Early Leaks About IG Report Indicate That It's a Whitewash

It claims there was no political bias shown by Strzok and Page (!), faults Comey for discussing Hillary's crimes but not for absolving her of crimes, and finds fault with Lynch for not talking to Comey.

That's the claim -- that Lynch wasn't talking to him through this period.

Maybe these are the quotes that are exciting liberal reporters -- so maybe the full report (which will be released at 3pm) is more honest, but so far, it's not looking good. And Bloomberg claims they obtained all the conclusions in the report. So my hope that maybe these are just the conclusions Democrat congressmen wanted to leak seems to be a false hope.

Former FBI Director James Comey "deviated" from bureau and Justice Department procedures in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton, damaging the agencies’ image of impartiality even though he wasn’t motivated by politics, the department’s watchdog found in a highly anticipated report.
"While we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on Comey’s part, we nevertheless concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice," Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report's conclusions, which were obtained by Bloomberg News.
Although the report being sent to Congress on Thursday doesn’t deal with the origins of the probe into Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion with those around President Donald Trump, the president and his Republican allies in Congress were primed to seize on it as evidence of poor judgment and anti-Trump bias within the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department.

Republicans, always seizing.

...
Some of what Horowitz discovered has already been made public, and Trump and Republican lawmakers have pounced on those findings in an effort to discredit Comey and, by extension, the investigation now being run by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Seizing when they're not pouncing.

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Republican critics seized on previous revelations from the inspector general that two FBI officials who worked on Mueller's Russia investigation, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, exchanged text messages sharply critical of Trump. Mueller removed Strzok from the inquiry after the texts were discovered, and Page has since left the FBI.
One example cited in the new report is an email exchange between Strzok and Page on Aug. 8, 2016. Page questioned whether Trump would become president. Strzok replied: "No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it."
But Horowitz said in the report to be issued Thursday that "we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed." Still, he wrote that "the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation."

Horowitz found a "troubling lack of any direct, substantive communication" between Comey and Attorney General Lynch ahead of Comey's July 5 press conference on Clinton and his October 28 letter to Congress.
"We found it extraordinary that, in advance of two such consequential decisions, the FBI director decided that the best course of conduct was to not speak directly and substantively with the attorney general about how best to navigate those decisions."

Will the Democrats and media be seizing and/or pouncing on this whitewash?

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 12:25 PM

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1 We've been rehashing below. Summary: Don't trust the leaks. Let's see the document.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at June 14, 2018 12:26 PM (AM1GF)

2 From what I understand the original report was damning, but once it was going through DC it was getting whitewashed. I think even Trump mentioned it was being whitewashed.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:27 PM (+dsLj)

3 Bloomberg filter -- this is the best spin they have from the report. We shall see.

Posted by: Octopussy at June 14, 2018 12:27 PM (2l7vb)

4 Wow! It's almost seems like the ass tasting line should be expanded.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 12:28 PM (r9UYA)

5 My cats like to "pounce" on prey. Is that what Republicans are supposed to be doing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 14, 2018 12:28 PM (G+x7t)

6 I'd hit it

Posted by: NCKate at June 14, 2018 12:28 PM (x8Sgm)

7 Well, yes, the leaks indicate that it's a whitewash.

This was utterly predictable. Expected, even.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 12:28 PM (953wK)

8 That thing I did in your mouth......

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 14, 2018 12:29 PM (EyPfd)

9 Number of players arrested??

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 12:29 PM (9uM86)

10 I'd hit it
Posted by: NCKate at June 14, 2018 12:28 PM (x8Sgm)

Go on . . .

Posted by: The guy who says "go on . . ." at June 14, 2018 12:29 PM (953wK)

11 I think there might be two things Trump is waiting on:

The midterms in which case if there's a democratic House kiss any possibility of justice for the deep state goodbye until 2020 at least.

All the final IG reports (this is just one of them) to come out and beef up his grounds to torpedo the DOJ/Deep State.

He has the patience of Job though, while the rest of us who have seen the Clintons get away scott-free for crimes against humanity for decades are less enthused and optimistic.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (+dsLj)

12 We've been rehashing below. Summary: Don't trust the leaks. Let's see the document.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at June 14, 2018 12:26 PM (AM1GF)

Yep ... even if it IS a whitewash ... I'm not doing any I Told You So shit until we can all read it for ourselves.

Because, at this point, I don't trust ANYBODY in the media. Not a damn soul.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (fiGNd)

13 Deep state blood is thicker than water.

Posted by: chinese rock at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (v6UKb)

14 So, the Republicans are Hobbes, while the Democrats are Calvin.....

I foresee and epic game of Calvinball.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (7UW64)

15 for the Left , Republicans are as a marauding lion, seeking whom they might devour.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (Ynlay)

16 >>10
Number of players arrested??

Posted by: rickb223

You made the funneh again.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (r9UYA)

17
Rush mentioned a few House Reps demanding the original drafts of the IG report to see what was whitewashed.

Good.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:31 PM (VM6ev)

18 My only problem with this is that Bloomberg is the source of this post. Bloomberg is shit... no, Bloomberg is the thing that shit goes "ewww, gross" when it touches it.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 14, 2018 12:31 PM (jjaLl)

19 18 months for this bullshit?

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2018 12:31 PM (HgMAr)

20
SEE SIDEBAR about NY AG lawsuit against PDT and Foundation.

Disgusting hacks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:31 PM (VM6ev)

21 Yeah this looks like a wet fart so far. So Comey, by giving Hillary a pass, exonerates Lynch or something.

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 12:31 PM (UDCxc)

22 Is this the new standard for prosecution? I thought it was bad when Comey said Hillary shouldn't be charged because she didn't intend to break the law. Now "no political bias shown" means no law broken? Should try that next time I get picked up for robbing a liquor store.

Allegedly.

Posted by: Grimaldi at June 14, 2018 12:31 PM (LpV0I)

23 Lemme guess: no criminal intent?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (+y/Ru)

24 So about Steiner coming......

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (+lOpA)

25 Note to self, place order to ACME rope, pitch fork and torch company.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (Bdeb0)

26 No intent...suckers!

Posted by: Dreamy James Comey at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (yhf6w)

27 IF it's a total whitewash, maybe PDJT just goes nuclear and releases the original report prior to it being shopped around DC?

one can hope.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (8D42x)

28 How about that suit by the NY Attorney General of the Trump Foundation?

My gut reaction says "stray voltage."

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (953wK)

29
The best revenge is for the President to continue doing what he's doing.

We know they are all corrupt scum. So just keep on keeping on, Mr. President.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (VM6ev)

30 As a member of law enforcement, I would like to apologize for the Department of Justice. In 21st century America, right-leaning victims can not and will not receive justice when rightfully aggrieved. It's disgusting.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (kFnmp)

31 Remember, Horowitz is a non-biased straight shooter.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (r9UYA)

32 So about Steiner coming......
Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (+lOpA)

Nein, er heist Huber, nicht Steiner, mein freund.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (953wK)

33 IF it's a total whitewash, maybe PDJT just goes nuclear and releases the original report prior to it being shopped around DC?

***************************

I wouldn't put it past him. I know this shit must really be pissing him off.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (+dsLj)

34 These leaked excerpts serve to demoralize those who value truth and justice over government. I would love to see the original, unaltered report.
Bottom line: DC PROTECTS IT'S OWN AND THE GOVERNMENTAL ENABLEMENT MACHINE. This stinks worse than Cankles Depends.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (jK6bX)

35 Deep state blood is thicker than water.
Posted by: chinese rock at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (v6UKb)
++++++
Deep state blood is denser than osmium.

Or there really was nothing going on. But I sort of doubt that. The leaked Strozk/Page texts alone are damning enough, let alone Hill-dog being allowed to claim "ignorance of the law" when it comes to handling classified materials, and a non-discussion of any potential espionage violations.

Anyone who can look at this history of this (just the tidbits we know as the public) and say, "nothing to see here" is stretching credulity IMO.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (I2dne)

36 Just the media and the left trying to get ahead of the narrative and control it, shape it. They want to be in charge of how people react to this and understand it, what they hear.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (39g3+)

37 31 Remember, Horowitz is a non-biased straight shooter.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (r9UYA)

David and Vladimir, sure. This guy? Hmm...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:33 PM (VM6ev)

38 Assuming it is the white wash it appears to be, it's possible that this will backfire on the Dems. People know it's b******* if the report concludes there was no conspiracy. My guess is that they will vote to send a message to the perpetrators.

Posted by: pep at June 14, 2018 12:34 PM (MbfaZ)

39 Don't trust the leaks. Let's see the document.

We're not going to see any documents. We're getting a report that will conclude what the documents meant. IOW, all the bullshit we've come to expect from a bureaucrat.

Posted by: Uncle Louie Farrakhan at June 14, 2018 12:34 PM (rdl6o)

40 Haw haw haw another one goes bust!

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 12:35 PM (2DZ7/)

41 Only just read the headline on Ace's post (so far), but it's amusing to see it, after just reading this topic being kicked around so much in the Ape Rant comments.

Posted by: mindful webworker - reflectively at June 14, 2018 12:35 PM (yT7Mu)

42 I would like to apologize for the Department of Justice. In 21st century America, right-leaning victims can not and will not receive justice when rightfully aggrieved.

Because we're humans, the pendulum swings to extremes rather than settling in the proper place. Often, people to the left could not rely on justice in the past. And always, the rich and powerful get away with what would jail any of us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 12:35 PM (39g3+)

43 It claims there was no political bias shown by Strzok and Page

________________________

Ummmmm....yeah. This should pretty much show that the leaks are total crap.

Posted by: Orson at June 14, 2018 12:35 PM (zH8Ne)

44 We know they are all corrupt scum. So just keep on keeping on, Mr. President.

****************

Amen, one of the reasons I have some hope is the GOP-E did us a favor by not having to force us to scramble and find a million primary challengers to get these fucks out of office. Instead most of them are retiring and the retirees would be replaced by more friendly Trumpers. Then you have additional gifts such as Sanford being run out of town just for the extra icing on the cake. I really think a lot of the voters learned from the Moore fiasco and are acting accordingly.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:36 PM (+dsLj)

45 The cited statement about no evidence of political motivation affecting the investigation is, of course, absurdly at odds with a lot of already publicly known evidence (documentary and, almost certainly, testimonial).

The amazing Word document edit we have showing how the obvious, straightforward impropriety of changing the finding of reckless handling of classified info was changed to a meaningless and baseless alternative wording is dispositive.

