Posted on 06/17/2018 5:38:33 PM PDT by 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:
"...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.
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.
PAIGE TEXT: Trumps not ever going to become president, right? Right?!
STRZOK TEXT: No. No he wont. Well 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.
Thank you.
I couldn’t find the reference, and I think I am stretching beyond things I know about.
You are most welcome!
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(found it, didn’t create it).
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Unbelievable. She had registered clintonemail.com and hillaryclinton.com, among others.
What do you want to bet her personal emails were “Hillary@clintonemail.com and “hillary@hillaryclinton.com“
Unbelievable.
One can almost imagine the mental midget Obama )seeing these when Clinton sent them to him) in that voice “Eh. Look. Pretty clever. Hey, did someone get those domains set up for me too, Obama.org and barackobama.org? Pretty cool.”
Well in any rational world, any one of those would be huge Watergate type revelations. But with the Praetorian Guard media still running interference for Obama and Sleepy Sessions at the helm, it’s a “nothingburger”.
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I don't believe Comey said there would be no prosecution of Hillary...I believe he recommended there be no prosecution of Hillary...Which falls in line with this statement by Lynch...
I remember Bongino referencing page 398 as being particularly important regarding bias. Griff Jenkins referenced page 300 as being very important on Fox yesterday. He said he read the whole thing. It had to do with an FBI agent wondering why no action was being taken on the Weiner computer info.
I don’t think was his place to pass judgement on her actions. As an investigative arm, his job is to deliver a report to the DOJ, who makes the decisions and communicates with the public.
A good analogy would be an administration having the FBI do a background check on a prospective cabinet appointee.
They do the background check, and submit it to the administration for them to decide on whether to proceed. From my understanding, the FBI does not offer an opinion on whether or not they should be made a cabinet member, they leave that to to the Administration.
I may indeed be wrong, but I believe it is the same way with an FBI investigation of nearly any kind.
Interesting...it is what most people I know wondered when they found out about the Weiner computer info.
A few months before Trump won the election I remember listening to a video on facebook by Scott Binsack saying the NYPD found stuff on Huma’s computer and MADE COPIES OF IT! They threatened to go public with it if the FBI did not act upon the info. It was that bad. He talked about the “Life Ins.” file. It was all hushed up by the top brass at the FBI according to Binsack.
This is something Mark Levin came up with on his show Friday night:
Remember the Secretary of Energy, Hazel OLeary, and her comments about declassifying as much as she could before anyone could stop her?
Part of why they couldnt prosecute the Chinese spy in Los Alamos: the SoE has already posted it on the internet.
...And the hundreds of people given full access in the Whit House without even having applied for a clearance.
A certificate provides authentication, not encryption. It is for confirmation of who you are talking with.
Outstanding job! Brings back the old FR! Bravo.
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