VANITY: The Inspector General Report was very important...Here's why.

Various | 6/17/2018 | Myself

[rlmorel]

NOTE: I am taking much of this from the Dan Bongino podcast "Episode 743: The Aftermath". I am listing these in the order he presents them.

Here are EIGHT major points to take away from the Inspector General Report.

It is wise to keep in mind that this report was NOT about spying on Trump, and it was NOT whether Hillary Clinton used an unauthorized private email server.

This IG report was about the conduct of the FBI and the DOJ during the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal.

We should keep in mind what this report is, and isn't. This may very well net some high people and result in some criminal prosecutions, but that isn't what is most important about this report.

What is important are the things contained in the report that are going to have a bearing on other investigations that are certainly going to come down the pike. This was NOT an insignificant or empty report. We shouldn't fall into the trap the media sets to dismiss this "as a nothingburger". Here's why:

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POINT #1:POLITICAL BIAS WAS NOTED. The media has said the report stated there is no evidence of political bias. They are being deliberately incorrect (lying) IMO. The report says there is no DIRECT evidence of political bias, no smoking gun. However, it specifically states on page 398 that there is PLENTY of circumstantial evidence of political bias and they classify them as follows (from the IG Report):

"...We identified three categories of text messages that raised concerns about potential bias in FBI investigations. The first were text messages of a political nature commenting on Trump and Clinton. We specifically highlight these text messages because Strzok and Page played important roles in investigations involving both Trump and Clinton, and the exchange of these text messages on an FBI-issued device potentially created an appearance of bias. The second category we identified were text messages that combined expressions of political sentiments with a discussion of the Midyear investigation, potentially indicating or creating the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations. The third category raised similar questions with respect to the Russia investigation.

So, they definitively state what is obvious to anyone who had read the transcripts of messages between Strzok and Page, as well as comments from McCabe and Comey...that there was indeed political bias.

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POINT #2: COMEY USED PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNTS FOR OFFICIAL FBI BUSINESS. Comey admitted he used a personal email account for official business. And he is running the probe into someone accused of using a personal email account for...official business. This destroys Comey utterly, and he had to know it. It also means any idiotic (and we all knew it was idiotic from day one, but that never meant it wouldn't happen) "obstruction of justice" charge against Trump for firing Comey is...stillborn. If it ever went to a point where Comey is called to testify in any obstruction of justice proceeding, he would be shredded. He knows it, too.

DEFENSE FOR TRUMP: Mr. Comey, what were you in charge of investigating regarding email during the 2016 Presidential campaign?

COMEY: I was running an investigation into whether then candidate Hillary Clinton had been using a personal email account for official government business on an unauthorized server.

DEFENSE FOR TRUMP: Mr. Comey, have you ever, in violation of the law, used personal email accounts for official FBI business?

COMEY: Er...uh...yes.

DEFENSE FOR TRUMP: These proceedings are closed.

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POINT #3: COMEY DID NOT KNOW HUMA ABEDIN WAS MARRIED TO ANTHONY WEINER. COMEY DID NOT KNOW HUMA ABEDIN WAS MARRIED TO ANTHONY WEINER. Really? Really, really? This might not destroy him legally, but at best, it is going to destroy him intellectually. Could he REALLY be such a cloddish dolt? Could he really, REALLY have been this totally uniformed and ignorant, especially as it relates to to one of the single most explosive, controversial, and historically impactful FBI investigations in American history. This is not an insignificant thing. And to even consider he may not have, at the time of either the FBI probe or during the IG interview with him is stunning.

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POINT #4: COMEY WAS INSUBORDINATE BY USURPING PROSECUTORIAL DECISION MAKING. When closing the probe and Comey said that there would be no prosecution of Hillary Clinton, he had no business or authority to make that statement. That was NOT his purview. His team (The FBI with him at the helm) played an investigative role ONLY. PERIOD.

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POINT #5: OBAMA LIED ABOUT KNOWING ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON'S USE OF A PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT FOR OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Obama said, on the record, that he found out about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account for official business from the media. But there were emails where he was not only a recipient, he responded.

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POINT #6: THERE WAS A CRITICAL STRZOK TEXT MISSING FROM THOSE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED THAT APPEARED IN THE REPORT. Here are the two critical texts, with Strzok's response shown in the report:

PAIGE TEXT: “Trump’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”

STRZOK TEXT: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”

Strzok's response in red above was in the IG report, but was missing from the original "comprehensive" collection of the texts. The text itself is bad enough on its face, and can be interpreted in a number of ways, but the bigger question is: Why was it originally missing? Why? And if removed deliberately...by whom? This is NOT an insignificant item.

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POINT #7: THE IG REPORT DID NOT SAY THAT THE HILLARY EMAIL SERVER WAS COMPROMISED-ONLY THE TRAFFIC. This means that someone got their hands on the traffic itself, not copied off the server. Why is this distinction important? Unencrypted emails maybe?

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POINT #8: THE FBI WAS BEING BRIBED BY THE MEDIA. From the Daily Caller article: "...The contact between FBI agents and the media extended to receiving “improperly receiving benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events...” The root of a lot of the problems are leaks to the media. There were a lot of people at the FBI accepting gifts. It goes without saying what effect that most likely DID have with leaked information. Like a pedophile grooming a target, the Media was laying its groundwork with bribes.

[rlmorel]

That was GREAT! I particularly liked this one:

"...The New York Times and other media widely suggested or implied that Trump had not paid income taxes for 18 years. Later, tax return pages leaked to MSNBC ultimately showed that Trump actually paid a higher rate than Democrats Bernie Sanders and President Obama..."

BWAAAAHAAAHAAA!

Heh, if only I could have found a gif of Trump backhanding someone!

[right way right]

Point made.

[trebb]

Happens a lot - lots of folks here go with the automatic knee-jerk worst case scenario and it can be contagious.

[a little elbow grease]

well done..........

[rlmorel]

Thanks, FRiend...hope you found it useful.

[lepton]

In addition to the relatively non-controversial medical stuff, she was declassifying a lot of weapons-related research.

[rlmorel]

I was unaware. I consider myself well informed (generally) but that eluded me.

What are people going to think of this at some point in the future looking back at this?

That we didn’t execute or imprison these people, never mind prosecute them? I lay this at the feet of the radical leftists of the Sixties who eventually came to power...like Bill and Hillary Clinton, and nearly the entire Democrat party.