Espionage Act violations were found, were reported in language consistent with the relevant statute, and then were simply ignored, and alternative legally meaningless language substituted. If THAT bit of documentary evidence is ignored or somehow interpreted as OK - i.e. not crude and obvious obstruction of justice - then we *do* have a whitewash, and one as crude and transparent as the original faux investigation.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2018 12:36 PM (QDnY+)

46 As I suspected, simply a lack of supervision. If the great and glorious Loretta would have taken Comey in hand, all would have been well. And now that fine lady Hilary can put this shameful investigation behind her. Shame on all who doubt the FBI

Posted by: Snoreregard at June 14, 2018 12:36 PM (hDLaM)

47 Remember, Horowitz is a non-biased straight shooter.

-
Man of integrity. Like Comey.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 14, 2018 12:36 PM (+y/Ru)

48 Because we're humans, the pendulum swings to extremes rather than settling in the proper place. Often, people to the left could not rely on justice in the past. And always, the rich and powerful get away with what would jail any of us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 12:35 PM (39g3+)

Write that one down. A shit-pot of truth there, in three sentences.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:36 PM (fiGNd)

49 So about Steiner coming......
Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 12:32 PM (+lOpA)

he's not even breathing quickly

Posted by: josephistan at June 14, 2018 12:36 PM (7HtZB)

50 " Lemme guess: no criminal intent?"

No reasonable prosecutor...

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 12:36 PM (UDCxc)

51 All the final IG reports (this is just one of them) to come out and beef up his grounds to torpedo the DOJ/Deep State.

He has the patience of Job though, while the rest of us who have seen the Clintons get away scott-free for crimes against humanity for decades are less enthused and optimistic.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:30 PM (+dsLj)

The issue becomes, how much damage to the perception that we have the Rule of Law, and Equal Application of the Law, is being done.

I believe the US will never fall from outside forces.

It can however, fall from internal enemies, IF we allow them to erode our own institutions, and faith in our own Ideals.

Posted by: Don Q at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (NgKpN)

52 Well, at some point the "Hang Themselves" strategy is going to have to turn to offense. Perhaps it'll be an event where Trump uses a white washed report like this to expose what the original report was to show how the deep state is protecting itself... I dunno...

But letting these hacks run with phony lawsuit after phony investigation while things like the Awan scandel and the obvious crimes committed in all the hillary situations go unpunished - the less people will care about whether socialists run the government... because even with republicans in power - we are already there.

Posted by: IG Report at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (xOBRH)

53 >>> And always, the rich and powerful get away with what would jail any of us.

This is why I honestly fear about those who kiddingly talk about another civil war. Injustices likes these make something like that possible.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (kFnmp)

54 I really wanted to believe Jack Straw. Still remember that these leaks of the report are from the media and I'm not going a Gell Mann Amnesia on these.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (pw+jk)

55 Pretty much figured nothing would, or will, happen to any democrats. Had they been republicans they'd already be in prison or executed for the exact same things.

One set of laws, but two ways to apply them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (IwreY)

56 My only problem with this is that Bloomberg is the source of this post. Bloomberg is shit... no, Bloomberg is the thing that shit goes "ewww, gross" when it touches it.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G)

Yep. It's a respectable, globofinance-oriented Gateway Pundit.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (AM1GF)

57 "Seized."

"Pounced."

Yeah, I'm like totally convinced of the total non-partisan reporting of Bloomberg.

Totally.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (953wK)

58 Just the media and the left trying to get ahead of the narrative and control it, shape it. They want to be in charge of how people react to this and understand it, what they hear.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

But Trump is in possession of an unredacted version.

Which he can declassify and release.

A media savvy guy would wait for the MFM and the Left (but I repeat myself) to vent and spin, and then release the unredacted version.

Any dem running for re-election this year should be cautious, because any sound bite now could bit them on the ass.

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (rDwsX)

59 But...I LIKE it when elderly lawmakers pounce on me and seize the opportunity.

It's kind of my thing.

Posted by: Ali Watkins at June 14, 2018 12:38 PM (vV5Hi)

60 I thought it was a foregone conclusion that it would be a whitewash. An IG would strip down the deep state to its naked self? Are you kidding? The office of the IG is servant to the establishment.

"It's Chinatown, Jake." Only Trump can disrupt the system.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 14, 2018 12:38 PM (H8QX8)

61 I'm pouncing and seizing and seizing and pouncing! Weee!

Posted by: LASue at June 14, 2018 12:38 PM (Z48ZB)

62 Or there really was nothing going on. But I sort of doubt that. The leaked Strozk/Page texts alone are damning enough, let alone Hill-dog being allowed to claim "ignorance of the law" when it comes to handling classified materials, and a non-discussion of any potential espionage violations.

Anyone who can look at this history of this (just the tidbits we know as the public) and say, "nothing to see here" is stretching credulity IMO.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

There's shit to see. We ALL see it. Who is going to start arresting people for it?

That's what has us pissed off for.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 12:38 PM (vzLRM)

63 I had faith in Draw and Strike's theory that Session was working hard behind the scenes. Apparently, that is all bullshit.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:38 PM (kFnmp)

64 Between Horowitz being a stooge, and Sessions' TV appearance the other night, I think I'm convinced. I've been on the fence about whether or not these guys were playing a long game, or were Deep State operatives. I don't think I'm on the fence anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2018 12:39 PM (AzW6q)

65
The government investigates the government -yeah -
don't take the rag off the bush -NOT

Posted by: Jubilation T Cornpone, he really saved the day at June 14, 2018 12:39 PM (LilNs)

66 54
I really wanted to believe Jack Straw. Still remember that these leaks
of the report are from the media and I'm not going a Gell Mann Amnesia
on these.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (pw+jk)

I suspect we'll be regaled shortly with how the Deep State interfered and rewrote it or something. Anything to move the goal posts again.
And then we can do it all over again for the next two years waiting for the OIG report about FISA abuse.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 12:39 PM (UBzPO)

67 I'm pouncing and seizing and seizing and pouncing! Weee!

Posted by: LASue at June 14, 2018 12:38 PM (Z48ZB)

With one hand spare to type, apparently.

I'm not one to kiss-ass to the 'Ettes. But that's Hawt.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:39 PM (fiGNd)

68 It's unconstitutional for an IG report to make Democrats look bad. Ammendment HH section whatever paragraph Deez Nuts.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (vV5Hi)

69 Why make leaks beneficial to democrats when the report comes out at 3pm? No... they don't need to do that... the NY lawsuit on Trump is the cover - that's all they are going to talk about anyway. This report was supposed to be bad, but the deep state got it's rewrite - and so here we are. I think this report is a white wash - they don't need to spin it.

Posted by: IG Report at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (xOBRH)

70
Out: Grab them by the pussy

In: Seize them by the pussy

Posted by: Mega at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (Ngpkr)

71 I forgot to oil my elbows once and they seized up.

Posted by: Tin Man at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (nvMvs)

72 Let's just forget about sucking each other's dicks, mmmkay?

Maybe next time.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (0ogQG)

73 Because we're humans, the pendulum swings to extremes rather than settling in the proper place. Often, people to the left could not rely on justice in the past. And always, the rich and powerful get away with what would jail any of us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 12:35 PM (39g3+)

Write that one down. A shit-pot of truth there, in three sentences.
Posted by: ScoggDog

Justice in the past? Hell, we can't get it in the present.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (vzLRM)

74 Later I shall swoop and spring and grasp!

Posted by: LASue at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (Z48ZB)

75 If the conclusions are what is stated here, it will further deteriorate Americans trust in their government, specifically agencies like the FBI.
It's pretty clear to even the most pedestrian observer there is significant favoritism by the FBI and intelligence agencies heads to the Democrat Party.

Clinton broke the law according to U.S. Code and agreements she signed.
Trump was spied on, had a criminal investigation opened, and has been under constant assault based on a phony "dossier" created as part of the Democrats opposition research. It was nurtured by the FBI, et al in an attempt to discredit and defeat the Democrats opposition party. That should scare every American and be running on the front page of every newspaper- but it's not.
Instead we get this whitewash, cover-up by the press and agencies like the FBI threatening Congress because they are performing their constitutional duties.
Righteous civil wars have been started for less.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (VpIIl)

76 LASue found the trampoline, I see

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (Ynlay)

77 Democrats will be selecting and spinning.

This is a 500 page document - I don't trust any of the tidbits coming out right now.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (W+vEI)

78 Swamp - Drain it.
Tar and feather the alligators.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (0tfLf)

79 "Will the Democrats and media be seizing and/or pouncing on this whitewash?"
No. It will be completely forgotten by Monday.

Posted by: Ripley at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (MxEKc)

80 It's possible that this deep state defending itself at all costs could be advantageous for Trump and those looking to unseat Dems later this year.

The notion that this shitshow continues after finding out about the spying is proof of the deep state and its malevolence.

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (rDwsX)

81 Halle Berry once pounced upon me. Oooooo la la!

Posted by: Batman at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (nvMvs)

82 All this concern is very concerning.

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (2DZ7/)

83 We're working with the FBI on a case here in Philly. One of the agents snarked about our department. Not their smartest move, since two of us reminded them how tarnished their collective badges have been lately.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (gA69l)

84 Later I shall swoop and spring and grasp!

Posted by: LASue at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (Z48ZB)

I'm dyin' here ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (fiGNd)

85 Im starting the think the Bloomberg piece might be bullshit:

Cited in the IG report is Strzok flat out saying the FBI will stop Trump from becoming President.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (+dsLj)

86

House memo in preparation for report. These memos are where these leaks are coming from, nobody has the IG report yet.

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (y3aQB)

87 It's fucking Bloomberg. I don't even read their crap anymore because it is is so biased.
I'll wait.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (VpIIl)

88 "Early Leaks About IG Report Indicate That It's a Whitewash"

this is my "surprised" face...

really, it is.

why are you looking at me like that?

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (H/7NQ)

89 But Trump is in possession of an unredacted version.

Which he can declassify and release.

When's that rumored EO demanding just that gonna drop?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (vzLRM)

90 Pffffff.

Posted by: IG-88 at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (84QUd)

91 >>I'm pouncing and seizing and seizing and pouncing! Weee!

OK, as long as you don't allege stuff, because that never ends well with throwing allegations at Dems all willy-nilly!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (W+vEI)

92 Horowitz was a TFG appointee.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (0ogQG)

93 So, when there's a Dem in the Oval Office, all's fair, right?

I give up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (ptqGC)

94 dammit
don't THAT take the rag off the bush

media will report on info in report that they like, as usual.

Posted by: Jubilation T Cornpone, he really saved the day at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (LilNs)

95 "let alone Hill-dog being allowed to claim "ignorance of the law" when it comes to handling classified materials"

Bullshit.

