This post will serve as an introduction to my coverage of the Department of Justice Inspector General’s Report on FISA abuse. This report is huge & detailed which will require multiple posts which I plan to link below as I add them.
Many were disappointed by the FISA Report by Inspector General Horowitz, they expected unrealistic revelations which made them miss the real revelations. The OIG is not in the big reveal game, his job is to identify the facts not to make judgement calls on what the facts mean. In our system, conflicted interpretations are to be determined by the officials with the authority to make those calls: Attorney General Barr, FBI Director Wray & US Attorney Durham. With judges & juries serving as the ultimate finders of fact.
I was guilty of this expectation with the June 2018 report on Mid Year Exam. Only after I recognized that President Trump & his allies were working to corner the Democrats into protecting the reputation of the FBI did it begin to make sense. The coup revolved around accusing former FBI Director Comey & the FBI of supporting Trump by announcing the Hillary investigations. Now the Dems are supporting Comey, the FBI & Horowitz as those agencies assemble the facts that are draining the Swamp.
What would have happened if the OIG Report directly attacked the Democrats’ or Deep State actors? They would attack IG Michael Horowitz & undermine his report the same way they attacked the Nunes Memo. By hedging his report slightly the Dems & the MSM have been tricked into endorsing the report & the facts within it. Horowitz is playing “Good Cop” to the “Bad Cop” of Durham, Nunes, & the Republicans. The Dems have endorsed multiple OIG reports that destroyed the coup, enabled the firing or resignations of many of the key players, & accepted facts that they denied for years.
In this report the Dems support, we have evidence that certain officials at the FBI committed massive misconduct, spied upon the Trump Campaign, committed fraud on the FISA court, and much more. So the Dems have supported the case that the bad actions happened. He just did not, with the tools available to the OIG, get the people to confess that they had bad motives. The Democrats are forced to point out that the Steele Dossier played no role in opening the investigation, but they then have to accept that the Steel Dossier was used in the FISA & the Intelligence Community Assessment. Which may show the start of the investigation was ‘legal’ the conduct of the investigation was not! That proof will be left to the FISA Court & US Attorney for Connecticut to address!
Now I will begin laying out in posts, the evidence the OIG found, that Democrats are foolishly endorsing, just to clutch onto a couple of nuggets that are irrelevant to the big picture! You can find the report here: https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf
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