Posted on 12/11/2019 7:11:55 AM PST by karpov
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, as he explains, is bound to assume good faith unless given “documentary or testimonial evidence” otherwise. Yet he has compiled a factually damning report that even a thick-headed and biased press will have to take account of.
A shorthand version of his report: Here are 50 facts that can be explained only by FBI incompetence or political bias. We find no documentary or testimonial evidence of bias.
The mystique of Christopher Steele has gone poof, along with the reputations of many pundits. The FBI saw that he was being paid to sell claims to the press even as his third-hand sources were contradicting his claims to the FBI. He was the kind of reporter (we’ve known a few) prone to “follow the shiny object.” The CIA considered his reporting “internet rumor.”
On the surveillance warrant on the peripheral and unimportant Carter Page, we learn that a host of mistakes, omissions and outright fabrications “made it appear that the information supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case.” Exculpatory evidence was ignored. Mr. Page conveyed persuasively that he had never spoken to or communicated with Paul Manafort whose intermediary with Russian co-conspirators Mr. Page was supposed to be. Mr. Steele’s implausible claim of a giant dangled Rosneft bribe was denied even by Mr. Steele’s own source as the inspector general was able to confirm by looking at the source’s text messages. Still unexplained, and inexplicable, is why the FBI was in a panic to eavesdrop on Mr. Page at all. Nobody could have believed Mr. Steele’s story about him. More than ever it seems FBI headquarters, from which the demand originated, was under some unidentified outside pressure to spy on the Trump campaign.
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He, like 99 1/2 percent of lawyers hired by our government, to appear before the public are revolving door lawyers. Their purpose is to cover up whatever the democrats want buried. Right now it’s to keep obama’s, jarret’s, and hillary’s skirts tight around their ankles, so Nothing slides out that will hurt their cause.
Re Baier and the rest of the media large portions of crow being served .
Their desire to railroad Nunez and Trump failed once again.
Nope....and nobody at the FBI has ever heard of “Crowdstrike” or “BleachBit” either......
Easy for you to say..you didn't graduate as a lawyer from an Ivy League school............/s
Bias is when you don’t like someone or something broader like a race or culture.
What was shown here was political actions amounting to the malice necessary for a political coup by law enforcement and intelligence arms of the Federal government against a political candidate, a political party and ultimately an elected President.
Bias? Humbug! This was far more sinister
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