Anyone that holds a clearance (I Do) goes through training YEARLY as to what the rules/laws require in the handling of classified material and the penalties for the mishandling.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)

96 Halle Berry once pounced upon me. Oooooo la la!
Posted by: Batman at June 14, 2018 12:41 PM (nvMvs)
++++++
Michelle Pfeiffer once pounced upon me. Oooooo la la!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (I2dne)

97 Rosenstein is meeting with PDT right now.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

98 Instead we get this whitewash, cover-up by the press
and agencies like the FBI threatening Congress because they are
performing their constitutional duties.
Righteous civil wars have been started for less.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:40 PM (VpIIl)

If only the President of the United States were in charge of the DOJ instead of it being the 4th branch of government.....

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (UBzPO)

99 93 So, when there's a Dem in the Oval Office, all's fair, right?

I give up.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (ptqGC)

---

Don't despair.

God has this in the bag.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (Jvty4)

100 IIRC, the MSM spin on the 4 page Devin Nunes memo was biased and wrong. I don't believe Bloomberg has captured the proper essence of a 500 page doc.

Now where can I pounce!?!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (W+vEI)

101 Whitewashed? Like Whitewater?

Posted by: HRC at June 14, 2018 12:45 PM (Tnijr)

102 "83
We're working with the FBI on a case here in Philly. One of the agents
snarked about our department. Not their smartest move, since two of us
reminded them how tarnished their collective badges have been lately.
Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (gA69l)
"
Their agency heads are literally blowing each other, conspiring to hide evidence, threatening Congress and redacting things like the cost of a desk as a national security consideration.
They should get their shine box.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:45 PM (VpIIl)

103 95
"let alone Hill-dog being allowed to claim "ignorance of the law" when it comes to handling classified materials"

Bullshit.

Anyone that holds a clearance (I Do) goes through training YEARLY as
to what the rules/laws require in the handling of classified material
and the penalties for the mishandling.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)

IIANM, Hillary and her close minions never took the required training, nor filled out the proper forms for their clearance. Yet they were given access to all sorts of Top Secret data.
This is their "plead ignorance" ploy.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2018 12:45 PM (jxbfJ)

104 97 Rosenstein is meeting with PDT right now.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

I hope he gets shit-canned. Can PDT do that?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (VM6ev)

105 Bullshit.

Anyone that holds a clearance (I Do) goes through training YEARLY as to what the rules/laws require in the handling of classified material and the penalties for the mishandling.
Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)
++++++++
Oh, clearly. I don't have a clearance but I have started through the process (that job ended for me and I never finished) and even *before* getting a clearance I had to go over "The Rules" about materials. Her claim of ignorance is obviously bullshit - which is why a whitewash (if indeed it is) will be obvious to the point of tedium.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (I2dne)

106 We're working with the FBI on a case here in Philly. One of the agents
snarked about our department. Not their smartest move, since two of us
reminded them how tarnished their collective badges have been lately.
Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (gA69l)
"
Their agency heads are literally blowing each other, conspiring to hide evidence, threatening Congress and redacting things like the cost of a desk as a national security consideration.
They should get their shine box.
Posted by: Marcus T

You still have me!

Posted by: The dancing fool who shot somebody at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (rDwsX)

107 >>>They should get their shine box.

There are some good agents in the field office here, but if they want to compare scandals, they're looking in the wrong place.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (gA69l)

108 Is "White Wash" English for "Bukakke"?

Just in case the NYT Transfers me to Japan. Tee-Hee-Hee

Posted by: Ali Watkins at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (vV5Hi)

109
What difference, at this point, does it make?!?!?!/!?!?1?!?!???

~cackle- cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle-,*cough-cough-cough,,COUGH-COUGH,,, cough~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (mPeei)

110 What is the next IG report we can get all optomistic about then have the prayer rug pulled from under us? FISA abuse? Because the next one will be...

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (r9UYA)

111 Michelle Pfeiffer?

I'd seize it.

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (+lOpA)

112 104 97 Rosenstein is meeting with PDT right now.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

I hope he gets shit-canned. Can PDT do that?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (VM6ev)

What do you think?

Posted by: Random Hawaiian Judge #7 at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (7HtZB)

113 2 things: agree with clearance knowledge Hill-dog knew (or actively ignored, in any case guilty of misheandling with intent (she set up the server)
2nd: time to bleach-bit the FBI. perhaps the total DOJ. I do not see how the day-to-day people are putting up with this crap.

Posted by: TANSTAASFL at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (Wa5hI)

114
Cited in the IG report is Strzok flat out saying the FBI will stop Trump from becoming President.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (+dsLj)

No reasonable prosecutor could precieve that as biased.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (10vO4)

115
Whitewashed? Like Whitewater?
Posted by: HRC

Today's Tom Sawyer
He gets by on you
And the space he invades
He gets by on you

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (IqV8l)

116 After Sessions comment yesterday about the report clarifying "some of the concerns that have been raised are NOT true" I pretty much gave up hope. F 'em.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (HgMAr)

117

Now let's compare it to the *original* report that was set to come out weeks ago.

Posted by: Soothi at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (ka6ta)

118 Later I shall swoop and spring and grasp!
=====

After the seizing and the pouncing and the swooping and the springing and grasping . . .

Then we get to the real one: OVERREACH.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (MIKMs)

119 2 things: agree with clearance knowledge Hill-dog knew (or actively ignored, in any case guilty of misheandling with intent (she set up the server)
2nd: time to bleach-bit the FBI.

Bleach bit? Is that like a Tide Pod?

:hic:

Posted by: Hillary! at June 14, 2018 12:48 PM (7HtZB)

120 well, I guess horowitz isn't coming

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 12:48 PM (FOPyv)

121 OK ... my crystal ball is clearing up ... I see an image forming ... getting clearer ...

... the new battle-ground is going to be over what the report actually says. Five-hundred pages ? Oh Boy - that's some fertile ground.

But I'm serious. The Pro-Sessions folks are gonna' claim victory, under the notion that everything necessary to bring Truth, Justice, and the American Way back to DC is in that report. It's not their fault that nobody is willing to do anything about it.

Progressives will claim victory, with simultaneous claims that the report vindicates Clinton while also claiming the report is flawed in any implications of Clinton.

The Nothing Is Gonna' Happen folks are going to be accused of moving the goal-posts ... even though all they're saying is Nothing is Gonna' Happen.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:48 PM (fiGNd)

122 >>>well, I guess horowitz isn't coming

But he is breathing heavy.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (gA69l)

123 >>>Then we get to the real one: OVERREACH.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (MIKMs)
_______
If it's anything like a reach-around I'll take two please!

Posted by: Shep! at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (vV5Hi)

124 The Horowitz ... the Horowitz ...

Posted by: Col. Kurtz at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (/qEW2)

125 "Early" leaks to Bloomberg from Dem sources? I'll wait for the report.

Posted by: mrp at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (Pqytn)

126 "107
>>>They should get their shine box.
There are some good agents in the field office here, but if they want to compare scandals, they're looking in the wrong place.
Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (gA69l)"
We work with some of their guys who are incredibly competent. But if they want to start throwing rocks, it will be a short, ugly fight.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (VpIIl)

127 "IIANM, Hillary and her close minions never took the
required training, nor filled out the proper forms for their clearance.
Yet they were given access to all sorts of Top Secret data.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed"
This is Clinton Crime Family privilege. It was extended to many of their WH employees who couldn't get security clearance by giving them temporary clearance (for 4 years) and never filling out the paperwork or losing it again and again.

Posted by: Ripley at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (MxEKc)

128 If 103 is true, thee complete Obama admin clearance people need to hang

Posted by: TANSTAASFL at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (Wa5hI)

129 It's great exercise:

Now seize, now pounce, now seize, now pounce....

Posted by: GOP Fitness Board at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (vDqXW)

130 Rosenstein is meeting with PDT right now.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

I hope he gets shit-canned. Can PDT do that?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Srsly?
Posted by: Random Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (vzLRM)

131

President Trump needs to summon the IG and ask him one question: Are these your original findings and conclusions?

Posted by: Soothi at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (ka6ta)

132 Cited in the IG report is Strzok flat out saying the FBI will stop Trump from becoming President.

***

No reasonable prosecutor could precieve that as biased.

***************************

Right, while this appears to be biased, there was no intent behind it.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (+dsLj)

133 500 page government documents don't expose but hide the truth.

Posted by: d9 at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (WX+x0)

134 We will never see a procedural solution to the Deep State problem, because it is not a procedural problem.

No amount of "investigations" or "probes" or "inquiries" will amount to a hill of beans.

The solution must be political, as in people voting for politicians who take draconian, non-procedural measures against corruption, or it must be revolutionary in nature, as in armed civilians seizing control of government buildings and information systems.

I for one, am still hoping for the political route (i.e. Trump beginning wholesale eviscerations of entire government departments, and the general public supports him at the ballot box).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (BRvh1)

135 God has this in the bag.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (Jvty4)
-----
I hope so, and he'd damned well better.

Every earthly institution we have has catastrophically failed us. If we don't get a heavenly miracle, we'll have to make our own justice.

And that shit won't be pretty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (AzW6q)

136 The vast majority of voters have no idea that there is an IG report or who the IG is or what an IG is.

They have a faint idea of what party the Kennedy's and Abe Lincoln each belonged to. They have no idea which party is about individual liberty.

It'd easy to forget for us, but most people are still just going about their lives. Look around your building at work. How many people there know there is an "IG report"? Now extrapolate.

Posted by: Mega at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (Ngpkr)

137 You have to think PDT is keeping Rosenstein around for a reason.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (VpIIl)

138 this is my "surprised" face...

really, it is.

why are you looking at me like that?
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 12:42 PM (H/7NQ)

---

It's disappointing, but hardly surprising...

Expecting justice from an immoral political establishment, put there by an immoral and ignorant populace is almost laughable.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (Jvty4)

139 IIANM, Hillary and her close minions never took the required training, nor filled out the proper forms for their clearance. Yet they were given access to all sorts of Top Secret data.
This is their "plead ignorance" ploy.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

So Hillary was elected United States Senator from New York on November 7, 2000. Served till 2009 when she took over as SoS till 2013 and she never took security training on classified document handling? they expect me to believe that?

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (Bdeb0)

140
R0senstein and Wray got together and thoroughly whitewashed the report.

Posted by: Soothi at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (ka6ta)

141 Does the report address why Clinton's associates(Mills, Abedin, etc.) get immunity without giving up information? Why was Clinton allowed to be questioned without being under oath? If not, how was this conclusion reached?

