Posted on 06/14/2018 12:25:58 PM PDT by WASCWatch
This is from the conclusions part of the report. May not be as bad as some might think: “First, we found that several FBI employees who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages—some of which related directly to the Midyear investigation—that created the appearance of bias and thereby raised questions about the objectivity and thoroughness of the Midyear investigation. Even more seriously, text messages between Strzok and Page pertaining to the Russia investigation, particularly a text message from Strzok on August 8 stating “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.” in response to a Page text “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!,” are not only indicative of a biased state of mind but imply a willingness to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. This is antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice. While we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed in Chapter Five, the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation and sowed doubt about the FBI’s work on, and its handling of, the Midyear investigation. It also called into question Strzok’s failure in October 2016 to follow up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop. The damage caused by these employees’ actions extends far beyond the scope of the Midyear investigation and goes to the heart of the FBI’s reputation for neutral factfinding and political independence.”
The OIG report states that FBI sent political messages that create appearances of bias and raises questions about objectivity. So it is about far more people than just Strzok and Page.
The OIG did not find “documentary or testimonial evidence that that improper considerations, including political bias, ...”, this conclusion specifically states that, “ the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation and sowed doubt about the FBI’s work on, and its handling of, the Midyear investigation.” In other words, the FBI and DOJ employees did not give him documents or testimony admitting their bias. Of course they didn’t; those corrupt people were not going to sign their own indictment and admit their crimes.The OIG is not saying there wasn’t bias, because this same paragraph clearly states that he believes their was bias.
If you scroll down to Attachment H, you will see a diagram of a number of high-ranking FBI personnel exchanging phone calls with reporters, including over 20 each between the Director (had to be Comey) and a “special Agent” with a particular reporter.
Hard to see how Comey can avoid prosecution for these crimes. The others have real problems, too.
The IG stated there were no documents or testimony regarding evidence of political bias. He did not say there wasn't political bias. There is a big difference. If the FBI and DOJ hide such evidence, of course he doesn't have it.
The IG said there was an appearance of bias and raised questions about the objectivity of the investigation.
There is enough here, along with other evidence to demand a special counsel to prosecute these individuals
Exactly.
No link?
He actually is saying no evidence the Hilary decision was based on bias. He did find bias, just not a witness or document saying that this bias was behind the decision. HOWEVER I’d say when you write that you will Stop Trump, your bias affected the decision on Hillary.
“Words are important”
I agree, but the title of your vanity uses a double negative. Let’s not start doing mental gymnastics here.
Yes, and the local news is reporting that there was no bias.
The fact is that this government is controlled by a bunch of corrupt bastards. There will be no justice and they can pretty much do what ever they want.
This will dominate the MSM reporting and, as you point out, it will be distorted to convince the clueless that the IG found “no political bias”.
The real story is that both the MSM and the FBI have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted. As for the Democrat Party, they are clearly an Organized Criminal Enterprise.
You are completely correct. Now would be a good time for OUR President to release the unredacted version.
They will begin to scurry now because the next report is about TREASON.
The IG stated there were no documents or testimony regarding evidence of political bias.
Sometimes I hate semantics.
Somebody tell Rush.
He was livid about 2:35 pm.
The point of the poster's post, and its headline wording, is to refute the message of the few hours this afternoon from the MSM that "there was no political bias" in the IG report. The double-negative is important to the meaning.
Media: "There was was no political bias."
Poster: "The report did not say there was no political bias."
Agree.
I was just looking over pages xi and xii and the report writers address what is at minimum the appearance of political bias in Strzok and Page.
The IG isn’t a prosecutor. They aren’t going to use the language of a prosecutor. They are providing the information that a prosecutor may use to prosecute. That may be what Huber and other federal prosecutors are working on right now.
The “no bias” was used in regards to Comey only as far as I can see. It isn’t used in regard to Strzok and Page.
You can bet the RATs are doing a victory dance.
And they should.
This was a predetermined and planned whitewash.
Those who think otherwise are delutional.
And if it can proven to be a whitewash which it will. There is new law which went into effect Monday that is going to spell lots of trouble for those involved. A new entity to law enforcement is officially empowered to deal with this and they are not the beaureaucrats friend. I was trained on it yesterday and it’s officia.
I don’t think the redactions would change the IG’s conclusion that some agents texts could lead to the “appearance” of bias and that better training is necessary to prevent the “appearance” of bias because it could “cast a cloud” over an investigation. The next report will be the same.
What law?
It is a new law concerning the use and release of official government information that is encompassing over all entities. The oversight is no longer DOJ’s alone. They have a watchman now who can investigate, prosecute and punish them. It looks to me that Trump was way ahead of them. It became official on Monday.
I just finished reading the Executive summary of the OIG report. I thought it was intended to be a white wash. . . throwing a few executives under the bus, but basically saying everything with Clinton and Obama were copacetic and they did nothing wrong. The bias in the OIG report is literally dripping off the page. . .
The IG misses the irony about finding FBI agents and employees using personal phones and devices as completely inappropriate for transmitting confidential FBI documents yet gives Hillary a complete pass on her use of her personal server AFTER finding all the confidential and secret documents on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, certainly proving the worst case scenario that her use of non-secure communications HAD COMPROMISED SECURITY of STATE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS which wound up where they were NOT SUPPOSED TO BE!
Talk about willful blindness and talking out of both sides of the IG’s word processor.
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