IG Report Released

It's 500 pages so... I don't know, I guess I'll rely on Twitter and your posts in the comments for a roadmap.

It seems like a whitewash.

DOJ IG concluded that James Comey violated long-standing DOJ policy, usurped the authority of the Attorney General, and inaccurate described the legal position of DOJ prosecutors during his infamous July 5 press conference. In other words: classic Comey. https://t.co/4ERsrp4iga pic.twitter.com/yJMWJdy08A
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 14, 2018

Comey claims that he was not alert to the importance of the emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop because he "doesn't know that he knew" that Anthony Weiner was married to Hillary Clinton's Gal Friday Through Thursday Huma Abedin:

According to the IG, Comey claimed that he didn't know Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were married when he was told about the 347,000 Clinton-related e-mails discovered on Weiner's laptop in September 2016. https://t.co/4ERsrp4iga pic.twitter.com/apK1ThANWs
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 14, 2018

Comey said that he recalled first learning about the
additional emails on the Weiner laptop at some point in
early October 2016, although he said it was possible
this could have occurred in late September 2016.
Comey told the OIG that this information "didn't index"
with him, which he attributed to the way the
information was presented to him and the fact that, "I
don’t know that I knew that [Weiner] was married to
Huma Abedin at the time."

That. Is. A. Lie.

On the Delay In Getting a Warrant to Bring the Weiner Emails to the DC Office:

As we describe in Chapter Nine of our report, the
explanations we were given for the FBI’s failure to take
immediate action on the Weiner laptop fell into four
general categories:
* The FBI Midyear team was waiting for additional
information about the contents of the laptop
from NYO, which was not provided until late
October;
* The FBI Midyear team could not review the
emails without additional legal authority, such
as consent or a new search warrant;
* The FBI Midyear team and senior FBI officials
did not believe that the information on the
laptop was likely to be significant; and
* Key members of the FBI Midyear team had been
reassigned to the investigation of Russian
interference in the U.S. election, which was a
higher priority.
We found these explanations to be unpersuasive
justifications for not acting sooner, given the FBI
leadership's conclusion about the importance of the
information and that the FBI Midyear team had
sufficient information to take action in early October
and knew at that time that it would need a new search
warrant to review any Clinton-Abedin emails.
Moreover, given the FBI’s extensive resources, the fact
that Strzok and several other FBI members of the
Midyear team had been assigned to the Russia
investigation, which was extremely active during this
September and October time period, was not an excuse
for failing to take any action during this time period on
the Weiner laptop.
The FBI's failure to act in late September or early
October is even less justifiable when contrasted with
the attention and resources that FBI management and
some members of the Midyear team dedicated to other
activities in connection with the Midyear investigation
during the same period....
In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia
investigation over following up on the Midyear-related
investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop, we
were particularly concerned about text messages sent
by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created
the appearance that investigative decisions they made
were impacted by bias or improper considerations.
Most of the text messages raising such questions
pertained to the Russia investigation, and the
implication in some of these text messages, particularly
Strzok's August 8 text message ("we'll stop" candidate
Trump from being elected), was that Strzok might be
willing to take official action to impact a presidential
candidate's electoral prospects. Under these
circumstances, we did not have confidence that Strzok's
decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over
following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead
discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias.
We searched for evidence that the Weiner laptop was
deliberately placed on the back-burner by others in the
FBI to protect Clinton, but found no evidence in emails,
text messages, instant messages, or documents that
suggested an improper purpose. We also took note of
the fact that numerous other FBI executives--including
the approximately 39 who participated in the
September 28 SVTC--were briefed on the potential
existence of Midyear-related emails on the Weiner
laptop. We also noted that the Russia investigation was
under the supervision of Priestap--for whom we found
no evidence of bias and who himself was aware of the
Weiner laptop issue by September 29. However, we
also did not identify a consistent or persuasive
explanation for the FBI's failure to act for almost a
month after learning of potential Midyear-related emails
on the Weiner laptop.

A New Investigation Into FBI Leaks And Even Taking Benefits from Reporters?