Posted by: Uncle Louie Farrakhan at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (rdl6o)

142 Attempting the same experiment over and over again and expecting a different result is yadda yadda

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (r9UYA)

143 people deserve the unredacted report ... footnotes for where the guilty want to insert their denials.
All these delays to get a sanitized load of crap? We'll see. Gateway Pundit has one article saying Strzok/Page emails revealed in report, show them saying they would stop Trump from becoming president.

Sounds like some political "bias" to me ... but much worse of course. It is using our agencies to change domestic elections at the highest levels.

It's like the Twilight Zone ... nothing makes sense ... the mobsters' crimes are exposed, but our FBI says they don't care (cuz they serve the globalist cabal), you little people shut up, we're busy assaulting a duly elected president who dared challenge our villainy.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (bT8Z4)

144 137 You have to think PDT is keeping Rosenstein around for a reason.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (VpIIl)

Boxing dummy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (VM6ev)

145 time to bleach-bit the entire national security system. it stinks to hell. politicians are NOT ROYALTY.

Posted by: TANSTAASFL at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (Wa5hI)

146
Rosenstein is meeting with PDT right now.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)
I hope he gets shit-canned. Can PDT do that?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:46 PM (VM6ev)
What do you think?

Posted by: Random Hawaiian Judge #7 at June 14, 2018 12:47 PM (7HtZB)

I'll reserve judgement until I see if Rosenpenis leaves the WH with his head still attached to his shoulders.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (10vO4)

147 You have to think PDT is keeping Rosenstein around for a reason.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (VpIIl)

... but you don't have to think the reason is good.

Could be as simple as "Fire Rosenstein, Begin Impeachment".

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (fiGNd)

148
47 Remember, Horowitz is a non-biased straight shooter.

-
Man of integrity. Like Comey.
-----------
Don't forget Mueller

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at June 14, 2018 12:52 PM (Lz888)

149 I'm shocked, shocked that whitewashing is going on here.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 14, 2018 12:52 PM (FK0zm)

150 Premature freakout-ulation.

Hold yer water, Moron Horde.

"Huber Will Come."

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 12:52 PM (953wK)

151 I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

Posted by: BluesFish at June 14, 2018 12:52 PM (QSrx1)

152 >>>"Huber Will Come."

Anke Huber? Cool, she's kinda hot.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (gA69l)

153 IIANM, Hillary and her close minions never took the required training, nor filled out the proper forms for their clearance. Yet they were given access to all sorts of Top Secret data.
This is their "plead ignorance" ploy.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

So Hillary was elected United States Senator from New York on November 7, 2000. Served till 2009 when she took over as SoS till 2013 and she never took security training on classified document handling? they expect me to believe that?
Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (Bdeb0)

Ignorance is not a defense to some of the laws Hillary violated with her e-mail server.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (953wK)

154 I hope so, and he'd damned well better.

Every earthly institution we have has catastrophically failed us. If we don't get a heavenly miracle, we'll have to make our own justice.

And that shit won't be pretty.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (AzW6q)

---

Is Hillary president?

Settle down and relax.

Posted by: GOD at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (Jvty4)

155 Even the most damming report would see the media claiming it was a Trump Administration report and therefore a politically motivated hit job.

Posted by: Mega at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (Ngpkr)

156 What's that statute of the blind folded lady with the scales all about?
They need to add shooting muffs and duct tape over her mouth, and possibly something else shoved up her .....

Posted by: Paladin at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (wFWxb)

157 134 Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 12:50 PM (BRvh1)
++++++
This is a very good comment. I face this at work somewhat frequently (a single error being seen as a process failure, and tighter process control being proposed to alleviate one-off conditions). If this indeed true and what we have is not a wide series of procedural failures but instead a cultural or entrenchment failure then yes, no procedural solutions will work because the framework is wrong.

I will have to cogitate on that, but thanks for giving me a new avenue of thought, Warai-otoko.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (I2dne)

158 Got not get! Freaking autoidiot strikes again. It takes a special programto autoselect the words that least match the intended meaning of a sentence!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (rdl6o)

159 if ace's sadz are real world and not blue check mark battlefield prep, then what can rational, science based conservatives do and/or plan as our next steps:

1. Maybe Hillary wasn't crooked?
2. Maybe Horowitz just isn't quite our guy (in the way the old real brits would say someone didn't pass as gentlemen)?
3. This is a limited scope of stupid things and we shouldn't worry.

I don't know, I thought I had a longer list.

But, analysis:

1. of course, hillary is crooked. Unless we are really, really missing something.
1a. the server is clearly set up to avoid scrutiny
1b. she deleted emails under subpoena.
1c. any clearance of her is therefore fucking insane.

2. Time will tell but if Horowitz is too scared/swampy to be seen as helping Trump, well, Sessions better wake the fuck up, un-recuse and get real special counsels up and running.

3. The big ticket items are what? Ending the mueller probe. what else are we really worrying about? Are we expecting to actually indict clinton or obama...? never gonna happen. So let's focus.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (FOPyv)

160 The thing about corruption is that based on history, it tends to go on quite a while then is suddenly all collapses all at once. Its not a slow gradual thing of people getting busted over time, its a big crash and burn.

Ronald Reagan, for all his positives and my respect for the president, established that if you control the system and simply stonewall justice officials, you can get away with pretty much anything.

They really were breaking the law and violating the constitution with the Iran/Contra thing. Nobody even argued it wasn't happening, just that they didn't recall events and that it was for a good cause. With that as precedent, we got Clinton's many, many corruptions such as secrets to China for campaign money, and on its been ever since. We can only hope that there's reckoning, but not count on it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 12:54 PM (39g3+)

161 Hillary will never be charged for any of her illegalities. Never. Pipe dream. A nice one, but a dream nonetheless.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:54 PM (gA69l)

162 Even the most damming report would see the media claiming it was a Trump Administration report and therefore a politically motivated hit job.
Posted by: Mega at June 14, 2018 12:53 PM (Ngpkr)

That's likely the fallback spin if first-, second- and third-level containment all fail.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 12:54 PM (953wK)

163 I for one, am still hoping for the political route (i.e. Trump beginning wholesale eviscerations of entire government departments, and the general public supports him at the ballot box).

Posted by: Warai-otoko

The entire point of this is that the political route has been subverted, at least in this case, and very likely repeatedly over the past decades.

If this is a legit whitewash, as so many of us feared...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at June 14, 2018 12:54 PM (AM1GF)

164
well, I guess horowitz isn't coming

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 12:48 PM (FOPyv)

I feel like Linus after waiting for the Great Pumpkin all night

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 12:54 PM (10vO4)

165 "IIANM, Hillary and her close minions never took the
required training, nor filled out the proper forms for their clearance.
Yet they were given access to all sorts of Top Secret data.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed"
This is Clinton Crime Family privilege. It was extended to many of their WH employees who couldn't get security clearance by giving them temporary clearance (for 4 years) and never filling out the paperwork or losing it again and again.
Posted by: Ripley at June 14, 2018 12:49 PM (M

WHICH SHOULD CAUSE PROPLE TO BE HANGED.

Accessing National Security documents WITHOUT the proper clearances?

That's spying.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 12:55 PM (vzLRM)

166 "Could be as simple as "Fire Rosenstein, Begin Impeachment".Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (fiGNd)
"
Ultimately, I don't think so. I think Trump knows the trajectory based on non public information, and he's letting this play out. Same with Sessions. He could fire Sessions or get him to resign in a second. He's not and there is a reason for that.
By the way, Sessions has been incredibly effective in some of the things he is doing to reform DOJ and other important policy matters. It just never makes the paper.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:55 PM (VpIIl)

167 IIANM, Hillary and her close minions never took the required training, nor filled out the proper forms for their clearance. Yet they were given access to all sorts of Top Secret data.
This is their "plead ignorance" ploy.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2018 12:45 PM (jxbfJ)
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In the Congressional hearing on 900-FBI-Files Craig Livingstone, it *settled* on the idea that since nobody knows who hired him, nothing could be said about why he had those 900 FBI Files in his office.

The same people who are out for blood on Trump--and want to know every detail of who talked to Don Jr. about preparing his statement about the Trump Tower meeting, are so unconcerned about whether or not Craig Livingstone wandered off a White House tour and started ordering FBI files for interesting reading in an abandoned office he found!

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 12:55 PM (vDqXW)

168
Every earthly institution we have has catastrophically failed us. If we don't get a heavenly miracle, we'll have to make our own justice.

And that shit won't be pretty.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Waiting For ~~Godot~~ Backlash

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2018 12:55 PM (IqV8l)

169 The sad reality is that the media determines what is and what is not important; what is an issue of grave national importance and what is not. And most people are followers no better than lemmings, lapping up and following whatever the media handlers feed them. And our media is not fit for a self governing people. It is fit for an authoritarian, totalitarian deep state complex - which is what we have.

Posted by: LGoPs at June 14, 2018 12:55 PM (FWsqf)

170 Alleged Intel Leaker James Wolfe Launches $500,000 GoFundMe for Legal Defense

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (y3aQB)

171 Big nothing burger. What you expected anything else? Typical GOPe

Posted by: Muns at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (27/MN)

172 Charlie Brown will kick the ball someday.

Posted by: Fisher at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (nQUGi)

173 No one has faith in the government anymore.

It's so corrupt. It is so steeped in protectionism, we are so screwed.

Yeah, they all did bad things, but, oh well... they didn't mean it. Oh, and everybody does it.

Yeah, that's the point @$$holes.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (fceHP)

174 So fire everyone who wrote the report?

What drives me up a wall is when Trump tweets his complaints about things like this as a passive spectator.

Last I checked the Executive Branch is in charge of law enforcement and only one person has actually been elected by the American people. The rest of them are bureaucrats.

Posted by: Maritime at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (lKmt3)

175 Even the most damming report would see the media claiming it was a Trump Administration report and therefore a politically motivated hit job.

Right, they could layout absolute, totally supported video proof of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plotting to, then personally executing 5 little girls to eat then burning their bones on an altar to Dagon and the press would say its fake, selectively edited, misleading, and nobody can trust it because its from Trump officials.

And 30% or so of the population would buy it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 12:57 PM (39g3+)

176 The Hillary "email scandal" was the greatest smoke and mirrors trick ever pulled. Classically Clintonian. Let's pay no attention to the "Foundation ," the largest case of public cocorruption ever.

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 12:57 PM (UDCxc)

177 I think the presence of GOP seizing and pouncing is an indication that this is butthurt blue check mark insane asylum battlespace prep.

