Posted on 08/31/2019 9:11:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Justice Department Office of the Inspector General’s report released Aug. 29 clearly stated that James Comey violated and abused FBI policies in managing memos in which he supposedly documented confidential conversations with the president. This is a revelation that most of us have known for quite some time.
However, Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz has yet again glossed over some major problems.
It appears that the main reason Horowitz concludes former FBI Director James Comey only violated his FBI Employment Agreement and DOJ/FBI “policies” was because the documents he kept, disclosed, and leaked to improper parties were not considered truly classified. That apparently keeps them from being serious enough to prosecute. So, who made the decision that they were not classified? The answer would be outrageous if it were not virtually farcical.
In the early pages of the report, Horowitz repeatedly tells us that “the FBI reviewed,” “the FBI designated,” and “the FBI determined” (four times on page 2 alone) that these memos or documents “did not contain classified information.” Who was making these critical determinations at “the FBI” that helped save Comey? You would have to flip over forty pages further into the report to get to that information.
Horowitz tells us at page 42 and 43 that there were four people involved in that review and decisions, but the two of those four who were most experienced in making those determinations were named Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. If you will recall Horowitz, in his previous report, found basically hundreds of pages to document appalling bias against Trump, as well as monstrous love for and desire to see Hillary Clinton elected president.
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Ugly and dangerous.
FBI should take out the word “policy” and replace with “suggestions”
Yup. I also noticed this when I read the report.
It's Strzok, Page, Baker and Priestap.
Have we forgotten this was the same IG who could not find any bias against Trump? How could anyone be surprised he finessed this report in such a way to give enough room for Barr not to charge Comey with anything?
.………...and, add to Gohmert’s totally accurate analysis the SMIRK on Christopher Wray’s face as he lies and misleads the Congress committees!
Deep State = 1
America = 0
Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, General Counsel James Baker - all of whom are now out of the FBI under a cloud - and an unnamed (female) unit chief.
Sounds like there is another there that still needs firing.
Michael Horowitz is either DIRTY or DUMB....which is it??
Horowitz is the real culprit.
He threw red meat to conservatives about Comey while letting him walk free,
By doing this he thinks he evades criticism for not being ‘tough’ on Comey while at the same time he evades condemnation from the Left because he let their side escape prosecution.
He thinks that by not referring Comey’s case for prosecution that if the Republicans and the White House choose to prosecute, that it will be seen as partisan.
I see right through Horowitz and it’s disgusting. This worm has no integrity, none. He’s worse than Comey because he allows Comey’s to proliferate in government.
I am still questioning why this report had to come out separate from the main report. Why could this Comey report not have been a chapter or appendix in the coming report?
Here’s what will happen in the final report:
Horowitz has been getting heat from Dr. Gorka, then a tweet from POTUS regarding Comey should have been charged for stealing government docs under Section 641, and now Rep. Gohmert. Horowitz will get more hear.
Horowitz will confer with his network and decide they need to throw someone under the bus to again cast red meat to conservatives. But it will be a low ranking nobody, not a ringleader. The ringleaders will walk off free and they will be back stronger for the 2020 election.
“...when in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...”
He’s a senior government lifer employee. He rose through the ranks by playing dumb when he had to. He won’t do anything blatantly dirty. If he’s scrutinized for something dirty, he will blame someone else.
It’s what government lifers do.
People like DiGenova and Bongino are already backing off, telling you there will be no prosecutions of any of these people. They are simply going to be “exposed” as if that’s enough.
The Deep State is still completely in charge.
The idea that ANY of these people will be taken down is BS.
IG Michael Horowitz sent a criminal referral for Comey to be prosecuted and it was someone else in the DOJ that decided to not follow through--
So that makes your "Michael Horowitz is either DIRTY or DUMB....which is it??" mute but... 
raises questions about what you are?
So, Horowitz will NOT follow justice and will continue to protect anti-American operatives.
What F.B.I.? The cabal of criminals?
“People like DiGenova and Bongino are already backing off, telling you there will be no prosecutions of any of these people. They are simply going to be “exposed” as if that’s enough.“
This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Why, in this blatantly two-tiered “justice” system, would anyone be so idealistic as to actually think these elites would ever actually face justice? They glide above the laws that govern us commoners.
If Horowitz was a good guy he would have named the Strzok and Page on page 2 instead of burying it on page 42.
Been out of the country til today, but followed on TV and NEVER heard that SOMEONE ELSE, not HORODITZ did that.....WHO was it!!
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