Improper Disclosure of Non-Public Information
As we also describe in Chapter Twelve, among the
issues we reviewed were allegations that Department
and FBI employees improperly disclosed non-public
information regarding the Midyear investigation.
Although FBI policy strictly limits the employees who
are authorized to speak to the media, we found that
this policy appeared to be widely ignored during the
period we reviewed.
We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of
the organization and with no official reason to be in
contact with the media, who were nevertheless in
frequent contact with reporters. Attached to this report
as Attachments E and F are two link charts that reflect
the volume of communications that we identified
between FBI employees and media representatives in
April/May and October 2016. We have profound
concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized
media contacts by FBI personnel that we have
uncovered during our review.
In addition, we identified instances where FBI
employees improperly received benefits from reporters,
including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings,
drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social
events. We will separately report on those
investigations as they are concluded, consistent with
the Inspector General Act, other applicable federal
statutes, and OIG policy.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 02:22 PM

Comments

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1 I guess we find out what's in it now.

Posted by: jim at June 14, 2018 02:24 PM (gjGvH)

2 Very nearly first.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at June 14, 2018 02:24 PM (cCsPW)

3 How can we rely on your analysis if you're relying on ours?

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 14, 2018 02:24 PM (mk7Bj)

4 Anything to protect a Clinton

Posted by: Mr Wolf at June 14, 2018 02:24 PM (YkEgi)

5 I guess we find out what's in it now.
Posted by: jim at June 14, 2018 02:24 PM (gjGvH)

Naw! Who wants to read 500 pages. Let's just rely on the media to tell us what it says. --Nan Pelosi.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (9BLnV)

6 Representative government: dead or not?

Our five hundred page answer is here.

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (q3fwv)

7 It's white wash. Someone on a pc should do a count on "Do not recall"

Posted by: CSMBigBird at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (c0rKK)

8 The Rule of Law

... it's Dead, Jim.

Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (SXi9i)

9 Throughout all this, the major and most startling fact is the FBI heard
some drunk talk in an English bar from a campaign volunteer claiming
Putin had damaging material on Hillary, and they opened a fully staffed
counter-intelligence investigation, including inserting spies into the
campaign and illegally starting up full electronic intercepts, while--
at the same time -- they possessed actual evidence Hillary had committed
gross violations of the Espionage act and did everything they could to
avoid investigating the crimes, handed out immunity like candy, and
tried to shut down any reports the Russians had hacked the accounts.

It's the different treatment that speaks to obvious bias, and the IG isn't charged with speaking to that bias.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (rBnYq)

10 I'd look through it myself, but I have to go to a Parent-Teacher meeting in a bit. Happy parsing!

Posted by: jim at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (gjGvH)

11
Anything on Abby Shapiro's boobs in this report?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (8O3HH)

12 (sad trombone)

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (2DZ7/)

13 It seems like a whitewash.

if it were anything else, McCain would be dead now

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 14, 2018 02:26 PM (ZQfW9)

14 8
The Rule of Law

... it's Dead, Jim.

Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (SXi9i)
Why do people keep telling me things I already know?

Posted by: jim at June 14, 2018 02:26 PM (gjGvH)

15 I just try to make things nice and this is the thanks I get.

Posted by: Whitewash at June 14, 2018 02:26 PM (XqXVp)

16 Ace,

There are some disappointing things there, but these things never contain criminal referrals. I call your attention to the language in the Executive Summary about Strozk and Page. Something is going to happen with all of that outside of administrative channels.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 14, 2018 02:26 PM (Boy/L)

17 I read a good portion of it and the recommendations. I am sick at my stomach.

America is dead

Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (LIhNq)

18 Now, now Ace. Gowdy is concerned or something. So there's that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (ptqGC)

19 Did they wipe it with a cloth?

Posted by: Roy at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (7n4KQ)

20 7
It's white wash. Someone on a pc should do a count on "Do not recall"

Posted by: CSMBigBird at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (c0rKK)

I think Jesus had something so say about a particular group of people being white washed on the outside but full of dead men's bones.

