To: TEXOKIE
However, what is missing from the report is an explanation for: ‘why the FBI didn’t initiate the review’?
Actually it does have an explanation and it’s lame. It’s in the IG report summary page 10.
As we describe in Chapter Nine of our report, the explanations we were given for the FBI’s failure to take immediate action on the Weiner laptop fell into four general categories:
• The FBI Midyear team was waiting for additional information about the contents of the laptop from NYO, which was not provided until late October;
• The FBI Midyear team could not review the emails without additional legal authority, such as consent or a new search warrant;
• The FBI Midyear team and senior FBI officials did not believe that the information on the laptop was likely to be significant; and
• Key members of the FBI Midyear team had been reassigned to the investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. election, which was a higher priority.
The troubling thing about all this was: “No electronic record exists of the case agent’s initial review of the Weiner laptop. The case agent told us that at some point in mid-October 2016 the NYO ASAC instructed the case agent to wipe his work station.” ( from Chapter 9 footnotes)
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Thanks for that intricate dissection and analysis, stylin19a.
... The case agent told us that at some point in mid-October 2016 the NYO ASAC instructed the case agent to wipe his work station.”
Did I miss this before? That is OUTRAGEOUS!
NOTE TO SELF + FELLOW “Q” AFICIONADOS - when the FISA IG report comes out, let’s skip past the Executive Summary and get to the real facts of what happened! ;)