But I think we may have to wonder if Horowitz may be loathe to actually help trump or hurt hillay/obama regardless of what he found because optics, right side of history, not wanting to be in a hunting accident while flying a single engine aircraft.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 12:57 PM (FOPyv)

178 170 Alleged Intel Leaker James Wolfe Launches $500,000 GoFundMe for Legal Defense
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (y3aQB)

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We'll see about that.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 12:57 PM (Jvty4)

179 >>>Later I shall swoop and spring and grasp!

I really think they have cheatsheets of proper words to use for talking about Republicans vs Democrats, taped to their cubicle walls. It's why I can't read their stuff. It's like getting an unpleasant electric shock once every few seconds.

Posted by: Col. Kurtz at June 14, 2018 12:57 PM (/qEW2)

180 We live in a caste system that rewards perfidious actions, as long as you commit no wrongthink.

What a steaming pile of shit. But we'll wait until it's released to learn what we already knew was going to occur.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 14, 2018 12:58 PM (Y9uH4)

181 I kind of feel like I did on election night.... I was 100% convinced Trump would win, because it felt right. Not much in terms of, you know, logic or reason, but true nonetheless.
Now I think this report will not be the whitewash some are expecting based on the leaks we are reading. Will it condemn everyone and recommend indictments and beheadings? No. But I believe this report, coupled with the actions Huber will carry out in parallel to this report will be, to me, anyway, satisfying.

Now, no one jinx it by disagreeing with me.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 14, 2018 12:58 PM (jjaLl)

182 I really wanted to believe Jack Straw. Still remember that these leaks of the report are from the media and I'm not going a Gell Mann Amnesia on these.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 12:37 PM (pw+jk)
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Because as a pro-American conservative for law and order you really would like to believe in those institutions that are commissioned with those things.

But we might be to the point of the progressives wearing our *government's* skin as a trophy.

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 12:58 PM (vDqXW)

183 Off shart of darkness.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 14, 2018 12:58 PM (/qEW2)

184 Imma hold judgment until I see it, I hope to hell it isn't a nothing burger.

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2018 12:58 PM (M+Lyo)

185 I am Jack's broken fever dream.

Posted by: The IG Report at June 14, 2018 12:59 PM (Ngpkr)

186
The Hillary "email scandal" was the greatest smoke and mirrors trick
ever pulled. Classically Clintonian. Let's pay no attention to the
"Foundation ," the largest case of public cocorruption ever.
=====

Hold my beer. BHO.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 14, 2018 12:59 PM (MIKMs)

187 184 Imma hold judgment until I see it, I hope to hell it isn't a nothing burger.
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2018 12:58 PM (M+Lyo)

It probably is. The Deep State covers for itself.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 12:59 PM (VM6ev)

188 I really think they have cheatsheets of proper words to use for talking about Republicans vs Democrats, taped to their cubicle walls. It's why I can't read their stuff. It's like getting an unpleasant electric shock once every few seconds.
Posted by: Col. Kurtz at June 14, 2018 12:57 PM (/qEW2)

I get that effect just walking past a tv that has MSNBC on.

I assume it's intentional.

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 12:59 PM (+lOpA)

189 We found that the Rosenbergs were not politically motivated and their only faults were not communicating with their handlers more often.

Posted by: IG Horowitz at June 14, 2018 12:59 PM (BbZA9)

190 Hillary will never be charged for any of her illegalities. Never. Pipe dream. A nice one, but a dream nonetheless.

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 12:54 PM (gA69l)
............

She will however, fall down again and break something. This we know for sure.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2018 12:59 PM (HgMAr)

191 The entire point of this is that the political route has been subverted, at least in this case, and very likely repeatedly over the past decades.

If this is a legit whitewash, as so many of us feared...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at June 14, 2018 12:54 PM (AM1GF)

I know, i'm fairly imprecise with my language on this one, so what I mean isn't getting across quite right.

When I say "political", I mean "in the hands of the polity". Ignore the so-called rules and procedures, because clearly there is nothing sacred about them anymore. One side is riding roughshod over "The System", so you'd be a fool to try to fight within the system.

When I say "politcal", i mean that one partisan faction takes control of the levers of power from within "The System", with the tacit support of a majority of the polity (the voters). As opposed to on one hand allowing "The System" to operate undisturbed with little to no input from the polity, or on the other hand, obliterating the system wholesale via mass violence (i.e. Revolution)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (BRvh1)

192 >>182
I really wanted to believe Jack Straw....

He seems to be mysteriously AWOL today.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (r9UYA)

193 Alleged Intel Leaker James Wolfe Launches $500,000 GoFundMe for Legal Defense

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (y3aQB)

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We'll see about that.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 12:57 PM (Jvty4)

I heard it's not exactly going gangbusters....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (jjaLl)

194 I've failed again. Sigh.

Posted by: The October Surprise at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (vtcmf)

195 I don't trust the news media and their leaks..so will wait for the report before getting really pissed off (if indeed it turns out to be rubbish).

Posted by: IC at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (a0IVu)

196 She will however, fall down again and break something. This we know for sure.
Posted by: wth

The new exoskeleton 2020 won't allow that.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 01:01 PM (Bdeb0)

197 Ultimately, I don't think so. I think Trump knows the trajectory based on non public information, and he's letting this play out. Same with Sessions. He could fire Sessions or get him to resign in a second. He's not and there is a reason for that.

By the way, Sessions has been incredibly effective in some of the things he is doing to reform DOJ and other important policy matters. It just never makes the paper.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 12:55 PM (VpIIl)

Like I say ... at this point, the belief in Sessions, this process, a master Trump plan, etc... are all just Articles of Faith to me.

I can't argue with Faith. Not gonna' try. Just pisses off the Faithful, gets me Scorn, and elicits Pity to the Faithful from the Bystanders.

Have a good one.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 01:01 PM (fiGNd)

198 Can't touch this!

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at June 14, 2018 01:01 PM (vtcmf)

199

Someone had to be run over by the bus, be the fall guy, and it sounds like it was Comey, and really only Comey. He's already old news and trash, so there ya have it.

But, yeah, we'll see. Are there more reports?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 01:01 PM (fceHP)

200
He seems to be mysteriously AWOL today.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (r9UYA)

Maybe because he's busy with the IG report

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 01:01 PM (10vO4)

201 I really wanted to believe Jack Straw....

He seems to be mysteriously AWOL today.
Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (r9UYA)

Maybe he's waiting to see the actual report, not just freaking out over the spin/"reporting" of the totally, completely, how-could-you-ever-doubt-them MFM?

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (953wK)

202 Can't touch this! *hic*

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (vtcmf)

203 I believe this report, coupled with the actions Huber will carry out in parallel to this report will be, to me, anyway, satisfying.

I expect so as well, but it won't be as satisfying in the end as it should be. Justice is so rare in this world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (39g3+)

204 Foundation apparently left behind handwritten notes from Trump directing payments. Whoops!

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (2DZ7/)

205 The trolls are going to be lively today.

Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (LiyEm)

206 The truth, or an Inspector General's report, whichever is less incriminating, shall set you free.

Posted by: The Rev. Jim Comey at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (cNJvW)

207 I truly do apologize to the horde for being so cynical about this investigation for so long but, here we are.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (r9UYA)

208 Here is my take on the IG report:

Everything you think about it is correct.

Everything the other person thinks about it that disagrees with what you think about is a sign of their low IQ, evidence that their family tree does not fork, and is TREASON! TREASON I SAY!

There you go.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (mf5HN)

209 HR Adventures UPDATED -

In the mid morning thread I commented on a work email alerting us to holidays in June - including Sihk martyrs and Islamic holy days.

Before noon we got another email apologizing for omitting Juneteenth.

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' . . .email of yesterday, some noticed that we did not include mention of the holiday known as Juneteenth, celebrated by nearly every state . . . (blah blah blah omitted) Please let us know any time you believe we may have missed something. We appreciate all the help we can get!

(History omitted)
"We have come a long way since the Civil War and Jim Crow, but all of us are well aware of the difficult journey we still have before us. So let's all contemplate all of that next Tuesday, June 19 - or Juneteenth. And thanks to those who brought his to our attention."
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Does it seem like they are trying a bit too hard?

I dunno. Last time I saw somebody stumble all over themselves like this was at a fifth grade dance. Two emails in one day on "woke" history?

Posted by: simplemind at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (jXsBy)

210 Posted by: Maritime at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (lKmt3)

You answered your own question.

Trump's tweets are there to persuade. The tone mimics that of an observer, ie his target audience. It gives people a perspective to hold on to.

The same way all these journos are just working "everyman" fighting the power for the common good, as opposed to, ya know, mouthpieces for decrepid entrenched oligarchs.

Posted by: The IG Report at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (Ngpkr)

211 What could I do? They planted child porn on my computer. I gots to plays ball.

Posted by: Mike Horowitz, Compromised at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (XcgmW)

212 178 170 Alleged Intel Leaker James Wolfe Launches $500,000 GoFundMe for Legal Defense
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 12:56 PM (y3aQB)

Alleged commenter Warai-otoko launches $500,000 GoFuckYourself for James Wolfe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (BRvh1)

213 I know this APPEARS disappointing but can we not bash Jackstraw until...

1) The full report is KNOWN
2) He's here to answer

Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (Enq6K)

214 Maybe he's waiting to see the actual report, not just freaking out over the spin/"reporting" of the totally, completely, how-could-you-ever-doubt-them MFM?

I think some people like screaming and wailing and gnashing teeth in dismay, they seem to do it at the slightest provocation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (39g3+)

215 Everyone needs to keep in mind that this is only about the Hillary email investigation.

It is not about spygate, or the Clinton foundation.

Though if it is a whitewash, that will not bode well for the other "Investigations" (coverups )

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (M+Lyo)

216 It took us a year and a half to whitewash this bitch. That's a lot of paint my friends. We had to buy paint in bulk lots.

Posted by: IG Horowitz at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (BbZA9)

217 their family tree does not fork, and is TREASON! TREASON I SAY!

There you go.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (mf5HN)

My family tree doesn't fork.

It spoons.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (BRvh1)

218 I expect so as well, but it won't be as satisfying in the end as it should be. Justice is so rare in this world.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (39g3+)

The best possible result to all this is that we get some of the assholes, and put the Fear of God into the rest of them.

We were never, ever going to get all of them.

Worst case result is that we don't get any of them.

Regardless, none of the above are going to happen today.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (953wK)

219 Political elites are playing with fire if this IG process turns into a couple of whitewashes.

Hopefully, it won't happen.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (rBnYq)

220 >>Everything you think about it is correct.

Everything the other person thinks about it that disagrees with what you think about is a sign of their low IQ, evidence that their family tree does not fork, and is TREASON! TREASON I SAY!

