To: exit82; hoosiermama; weston; jennychase
Since there is such a LOW THRESHOLD for investigating a major party's Presidential campaign the IG determined that Australia tipping us off to Papadopoulos was enough to meet the LOW THRESHOLD. It'll be interesting to see if AG Barr disagrees with this as was reported last week.
Even though Strzok and Page were clearly biased, they weren't the only people making decisions and Priestap was the one making the final call to open the investigations. Because of this he didn't find evidence showing that bias influenced the decisions to open them. That's BS.
If a group of high ranking officials are part of the consensus to open the investigation, and you have already found that those people have an extreme bias towards candidate Trump, there is no way that doesn't factor into the decision making process.
Statement from AG Barr:
"The Inspector Generals report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken."
"...FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source. The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory."
"While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector Generals report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process." AG Barr
Statement from John Durham:
"Based on the evidence collected to date,&while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the IG that we do not agree with some of the reports conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened."
Singman(Fox)NEW: in a rare statement,US Attorney John Durham says:
"Based on the evidence collected to date,&while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the IG that we do not agree with some of the reports conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened. #FISA
Shem....More Durham:
,center> "I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff. However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within"
Horowitz report already detailed his information was limited to the FBI and DOJ and he wasn't able to review crucial parts so it's not a surprise Durham and Barr have information that leads them to conclude differently, stay tuned for that!
2,683 posted on
12/09/2019 11:15:11 AM PST by
STARLIT
(Hope is standing in the dark looking out at the light in Jesus Christ.)
To: NIKK
IT IS NOT THE IG’S RESPONSIBILITY TO READ THEIR MINDS TO FIND ‘INTENT’
2,684 posted on
12/09/2019 11:17:08 AM PST by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: NIKK
To: NIKK
“”...I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General...”
I love that Barr and Durham spoke up immediately. They were ready. I wonder if it’s common for a rebuttal to be made that quickly.
I find the wording of the above that Durham had in his statement interesting. He respects the mission of the office, I think he’s skirting it enough and added enough nouns in between, that it’s clear he does not respect the inspector-general.
2,774 posted on
12/09/2019 1:03:25 PM PST by
CottonBall
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To: NIKK
Thank you so much for the posts. I dont think Chuck Schumer read the same report. Or he’s counting on people taking his word for it.
2,839 posted on
12/09/2019 3:13:56 PM PST by
Rusty0604
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