Posted by: jim at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (gjGvH)

21 Mike Cernovich says it mentions Andrew McCabe HUNDREDS of times, But Definitely a nothingburger with a whitewash condiment

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (y3aQB)

22 Some movie review.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (7ZVPa)

23 The treasonous and seditious will be made to ride fluffy unicorns on their way to the pension line.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 02:28 PM (r9UYA)

24 I kinda get the idea that Gowdy had pushed things as far as they could go and decided he'd just lie in wait until the IG report was released and he would have better information.

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 02:28 PM (vDqXW)

25 Yeah, but if you call it a whitewash you get condescended toward, even when you quote what you're reading.

And then you get told some pretty odd things, like that oh you're looking at the executive summary...read the whole thing before you go nuts, as if the executive summary won't mention something really really bad that is in the body.

Sheesh.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 14, 2018 02:28 PM (tVWQB)

26 I don't know what to believe right now.

I'm certainly guilty of the 'set-hair-on-fire the report is a whitewash they're all getting away with it' train of thought, after hearing small bits and pieces.

I want to believe something will come of the report, but if it seems too good to be true, well, you know the rest.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2018 02:28 PM (72PAC)

27 So reporters were bribing FBI sources. Figured as much but nice to see it confirmed.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 14, 2018 02:28 PM (OD2ni)

28 Shorter ace: "Everything that guy just said is bullshit."

Posted by: fluffy at June 14, 2018 02:29 PM (cHbmY)

29 18
Now, now Ace. Gowdy is concerned or something. So there's that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

Someone should really nominate that guy for an Oscar.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 02:29 PM (r9UYA)

30 >>Some movie review.

Hey, quit stealing my stuff!

Posted by: Charlotte's Web at June 14, 2018 02:29 PM (QkvR9)

31 This is HUGE.

"Agents involved in the Clinton Foundation investigation were instructed to take no overt investigative steps prior to the investigation."

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (y3aQB)

32 Lady Justice just got throat punched.

Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (LIhNq)

33 We waited all this time, for this?
What a let down.
Time for Congress to step up. And failing that, Trump has to drop the hammer.

Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (9221z)

34

James Comey @Comey

I respect the DOJ IG office, which is why I urged them to do this review. The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some. People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. I pray no Director faces it again. Thanks to IG's people for hard work.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (fceHP)

35 There's this report.*

The next question is: What is to be done with the information therein?

*I assume there are other reports out there being compiled.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Proudly Sponsors The Last Voyage of the Sea Cuck! at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (hLRSq)

36 The fake news radio announcers are putting it all on Comey. But just bad judgement, nothing to see here, move along.

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (UDCxc)

37 Big News? I think so, but we will se:

Politico is reporting Comey had a secret private email account and used it for work, evading FBI rules and (perhaps) the law.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 02:31 PM (rBnYq)

38 Willowed:

"We were deeply troubled by text messages exchanged by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations. Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation, which was not a part of this review. Nonetheless, when one senior FBI official, Strzok, who was helping to lead the Russia
investigation at the time, conveys in a text message to another senior FBI official, Page, "No. No he won't. We'll stop it" in response to her question "(Trump's) not ever going to become President, right? Right?!", it is not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects."

Emphasis mine.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 02:31 PM (953wK)

39
Screw this.

I want to see the first unedited draft of this.

And it is a total whitewash, but this was expected so not going to get nuts about it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:31 PM (VM6ev)

40 This report is likee Comey's July 5th announcement on Hillary: Highlight everything that was done in violation of the law and then let her skate.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2018 02:31 PM (G0vdT)

41 James Comey @Comey

I respect the DOJ IG office, which is why I urged them to do this review. The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some. People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. I pray no Director faces it again. Thanks to IG's people for hard work.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (fceHP)

And that's all I need to see to be back fully on board with the whitewash crowd. If Comey is not going insane, it's a whitewash.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2018 02:31 PM (72PAC)

42 James Comey @Comey

I respect the DOJ IG office, which is why I urged them to do this
review. The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with
some. People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation
differently. I pray no Director faces it again. Thanks to IG's people
for hard work.

