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He's fine. He is under agency rules, that tightly constrain him, he does not have arrest of subpoena powers, the supposed "rift" between him and Barr/Durham is yet another Fake News Media Fable.The IG is another swamp monster that need to be removed by Trump. He's probably a secret liberal.So your diatribe and Trump's diatribe and Barr's diatribe are simply from a partisan and biased view.... the IG is TRAINED NOT TO BE that way..... and yeah, for people like you, if they are not ass kissers for Trump, then they can not be believed... and I call bull crap on that!
We held the FBI in the highest esteem.
We presumed they were staffed and led by folks of great personal integrity and honor.
With that, We The People granted them tremendous leeway in OPENING cases like this, as Horowitz reports they COULD legally open this investigation, as they did, on a suggestion of a suggestion.
Barr/Horowitz, like the rest of us, are stunned that such slimy political operators as Stzork, McCabe, Comey and the rest came to occupy these positions. That the FBI was actually staffed with folks that would forge an exculpatory email in order to make it appear incriminating and then submit it to the FISA court in order to spy on the President of The Untied States.
I'm not kidding. Brennan repeatedly and in writing informed the Corrupt FBI that Carter Page worked as a source for the CIA, did a very good job, and gather intel FOR the United States from Russian Intelligence. As he did this, naturally he interacted with Russian Intelligence, the corrupt FBI, who assumed Hillary was going to win, and so that these FISA submissions would never see the light of day. Lied about that to the FISA court. They took the email that said "is a source" for the CIA and forged it to read "not a source" for the CIA and submitted in the FISA application as "Verified"! These are the most vile of scum.
Brennan may be scum too, but on this point, he did the right thing and he wisely has the paper trail to back it up, and Horowitz confirmed this.
Trump has been dealing with the constant lies, spying, forgeries, slander for 4 years, and there was NEVER any justification for it. And it continues in the House of Representatives as they hop from one farce to the next and are now going through the motions of impeachment, when they know full well that Trump will not be removed and that he will be their quite formidable opponent in 2020 election.
It's all a farce. It is all lies. The Fake News Media has acted as the propaganda arm burying the American People in this blizzard of lies and filth, for 4 years, and no one is showing any shame or contrition, Comey is doing a modified limited hangout, after first claiming to be "vindicated" and they continue with the farce in the House as an election year stunt to try to weaken Trump as a candidate, though frankly, the longer they push this phony impeachment, the more the critical swing state voters are beginning to support Trump. And why not, he is doing a hell of a job. Our wages are up, jobs are plentiful, the Stock Market is closing in on a 30% annual gain, and the Santa Clause Rally is ringing in the Election Year!
Tired of the Left's refusal to accept the election results and ready for us all to just be thankful and grateful for our great prosperity here in the holiday season!
Yup. He had a purpose, he was heavily constrained by agency rules, and he quite frankly did a very good job. No one could have put more kindly and gently, what a bunch of corrupt crooks were running the FBI and trying to destroy first Candidate and then President Trump.Not really. See Andrew McCarthy's column, the two men have less a difference of opinion than a difference in focus – the distinction between what may be done and what should be done.Now we KNOW who is a DEEP STATE COUP MEMBER...and who is for the TRUTH.... You Dimwits better do something DRASTIC to stop Trump...or jail time in Trump's second term!...Lolol!
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr sharply criticized on Monday the F.B.I.’s decision to open the Russia investigation, undercutting a major finding in a long-awaited watchdog report and at the same time showing his willingness to act as President Trump’s vocal defender.
The report, by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, found that the F.B.I. had adequate reason in 2016 to open an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia. Mr. Horowitz broadly rejected Mr. Trump’s allegations that F.B.I. officials conspired to sabotage his campaign, but Mr. Barr highlighted findings that underscored his and the president’s shared view that investigators were nonetheless overly invasive in scrutinizing people associated with a presidential campaign.
“The inspector general’s report now makes clear that the F.B.I. launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken,” Mr. Barr said in a statement.
