Posted on 06/17/2018 4:34:22 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
June 16th, 2018
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Reps. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Cedric Richmond, D-La.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Former White House strategist Steve Bannon; Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Giuliani; Reps. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.
This is long and arduous but its probably the best explanation of the IG report going by Sundance the great:
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IG Report: FBI Lawyer #1 Tashina Gauhar and The Huma/Weiner Laptop Issues…
Posted on June 15, 2018 by sundance
One of the information issues with the IG report is that it’s written entirely from an insider’s perspective. Therefore without an understanding of how divisions within Main Justice related to the discussed activity within FBI main DC offices it can be very confusing to understand.
The ‘insider narration’ makes it difficult to see what happened with the Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner laptop; and how the Clinton emails were discovered. However, because the issue is so important the IG report spends three chapters on this time-frame between September 28th and October 29th, 2016; and ultimately the next day, Oct. 30th, when a search warrant was executed for the laptop content.
IG Horowitz takes this aspect of the investigation into granularity and nuance (Chapters 8, 9 and 10).
At the heart of the activity during this critical period is FBI lawyer #1 Tashina “Tash” Gauhar who was on a video conference call with the FBI New York Field Office (NYFO) as the discoveries of hundreds of thousands of Clinton emails were relayed internally to the Mid-Year-Event (MYE) team in DC on September 29th, 2016.
Almost a full month went by until October 27th, 2016, when the MYE team all gathered with James Comey to talk about the laptop issues and the emails. Within the IG review of this period, there is a bunch of ass-covering documentation that takes place in hindsight to the events. The IG is careful to point out each time his investigation is presented with documentary evidence that was clearly written long-after the events being questioned.
The central IG question is: why didn’t the FBI take immediate action to review 725,000 Clinton-centric emails on the Huma/Weiner laptop? Why did they wait a month before seeking a search warrant? Why were they doing nothing?
With these three basic questions Horowitz enters a matrix of FBI excuses, obtuse claims, he-said/she-said, and ultimately a bunch of statements by the MYE team that simply didn’t make a lick of sense. Or put more diplomatically in IG language: “we found most of the explanations offered for this delay to be unconvincing.” (pg. 324)
IG REPORT pg 324 – By no later than September 29, the FBI had learned virtually every fact that was cited by the FBI in late October as justification for obtaining the search warrant for the Weiner laptop, including that the laptop contained:
Over 340,000 emails, some of which were from domains associated with Clinton, including state.gov, clintonfoundation.org, clintonemail.com, and hillaryclinton.com;
Numerous emails between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin; An unknown number of BlackBerry communications on the laptop, including one or more messages between Abedin and Clinton, indicating the possibility that the laptop contained communications from the early months of Clinton’s tenure;178 and
Emails dated beginning in 2007 and covering the entire period of Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State The IG boiled down the FBI team excuses into four categories.
The explanations given to the OIG for the FBI’s failure to take immediate action on the Weiner laptop fell into four general categories:
1. The FBI Midyear team was waiting for additional information about the contents of the laptop from NYO, which was not provided until late October.
2. The FBI Midyear team could not review the emails without additional legal authority, such as consent or a new search warrant.
3. The FBI Midyear team and senior FBI officials did not believe that the information on the laptop was likely to be significant.
4. Key members of the FBI Midyear team had been reassigned to the investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. election, which was a higher priority.
The IG walks through each of the four points, and identifies why each of them makes absolutely no sense against events that were taking place at the time. Ending with this summation:
Page #330: In sum, we concluded that the explanations given for the failure of the FBI to take action on the Weiner laptop between September 29 and the end of October were unpersuasive.
The FBI had all the information it needed on September 29 to obtain the search warrant that it did not seek until more than a month later. The FBI’s neglect had potentially far-reaching consequences. Comey told the OIG that, had he known about the laptop in the beginning of October and thought the email review could have been completed before the election, it may have affected his decision to notify Congress. Comey told the OIG, “I don’t know [if] it would have put us in a different place, but I would have wanted to have the opportunity.”
............... As we can see criminality at the FBI is widespread and needs to be addressed.
My policy is trust no one verify all.
You’re right, of course, but look what happens.
So you’re in Florida. Well, who do you have now running against Bill Nelson?
Rick Scott.
Is he a RINO?
After the Broward county school shooting, he signed gun restrictions into place, and many conservatives are now very angry with him.
But come November, who is a better choice? Nelson or Scott?
One of those two will win; not some 3rd party or write-in. The choice is pick Scott or Nelson. Not picking Scott means you keep Nelson as Senator, IMHO.
Did a Google search on Filegate. Remember the question, who hired Craig Livingstone? People were living in fear thinking the Clintons had damaging information in files.
This election cycle should bring in more American people to the legislature - Ted Cruz will get re-elected in Texas for one. I hope we get more Freedom Caucus American types in the House - Unfortunately the Houston RINOs are not among these. People Like Raul Labrador is what America needs
In two years when Trump runs again he should have coat tails for more Freedom Caucus American types.
And in the mean time we should see another 50-75 Fed. Judges appointed by Trump before his first term is up.
http://www.chaletbooks.com/chaletreports/?p=810
For anyone who really wants to know what is going on and doesn’t mind really getting into the heavy duty stuff of what the CIA does it’s all here and more.
I thank pugmama one more time for sending this my way.
Spokesman for the GOP is the guy who couldn’t even win his primary. Nice work NBDNC.
It’s up to Trump to keep Scott in line once he comes to DC.
Mark Sanford?!?!?!?! Who could possibly care what that loser has to day?
Who says she didn’t send an email to a hostile country or individual and they reversed the email to hack it? Doubt she even had a password on it.
I keep hunting for the one in million 100% politician who does everything we like here at fR. I can’t seem to find him. Gov.Rick Scott however may well be 90%. I’ll take that any ol’ day.
Excellent as always.
Not a conspiracy theorist but also calls into question the whole JFK affair and who set up/allowed what to happen to silence him.... Throw MLK into the mix also. Seems when change is happening something has to “counter it” with force be it an institution of some person who has been influenced by their mantra....
Not Kentucky Fried Chicken!!!
I got it wrong. It should be FCK!
And no, not a naughty word screamed by Deniro, missing a letter!
Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern = FCK.
Won’t be necessary they are already good friends.
Thanks. Hillary was involved with Watergate too. This is like Columbo trying to connect the dots. Information is only available in small amounts at a time.
Nice summary as always.
Funny how no one, including Fox, is asking “ so who is we’ll “ those two or unnamed others...
Simple question, but no one dares to bring it up .....
I have a slightly diff. take on this.
Bezos, being rich and powerful, should like old man Ford, bring in hordes of Goons and beat the Sh$t out of the panty waist Compost reporters.
The added benefit COULD be that these panty waist Compost reports just MAY find a use for the Second Amendment
Nunnes just broke news that witnesses to their committee just sent statements that they were approached by individuals offering Russian dirt on Hillary in May of 2016 who may have been spies.
This was before any FISA warrants and would have been way outside any investigation. He also said if anyone was spying from the FBI before those warrants the FBI better reveal it today or the House will take action.
This is Yuge!
Why is the FBI protecting her? This river runs very deep.
Steve Bannon?
How does he fit in?
Must be he’s promised to bash Trump.
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