VANITY: The Inspector General Report was very important...Here's why.

Various | 6/17/2018 | Myself

[rlmorel]

NOTE: I am taking much of this from the Dan Bongino podcast "Episode 743: The Aftermath". I am listing these in the order he presents them.

Here are EIGHT major points to take away from the Inspector General Report.

It is wise to keep in mind that this report was NOT about spying on Trump, and it was NOT whether Hillary Clinton used an unauthorized private email server.

This IG report was about the conduct of the FBI and the DOJ during the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal.

We should keep in mind what this report is, and isn't. This may very well net some high people and result in some criminal prosecutions, but that isn't what is most important about this report.

What is important are the things contained in the report that are going to have a bearing on other investigations that are certainly going to come down the pike. This was NOT an insignificant or empty report. We shouldn't fall into the trap the media sets to dismiss this "as a nothingburger". Here's why:

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POINT #1:POLITICAL BIAS WAS NOTED. The media has said the report stated there is no evidence of political bias. They are being deliberately incorrect (lying) IMO. The report says there is no DIRECT evidence of political bias, no smoking gun. However, it specifically states on page 398 that there is PLENTY of circumstantial evidence of political bias and they classify them as follows (from the IG Report):

"...We identified three categories of text messages that raised concerns about potential bias in FBI investigations. The first were text messages of a political nature commenting on Trump and Clinton. We specifically highlight these text messages because Strzok and Page played important roles in investigations involving both Trump and Clinton, and the exchange of these text messages on an FBI-issued device potentially created an appearance of bias. The second category we identified were text messages that combined expressions of political sentiments with a discussion of the Midyear investigation, potentially indicating or creating the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations. The third category raised similar questions with respect to the Russia investigation.

So, they definitively state what is obvious to anyone who had read the transcripts of messages between Strzok and Page, as well as comments from McCabe and Comey...that there was indeed political bias.

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POINT #2: COMEY USED PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNTS FOR OFFICIAL FBI BUSINESS. Comey admitted he used a personal email account for official business. And he is running the probe into someone accused of using a personal email account for...official business. This destroys Comey utterly, and he had to know it. It also means any idiotic (and we all knew it was idiotic from day one, but that never meant it wouldn't happen) "obstruction of justice" charge against Trump for firing Comey is...stillborn. If it ever went to a point where Comey is called to testify in any obstruction of justice proceeding, he would be shredded. He knows it, too.

DEFENSE FOR TRUMP: Mr. Comey, what were you in charge of investigating regarding email during the 2016 Presidential campaign?

COMEY: I was running an investigation into whether then candidate Hillary Clinton had been using a personal email account for official government business on an unauthorized server.

DEFENSE FOR TRUMP: Mr. Comey, have you ever, in violation of the law, used personal email accounts for official FBI business?

COMEY: Er...uh...yes.

DEFENSE FOR TRUMP: These proceedings are closed.

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POINT #3: COMEY DID NOT KNOW HUMA ABEDIN WAS MARRIED TO ANTHONY WEINER. COMEY DID NOT KNOW HUMA ABEDIN WAS MARRIED TO ANTHONY WEINER. Really? Really, really? This might not destroy him legally, but at best, it is going to destroy him intellectually. Could he REALLY be such a cloddish dolt? Could he really, REALLY have been this totally uniformed and ignorant, especially as it relates to to one of the single most explosive, controversial, and historically impactful FBI investigations in American history. This is not an insignificant thing. And to even consider he may not have, at the time of either the FBI probe or during the IG interview with him is stunning.

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POINT #4: COMEY WAS INSUBORDINATE BY USURPING PROSECUTORIAL DECISION MAKING. When closing the probe and Comey said that there would be no prosecution of Hillary Clinton, he had no business or authority to make that statement. That was NOT his purview. His team (The FBI with him at the helm) played an investigative role ONLY. PERIOD.

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POINT #5: OBAMA LIED ABOUT KNOWING ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON'S USE OF A PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT FOR OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Obama said, on the record, that he found out about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account for official business from the media. But there were emails where he was not only a recipient, he responded.

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POINT #6: THERE WAS A CRITICAL STRZOK TEXT MISSING FROM THOSE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED THAT APPEARED IN THE REPORT. Here are the two critical texts, with Strzok's response shown in the report:

PAIGE TEXT: “Trump’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”

STRZOK TEXT: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”

Strzok's response in red above was in the IG report, but was missing from the original "comprehensive" collection of the texts. The text itself is bad enough on its face, and can be interpreted in a number of ways, but the bigger question is: Why was it originally missing? Why? And if removed deliberately...by whom? This is NOT an insignificant item.