Barr and Durham Publicly Disagree with Horowitz Report on Russia Inquiry
Th FBI is given tremendous latitude, that men of honor are to use with integrity. Horowitz has straightforwardly stated that they MAY do particular things, Barr and Durham are focusing on the fact that those with honor would never do the things they did.
The Mueller probe found no evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy, notwithstanding the indefatigable “collusion” narrative.
Now the Horowitz IG report has found major abuses in the FBI’s investigation of Trump. The question naturally arises: Why did the Obama administration use the intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus of the government to investigate its political opposition?
The specter of political spying, that bane of the Watergate era, is manifest. That is what Barr and Durham are exploring.
Democrats and their media confederates are determined to protect Obama’s legacy from Nixonian taint. Barr, therefore, must be subjected to character assassination.
The same people who lionized Mueller’s team of partisan Democrats, now feign outraged disbelief at the suggestion that the FBI could possibly have been just a tad political.
That would be the same Bureau that helped whitewash the Clinton emails caper; scorched the earth to find a non-existent conspiracy against Trump; brought us the charming Strzok-Page texts; and has, in just the last two years, been the subject of not one but two voluminous IG reports examining the anti-Trump animus of top investigators.
That is why the Barr-Horowitz contretemps must be exaggerated.
Typical of IG reports, Horowitz’s latest features admirably comprehensive fact-finding but conclusions framed in lawyerly gobbledygook that lend themselves to easy distortion.
The anti-Trump forces pounced: We’re to believe the IG concluded that the Trump-Russia investigation’s commencement was unimpeachable and that there was no political bias in the FBI’s decision-making.
That is not what Horowitz said. Since it is important that the public be given accurate information about the Justice Department’s position, the AG has spoken out to clarify what the IG concluded and how DOJ regards these conclusions.
In press coverage, this has been portrayed as a blistering attack on Horowitz.
At Wednesday’s hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats picked up the theme: Horowitz heroically struggles to uphold the rule of law and standards of impartial fact-finding, but Barr, that diabolical Trumpkin, is determined to bring him down for refusing to brand Crossfire Hurricane a hoax.
Even as this narrative first took wing, there was a clue that it was deceptive, though you had to dig a little to find it.
When Horowitz finally released the report on Monday, Barr himself made a statement. Relying on the IG’s work, rather than contradicting it, the AG observed that the FBI had, “launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.
Barr did not disagree with Horowitz on the commencement of the investigation. Horowitz had found that the FBI’s written procedures provide a very low bar in terms of the suspicion that may justify the opening of an investigation.
Barr did not dispute this; he said the investigation was opened “on the thinnest of suspicions.” That is both true and, as Horowitz points out, sufficient.
Barr thinks it was unwise to open so significant an investigation on such thin evidence. Horowitz is not claiming it was prudent; he is saying the regulations permitted it.
Barr’s beef was less with the opening of the investigation than with “the steps taken” after the investigation was opened.This, plainly, is a reference to the use of intrusive investigative techniques – in particular, confidential informants and FISA surveillance warrants.
Barr’s point is that, given the norm against permitting the incumbent government’s investigative powers to intrude on our political process, it was wrong to use such aggressive tactics given the threadbare basis for suspicion.
Horowitz is not disputing that. He is saying that it is not his place to second-guess discretionary judgment calls about investigative tactics as long as the probe is legitimately opened. And clearly, the IG report is a testament to the abuse of those tactics: the misrepresentations to the FISA court, and the fact that, although the use of informants generated exculpatory evidence, the Bureau inexplicably continued investigating a U.S. political campaign.
Andrew McCarthy: DOJ vs. IG – Barr and Horowitz's reported rift over FISA report is bogus spin by Democrats
Beautifully written summation.
The only thing is, you stopped short of explaining that the Horowitz findings are very limited. The IG cannot issue subpoenas or investigate outside of the FBI. Durham's criminal investigation does have subpoena power and he can investigate other agencies to find out if the CIA illegally used foreign assets to setup the Crossfire Hurricane plot.
