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From your post:From the IG report itself:Actually they found the opposite of that.Strzok was fired for exercising his first amendment rights, not for "cause".Well, you tried.
I will try again.
He opened the Trump probe on July 31, 2016 based on hearsay from an Australian diplomat via the U.S. embassy in London. The diplomat said a Teump volunteer, George Papadopoulos, told him a Russian-connected professor heard that Moscow owned “thousands” of Mrs. Clinton’s emails.
Strzok’s FBI team embraced an unverified dossier written by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. Mr. Steele was paid by Fusion GPS with money from the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party. The FBI used the dossier to convince a court to approve a wiretap on campaign volunteer Carter Page. The bureau also relied on the dossier to guide the investigation. The bureau told a House committee last year it had still not confirmed Mr. Steele’s Kremlin-sourced charges.
Strzok participated in a partisan flow of anti/Trump information that went from the Clinton opposite research firm, Fusion GPS, to Associated Attorney General Bruce Ohr to the FBI agent. Mr. Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked at Fusion as a Russia expert.
The firing of Peter Strzok for cause opens for questioning and reexamining all interviews and data he collected.
Think of it like when a crooked cop gets fired. Often, every case that cop was involved with gets re-examined.
You follow me now?
Strzok was fired for withholding and manipulating evidence base on his political bias.
The OIG found no evidence of bias by Strzok. The found that the FBI came to its conclusions and conducted its investigation based on the evidence and precedent.
Now why would I ignore the OIG and instead believe you, citing yourself?
And of course, the basis of the Mueller investigation per the Deputy AG that seated Mueller.......was the testimony given by Comey on March 20th, 2017 before the House Select Committee. Not the 'Steele Dossier'. Not the 'Page FISA warrant'. But Comey's testimony.
Says who? Says the order written by the Deputy AG seating the special counsel.
The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director James B. Corney in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:
(i) any links and/or coordination bet ween the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and
(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/967231/download
Debunking your conspiracy nonsense yet again.
There were clearly tensions and disagreements in a number of important areas between Midyear agents and prosecutors. However, we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific
investigative decisions we reviewed in Chapter Five, or that the justifications offered for these decisions were pretextual.
Scathing Justice Dept. watchdog report rebukes James B. Comey, cites major missteps by FBI
The report found 'concerns' of bias. But not evidence that any improper considerations including political bias, effected investigative decisions.
Further, when addressing the text messages from agents like Strzok, they found that the decisions made by those agents were 'not unreasonable'. And did not find evidence to connect political views expressed in those messages to specific investigative decisions.
But our review did not find evidence to connect the political views expressed in these messages to the specific investigative decisions that we reviewed; rather, consistent with the analytic approach described above, we found that these specific decisions were the result of discretionary judgments made during the course of an investigation by the Midyear agents and prosecutors and that these judgment calls were not unreasonable.
Scathing Justice Dept. watchdog report rebukes James B. Comey, cites major missteps by FBI
Tearing out both the left and right ventricle of the 'corrupt investigation' conspiracy that our resident tin foil brigade is offering us today.
"However, we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific
investigative decisions we reviewed in Chapter Five, or that the justifications offered for these decisions were pretextual."
Did not find.
I don't know how much clearer you need it to be.