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POINT #7: THE IG REPORT DID NOT SAY THAT THE HILLARY EMAIL SERVER WAS COMPROMISED-ONLY THE TRAFFIC. This means that someone got their hands on the traffic itself, not copied off the server. Why is this distinction important? Unencrypted emails maybe?

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POINT #8: THE FBI WAS BEING BRIBED BY THE MEDIA. From the Daily Caller article: "...The contact between FBI agents and the media extended to receiving “improperly receiving benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events...” The root of a lot of the problems are leaks to the media. There were a lot of people at the FBI accepting gifts. It goes without saying what effect that most likely DID have with leaked information. Like a pedophile grooming a target, the Media was laying its groundwork with bribes.

[rlmorel]

Coming from you, vannrox, that is high praise. Thank you.

I mean it.

As I mentioned to another Freeper, I have been here since 2004 but only started just over a hundred threads, so I am more of a recipient than contributer of context and knowledge here at Free Republic.

And it has been invaluable to me, which is why I continue to come here, read, post, and pay dues!

[rlmorel]

Thanks, GOPJ.

The Leftist media always wants to consider the “optics” of something any conservative says or does.

We got news for you, scumbag media types (and you in the FBI involved in this):

The ‘optics’ on this SUCK for you, which means it is good for America!

[Jim Noble]

“Fake Republicans and all in the mix”

Why do you call them “fake Republicans”?

What you see is what the Republican Party really is. There’s nothing fake about them.

[rlmorel]

Thank you, and a pity your tagline won’t be applied to those richly deserving in this case. But maybe we’ll see some jail time at best (for America) or disgrace at worst!

[rlmorel]

You are most welcome...

[bert]

Way to go Rimorel....... tour de force post

[rlmorel]

Exactly.

The Clinton Foundation is a criminal enterprise.

I believe that the main reason (besides laziness) for using the unauthorized server was to avoid FOI disclosures of the seamy side of the Clinto Foundation AND the things she had been doing as Secretary of State with Uranium One and other influence peddling and need we say espionage, that is cash for information, both technical and political.

[rlmorel]

Funny. I got somewhat dispirited since I didn’t have time to follow the IG report when it came out, and the postings here on FR and what I did see (OR NOT SEE) from the media not only displayed how they intended to handle it, but that the approach was effective. Even I began to slide down that slope of “nothingburger”...until I got a chance to listen to Mr. Bongino.

[rlmorel]

Thanks, bert, glad you found it useful.

[Chewbarkah]

Q: Does having a Certificate and a Domain imply secure traffic?

A1: Domain = No. freerepublic.com is a domain. Registering a domain name does not create data security on your server. By analogy, posting your street number outside your house does not prevent burglary.

A2: Security Certificate = mixed. Security Certificates are files with data showing other servers that yours has been deemed secure by a third party that has established credibility to issue such certificates (for $). Having a Certificate provides no security to you; the lack of a security certificate warns other systems that communicating with your system might be risky. Presumably the issuer has verified that your system is legitimate, has a firewall and various security measures in place, etc. This would have zero effect on insecurity of Hillary’s Blackberry.

[rlmorel]

Thanks...somewhere in my brain I knew that, but had a whirlwind of things going through my mind.

Embarrassing, but true...:)

[discostu]

I’m on various forms of social media. You know the only place I’ve seen the IG report mentioned? FR. Everything old is new again, and this issue just is not drawing attention.

[rlmorel]

That may be true...I admit I don’t use Facebook, Twitter or anything else.

The thing is, the levers of power have been engaged. Once certain facts are made public and the gears start turning, it can’t generally be stopped. I think (and hope) that is what is happening here.

[Lazamataz]

Nicely done.

[Lazamataz]

Nicely done.

[rlmorel]

Thank you, Laz...hope all is well!

[rlmorel]

But I admit to being stubborn and sometimes unrealistically optimistic, so...take that for what it is worth!

[discostu]

Actually they stop all the time. Anything that doesn’t bring a constant stream of new facts doesn’t survive the weekend in the news cycle. The IG report is already old dead news.

[rlmorel]

Okay. We’ll see if anything comes out of it.

[GOPJ]

Speaking of MSM liars... You’ll enjoy this on rlmorel...

https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/06/10/50-media-mistakes-in-the-trump-era-the-definitive-list/