Posted on 11/13/2019 6:11:27 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is not a happy man. – The former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is understandably irritated about the seemingly endless delays in the process of getting the report on FISA abuse from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released to the public. Grassley made his concerns known in a tweet issued Tuesday afternoon:
ChuckGrassley ✔ @ChuckGrassley If FISA Inspector General Horowitz report doesn’t come out next week when they said it would then I will be very disappointed & left to wonder WHAT THE GAME IS?? Is someone at FBI or DOJ tying IGs hands??
31.5K 12:29 PM - Nov 12, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 16.3K people are talking about this Indeed, what is the game with this long-delayed report from an investigation that started more than 20 months ago in early 2018? The report has been rumored in the fake news media to be complete and ready for release since at least April of this year, yet we still have seen neither hide nor hair of it. Grassley’s reference to “next week when they said it would” is actually a reference to reports from Sara Carter and others claiming that their “sources” were telling them the report would be issued on or around November 18.
This is about the 600th “sourced” issue date for the report that Carter and others have rolled out on Sean Hannity’s radio and/or TV programs since April. Hannity himself has repeatedly claimed that his own “sources” were telling him the report was just bound to be released at some point every month for the last six months. And yet, here we sit, still without this supposedly crucial report.
And it only gets worse: Late Tuesday evening, the Associated Press issued a report that clearly tells us we won’t see this report next week, or the week after that, or anytime before at least early December. Here’s the key passage:
The inspector general in recent days has invited witnesses and their lawyers who were interviewed for the report to review portions of a draft this week and next, a critical final step toward making the document public, according to multiple people familiar with the process who insisted on anonymity to discuss it.
As part of that process, the people will have opportunities to raise concerns or suggest potential edits, making it unclear precisely when in the coming weeks a final version could be ready for release. Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Congress in a letter last month that he did not expect a lengthy review period and that he intended to make as much of the report public as possible, with minimal redactions.
Oh. It is “unclear precisely when in the coming weeks a final version could be ready for release.” Well, knock me over with a feather.
This witness review process could take a few weeks, or it could take months. It could even result in the release of the report being delayed until after Election Day 2020, at which time it could be safely quashed from ever seeing the light of day should a Democrat win the presidency.
Why? Because each and every one of these witnesses has a high-powered lawyer representing them, and those lawyers will no doubt employ every tactic for delay they can come up with, given that they are no doubt all loyal players whose livelihoods depend on the preservation of the DC Swamp and its corruption.
And presto! Just as if it were coordinated in advance, the reliable deep state mouth organ Washington Post issued its own report just hours after the AP report in which it claims that, while the timelines for some witness reviews have already been established, the timelines for others are “still being negotiated”:
Several witnesses have been scheduled or are in talks to review sections of the report dealing with their testimony in the next two weeks, the people said on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
Even better for the deep state, the witnesses can submit feedback, which could result in further delays and force additional “investigations”:
That could mean public release is imminent, though the witnesses will be allowed to submit feedback — which could spark more investigative work and slow down the process.
Oh. And guess what? Any additional investigative work might – just might – result in new revelations of wrongdoing, which would the result in the accused persons within the FBI and DOJ getting yet another lengthy bite at the apple to review the findings and provide their own “feedback,” which could in turn create the need for more investigative work and witness interviews and feedback and counterclaims and lawyer tactics and corrupt FBI demands for redactions and on and on and on and on ad nauseum.
Oh.
Here’s the lesson for Senator Grassley: You need to stop watching or listening to Sean Hannity and his gang of tick-tock monkeys. Sean Hannity has aired essentially the same hour of TV and three hours of radio five days a week for the past three years now. His incessant, repeated claims of “big revelations coming” that will be “devastating” and result in “multiple criminal referrals” and yada-yada-yada and blah-blah-blah have become the single most tiresome feature of our national news media.
So, to quote Sen. Grassley: “WHAT THE GAME IS?”
The game is delay. The game is being played by not only Horowitz himself, but by Christopher Wray, by Dana Boente, by other corrupt DOJ and FBI officials, by the felons who participated and still participate in the coup cabal, by the witnesses and their lawyers and their willing accomplices in the fake news media.
And here’s the biggest problem, Sen. Grassley: The game is also being played by your successor at the Judiciary Committee, your esteemed colleague Lindsey Graham. If you really are frustrated by all the delays, well, Sen. Graham has the power to convene a hearing and subpoena Horowitz, Wray, Boente and anyone else he wants to and ask them why they are playing this game.
Graham has in fact had that power for 10 months now and failed to convene a single hearing or issue a single subpoena related to this matter.
Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-to…oh hell, nevermind.
That is all.
PROTECT HILLARY
After he's gone, back to having an elected puppet who will dance to the tune called by the government careerists.
NO ONE eill release it during the “public” impeachment “hearings” this week.
Typical left wing Deep State tactic - DELAY!
When, and IF, it ever comes out, don't get your hopes up. I'm expecting a LOT of things to be ignored and others downplayed, in short: A WHITEWASH. I pray I'm wrong.
Grassley and Graham could end this farce today if the wanted to.
But they don’t.
So they won’t.
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Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
I’m afraid the ‘Horowitz report’ will become the ‘Borowitz report’....................
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report
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To all the leakers in DOJ tell me IF the Horowitz report will EVER come out. I don’t want a prediction on WHEN. I’ve had enough of those disappointments. Tell “IF”
Like I have told you a MILLION times,
Don’t exaggerate!!!!
It only seems like I have pointed out - a million times - that all these exposes take on the genre` of Geraldo and the ‘Al Capone vault’ or - for the younger set - the ongoing Lucy snatching the football just prior Charlie Browns toe hitting it.
Sorry, I am beginning to repeat the time worn
“Move along, nothing to see hear folks”, just how many times do they think they can ‘bait and switch’ this way?
Oh well guess it beats getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick.
The timing of release will occur when their will be no attention. My guess right before the Christmas holidays when public is least engaged, Congress is out of town and all the talk will be about the Democrat House impeachment of Trump. Then after the holidays it will be all about the Senate trial and the report will never gain traction even if it highlights misdeeds.
It should be released on Wednesday before Thanksgiving to give Americans something to talk about over turkey dinner..............
Trust the plan.
LOL!
Trump should have fired Horowitz.
I saw something on FR this morning from Joe DiGenova saying that for the Senate to issue a subpoena, both parties must agree?
Good post; Grassley’s right. And then we have Graham lying about holding hearings in the Senate after promising to do so. They are all running out the clock, Clinton style.
As I’ve said since the start of these “devastating” revelations - wake me up when someone goes to jail...
I believe the investigation continues to expand and we need patience.
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