what difference does it make?
Yet he assiduously and fervently pursued the investigation through the election and afterwards. It speaks to his motives, if he felt fairly certain that there was nothing there then why did he do so?
That’s how I read it.
I can’t speak to that. I think the IG should immediately open an investigation into Strzok and his actions regarding the Russia Investigation. Then we’ll know more.
Page 43:
Oh, so now Gowdy says….
Thanks, Trey. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 🙄
Jamie,
The truth always matters, if not in this world then the next.
Regards,
Jim
Yeah, what a maroon. Waiting for information to come to light before reaching a conclusion.
More importantly, where do we stand on staff members poisoning the discussion on a website where we pay actual money for civil discussion, @max?
I suspect that those who sit in judgment in the next world already know the truth of the matter and the truth in her heart.
I’m seem to recall some speculating on this, we appear to have confirmation.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1007330544965881856
Fair summation.
They really hit it out of the park on that last one.
Thinking you are getting away with a coup is a powerful aphrodisiac.
So, I skimmed the text message section (among other things). It is a good reminder to everyone to watch what you say in text messages on the company phone .
Doubly so if that company phone belongs to the government and an IG investigation might demand you answer for every text message.
I believe one of the recommendations was to: “Remind DoJ employees that if they are to plot the overthrow of the United States government, they should do so on personal devices.”
That came before: “Remind DoJ employees that if they are to assassinate elected officials of of the United States government, they should do so using personal weapons. Government-supplied weapons should be limited to use in assassinating appointed officials and, of course, members of the dreaded private sector.”
In another couple of years?
We found no evidence that bias affected the investigation…
Sorry, where is the evidence?
Ham radio!
I suppose lying to the FBI is really not as big a deal as we were led to believe.
So dozens of FBI agents were leaking to reporters and accepting bribes but we have five people on the hook, only five?
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1007346988688596993
So they were “biased”, and “willing to take official action” to stop Trump, but the text stating “I will stop Trump from becoming President, because I am biased against Trump” has not yet surfaced. Got it. Nothing to see here.
Save the anger for November. Bottle it and hand it out to every right of center friend you have.
Trump was “totally unqualified to be President; “must stop by any means necessary” doesn’t prove bias bias. Sometimes you have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. Anyway, laws are for the little people.
It doesn’t prove their bias influenced their official actions. It does prove they had opinions. Alot of what they said to each other was what I heard lots of other people say.
It seems lots of folks are disappointed in the IGs findings. Mostly because they were led to believe, by reporters trafficking in leaks, that there would be a lots of bomb shells.
That’s not what IG reports typically provide. The very end product, the report, is built upon findings, as in findings of fact. It should be a series of statements. X person did Y act with result Z. And the evidence supporting those conclusions. The IG is not a federal prosecutor and any evidence of possible crimes must be referred to legal authorities for investigation and prosecution.
I wasn’t expecting much and I wasn’t disappointed.
Those would be all of your acquaintances in positions of authority at the FBI?