Posted on 03/23/2019 7:19:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Not a Tick-Tock
All day long, even before the Mueller news broke, Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge has really been leaning-forward, giving insight into the pending Inspector General report by OIG Michael Horowitz. Herridge is one of those reporters who is careful not to get out in front of her skis. Ms. Herridge is not a book-selling member of the tick-tock community of pundits.
We noted earlier how the specific emphasis of Ms. Herridge seemed to indicate the Horowitz report was closer to the surface of completion than previously thought.
Immediately after the Mueller news broke (around 5pm EST), Herridge filed her first live report providing details of the Mueller report. Within that first report Herridge stated she was previously bound to “confidences” until the Mueller probe was complete.
In subsequent reporting we begin to see what those confidences are, and how they connect to her exclusive reporting on text messages between Andrew McCabe and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Ms. Herridge is strongly emphasizing a few key points that need additional emphasis:
♦ First, IG Horowitz is looking into the leaking of memos that contain classified information by “Senior FBI Executives”. This bullet-point directly relates to the James Comey memos that were leaked to the New York Times by Comey himself. On this first point, that would mean Comey is under investigation by the DOJ for those leaks.
♦ Second, IG Horowitz is following up on his own investigative finding where he found FBI officials were taking gifts from media. This violates FBI policy and could be a bigger ethical issue depending on the details. Interestingly, connecting this path to bullet-point #1, Herridge says: “by those same Senior Executives.” That would indicate former FBI Director James Comey, and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe would be under investigation for…
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Too many compromising photographs were exchanged by those two
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What would be a lot of fun to watch is Barr keeps Mueller on as Special Counsel to investigate the crimes committed that the IG report will detail. It would be hysterical to watch the rats attempt do a complete 180 and try to force Trump to shut down the investigation.
It’s good that this is being reported by Catherine Herridge. She is competent, credible, and not only knows what a fact is, she doesn’t fear them.
I imagine her days at Fox are numbered.
Thanks for posting this!
Herridge’s reporting is always of the highest quality, and what she reported last night (and you posted here just now) gives me great hope that the scales of justice at the DOJ might finally be tipping back to being as “fair and balanced” as Herridge consistently is in her reporting.
What would be a lot of fun to watch is Barr keeps Mueller on as Special Counsel to investigate the crimes committed that the IG report will detail. It would be hysterical to watch the rats attempt do a complete 180 and try to force Trump to shut down the investigation.
That would be an ultimate schadenfreude!
The Mueller special counsel investigation was launched to probe charges that the key FBI officials developing evidence in the case thought were baseless. That's a bombshell accusation that appears to have been confirmed by lovebird-turned-songbird Lisa Page, according to John Solomon. It tends to confirm the suspicion that the Mueller probe is a cover-up operation to obscure the criminal use of counterintelligence capabilities to spy on a rival presidential campaign and then sabotage the presidency that resulted.
Earlier reports indicated that Page has been answering questions from the House Judiciary Committee quite frankly and may even have cut a deal selling out her ex-lover Peter Strzok over their professional misbehavior (and quite possibly worse) in targeting the campaign and presidency of Donald Trump with the intelligence-gathering tools of the FBI.
John Solomon of The Hill revealed that he has obtained information from sources who heard Page's testimony in two days of sworn depositions behind closed doors that she offered a bombshell confirmation of the meaning of one of the most enigmatic text messages that the public has seen (keep in mind that there are many yet to be released). Writing in The Hill, Solomon explains: [T]here are just five words, among the thousands of suggestive texts Page and Strzok exchanged, that you should read. That passage was transmitted on May 19, 2017. "There's no big there there," Strzok texted.
The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named special counsel Robert Mueller to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and the Russia campaign. Since the text was turned over to Congress, investigators wondered whether it referred to the evidence against the Trump campaign. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Second, IG Horowitz is following up on his own investigative finding where he found FBI officials were taking gifts from media. This violates FBI policy and could be a bigger ethical issue depending on the details...”
what kinds of “gifts from the media,” i wonder...
yikes... :-(
Last night every host on Fox’s evening shows was clearly thrilled to be reporting on how—finally— the corruption at the FBI might be exposed, and thus reveal how much its INJUSTICE has hurt Trump, and the country.
Of course, they did have WALLASS make some comments, and he was clearly NOT happy!
Its amazing to me how not one of these supposedly highly intelligent, deep-state masters-of-the-universe who rule over us ever had the thought: “Hang on. What happens if Hillary DOESN’T win?”
Herridge should be up for a Pulitzer IMHO!
It says sports tickets, golf outings, and admission to social events not open to the pulic [whatever that means.]
It would be VERY interesting to know how Herridge came to acquire those text messages...
Another indication......this crowd figured Hillary was a shoo-in.
They did whatever they pleased, said whatever evil thoughts came to their feeble minds........broke US laws with abandon.
Hillary would sweep it all under the Oval Office rug.
The I.G. is looking at minutia. He is ignoring the real crime: The attempted coup.
Surely not? According to Free Republic Dogma, Fox News has gone to hell! /s
wow.
a couple of years ago i got stuck on a beach with cliffs. i called the fire department. they came out and got me out with a rope, and we all had a good belly laugh. anyway, the next day i wanted to thank them so i dropped off a six pack of beer at the station. i subsequently got a call from the leader of the guys who rescued me, saying that firepersons(?) cannot accept gifts, but he saw to it that it went to someone other than firepeople(?) (and so it did not go to waste).
one would think that if even a local firestation guy knows not to accept gifts, that the fbi should know not to accept gifts. and everyone should already know that here in the usa at least it would mean a quick trip to prison if someone were to try to bribe a police person (??) to get out of a traffic ticket...
(the fbi needs to be referred to in the past tense after all of this imho...)
As Fox reported last night, Schitt is already promising to bring Mueller in to testify before his committe, and even subpoena him if he needs to.
Last night, it was such fun to watch the clips that Fox showed revealing the melt-down going on among the rabid anti-Trump people in the enemedia, and the Demonrat party!
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