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The Silencing of the Inspectors General
Townhall.com ^ | June 14, 2018 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/14/2018 8:14:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, an Obama administration appointee, is scheduled to deliver a report this week on DOJ and FBI abuses during the 2016 campaign cycle. Remember: His last investigation of FBI misconduct advised a criminal referral for fired former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who allegedly lied to federal investigators.

McCabe and at least a half-dozen other FBI employees quit, retired, were fired or were reassigned as a result of fallout from the politicization of the FBI. Yet, as Barack Obama left office, his chief of staff, Denis McDonough, strangely boasted that the Obama administration "has been historically free of scandal." Obama himself recently concluded of his eight-year tenure, "I didn't have scandals."

Those were puzzling assertions, given nearly nonstop scandals during Obama's eight years in office involving the IRS; General Services Administration; Peace Corps; Secret Service; Veterans Administration; and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, not to mention the Clinton email server scandal, the Benghazi scandal and the 2016 Democratic National Committee email scandal.

For nearly eight years, the Obama administration sought to cover up serial wrongdoing by waging a veritable war against the watchdog inspectors general of various federal agencies.

In 2014, 47 of the nation's 73 inspectors general signed a letter alleging that Obama had stonewalled their "ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently, and in a timely manner."

The frustrated nonpartisan auditors cited systematic Obama administration refusals to turn over incriminating documents that were central to their investigations.

The administration had purportedly tried to sidetrack an IG investigation into possible misconduct by then-Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. In addition, the Obama administration reportedly thwarted IG investigations of Amtrak, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the Office of Management and Budget

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To: Albion Wilde

Another example of Obama bleeding America to death by a thousand cuts.

President Trump should address the nation and spell it all out.


41 posted on 06/15/2018 11:27:27 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Syncro

The SES are those in the cabal who will do anything to keep their power

it is the worst of the worst


42 posted on 06/15/2018 11:31:41 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SaveFerris

All hail King Rosenstein! The god-man who is a Law unto himself! He can edit and redact IG Reports that criticize and find wrongdoing involving himself! The deity who can threaten members of Congress conducting Constitutional oversight, and get away with it! All HAIL!

43 posted on 06/15/2018 12:35:42 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Seems a very select few have chosen to attempt to overthrow a legally-elected President for Madam Hillary.

20 years ago I would not have believed it possible. Now I’m wondering if we’ll need the military to put down this coup attempt.


44 posted on 06/15/2018 12:43:38 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Nifster

Thanks for exposing them Nifster


45 posted on 06/15/2018 12:51:02 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Albion Wilde; Kaslin

Thanks for the ping - to Kaslin for finding and posting it...he’s always in on a lot of the best stuff.


46 posted on 06/15/2018 1:32:13 PM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: trebb; Kaslin
Thanks... to Kaslin for finding and posting it...he’s always in on a lot of the best stuff.

Totally agree!

47 posted on 06/15/2018 2:37:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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To: SaveFerris

“The lying liberals repeat these lies online, all the time.”......

It’s done to cast attention away from their obvious corruption and has been going on for a very long time.

I’m tired of hearing all their B.S. about how lilly white they are, it’s well past time to get them at the end of a rope.


48 posted on 06/15/2018 3:32:58 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

I’d love to disagree.....


49 posted on 06/15/2018 3:50:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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...but many of them seem beyond hope.

It just boggles the mind.


50 posted on 06/15/2018 3:51:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks, Albion.

“In 2014, 47 of the nation’s 73 inspectors general signed a letter alleging that Obama had stonewalled their “ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently, and in a timely manner.”

What kind of country do you have when the watchmen guarding against corruption and fraud are snubbed and told to go away.

Reading this I can’t help but believe Trump is really going to go after Obama and rest — and make it stick.

It will take time, but he knows he must bring them to justice!


51 posted on 06/15/2018 4:58:55 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: Kaslin

Farce.


52 posted on 06/15/2018 5:44:03 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kaslin

Well, yesterday sort of blew VDH’s thesis out of the water. The IG pulled a Combover, laid out all the evidence, then said, “no culture of bias here.”

“Oh, and by the way, one of our recommendations is bias training.”


53 posted on 06/15/2018 5:49:29 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendix))
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To: poconopundit

I know we are baying for justice, but there will be no justice for this nation until the people repent and bow their knee once again. As long as our legal system legitimizes abhorrent sins, and our churches try to change the plain meaning of the scriptures to fit the mood of the times, there will be God’s grave disappointment in our beautiful land that once was His, and now is not.


54 posted on 06/15/2018 7:29:26 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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To: Albion Wilde
but there will be no justice for this nation until the people repent and bow their knee once again

That's true and very important. But it is equally true that the people, for the most part, vote for the managerial state which is a superset of the deep state. They give their pork barrel rep 50+ percent approval while giving Congress as a whole 13% The people also vote for safety and their reps promise that as well.

I think though that your solution must come first before people will realize that they don't need big government.

55 posted on 06/15/2018 7:52:08 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Albion Wilde

btt


56 posted on 06/15/2018 8:36:02 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Equine1952

Interesting analysis indeed.


57 posted on 06/15/2018 11:06:29 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: Albion Wilde

You’re welcome, and so do I.


58 posted on 06/16/2018 4:50:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: SaveFerris

Give it a try if you’re a card carrying liberal. :)


59 posted on 06/16/2018 5:32:14 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

lol


60 posted on 06/16/2018 12:05:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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