Pineapple + barbed wire + assembly

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (ptqGC)

43 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (fceHP)

Well, I pretty much don't need to hear any more than that to know what I need to know about this report.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (mk7Bj)

44 34

James Comey @Comey

I respect the DOJ IG office, which is why I urged them to do this review. The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some. People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. I pray no Director faces it again. Thanks to IG's people for hard work.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

Translated: Thanks for saving my ass.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (Bdeb0)

45 If the "Recommendations" section is any indication, it is indeed a whitewash. Somebody will update a document; somebody else will rewrite a policy. The rot will rot on. Next investigation.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (RD7QR)

46 Anything on Abby Shapiro's boobs in this report?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (8O3HH)
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Anyone who believes Spygate happened, or talks about my sister's boobs is a tribalist!

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (AzW6q)

47
Meanwhile...

The House is teeing up a massive last push to ram Amnesty through before the election.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (VM6ev)

48 http://bit.ly/2JFQ9PP
=====
Techno Fog on Twitter: his whole thread of tweets on it

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (y3aQB)

49 Ratcliffe on Fox with Perino says this will effect the Mueller investigation quite a bit

like Gowdy said

And Fitton

Wouldn't that be great? These lovebird weasels shut it down with texts. Bias and animus. Illegitimate, amen.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (fceHP)

50 Rush is saying read the whole report because they will scream SQUIRREL and slip by sometime important

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (pHfeF)

51 Don't listen to Rush about this because he's gone full retard.

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (y7DUB)

52 The Justice League will fix everything.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 02:33 PM (VpIIl)

53 But take it Comey is a good guy with no bias.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 02:33 PM (pHfeF)

54 Gowdy gets his marketing advice from the same team that advised Joe's Crab Shack ("Free Crab Tomorrow"): "I'll be useful tomorrow"

Posted by: Undocumented at June 14, 2018 02:33 PM (5NMZN)

55 51 Don't listen to Rush about this because he's gone full retard.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (y7DUB)

Huh? I'm listening to Limbaugh, not "2112."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:33 PM (VM6ev)

56 I'm dismayed at how Strzok's bad judgment in his text only encourages the Trump cult.

Posted by: MSM Common-tater at June 14, 2018 02:33 PM (vDqXW)

57 568 pages, by the way. And the final report PDF file on the justice.gov web site was created June 13 at 8:29pm. Last night.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (UBzPO)

58 The conclusions in these things are always a whitewash. The explosiveness is in the details like the Strok texts. That and the fact Hillary's secret emails were compromised are huge deals

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (+087i)

59 Rush is saying read the whole report because they will scream SQUIRREL and slip by sometime important
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (pHfeF)

Ha! Maybe listening to some jackass's reaction elsewhere led me to the wrong conclusion.

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (y7DUB)

60 Anyone who believes Spygate happened, or talks about my sister's boobs is a tribalist!
Posted by: Ben Shapiro

No Ben your the boob. Your sister has a nice rack.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (Bdeb0)

61 "Mistakes were made...."

...and nothing happens

Posted by: brak at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (WT+Ie)

62 >>>17 I am sick at my stomach.

Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (LIhNq)
___________
#MeToo

I....worked over....half the FBI over and couldn't get the scoop on this one.

My mouth is numb.

Posted by: Ali Watkins at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (vV5Hi)

63 Comey likes the report. Pretty much all the summary that is required.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (/H5Dl)

64 Appendix One is classified.

Appendix Two is "law enforcement sensitive."

We do not have the entire report.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (953wK)

65 It's unbelievable to me some people are still trying to grab at the straws of this report. It's over. It's a total white wash nothingburger.

Shock level:

Not shocked _|_______________ shocked

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (r9UYA)

66 57 568 pages, by the way. And the final report PDF file on the justice.gov web site was created June 13 at 8:29pm. Last night.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (UBzPO)

I have to believe that at least 400 pages are nothing by "lorem ipsum dolor sequitur" and excerpts from the Boston phone book.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (VM6ev)

67 It includes Hillary's top secret recipe for her "famous" Old Fashioned.

Posted by: Jabroni at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (TcM5G)

68 64 Appendix One is classified.

