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Why the OIG Report Should Scare the Hell Out of You
American Spectator ^ | June 18, 2018 | David Catron

Posted on 06/19/2018 9:52:58 AM PDT by detective

The OIG is infected by a far more dangerous disease than political bias — fear.

The Justice Department’s tepid OIG report, with its risible assertion that there was no political bias in the FBI’s Clinton email probe, suggests that it was written by people afraid to tell the unvarnished truth about the conduct of the federal government’s police apparatus, an agency that openly defies congressional oversight and has participated in a vendetta against a sitting president. The FBI’s leadership clearly hopes that the Democrats will win majorities in Congress and put a halt to the investigations into its multifarious abuses of power. The OIG is loath to face the ruthless reprisals that would inevitably follow such a disaster.

In other words, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General is filled with people who fear the FBI. Think about that for a minute. What is the usual term for a government whose members live in fear of its police arm? Ronald Reagan famously said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” The OIG report suggests that its demise may be only one election away. The following passage from the report’s Executive Summary is a cowardly exercise in bureaucratic dissembling deliberately worded to let corrupt FBI officials off the hook and provide talking points for its equally dishonest apologists:

[We] did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed … we found that these specific decisions were the result of discretionary judgments made during the course of an investigation by the Midyear agents and prosecutors and that these judgment calls were not unreasonable.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: doj; dojigreportanalysis; dojigreportreleased; fbi; ig; ighorowitz
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It is not only that they are biased. They are biased.

But they are also corrupt and cowardly.

1 posted on 06/19/2018 9:52:59 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Makes you wonder how long this crap has been going on.


2 posted on 06/19/2018 10:05:34 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: detective
How do we stop it when the people we elect and those they appoint refuse to take appropriate action to stop it and prevent it?

Torches and pitchforks? Vote the SOBs out of office?

Meet the new elected official same as the old elected official.

If someone has a workable plan I'd like to hear it.

3 posted on 06/19/2018 10:09:44 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: detective

I think the response was tepid because some of the evidence is going to a grqnd jury which has been hinted at. That is what Huber was brought in for.


4 posted on 06/19/2018 10:12:48 AM PDT by bcr100 (Its)
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To: b4its2late

At least since 2009.


5 posted on 06/19/2018 10:15:50 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: detective

Didn’t say there was no bias. Said there was no proof it affected the decision.

Key word: proof.


6 posted on 06/19/2018 10:20:26 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: detective

So, Comey spends 15 minutes detailing step by step why Hillary is guilty.....then exonerates her;

The IG spends 562 pages detailing step by step, incident by incident, why the FBI and DOJ were biased..... then says there was no bias.

Both are swamp creatures; they think they are above the law and people will buy into their weak arguments. We are not stupid.

Horowitz has lost a lot of people’s respect with this whitewash.


7 posted on 06/19/2018 10:27:44 AM PDT by dan on the right
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To: yesthatjallen

You have made a statement based on what is likely a fallacious assumption

The fact you do not know what you do not know does not mean there are not very substantial but unrevealed activity. That is, like the atom bomb or the Normandy invasion in WW II there are presently secrets that can not and are not revealed.

It must be noted that both the bomb and the invasion took lots of folks considerable time to accomplish.

The president and his people are not going to go off half cocked


8 posted on 06/19/2018 10:29:57 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: detective

Within the stench of corruption in the FBI, Congress, etc., how can we expect a fair IG report when it is the DOJ investigating the DOJ?


9 posted on 06/19/2018 10:36:18 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: yesthatjallen

We used to know exactly what to do to those who were like this who ruled over us.


10 posted on 06/19/2018 10:37:30 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: detective

THE IG REPORT: THEY’RE GUILTY BUT IT’S OKAY!!!
Dear Fellow Americans,
You ignore or underestimate the long-term NEGATIVE impact of this “MATTER” on the very foundations of this nation and your lives and those of future generations at YOUR GREAT PERIL!
We either have THE RULE OF LAW for EVERYONE or we tolerate the LAWLESSNESS OF THE WOULD-BE RULERS!
We can’t have it BOTH WAYS!
And the end stage of the latter is ALWAYS TOTAL TYRANNY.
Which will it be, America? WHICH WILL IT BE??
And remember that the most dangerous phrase in ANY language is “Why THAT could never happen HERE?”
Are you willing to bet YOUR KIDS’ future that it won’t?
If you’re STILL sitting out this fight, that’s PRECISELY what you’re doing!
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/the_ig_report_theyre_guilty_but_its_okay.html
THE NUMBER AT THE CAPITOL IS 202-224-3121! IF “THEY” THINK YOU ARE OKAY WITH THAT, THE GUILTY WILL WALK!


11 posted on 06/19/2018 10:41:15 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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its risible assertion that there was no political bias in the FBI’s Clinton email probe

Ugh. Come on people, you're supposed to do more than just parrot the first headline you read. From the report:

we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed in Chapter Five

Translation: We did not find obvious paper trails or straight-up admissions.

Crooks are smarter than that.

12 posted on 06/19/2018 10:41:54 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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its risible assertion that there was no political bias in the FBI’s Clinton email probe

Ugh. Come on people, you're supposed to do more than just parrot the first headline you read. From the report:

we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed in Chapter Five

Translation: We did not find obvious paper trails or straight-up admissions.

Crooks are smarter than that.

13 posted on 06/19/2018 10:41:55 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: detective

It’s bad enough that they we’re attempting to screw with the election, but believing that Hillary was a force for good?

Now that’s what’s really scary.


14 posted on 06/19/2018 10:42:25 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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To: detective
Absolute MUST-READ

They need to shout this from the rooftops.

People have to wake up to how dangerous it is to have an out of control FBI , no matter what side of the aisle they are on.

15 posted on 06/19/2018 10:52:40 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it tokday.)
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To: detective

Horowitz is implicitly saying “of course there’s overwhelming bias, but don’t blame me for being the one to expose it.”


16 posted on 06/19/2018 10:57:01 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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The OIG report, with its risible assertion that there was no political bias in the FBI’s Clinton email probe, suggests that it was written by people afraid to tell the unvarnished truth about the conduct of the federal government’s police apparatus

The OIG staff decided that they didn't want the KGB FBI kicking their doors in at 3:00 AM, manhandling their wives and daughters, shooting their dogs, locking them up and bankrupting them defending bogus charges in court.


17 posted on 06/19/2018 11:33:44 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ( Liberals love all mankind without reservation. Except those who don't agree with them 100%.)
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To: detective

The report simply makes each person fully understand the Bias without anyone colluding to make it seem possible.


18 posted on 06/19/2018 12:11:58 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: detective

Since the report was released, notice the ‘Dont look at the report, look at the crying children’ news.


19 posted on 06/19/2018 12:39:45 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: bcr100
I think the response was tepid because some of the evidence is going to a grqnd jury which has been hinted at. That is what Huber was brought in for.

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20 posted on 06/19/2018 1:09:53 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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