There you go.

But I really want to set my hair on fire NOW!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (W+vEI)

221 >>>I think some people like screaming and wailing and gnashing teeth in dismay, they seem to do it at the slightest provocation.

OH THAT'S FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!

Posted by: Wyatt at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (gA69l)

222 147 Could be as simple as "Fire Rosenstein, Begin Impeachment".
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 12:51 PM (fiGNd)

Pretty much. He so much as sneezes where Precious Porcelain Doll Mueller can hear it, and it's EM PONTIAC AZTEK FOATY-FI.

Corrupt pieces of shit in Congress...

Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (WDCYi)

223 >>200

He seems to be mysteriously AWOL today.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:00 PM (r9UYA)

Maybe because he's busy with the IG report

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic

He has a copy already? Epic.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (r9UYA)

224 God has this in the bag.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (Jvty4)
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That's my main hope. Right now the intermediate hope is that the MSM splashed the stories that fit their narrative.

We all know what side of the political fence does most of the leaking out of DC.

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (vDqXW)

225 We're on this.

Posted by: Top Men at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (cHbmY)

226
Did the reporter's at Bloomberg have to sleep with someone in the federal government to get access to the document before it's official release?

Is leaking to the media a crime, or not?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (roQNm)

227 Whew. I'm exhausted.

Posted by: Jeff SezZzions at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (vtcmf)

228

Guilty as sin,, free as a bird.

Now where have I heard that before?

~cackle- cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle- cackle-cackle-,*cough-cough-cough,,COUGH-COUGH,,, cough~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (pYqXv)

229 Well, if this is the case with the IG report:

There is NO LAW.

None.

Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (wHHiv)

230 But I really want to set my hair on fire NOW!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (W+vEI)

*holds out a lighter for to assist*

*because I'm couth and shit*

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (mf5HN)

231 There's no way to prove whether their bias affected their actions. Unless they wrote in an email "I hate Trump so I'm going to do whatever it takes to get rid of him", what else could he say?

I'll be the other 499 pages aren't as whitewashy.

If this is the best they can leak from the report, there's trouble brewing in there for them.

I can't believe how upset people get about these left wing spin leaks.

Maybe he recommends prosecution for something he can prove.

I'll bet there's plenty in there for our side.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 14, 2018 01:05 PM (kfcYC)

232
He has a copy already? Epic.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:04 PM (r9UYA)

Not him,but he does seem to have some sources.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 01:06 PM (10vO4)

233 Ohs Noes - My Hash has the AIDS!

Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2018 01:06 PM (wHHiv)

234 Maybe because he's busy with the IG report
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 01:01 PM (10vO4)

I want my JackStraw=Jeff Sessions headcannon to be true so badly.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2018 01:06 PM (72PAC)

235 By 3:00 when the report is officially released this will be old news, full of partisan lies, already debunked, why are we still discussing this?

Posted by: Ripley at June 14, 2018 01:06 PM (MxEKc)

236 Gowdy is "alarmed" or something. Missed part of his statement on Fox because I'm dealing with a carpenter who was supposed to be here at 8:30 this morning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (ptqGC)

237 Maybe he's waiting to see the actual report, not just freaking out over the spin/"reporting" of the totally, completely, how-could-you-ever-doubt-them MFM?
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Hey, you are in the spin zone right now. Media is going to try and turn you off and make up your mind for you before you see anything. Its like the election, they did their best to convince you before hand that there was no point in you voting since Hillary was inevitable.

Also, the process watered down the report a lot. Its also going to have been redacted and massaged. Trump will have the unredacted un massaged report. This is going to play out over weeks, not minutes.

Posted by: simplemind at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (RWMiQ)

238 Expecting DC swampcreatures to hold each other accountable is laughable. Only the voters will, sometimes, hold them accountable -- like when they gave Crooked Hillary the thumbs down in 2016.

Posted by: T Retch the Vomiting Dinosaur at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (XcgmW)

239 >>Does it seem like they are trying a bit too hard?

I dunno. Last time I saw somebody stumble all over themselves like this was at a fifth grade dance. Two emails in one day on "woke" history?

Yeah, that's painful.
Now go ask them if that means you get to take Juneteenth off!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (W+vEI)

240 I know this APPEARS disappointing but can we not bash Jackstraw until...

1) The full report is KNOWN
2) He's here to answer

Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (Enq6K)

I was right with him on most of this stuff. I think they will at least have to sacrifice a few. Sessions might have tipped his hand saying they might have to can some people, that of course is not as good as throwing their asses in jail.

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (M+Lyo)

241 Former FBI Director James Comey "deviated" from bureau and Justice Department procedures

Can a government employee be fired for being a deviant?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (roQNm)

242 Did I mention that peach Hate Shakes have arrived at our local CfA?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (EyPfd)

243 "Former FBI Director James Comey "deviated" from bureau and Justice Department procedures in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton,"

I always knew that nancy Comey was a deviant. Anybody that would stick their probe into Hillary Clinton sets new standards of deviating from the norm.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (9BLnV)

244 Okay, Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

Hmmm.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (ptqGC)

245 Obviously not everyone here understands mega-dimensional chess where the IG Report will feed the double super secret grandjury Utah Huber investigation.

Sessions is colossally incompetent, at best, as AG.

Posted by: Restoring the Media Balance of Terror at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (WPxnj)

246
I'm dealing with a carpenter who was supposed to be here at 8:30 this morning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (ptqGC)

#TwoWeeks

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (10vO4)

247 >>Does it seem like they are trying a bit too hard?

I dunno. Last time I saw somebody stumble all over themselves like this was at a fifth grade dance. Two emails in one day on "woke" history?

Yeah, that's painful.
Now go ask them if that means you get to take Juneteenth off!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (W+vEI)

No mention of Flag Day, amirite?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (+CzJu)

248 I want my JackStraw=Jeff Sessions headcannon to be true so badly.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2018 01:06 PM (72PAC)

Great. Now I've got I Ship It stuck in my head.

https://youtu.be/LCDgJiPBxfI

I am the queen of in canon they've never met shipping.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (mf5HN)

249 213 I know this APPEARS disappointing but can we not bash Jackstraw until...

1) The full report is KNOWN
2) He's here to answer
Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (Enq6K)

My question is, what is anybody expecting that rubbing this in his face is going to change?

Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (WDCYi)

250 If you are hanging on the thoughts of any anonymous internet commenter you might want to consider another approach.

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (UDCxc)

251 >>*holds out a lighter for to assist*

*because I'm couth and shit*

Too late, you've talked me out of it.
Maybe it's time for a break and a margarita?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (W+vEI)

252 Ohs Noes - My Hash has the AIDS!
==========

Everybody has AIDS!!! AIDS!!!

Posted by: Team America, World Police at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (vg8iE)

253
*holds out a lighter for to assist*

*because I'm couth and shit*

Would it have been uncouth to assist with your Flame thrower?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (aVYsC)

254 "235 By 3:00 when the report is officially released this will be old news, full of partisan lies, already debunked, why are we still discussing this?
Posted by: Ripley"

well, old C(uck)OP would agree and that's enough for today but the new "in the thralls of Trump" GOP should, you know, still prosecute....just for fun.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (FOPyv)

255 Lets see the document. underacted and unwashed.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (0OmEj)

256 >>I'm dealing with a carpenter who was supposed to be here at 8:30 this morning.

Be happy he actually showed up and that he isn't Ace.

Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (wHHiv)

257 Ohs Noes - My Hash has the AIDS!
Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2018 01:06 PM (wHHiv)
----
Care for a cocktail?

Posted by: Protease Inhibitors at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (AzW6q)

258 208 Here is my take on the IG report:

Everything you think about it is correct.

Everything the other person thinks about it that disagrees with what you think about is a sign of their low IQ, evidence that their family tree does not fork, and is TREASON! TREASON I SAY!

There you go.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (mf5HN)

So it's like a Rorschach test?

Posted by: rickl at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (xjiRE)

259 I kind of enjoy setting my hair on fire. It lowers my expectations for disappointing outcomes.

Posted by: That deplorable guy who says asks... at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (vtcmf)

260 I expect so as well, but it won't be as satisfying in the end as it should be. Justice is so rare in this world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (39g3+)

I would add the caveat that there is no.... national justice? Big justice? Ah, no Political justice!
But there is local justice, a lot of times, where crimes are punished and victims get closure. But that is only measured by the town, not the country.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (jjaLl)

261 If Sessions and Horowitz are stooges then we all lose. If they are stormin norman patton then we all win. That's it. Not I lose you win or vice versa.

Posted by: d9 at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (WX+x0)

262 I have this sneaking suspicion that there will be some gigantic flaming dumpster fire of a sentence buried somewhere in this report, that the Hubris of the deep staters will have forgotten to scrub or redact. Something they won't even realize is damning, but will be the single loose thread that we can pull on and unravel everything. My imagination fails at that point, though.

It's a pipedream. But i'll hang on to it until i'm proven wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (BRvh1)

263 My question is, what is anybody expecting that rubbing this in his face is going to change?

My concerns and cynicism have been spun and dismissed as being intellectually lazy, intellectually dishonest, the ravings of a dullard, etc.

Will such a thing "change" anything? No. But perhaps the cynics ought not be so casually dismissed.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 14, 2018 01:10 PM (tVWQB)

264 I know this APPEARS disappointing but can we not bash Jackstraw until...

Or at all. Jackstraw is a patriot, who expects some modicum of integrity out of the Justice Department. I hope he is right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 01:10 PM (rBnYq)

265 I, too, want JackStraw to be right about this...

Posted by: IC at June 14, 2018 01:10 PM (a0IVu)

266 My question is, what is anybody expecting that rubbing this in his face is going to change?
Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (WDCYi)
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This +1. He's a smart guy who is probably going to turn out to be wrong (I think). No need to get snippy about things.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2018 01:10 PM (AzW6q)

267 244 Okay, Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

Hmmm.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (ptqGC)

Hmmm..

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (+lOpA)

268 244 Okay, Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

Hmmm.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (ptqGC)

Which Gowdy; before or after we loved/hated him?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (VM6ev)

269 Trump broke so many criminal laws with his foundation in New York that the AG went and sued him.... in civil court.

Plus they filed on his birthday, because no bias.

The AG, Underwood (who looks like George Soros in drag) also wants to repeal the double jeopardy so she can re-prosecute the people Trump pardoned.

It's like there aren't any crimes happen in NY that she has time to do this.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (+dsLj)

270 No need to get snippy about things.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2018 01:10 PM (AzW6q)

Are you new here? You must be new here.

Sigh.