Appendix Two is "law enforcement sensitive."

We do not have the entire report.
Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (953wK)

What about the spleen and the isles of Langerhans?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (VM6ev)

69 Well this is odd. How many bathroom servers did hillary have??

From report: "seven domains," such as yahoo.com, state.gov, clintonfoundation.org, clintonemail.com, and hillaryclinton.com.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (Bnl22)

70 >>>46 Anything on Abby Shapiro's boobs in this report?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (8O3HH)
_________
They are amazing. Delicious, soft to the touch and smell of lavender.

Posted by: Paolo at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (vV5Hi)

71

White House Briefing coming soon.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (fceHP)

72 Even though the did not recommend charges on the Hillary investigation, it highlighted enough perverse behavior, for the candidate of their choice, that the IG report on the Russia investigation could be quite brutal.

This wasn't about abuses against Trump. That's the next report.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (G0vdT)

73 60 Anyone who believes Spygate happened, or talks about my sister's boobs is a tribalist!
Posted by: Ben Shapiro

No Ben your the boob. Your sister has a nice rack.
Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (Bdeb0)

Those are fantastic. Wonder If she is a Diablo fan

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (+087i)

74 FFS this is obviously a slap at the American people.

Time to sack DC.

Posted by: Pam at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (qRq6C)

75

lulz, Strzok's lawyer put out a statement

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:37 PM (fceHP)

76 The media is going to seize in this harder than an epileptic at a daft punk concert.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 14, 2018 02:37 PM (mk7Bj)

77 Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 02:35 PM (r9UYA)
=====
Then Go Away ! 568 pages of nothingburger

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:37 PM (y3aQB)

78 What about the spleen and the isles of Langerhans?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (VM6ev)

Langerhans?

Foreign involvement?

RUSSIA!!!!!!!!

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (953wK)

79 Crib notes version. While we find some actions highly unusual and not in keeping with FBI procedures, we don't find a basis for criminal charges because we want to cover the FBI's big, fat, smelly, corrupt ass.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (VpIIl)

80 Even though the did not recommend charges on the Hillary investigation, it highlighted enough perverse behavior, for the candidate of their choice, that the IG report on the Russia investigation could be quite brutal.

This wasn't about abuses against Trump. That's the next report.
Posted by: WisRich

So we let all of Hillary's treasonous crimes slide and make it up on volume?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (vzLRM)

81 Huh. Strzok's lawyer is making statements criticizing the report.

Why does Strzok have a lawyer?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

82 71

White House Briefing coming soon.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (fceHP)

Unless it's the Donald saying "Rosenstein offered me his resignation but I took his spleen instead, and here it is, isn't it sad?" I'm not interested.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (RD7QR)

83

Pelosi: "I Just Don't Even Know Why There Aren't Uprisings All Over The Country" Against The Government

https://www.weaselzippers.us/?p=388041

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (IqV8l)

84 The Executive Summary backs Comey's decision not to refer for prosecution ...

The Midyear team concluded that such proof was
lacking. We found that this interpretation of Section
793(f)(1) was consistent with the Departments
historical approach in prior cases under different
leadership, including in the 2008 decision not to prosecute former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for mishandling classified documents.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (fiGNd)

85
IG Report = Covering Up a Coup for Dummies

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (VM6ev)

86 I asked the Lord; why hast thou forsaken me? But then I looked at the footprints and I was all like whoa.

Posted by: Jim Comey on the beach at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (UDCxc)

87 Huh. Strzok's lawyer is making statements criticizing the report.

Why does Strzok have a lawyer?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

Why wouldn't he? Guilty people know they are guilty

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:39 PM (+087i)

88 IG report: "We also found that McCabe did not fully comply with this recusal in a few instances related to the Clinton Foundation investigation."

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:39 PM (y3aQB)

89 If it wasn't political bias, then what the fuck was it?

Posted by: Eli Cash at June 14, 2018 02:39 PM (a+WIL)

90 It appears that the report, much like the investigations, are not actually interested in looking at the gross violations of the law, but rather at some side issues that may or may not be provable, and thereby determining that nothing at all went wrong at any point.

