Posted on 11/22/2019 4:27:12 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Details of the Horowitz FISA report are leaking, and it all smacks of a whitewash. – Not that that outcome wasn’t completely predictable, since I warned you to fully expect that in yesterday’s Campaign Update.
Last night, CNN ran with a story – based on leaks no doubt obtained from one of the many ex-FBI snakes now employed by the fakest news channel on earth – proclaiming that Horowitz’s report will make claims of criminal activity by a single FBI lawyer, whose identity is not revealed in the story. Might it be James Baker, the former FBI general counsel now working for CNN as a contributor? Might it be Lisa Page, the paramour and co-conspirator to super-duper FBI stud Peter Strzok? We didn’t know, and CNN wasn’t telling.
What CNN did say about the nature of the potential charges against this lawyer is this:
A former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, several people briefed on the matter told CNN.
A little later in the evening, the Deep State mouthpieces at the Washington Post came in with a story of their own, and it revealed more about this lawyer’s identity. According to the Post:
The person under scrutiny is a low-level FBI lawyer who has since been forced out of the agency, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss material that has not yet been made public.
Hilariously, after Wolf Blitzer carried a report on this CNN “breaking news,” the fake news channel’s own on-air fake talent studiously ignored it for the rest of the evening. Only in America’s dead profession of journalism would a news outlet work so hard to bury a major scoop that its own people were the first to report.
But the bottom line here is that Horowitz, true to his nature as a career creature of the DC Swamp, has apparently found the perfect scapegoat, a low-level lawyer who has already been forced out of his job and who can now become the sacrificial lamb, the offering to the public in a report that otherwise whitewashes the utter defrauding of the FISA process that we all know was led by Strzok, James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein, among others. We know a whitewash is very likely because the Post piece also contains this very disturbing passage:
That conduct did not alter Horowitz’s finding that the surveillance application of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had a proper legal and factual basis, the officials said.
Ugh.
The lone bit of potentially good news in all of this actually appears on the CNN report:
Horowitz turned over evidence on the allegedly altered document to John Durham, the federal prosecutor appointed early this year by Attorney General William Barr to conduct a broad investigation of intelligence gathered for the Russia probe by the CIA and other agencies, including the FBI. The altered document is also at least one focus of Durham’s criminal probe.
So, again, if you were expecting gang-buster, myriad criminal referrals to be contained in the report from career apparatchik Michael Horowitz, you would be well advised to cool your jets. While reports from CNN and the WaPo are highly suspect at best and far from definitive accounts of the totality of the Horowitz’s findings, they provide good initial foundation to believe the report will be a classic DC Swamp whitewash.
After all, if the report contained criminal referrals targeting the true major players in all of this, those major players would be working with their toadies at CNN, WaPo, the NYTimes and the networks to plant stories that smear Horowitz and contain more-preferred narratives.
If you want real justice to be levied at the coup cabal plotters, it will either come from John Durham and his investigation, or it will never come at all.
That is all.
It sounds like its Lisa Page
That’s why it took so long. So they all had time to get their stories straight.
Things that are never gonna happen take a while...
ONE??? ONE??? HOROWITZ IS A DEMOCRAT LOSER LIAR!!
The whitewasher needs to go.
Maybe we should wait and actually read the report first.
The author doesn’t even mention the likelihood that Carter Page was a CIA-FBI asset from the start.
Durham has always been our best bet. Read up on him. He is not a DS creature. He’s not owned by anybody.
He is notoriously slow and meticulous. It will take as long as it takes.
He has put some very bad people away, he won’t be easily intimidated. As long as he runs this investigation the same way he has run every other in his storied career, we will have a good outcome.
“If you want real justice to be leveed at the coup cabal plotters, it will either come from John Dunham and his investigation, or it will never come at all.”
I’ll take “it will never come at all” for $1,000 Alex.
No, no!
This is Freerepubic- we never read, only post....
Great analysis as usual, that was the same money quote that immediately stood out to me as well. Hopefully Durham is investigating Horrowitz at this point, but so far it appears only Republicans ever get charged and go to jail in D.C.
And we have a winner!!!
Before everybody gets all exercised over this, just remember that Durham’s investigation is NOT limited to the findings/whitewashing of the IG report.
This may not age well.
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Have reporters asked congressional Republicans this simple question: Do you sincerely believe Donald Trump cares about corruption generally? Seriously? Can you give an example not named Biden? Just one?
9:47 PM - 21 Nov 2019
Draining the swamp will take infantry and artillery. Nothing else will work.
Sounds like all the bad actors involved will claim that they were acting in good faith, not knowing that the report was altered.
Related: My AZ congresscritter Paul Gosar relayed some fascinating info on radio yesterday. CIA Director Haspel put the screws to McCabe getting 16 hours of testimony (spilling beans ? ) When that became known, numerous agents suddenly wanted to re-testify
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