*trudges back to work*

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (mf5HN)

271 Message from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok:
Page: Donald Trump is never going to be president, right?"

Strzok: No he will not, we will stop him"

Far from a nothingburger.

Posted by: MJP at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (tRsql)

272 Which Gowdy; before or after we loved/hated him?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (VM6ev)

Well, today's Thursday.....

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (ptqGC)

273 JackStraw?

He's a good man, Jeffrey.

...and thorough.

Posted by: Maude Lebowski at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (wHHiv)

274 Okay, Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.
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I'm alarmed that anyone thought anything was going to happen to those involved!

Posted by: Trey G. at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (vg8iE)

275 Ace is totally grumpy and downbeat about this report.

Meanwhile, Drudge headlines are screaming about how Sztrok wrote "We'll stop" Trump from becoming president, proving beyond any doubt that the FBI is biased against Trump.

So -- which is it? Is this revelation a nothingburger, or is it the smoking gun proving that the whole scandal is an illegal witch-hunt?

Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (c+2jX)

276 I would say that the leaks we see right now are the best leaks from the report that support the deep state. They are meant to soften the blow. If there was a home run "exoneration" in the 500 pages we would see it by now.

All the leaks amount to the OIG said "They didn't find an email from Comey stating this was a political hit job using the words "This is a political hit job".

However, the text messages that say first we "really like" Manafort and Flynn and then "really like" Trump. mean nothing, just locker room talk about how much they really like the three of them.

We will see.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (ymnmz)

277 Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

What's alarming him?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (rBnYq)

278 Can a government employee be fired for being a deviant?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (roQNm)
............

Um, let's see. Crapping in the hallways and searching futa pony porn all day. Tough call.

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (HgMAr)

279 249 213 I know this APPEARS disappointing but can we not bash Jackstraw until...

1) The full report is KNOWN
2) He's here to answer
Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2018 01:03 PM (Enq6K)

My question is, what is anybody expecting that rubbing this in his face is going to change?
Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 01:08 PM (WDCYi)

Beats me, but its been going on for a few weeks that others have basically been declaring that we're all gonna have to buy him beer when he is proven right. And well after that shit, are you going to expect people to just say nothing if he is not?

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (lKs2v)

280 Not the Hill to die on is now Don't light your hair on fire.

I'm waiting for someone to find that hill and to tell me when it's okay to light your hair on fire. Seems these things are always just out of reach.

Posted by: I am Spartacus at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (2DOZq)

281
It's a pipedream. But i'll hang on to it until i'm proven wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:09 PM (BRvh1)

Well Mueller neglected to redact the names of two witnesses in the new court filings in the Manafort case,so there's hope

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (10vO4)

282 I remember in the RTC investigation, that they were able to recover on a lady's thumb drive her letter to her nephew where she said that he was as dishonest as Bill Clinton--describing how she had personally been involved in Clinton dissembling on something official--the Dems argued that it showed *bias* against Bill Clinton. And demanded that her testimony not be relied on.

"Bias" doesn't work the same way, both ways, to Dems. She wasn't even saying: "we got to have an insurance policy against Clinton", she was simply rebuking her nephew that his dishonesty struck her to be like Clinton's. Not even that she *voted* for Clinton was taken into consideration. She voted for him, and said she soured on his character after having had involvement in the RTC scandal.

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (vDqXW)

283 >>Trump broke so many criminal laws with his foundation in New York that the AG went and sued him.... in civil court.

Put two recent stories together and it becomes clear:

https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1007305272497451009

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (W+vEI)

284 "He's a smart guy who is probably going to turn out to be wrong (I think). No need to get snippy about things.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice"
He probably hasn't reached the ripe old age of 29 that would given the wisdom to know the outcome in advance.

Posted by: Ripley at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (MxEKc)

285 To be right or wrong about an event in the future is no big deal either way.

To be right or wrong about an event in the past is much more important.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (BRvh1)

286

Meanwhile, Drudge headlines are screaming about how Sztrok wrote
"We'll stop" Trump from becoming president, proving beyond any doubt
that the FBI is biased against Trump.

So -- which is it? Is this revelation a nothingburger, or is it the
smoking gun proving that the whole scandal is an illegal witch-hunt?

Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (c+2jX)

A nothinggun or a smokingburger?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (ymnmz)

287 Or at all. Jackstraw is a patriot, who expects some modicum of integrity out of the Justice Department. I hope he is right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 01:10 PM (rBnYq)

This, and just because it isn't in the report, it didn't happen.

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (M+Lyo)

288 I, too, want JackStraw to be right about this...
Posted by: IC

No one wants him to be right more than me.

I DON'T want to have been right all along.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (vzLRM)

289 Let's imagine for a moment a couple of FBI agents having an affair, emailing about Obama, "We'll stop him! He'll never be president!"

I wonder how many years they'd be doing right now?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (ptqGC)

290 Which Gowdy; before or after we loved/hated him?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (VM6ev)

+++

LOL!

Posted by: washrivergal at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (Kcf2u)

291 >>Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

It's either the IG Report or the Chipotle Take-Out he had for lunch.

Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (wHHiv)

292 What's the most disconcerting about the whole thing, if the report is the whitewash it appears, is that the deep state will know they got away with it, which will merely embolden future efforts.

On the deplorable side, a whitewash merely confirms the rule of law is dead in this country and there are two sets of rules: One for the ruling class and one for the rest of us.

Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (qC1Sy)

293 I would say that the leaks we see right now are the best leaks from the report that support the deep state. They are meant to soften the blow. If there was a home run "exoneration" in the 500 pages we would see it by now.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (ymnmz)
---
I agree. Dems love them some leeks.

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 01:14 PM (vDqXW)

294 Heh, fun meme at Hillary's expense

http://tinyurl.com/ybvr4wkm

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:14 PM (39g3+)

295 At this point, the only people we know for sure have read the entire IG report are Horowitz and his team, and those DOJ employees named in the report who are still employed at the DOJ.

This condition will persist for some hours yet.

There may be certain others who have seen the entire, unredacted report (like, maybe, Trump?) but we do not know that for a certainty.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 01:14 PM (953wK)

296 Message from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok:
Page: Donald Trump is never going to be president, right?"

Strzok: No he will not, we will stop him"

Far from a nothingburger.
Posted by: MJP

What law did Strzok's comment break?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (vzLRM)

297 "Plus they filed on his birthday,"

(Sad trombone)

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (2DZ7/)

298

EM EDIKANG IKONG FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (pYqXv)

299
Everything the other person thinks about it that disagrees with what you think about is a sign of their low IQ, evidence that their family tree does not fork, and is TREASON! TREASON I SAY!

There you go.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 14, 2018 01:02 PM (mf5HN)

The hel!? I leave for an hour and I get trashed like this!?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (2CQCl)

300 278 ... being a deviant?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse
............

....searching futa pony porn all day. Tough call.

Posted by: wth

At this point in internet history, about 38% of all porn is futa pony porn, so I don't think it qualifies as "deviant" anymore. It's so common that it's now just normal porn. So those who search for it aren't deviants -- they're just normal people.

Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (c+2jX)

301 277
Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

What's alarming him?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (rBnYq)

That it came at all?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (ymnmz)

302 Trey Gowdy is one curious motherfucker.

Posted by: T Retch the Vomiting Dinosaur at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (XcgmW)

303 I'm waiting for someone to find that hill and to tell me when it's okay to light your hair on fire. Seems these things are always just out of reach.
Posted by: I am Spartacus at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (2DOZq)

Can I light someone else's hair on fire?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (BRvh1)

304
Dang. Rush is going off on the MFM. This is a keeper of a rant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (VM6ev)

305 "They have a faint idea of what party the Kennedy's and Abe Lincoln each
belonged to. They have no idea which party is about individual liberty."
The parties switched places sometime in the 60's/70's, haven't you heard?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (UBzPO)

306 I think Gowdy is alarmed about his latest haircut.

Posted by: I am Spartacus at June 14, 2018 01:16 PM (2DOZq)

307 Imma hold judgment until I see it, I hope to hell it isn't a nothing burger.
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2018 12:58 PM (M+Lyo)

So do I. But even if it's not nothingburger, does that necessarily mean there will be some action taken?

Remember the Margot Cleveland post yesterday "The deficiencies exposed will prompt calls for a new, unbiased, and thorough investigation of Clinton". Not "will prompt" but "will prompt calls". That doesn't sound too promising. Unfortunately, I think it will go down as (the good) Ripley put it on this morning's news thread:

The IG report will be news and haggled over for a couple days then forgotten. Just like the Nunes memo was going to shock Americans and shake the DC political class to the core. Does anybody even remember it?

And that's in the best case scenario, where it points to some actual abuses. Sorry to be a Debby Downer.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 14, 2018 01:16 PM (/qEW2)

308 I don't know who Paul Sperry is but he's saying on twitter:

CAUTION: IG Michael Horowitz and James Comey worked together in 1990s in US Attorneys office in Manhattan. In addition, Horowitz married to former CNN and PBS producer, who gave money to Obama and who previously worked as a senior aide to Dukakis during presidential campaign

Posted by: Slip & Slide at June 14, 2018 01:16 PM (BbZA9)

309 Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

What's alarming him?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Gambling at Rick's place.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 01:16 PM (vzLRM)

310 As far as I'm concerned, Juneteenth is the following:

Flag Day (14th)
Army B-Day (14th, 243rd, Hooah!)
Trump's B-Day (14th)
Anniversary of getting out of the Army (15th)
Wedding (16th)
Fathers' Day (17th, this year)

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 01:16 PM (Jvty4)

311 I wish Gowdy would set his hair on fire.

Posted by: I am Spartacus at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (2DOZq)

312 I am not yet disappointed. The day is not over. I still have hope.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (roQNm)

313 A nothinggun or a smokingburger?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Smokingburger...yummmmmm..droooool.....

Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (c+2jX)

314 Does it seem like they are trying a bit too hard?

I dunno. Last time I saw somebody stumble all over themselves like this was at a fifth grade dance. Two emails in one day on "woke" history?

Yeah, that's painful.
Now go ask them if that means you get to take Juneteenth off!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 01:07 PM (W+vEI)

No mention of Flag Day, amirite?
=====
No Jay - they did mention flag day. I posted the details of the original email in the mid morning thread. They covered flag day, Sikh martyrs, Islamic holy day, an native American citizenship decree. I don't mind the political as much as the religious. If they were sending weekly emails about the catholic martyrs for the week it would set off a giant woke firestorm I'm sure.

I take it as a sign that the special interest groups within the company have been active behind the scenes and they have management running scared. Not a good sign. Get woke, go broke.

Posted by: simplemind at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (oQnfm)

315 Message from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok:
Page: Donald Trump is never going to be president, right?"