Sort of like saying that yes, the team did lose the game, but boy howdy they were snappy dressers.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 02:39 PM (7UW64)

91 581 hits in a search for "Strzok"!

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:39 PM (/TzhX)

92 Comey had a secret private email account and used it for work, evading FBI rules and (perhaps) the law.
=====

Me too!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (dAjIM)

93 21
Mike Cernovich says it mentions Andrew McCabe HUNDREDS of times, But Definitely a nothingburger with a whitewash condiment

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:27 PM (y3aQB)

Of course it does, McCabe was in charge of the investigation that this report is about.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (UBzPO)

94 "46 Anything on Abby Shapiro's boobs in this report?
Posted by: publius,"

Yes. Milana Vayntrub and Kate Upton gave her a standing ovation when she flashed them.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (OD2ni)

95 Is it safe to go to a dot gov domain and download files?

Asking for a neighbor.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (roQNm)

96 This wasn't about abuses against Trump. That's the next report.
Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2018 02:36 PM (G0vdT)

Also this report was initiated by Obama and his Justice Department because they were upset the Comey may have swung the election with his antics. The investigation just carried a year and a half into the Trump Administration. Being in the dreaded private sector all my life the time line seems a bit excessive for the results presented. Not sure what to make of that.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (kUmUV)

97 58
The conclusions in these things are always a whitewash. The
explosiveness is in the details like the Strok texts. That and the fact
Hillary's secret emails were compromised are huge deals

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (+087i)

Full Disclosure - I haven't read a word of the document.
But from what I gather from a smattering of searching through online reactions is this: Not everybody who's business it is to read it is looking at it like a whitewash.
As Jollyroger says above, these kinds of documents are not supposed to read like a Mike Hammer episode. Reports like this are always dry and very technical, so as to be the opposite of dramatic. Just the facts, ma'am. They are not going read like a Breitbart headline. If you were expecting "HILLARY AND FBI EXPOSED!!!!!!111eleventy! yes, you're going to be disappointed.

The devil is in the details. For legal purposes, they are enough.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (oyCqX)

98
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)
=====
John Fund said he hired David Boies Months ago

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (y3aQB)

99 Flynn's a good guy, can you let him go -> Donald Trump's will-to-power OBSTRUCTION of a federal investigation NO STOPs.

We'll stop it. -> Something Strzok texted. Who can figure out what it means?

Posted by: MSM Common-tater at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (vDqXW)

100 Who knows? Maybe the golden scalp weasel will start firing the top echelon of DoJ and FBI.

Posted by: JAS at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (3HNOQ)

101
And FYI, and you know you guys are as innocent as me, as pure as the wind-driven sludge, and so wouldn't be looking at his sort of thing.

But in case you accidentally saw something, those Fappening pics that purport to be Ben's busy sis, Abigail, are not her. It's just another very skinny girl with ginormous jugs who's a dead ringer.

They look very much alike, down to those jugs, but it's not her.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (8O3HH)

102 The government is corrupt and not looking like anyone is going to try to set it right.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 02:41 PM (pHfeF)

103 "Why wouldn't he? Guilty people know they are guilty "

Trump Rotating Legal Team has sad face.

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 02:41 PM (2DZ7/)

104
"The IG on Thursday castigated former FBI Director Comey for his actions during the Hillary Clinton email investigation & found that other senior FBI officials showed a "willingness to take official action" to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president."

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:41 PM (y3aQB)

105 13 colonies went to war for less.

Posted by: BluesFish at June 14, 2018 02:41 PM (QSrx1)

106 Meanwhile...

The House is teeing up a massive last push to ram Amnesty through before the election.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

You see shit...I see gold........

Posted by: Trump in 2020 committee at June 14, 2018 02:41 PM (rDwsX)

107 Why does Strzok have a lawyer?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

Why wouldn't he? Guilty people know they are guilty
Posted by: Jollyroger

Trump has a lawyer. Just sayin.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (vzLRM)

108 There are a lot of smart people who frequent this blog. And quite a few of them know bullshit whitewash when they see it.

