Friday, June 15, 2018

OIG-Report raises more questions than it answers



  1.  12 hours ago
    1. Those of you thinking that this public, written IG Report raises more questions than it answers, are EXACTLY on the money. That's the entire point of it. Some observations.

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  2.  12 hours ago
    2. You'll notice that I used the word 'public'. That's because this ISN'T the complete, unredacted report. This investigation & report occurs during multiple, ongoing DOJ investigations and GJ/ criminal hearings. Not to mention a highly polarized & politicized environment.
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  3.  12 hours ago
    3. IMO this 'public' report likely excludes evidence, that's currently needed by DOJ in criminal cases. It only includes what has been permitted to be made public. POTUS, as well as other select individuals, have the OTHER, unredacted, unclassified report.
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  4.  12 hours ago
    4. I also used the word 'written'. That's because the OIG Report has a written component (today's report) and an oral component (Horowitz testimony on 18th). For me, this isn't the end of the report and much will be clarified on the 18th
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  5.  12 hours ago
    5. Another thing. Unlike most IG Reports, this isn't a stand alone, isolated report. Apart from criminal investigations ongoing, this is the 2nd of 3/4 OIG Reports to land, emanating from the original scope of Jan 12, 2017.
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6. Keep in mind something else. The report has been designed to protect those who have flipped. The same people appear in each report, in relation to different events. An example - Priestap seems almost marginal to events, when we know in fact that he was probably central.
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    1.  12 hours ago
      7. Also, stay focussed on the SCOPE of this report. The report is NOT about whether Clinton broke the law with her server (she did), but about the FBI exoneration of her. The two are different. Although it was nice to see Crooked get a mention (tweet 10, below).
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    2.  12 hours ago
      8. Last, note the FUNCTION of the OIG. Most have seen the exec summary & recommendations, differ from the body. Liberals, being ignorant, see the recommendations as the end of the matter. They don't understand what the OIG does, let alone the context, explained above.
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    3.  11 hours ago
      9. Put simply, OIG does investigation, DOJ does criminal probes & law enforcement. The OIG could say that Comey was a martian, who should be criminally referred for jaywalking. Or it can make zero criminal referrals. It matters little.
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    4.  11 hours ago
      10. The DOJ isn't bound by the OIG. It calls the shots on indictments & investigations. What matters most to the DOJ? FACTS. Period. And in this report alone, they are DAMNING. Take just TEN (of many more):
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    5.  11 hours ago
      11. #1 - FBI Director Comey was insubordinate & incompetent. That's huge. Why? Trump's decision to fire him is now fully vindicated. Any potential 'muh obstruction of justice charge' is now null & void.
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    6.  11 hours ago
      12. Also, Comey's credibility as a witness has been shredded. A prosecutor could try and use him, of course. But a good defense attorney would tear him apart. Remember, there's a mountain of incriminating evidence against him, outside this report.
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    7.  11 hours ago
      13. #2 - New Strzok & Page comms give more credibility to the existence of a scheme to remove Trump. For example, 'brushing up' on Watergate, 5 days AFTER the election: Er, OK. FBI agents talk like that all the time, right?

      FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Lawyer Lisa Page texts in the are telling. Page at one point 5 days after the election says “I bought all the presidents men. Figure I need to brush up on Watergate.”…
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    8.  11 hours ago
      14. #3 - Peter Strzok & Lisa Page show clear animus, bias and intent to 'get Trump' BEFORE he was elected. OIG: (pp 420/1): 'not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to/..
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    9.  11 hours ago
      15. /...take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects' That's a mind-boggling finding, right there. They weren't acting alone, either.
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    10.  11 hours ago
      16. #4 - Page & Strzok appear to have deliberately by-passed official channels in their effort to exonerate Clinton, (working with DOJ attorneys and McCabe/Kadzic).
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    11.  11 hours ago
      17. #5 - Also, 13 anonymous Obama officials were communicating via private email (footnote, p89). NOTE: Obama (POTUS) & Clinton (a private citizen, when candidate) appear to have been emailing with each other, DURING THE ELECTION. WTF? That is massive, in and of itself.
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    12.  11 hours ago
      18. Oh, just another small thing. #6 - Foreign actors appear to have compromized Clinton's email account. IMO they could have just put that in and it would have been a bombshell, in itself.
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    13.  11 hours ago
      19. #7 - The FBI was leaking like a sieve to reporters. The annexed tables show a disturbing network of corruption between FBI agents and reporters. This will require further investigation and is a likely h/t to the many ongoing leak investigations.
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    14.  11 hours ago
      20. #8 - Senior FBI officials who were recused from/ not involved in MYE (eg McCabe/Kadzic) were trying to influence/involve themselves into the investigation. That would be 'Andy' McCabe, currently under criminal referral.
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    15.  11 hours ago
      21. #9- The FBI appears to have been concealing incriminating texts (and other evidence about MYE) from Congress, then lying about why they did so.
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    16.  11 hours ago
      22. AND #10 - Comey & Co sat on the evidence in the Weiner laptop, for as long as they could, knowing the connection between Abedin and HRC. Until they said it was a nothingburger, just days before the election. A decision that remains unexplained.
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    17.  11 hours ago
      23. There are MANY other damaging facts in the report. I chose just 10. But back to context. The OIG doesn't have the same power as a Special Counsel, or AAG like Huber. It also admits (page 5) that it was unable to consider the full span of events exhaustively.
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    18.  11 hours ago
      24. And that's the point. This report is NOT designed to nail people to the wall. The objective is to raise questions and to PROMPT further investigation. Just the ten facts I raised are damning. They DEMAND FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
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    19.  11 hours ago
      25. Which I predict will now happen. By the the DOJ, or a body set up under DOJ oversight. With criminal jurisdiction & law enforcement powers. NOTE: Starting to see what comes next? It's a process, folks, part of a bigger picture.

      Sessions pointed exactly to that today. Also several of the open leak investigations have DOJ/FBI people as targets.
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    20.  11 hours ago
      26. People who want Horowitz to be like some 'fire and brimstone' preacher, delivering justice, are missing the point. He doesn't have the power. Nor is it his style. But it's also GOOD that he's fact-finding and 'dull'. Why?
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    21.  11 hours ago
      27. Horowitz has OTHER reports coming. Arguably FAR more explosive than this one, as well. He needs to maintain total impartiality and independence. America's deranged TDS libs will demand his removal at the drop of a hat, if they sniff any supposed partisanship.
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    22.  11 hours ago
      28. Last thing - notice that amid all the noise, one person has been TOTALLY silent? POTUS Donald J Trump.
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    23.  11 hours ago
      29. And that's ALWAYS ominous. After all, sometimes silence can be the most deafening sound of all. The end.
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      24. End of conversation
    1.  9 hours ago
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      It's so great to have a voice of reason explaining the report... amongst all the screamers and panickers!
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    1.  12 hours ago
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      Hmmm interesting analysis. will have to think on that one
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    1.  9 hours ago
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      This is a great point, enlightening



    1.  11 hours ago
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      Hillary flipped on comey today ha



    1.  28 minutes ago
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      This hypothesis jumped out at me when I read about Lisa Page serving as something of a hyperlink between Strzok and McCabe. Looks like at least 2 peeps - including Priestap - were thus excluded from many things. Revealing this is consistent with protecting Priestap.



    1.  3 hours ago
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      There is also a text where Strzok implies he would never work for Trump but then he stays working under his administration.... pretty bad! I laugh at ppl who think a man as meticulous and detailed as Horowitz would NOT have made every criminal referral possible! Enter Huber.



    1.  2 hours ago
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      Well he didn’t flip that much because we’ve known about most of it from the beginning! The fix was in It got foiled when we elected Trump! Then they went to PHASE TWO MUELLER! With a very helpful R ROSENSTEIN!



Posted by Robby Ball at 7:12 AM