Strzok: No he will not, we will stop him"

Far from a nothingburger.
Posted by: MJP

What law did Strzok's comment break?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (vzLRM)

Violation of the Hatch Act?

Conspiracy to violate the Hatch Act?

Just off the top of my non-lawyerly head.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (953wK)

316 Has Gowdy's hair commented yet?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (4ErVI)

317 nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (ZQfW9)

318 Beats me, but its been going on for a few weeks that others have basically been declaring that we're all gonna have to buy him beer when he is proven right. And well after that shit, are you going to expect people to just say nothing if he is not?

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 01:13 PM (lKs2v)

Hope is a thing with feathers

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2018 01:18 PM (M+Lyo)

319 Fox saying Gowdy is expressing alarm over the IG report.

What's alarming him?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM (rBnYq)
---
I hate 1-inch margins!

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at June 14, 2018 01:18 PM (vDqXW)

320 Nood.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2018 01:18 PM (72PAC)

321 @ChadPergram

Oversight Cmte Chair Gowdy: I am alarmed, angered, and deeply disappointed by the Inspector General's finding of numerous failures by DOJ and FBI in investigating potential Espionage Act violations by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Tami at June 14, 2018 01:18 PM (Enq6K)

322 We must protect the FIB at all costs. I swear on my crackling integrity, the FIB is holy

Posted by: Snoreregard at June 14, 2018 01:18 PM (hDLaM)

323 296
Message from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok:

Page: Donald Trump is never going to be president, right?"

Strzok: No he will not, we will stop him"

Far from a nothingburger.

Posted by: MJP

What law did Strzok's comment break?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (vzLRM)

Sort of speaks to intent. MAYBE??????? said not a lawyer.
Then pile on all his nefarious documented actions that were had the practical effect of stiriring up an illegal FISA warrant and spying and you maybe have a case that they were abusing there power to do what that buck toothed varmint said.

Said not a lawyer.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 01:19 PM (ymnmz)

324 Which Gowdy; before or after we loved/hated him?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 01:11 PM (VM6ev)

Strangely I don't think it makes much of a difference in this case. If it was good Gowdy it means corruption targeting innocent people. If bad Gowdy it means corruption of the deep state that has been exposed for all to see. Either way there is no getting around the corruption part.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 14, 2018 01:19 PM (kUmUV)

325 97 Rosenstein is meeting with PDT right now.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

Let's hope there's some pussy grabbing.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 14, 2018 01:19 PM (RD7QR)

326 "directly" affected

----

weasel adjective

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 14, 2018 01:19 PM (PNcou)

327

Best I can tell Every beating heart here wants justice for the sedition and treason we believe occurred. Jack straw has a different opinion about 'how' Justice may be done but not the 'what'....we all want justice.

Posted by: Restoring the Media Balance of Terror at June 14, 2018 01:19 PM (WPxnj)

328 I stand with Jack!!!

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 01:19 PM (UDCxc)

329 The report is 500 pages. Why not wait and see what is in it before making any conclusions.

I refuse to react to phantoms.

Posted by: Soona at June 14, 2018 01:20 PM (Fs5vw)

330 At this point in internet history, about 38% of all porn is futa pony porn, so I don't think it qualifies as "deviant" anymore. It's so common that it's now just normal porn. So those who search for it aren't deviants -- they're just normal people.

Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (c+2jX)
..........

Phew. *adds to favorites*

Posted by: wth at June 14, 2018 01:20 PM (HgMAr)

331 So -- which is it? Is this revelation a nothingburger, or is it the smoking gun proving that the whole scandal is an illegal witch-hunt?
Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 01:12 PM

Embrace the healing power of and, young Padawan.

Posted by: DNC and RNC fundraisers at June 14, 2018 01:20 PM (ctuyM)

332 Max Headroom Gowdy contradicts himself - This is NOT the FBI we all know and respect.

Yeah, okay.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:20 PM (r9UYA)

333 I'm going to try to reiterate this point, because my language skill suck balls today.

Just because there is no "smoking gun" or frog marches or otherwise legal remedies that come from this report, it may not be entirely useless.

All we need is that one soundbyte, that one catch phrase, one thing that makes the public wake up and take notice. Doesn't even have to be true, either.
But with public good will at your back, you can break every damn law in the book. If it worked for the Clintons, it will work for Trump.

I believe in the "Rule of Law". I do NOT believe in the rule of arbitrary statutes masquerading as Laws, enforced by Barbarians.

The solution is not Legal. It is Political. (Or eventually Military/Revolutionary if we let things go on like this for long enough)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:20 PM (BRvh1)

334 300 At this point in internet history, about 38% of all porn is futa pony porn, so I don't think it qualifies as "deviant" anymore. It's so common that it's now just normal porn. So those who search for it aren't deviants -- they're just normal people.
Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 01:15 PM (c+2jX)

Thanks to the internet seemingly collectively deciding that if you don't have some sort of out there, "weird" fetish, then it means you're the messed-up one...

Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 01:21 PM (WDCYi)

335 Message from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok:
Page: Donald Trump is never going to be president, right?"

Strzok: No he will not, we will stop him"

Far from a nothingburger.
Posted by: MJP

What law did Strzok's comment break?
======
If Strzok were just some guy sitting on a barstool none.

Given the circumstances, his position, its the beginning of a pretty nice conspiracy charge.

Posted by: simplemind at June 14, 2018 01:21 PM (v+/FB)

336 For those of you who went ahead and started sucking each other's dicks in anticipation of this report; there's no reason to spit them out until the report is actually released.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at June 14, 2018 01:22 PM (kfcYC)

337 "Democrat spin-sources claim IG report says it's all good!

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 14, 2018 01:23 PM (kfcYC)

338 >>336
For those of you who went ahead and started sucking each other's dicks
in anticipation of this report; there's no reason to spit them out until
the report is actually released.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe

Hey!

Posted by: Gag Reflex at June 14, 2018 01:23 PM (r9UYA)

339 >>I, too, want JackStraw to be right about this...

I too, do too.

It's 500 pages. It's going to take some time to read and process. It won't contain criminal referrals because IG reports never do. This one report is not going to be the be all and end all.

As a rule, I tend not to believe sources such as the liberal msm which want to spin a liberal narrative and instead like to read it for myself. At the very least, I think it might be wise to actually wait for the report to be released and read it before declaring what it does or doesn't say or mean. But that's just me.

Anywho, back to work. Have fun storming the castle.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 01:24 PM (/tuJf)

340 Everything the other person thinks about it that disagrees with what you think about is a sign of their low IQ, evidence that their family tree does not fork, and is TREASON! TREASON I SAY!

And they have sex with [thing I wouldn't want to have sex with]!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:24 PM (39g3+)

341 336 For those of you who went ahead and started sucking each other's dicks in anticipation of this report; there's no reason to spit them out until the report is actually released.

Sadly though, it would be hard to read the report while participating in said activity.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 14, 2018 01:24 PM (kUmUV)

342 For those of you who went ahead and started sucking each other's dicks in anticipation of this report; there's no reason to spit them out until the report is actually released.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe
======
Okay, that's well played.

Posted by: simplemind at June 14, 2018 01:24 PM (SDxI1)

343 you'll have to read it no matter what to see what it says, the media would whitewash literally anything

Posted by: jihadi at June 14, 2018 01:25 PM (blf2l)

344 I have no doubt Trump has broken all kinds of laws. Being a prominent builder he has had to run afoul of the inherently contradictory rules and regulations our out of control government has enacted.

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 01:25 PM (UDCxc)

345 I tried pouncing once but I think I hurt something.

Posted by: Gerold Nadler's third chin at June 14, 2018 01:25 PM (koNhm)

346 Violation of the Hatch Act?

Conspiracy to violate the Hatch Act?

Just off the top of my non-lawyerly head.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 01:17 PM (953wK)

Penalties for violating the Hatch Act include a $1,000 fine and you can't be a federal employee for 5 years. Really.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 01:26 PM (UBzPO)

347 Heh, fun meme at Hillary's expense

http://tinyurl.com/ybvr4wkm
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:14 PM (39g3+)

My culture is not her f*cking Memorial Day outfit!

Posted by: Quasimodo at June 14, 2018 01:26 PM (/qEW2)

348
Dick sucking - forget about it.
Well maybe when we see Hillary in a jump suit and handcuffs.

Posted by: Jubilation T Cornpone, he really saved the day at June 14, 2018 01:26 PM (LilNs)

349 >>Penalties for violating the Hatch Act include a $1,000 fine and you can't be a federal employee for 5 years. Really.

That'll teach'em

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 01:27 PM (r9UYA)

350 At this point in internet history, about 38% of all porn is futa pony porn, so I don't think it qualifies as "deviant" anymore.

I chalk that up to the hedonist's dilemma, not that everyone is a pervert.

At first, seeing a naked girl's breast is overwhelmingly exciting, Then you gotta see more. Then its gotta be a certain kind. Then she's gotta be doing something. Then its gotta be different and surprising. After a while, you're reaching further and further into the sewer just for that blast of excitement to reach the same level of arousal and interest.

The idea that maybe you're getting too much stimulation and should lay off a while doesn't seem to really sink in. So you're into hermaphrodite goat porn not because you really like that but because its the only thing that's fresh and surprising any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:27 PM (39g3+)

351 There are people on both sides who embrace being victims.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 14, 2018 01:29 PM (kfcYC)

352 So you're into hermaphrodite goat porn not because you really like that but because its the only thing that's fresh and surprising any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:27 PM (39g3+)

You mean a hermaphrodite and a goat? Or a hermaphroditic goat?

Because, I gotta tell you, one of those is WAY over the line, Sir.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:29 PM (BRvh1)

353 Noodliness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 01:31 PM (BRvh1)

354 Because, I gotta tell you, one of those is WAY over the line, Sir.

"wait til they get a load of me"
--Files on Kurt Eichenwald's laptop

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 14, 2018 01:31 PM (39g3+)

355 Good grief. Carpenter says we need to replace ALL the bay windows on the house due to past hurricane damage (we thought the last guy had semi-repaired them. All four of them.

Ugh. Freaking house is a money pit.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 01:36 PM (ptqGC)

356 Witholding comment until the entire report drops.

Posted by: standfast24 at June 14, 2018 01:38 PM (4OBCQ)

357 So how did classified Clinton emails get on Hillary's girlfriend's husband's computer?

Posted by: PhilDirt at June 14, 2018 02:21 PM (z5I/l)

358 Why would you believe that the establishment would create a report critical of the establishment?

Posted by: DFCtomm at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (50gG9)

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