No thank you, PAYWALL STREET JOURNAL.
Horowitz spent more time learning how to write a politically correct cover up than he did investigating.
BFOTO (blinding flash of the obvious)
“More than ever it seems FBI headquarters, from which the demand originated, was under some unidentified outside pressure to spy on the Trump campaign.”
NO!!! Seriously???
Obama, obviously. And -- as the Democrats will tell you -- no one is above the law.
By putting what happened under a microscope, you get 500 pages of malfeasance and abuse of the system in such excruciating detail that most people’s eyes just glaze over. And no one is connecting it to the wider plot.
Most people don’t understand the significance of Carter Page, so 500 pages discussing his FISA warrant seem like “inside baseball”. But the Carter Page warrant was their warrant to surveil the president and his entire team, but with no obvious paper trail. It’s as if they want to surveil you, so they get a warrant on your neighbor’s brother-in-law. Crooked, but it’s what they did.
Linda is kicking their asses today. He sounds like a mean ol Prosecutor in his opening statment, and not holding anything back...
The Horowitz report was carefully crafted so those pouring over it can take away from it whatever proclivities they may harbor. An accurate assessment of it (not mine) is the report is the Rorschach (test) ... it is open to interpretation and can be whatever you want to read into it.
The FBI targeted citizens, thugged by SWAT team break-ins, spying, sting entrapments and other soviet style tactics knowingly with bogus evidence.
At the least those “professionals” should be treated the same.
Lives were destroyed for Hillary’s benefit then for the sake of these outright thugs who then tried to cover their tracks .
Those agents and their managers should have their families and friends subjected to the same tactics they used on others at a Minimum. Who knows what dirt could be found on these sickos
Tens of thousands of hand-wringing text messages between Strzok and Page to the effect of “he (Trump) won’t win, right?” and “we have an insurance policy if he does” isn’t documentary evidence of political bias???
One might make allowances at the very beginning that the initial concealment by the guy who altered the record that the FBI investigators might not know of Carter Pages previous work as an anti-Russian informant for the CIA - but if they’d actually been investigating him, they’d have come across it relatively early in the process. The court filings which identify him as a CI have been out there for years, and the references correlating that record to him have been widely available for quite some time.
As a longtime denizen of The Deep State, Horowitz's main objective was to protect, as best he could, the FBI and DC establishment, and apparently this went as far as overlooking the obvious.
It's also apparent that Wray is definitely NOT the one to clean up the FBI. I suspect the FBI will continue to be a cesspool for The Deep State until the Courts begin to reverse convictions.
In the end, if we don’t get justice, the country will not know peace again. It’s really that simple.
“...a factually damning report that even a thick-headed and biased press will have to take account of.”
Demonstrably untrue. Didn’t the press parade every one of the bottom-feeding conspirators out to take a victory lap Monday evening?
“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.”
Someone needs to explain to the reporter how FISA eavesdropping works with the “hops”. Previously they were allowed to monitor anyone they could connect within 3 “hops” of the subject named in the warrant. I believe that changed in 2015 to only 2 “hops”. Still, 2 hops was probably sufficient for a warrant on Page to allow them to spy on every important member of the Trump campaign at the national level.
This very important question has not even been asked by the mainstream media, even though it is the most relevant question of the story.
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