Posted on 04/22/2019 10:08:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rep. Matt Gaetz says evidence of FBI officials improperly receiving incentives from the media in exchange for leaks will soon come out.
During an interview on Fox News late Saturday, the Florida Republican said the Justice Department inspector general is examining the FBI's relationship with some members of the press. But, he said some of this information will be made public before the watchdog report's release.
"One of the other nuggets that the inspector general is working on is the corruption that existed between the media and members of of the FBI," Gaetz said. "Where members of the mainstream media were giving concert passes and athletic tickets and other incentives to people in the FBI to leak to them so we'll be seeing that even before we see the inspector general's report on how this fraudulent investigation began."
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the initiation of a FISA abuse investigation in March 2018 after requests from both then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Republican members in Congress. He is expected to wrap up by May or June.
It's unclear where Gaetz may have gotten his information. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
However, his fellow GOP colleagues Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan recently said they discussed the FISA investigation with Horowitz. The lawmakers claimed the Justice Department and FBI had abused the FISA process and misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in their investigation and surveillance of President Trump and his associates during the campaign, as well as during the Trump administration.
Gaetz questioned the veracity of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, noting how he cited media reports "as if they're gospel when they clearly are not."
[Read more: Obama DOJ has to fess up on FISA 'spying' after Mueller finds no collusion, GOP investigator says]
Mueller's report, which was released in redacted form on Thursday, found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller declined to make a conclusion about possible obstruction of justice by the president.
The DOJ inspector general released a report last summer that found many FBI officials talking to the press and attending "social events" with the media during the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private emails, breaking with FBI policy limiting employees who are authorized to speak to the media.
In October, the inspector general released more information in a summary that said a senior FBI official, who had since retired, accepted tickets to a sports event from a television reporter who regularly covered the bureau.
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Careful, people have shot themselves in the back of the head twice for much less reason
There are going to be a large,large number of early retirement applications, I’ll bet.
Joe Scarborough is and has always been a low-life POS!
It is important that it come out so people can see it.
I hope Republican congressmen don’t do the same as Adam Schitt... get their constituents hopes up on bogus information. I will wait for the expose and arrests/firings.
Homeland Security and TSA needs to ban any flights by these thugs and to “freeze” their pass ports.
If these thugs are willing to renounce their citizenship and fly oneway to Cuba or Iran, allow that.
Just a note to keep expectations under control. The job of the IG in every agency is to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by employees and make recommendations. It may not please “us” but one recommendation can be to let an employee resign or retire with no criminal prosecution.
In the case of Andrew McCabe, Horowitz’ report cited numerous instances where McCabe “lacked candor under oath” and that he violate FBI policy and that his actions constituted misconduct. But it concludes:
“The OIG is issuing this report to the FBI for such action that it deems to be appropriate”
So the final call may be Barr’s, or his delegates. I won’t be surprised to see that some of the leakers may be allowed to avoid prosecution if they were forthcoming and honest inwhat they told the IG. There are other forms of punishment besides jail.
If these thugs are willing to renounce their citizenship and fly oneway to Cuba or Iran, allow that.
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Only if HIGHTLY publicized and set up so a ‘Jimmy Carter type’ can’t grant them amnesty at a later date.
—Remember JC pardoned all the Draft Dodgers, which I guess was one reason nobody could really go after WJClinton no matter what promises he had made.
Well, I need to bring up this is the Republican modus operandi since they’ve been running.
Get our hopes up that they’re really conservative right before the election.
After the election, reach across the aisle to accommodate the democrats, and turn their backs on us.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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I blew that one so bad I had to highlight it...<: <: <:
Careful, people have shot themselves in the back of the head twice for much less reason
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And the media will always call such double head wounds “suicide”
Good point. Also, they would have to roll over and put into prison, at least a dozen other FBI seditionists.
I'll be satisfied with just 5 corrupt people going to jail, as long as Comey is one of them.
He can pick the other four, and they can bargain for their terms.
Adam Schitt lied - just made stuff up out of whole cloth... we’re not doing that...
“Matt is MT Congresscritter”
I think you meant “Matt is *MY* Congresscritter”
“Matthew Louis Gaetz II is an American attorney who has served as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 1st congressional district since 2017, where he is a member of the Budget, Armed Services, and Judiciary Committees.”
Yes, dang keyboard can’t spell worth a damn....................
Do you actually expect lawmakers, who’re legally receiving millions in lobbyist money, to care if a public servant gets tickets to watch a crappy baseball game?
I’m in Montana. I do not believe we elected Matt.
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