19 Jun: Youtube: 6:49: Hannity, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) & Andrew McCarthy Comment DOJ Obstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNUO3k6BgU
no matter what Gaetz or Jordan or Gowdy say, the Deep State MSM distort it. read the following. note NYT & WaPo contributed to this Bloomberg piece:
20 Jun: Post-Gazette: House Republicans say anti-Trump bias in the FBI can’t be put aside
by Billy House and Chris Strohm, Bloomberg News
Mr. Horowitz noted that his office had made a criminal referral to federal prosecutors about alleged false statements made to his investigators by the FBI’s former deputy director, Andrew McCabe. Asked if Mr. McCabe lied under oath, Mr. Horowitz answered: “In our view, yes.”...
The Washington Post and The New York Times contributed.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2018/06/19/House-Republicans-say-anti-Trump-bias-in-the-FBI-can-t-be-put-aside/stories/201806190148
during Hannity, endless news craws moved across the screen, almost all involving the Dem/MSM narrative re immigration, plus some ridiculous stuff about bills passed by California re police, cannabis laws to be passed by Trudeau/Canada, etc.
not a single news crawl re Strzok being escorted out of the FBI last Friday, or any of the interrogations of Horowitz.
disgusting.
20 Jun: AZ Family: House GOP presses DOJ watchdog on bias in Clinton investigation
By Jeremy Herb, David Shortell and Laura Jarrett CNN
Republicans on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees pressed Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz over his conclusion in the report released last week that political bias did not affect the specific prosecutorial decisions reviewed in the Clinton case.
Pointing to the anti-Donald Trump text messages exchanged by FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Republicans argued that the key officials on the Clinton case had no interest in charging Clinton -— but had prejudged the outcome of the investigation into Trump and Russia.
“What is more textbook bias than prejudging this investigation before it’s over and this one before it begins?” House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, asked Horowitz. “I am struggling to find a better example of outcome determinative bias than that. So what am I missing?”...
“When you make up your mind that you’re not going to charge someone, and you make up your mind that you need to not go in not loaded for bear ... and there’s not a single damn question on intent, it is really hard for those of us who used to do this for a living to not conclude they’ve made up their mind on intent before they even bothered to talk to the single best repository of intent evidence, which would be her,” Gowdy said...
On Tuesday, Republicans focused in particular on the text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page, including new texts that were revealed in the inspector general report in which Strzok said “we’ll stop” Trump.
They pressed Horowitz to explain what Strzok meant by several statements.
Horowitz called the texts “extremely serious” and antithetical to the “core values” of the Justice Department
Asked about Strzok’s May 2017 text sent the day after Mueller was appointed special counsel -— in which Strzok said, “Now I need to fix it and finish it” -— Horowitz said he believed the “reasonable inference of that is that he believed he would use his official authority to take action.”...
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, asked Horowitz to explain how Rosenstein reacted when he provided the next batch of text messages that included Strzok’s “we’ll stop” Trump message, charging that “Mr. Rosenstein sat on it for a month.”
“This wouldn’t be the first time he hasn’t given us information, frankly, I think we’re entitled to,” Jordan said.
Horowitz said his office pointed out the “we’ll stop” text to the Rosenstein’s office in a June 8 communication. “When we found it I specified to the associate deputy attorney general on June 8 that he ought to look at this one,” Horowitz said.
The Justice Department official replied “thank you for telling me that,” Horowitz said...
“Who is attorney number two?” said Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the most vocal Republican critics of the Mueller probe. “What was the reason the FBI gave for not telling us who attorney number two is?”
“I feel as though sunshine, transparency will be the way to root out this bias that we seem to see reflected,” Gaetz said, emphasizing that he was a “lead” on the FBI’s Russia investigation.
However, the an unnamed attorney whose instant messages were detailed in the report, “did not work for the Special Counsel’s Office as a prosecutor or as an investigator,” according to Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the Special Counsel’s office. According to the watchdog report, FBI Attorney 2 was assigned to the Clinton email investigation, and told investigators he was later the “primary FBI attorney assigned” to the FBI’s Russia investigation beginning in early 2017. He joined the Mueller team when it was convened, but returned to the FBI in late February 2018 after the OIG provided Mueller with some of the politically charged messages, the report says.
Gaetz was one of eight Republicans who sent a letter to Horowitz Monday asking for the officials’ names, writing “these individuals need to held accountable.”
When the Office of Inspector General asked the FBI if they objected to revealing the names, Horowitz said Tuesday at the hearing, the FBI raised concerns because they work on counterintelligence matters.
“The request has come in from the committee to give the names. We went to the FBI, the FBI raised a concern because they work on counterintelligence matters. And we are working with the committee to try and get the information you’ve asked for,” Horowitz said.
Horowitz added, “I don’t think it is a final decision at this point from the FBI or in my view a final decision. It’s something I’m looking forward to working with the committee to try and get the answers to because I completely understand what the interest is of the committee in getting that information.”
Horowitz later explained that the Strzok’s name and Page’s name were made public after their similarly controversial messages were uncovered after a review process.
“What we do is when we prepared the report we do an analysis under the privacy act, federal law, and our determination was that because of the level he was at at the agency, deputy assistant director, the Privacy Act balance weighed against him and we would make it public. As to the others, they’re lower down, the balance went the other way,” Horowitz said...
http://www.azfamily.com/story/38459476/house-gop-presses-doj-watchdog-on-bias-in-clinton-investigation