This is from the conclusions part of the report. May not be as bad as some might think:
“First, we found that several FBI employees who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages—some of which related directly to the Midyear investigation—that created the appearance of bias and thereby raised questions about the objectivity and thoroughness of the Midyear investigation. Even more seriously, text messages between Strzok and Page pertaining to the Russia investigation, particularly a text message from Strzok on August 8 stating “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.” in response to a Page text “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!,” are not only indicative of a biased state of mind but imply a willingness to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. This is antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice. While we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed in Chapter Five, the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation and sowed doubt about the FBI’s work on, and its handling of, the Midyear investigation. It also called into question Strzok’s failure in October 2016 to follow up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop. The damage caused by these employees’ actions extends far beyond the scope of the Midyear investigation and goes to the heart of the FBI’s reputation for neutral factfinding and political independence.”
The OIG report states that FBI sent political messages that create appearances of bias and raises questions about objectivity. So it is about far more people than just Strzok and Page.
The OIG did not find “documentary or testimonial evidence that that improper considerations, including political bias, ...”, this conclusion specifically states that, “ the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation and sowed doubt about the FBI’s work on, and its handling of, the Midyear investigation.” In other words, the FBI and DOJ employees did not give him documents or testimony admitting their bias. Of course they didn’t; those corrupt people were not going to sign their own indictment and admit their crimes.The OIG is not saying there wasn’t bias, because this same paragraph clearly states that he believes their was bias.
If you scroll down to Attachment H, you will see a diagram of a number of high-ranking FBI personnel exchanging phone calls with reporters, including over 20 each between the Director (had to be Comey) and a “special Agent” with a particular reporter.
Hard to see how Comey can avoid prosecution for these crimes. The others have real problems, too.
Thank you. People have to get beyond the headlines today are read the whole report.
Perhaps but I read the FBI is now giving ethical training to agents regarding comments during investigations. That is what the Director thinks of the conclusions. Unless they reopen the entire Hitlery matter and investigate it the way they should have in the first place, which I give about a 1 in a trillion chance happens, the conclusions will result in nothing more than the “mistakes were made, ethical standards may have been stretched but in the end the results were what they should have been”.
Compare the Hitlery “investigation” into what is going on with Trump and what they are doing to him is what they should have done with her. That is bias no matter what the IG says but his report is what we have to go by.
The OIG report states that FBI sent political messages that create appearances of bias and raises questions about objectivity. So it is about far more people than just Strzok and Page.
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Yup.
Check out this text exchange clipped from a Reddit user on The_Donald. The text message exchange leads me to believe FBI agents are a subset of Democrat Underground users, and that back-flipping, disco-dancing, gun-shooting FBI agent is representative of the current “caliber” of FBI “Special” agents...
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On August 29, 2016, Agent 1 and Agent 5 exchanged the following instant messages as part of a discussion about their jobs. The sender of each message is noted after the timestamp.
10:39:49, Agent 1: “I find anyone who enjoys [this job] an absolute fucking idiot. If you dont think so, ask them one more question. Who are you voting for? I guarantee you it will be Donald Drumpf.”
10:40:13, Agent 5: “i forgot about drumpf…”
10:40:27, Agent 5: “that’s so sad and pathetic if they want to vote for him.”
10:40:43, Agent 5: “someone who can’t answer a question”
10:40:51, Agent 5: “someone who can’t be professional for even a second” On September 9, 2016, Agent 1 and Agent 5 exchanged the following instant messages.
08:56:43, Agent 5: “i’m trying to think of a ‘would i rather’ instead of spending time with those people”
08:56:54, Agent 1: “stick your tongue in a fan??”
08:56:58, Agent 5: “i would rather have brunch with trump”
08:57:03, Agent 1: “ha”
08:57:15, Agent 1: “french toast with drumpf”
08:57:19, Agent 5: “i would rather have brunch with trump and a bunch of his supporters like the ones from ohio that are retarded”
08:57:23, Agent 5: “:)
Hard to see how Comey can avoid prosecution for these crimes. The others have real problems, too.
I assume that Comey is authorized as Head of the Agency to speak to reporters. He may even authorize himself to declassify things in those conversations.
I don't think you will see any prosecution of Comey or talking to the press, and I'm not sure that one is warranted.
One of the only reasons McCabe is in trouble for it is what he was saying to the press were self-serving lies about somethings that had to do with him.
The others may be in more trouble, or not. It's not against the law to talk to a reporter in each and every instance.
Each FIB phone call to the media was a crime— yet no criminal referrals??? Did you know that it is a crime for the OIG not to make criminal referrals?