Posted on 10/01/2019 11:05:20 AM PDT by Fido969
While acknowledging that Horowitz is widely respected, these critics say his work has long been hampered by biases, conflicts and a tendency to play favorites, as in past probes of former FBI Director James Comey, whom Horowitz worked under in New York.
Their main complaint is that he pulls his punches.
Horowitz’s investigation of the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email case, for example, concluded that many of Comey’s explanations for his dubious actions were “unconvincing," while stopping short of saying that Comey lied to investigators. Comey asserted implausibly that he delayed acting on a mountain of new Clinton email evidence discovered on a laptop in New York because he was never briefed about it until nearly a month after his top aides found out about it in September 2016.
In probing whether Comey illegally leaked classified information to the New York Times, Horowitz in the end accepted his argument that the memo of a conversation with President Trump was sensitive but “not classified” – even though the memo contained information about the FBI's ongoing counterintelligence investigation of the president’s national security adviser.
“I see a pattern of him pulling up short and trying to be a bit of a statesman instead of making the hard calls,” said Chris Swecker, a 24-year veteran of the FBI who served as assistant director of its criminal investigative division, where he oversaw public corruption cases.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
After 24 years he hasn't learned how to shut his mouth? The FBI is a corrupt criminal organization.
50/50
hopeful/doubtful
A thread opus? Is that allowed?
They said all the same nonsense about Muller. This is DC Swamp speak for “the fix is in”. Anytime the Clown Media praise a DC careerist, know that it is total spin to fabricate a false credibility for the stooge
I want what I want now and if they do not do what I want I am gonna stomp my feet and pout
33 months and counting.
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