They are looking at it right now. If there were a "there" there, the recommendations would be a little more strenuous than, oh, putting a banner on an FBI phone, or more "training" that no one will pay attention to.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (tVWQB)

109 Page 9 - They believe Strzok was biased in pursuing Russia Russia Russia rather than the Weiner laptop.

Also Page 9 - But the rest of the FBI is clean ...

We searched for evidence that the Weiner laptop was deliberately placed on the back-burner by others in the FBI to protect Clinton, but found no evidence in emails, text messages, instant messages, or documents that suggested an improper purpose.

I'm smelling whitewash ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (fiGNd)

110
"The IG on Thursday castigated former FBI Director Comey for his
actions during the Hillary Clinton email investigation found that
other senior FBI officials showed a "willingness to take official
action" to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president."

That normally would call for firing squads.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (oVJmc)

111 >>Trump has a lawyer. Just sayin.

And he is under investigation. If this is all a whitewash then why does Strzok need one?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (/tuJf)

112 02 The government is corrupt and not looking like anyone is going to try to set it right.
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 02:41 PM (pHfeF)

The tree of liberty thirsts. Sadly only it can set things right.

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (+087i)

113 "John Fund said he hired David Boies Months ago
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy"

Well, Boies did a great job keeping Harvey W out of trouble.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (OD2ni)

114 Strzok has a lawyer because he may be in trouble in the FISA investigation, which is still ongoing. As long as he's employed, he has to cooperate (or take the Fifth). The Last Refuge (Conservative Treehouse) had a good analysis on who's been kept on - probably because they have useful information and they're singing like canaries to cut a deal since they know they're screwed. Ohr and Priestap are still at DOJ, too, and probably for the same reason.

Posted by: Wethal at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (3RspO)

115 Comey and Strzok as well had off the grid email for government work.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (pHfeF)

116
Its a Blacklash!
- that racist dude.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2018 02:43 PM (r+sAi)

117 Techno Fog on Twitter: his whole thread of tweets on it

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 14, 2018 02:32 PM (y3aQB)

Has Q weighed in yet?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:43 PM (UBzPO)

118 Huh. Strzok's lawyer is making statements criticizing the report.

Why does Strzok have a lawyer?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)
---
I don't know. Let's go have Mueller raid his office.

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 02:43 PM (vDqXW)

119 Page 399:
Text Messages Commenting on Trump or Clinton

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:43 PM (/TzhX)

120 The whole psuedo-Socratic question act has passed it's expiration date.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (tVWQB)

121 107 Why does Strzok have a lawyer?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

Why wouldn't he? Guilty people know they are guilty
Posted by: Jollyroger

Trump has a lawyer. Just sayin.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (vzLRM)

Yeah. Trump's my boy, but if you think he didn't know he paid off the porn stars and playmates...

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (+087i)

122 whitewash.... most infuriating thing to read right now in the exec summary: "Considered but did not seek permission from
the Department to review certain highly
classified materials that may have included
information potentially relevant to the Midyear
investigation."

Posted by: Draki at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (Y0byY)

123 On the bright side the White House job fair is going to be LAF.

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (2DZ7/)

124 The tree of liberty thirsts. Sadly only it can set things right.

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (+087i)
---
O how I know of that thirst!

Posted by: The Barrel at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (vDqXW)

125 >>>101
And FYI, and you know you guys are as innocent as me, as pure as the wind-driven sludge, and so wouldn't be looking at his sort of thing.

But in case you accidentally saw something, those Fappening pics that purport to be Ben's busy sis, Abigail, are not her. It's just another very skinny girl with ginormous jugs who's a dead ringer.

They look very much alike, down to those jugs, but it's not her.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (8O3HH)
________
As proof it is her I provide the Paolo's personal tesitmony.

Also that it looks like her in everyway. There is a menorah in the background. The...male member is...also Jewish.

As proof it is someone else there is... ?

Posted by: Paolo at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (vV5Hi)

126 37
Big News? I think so, but we will se:

Politico is reporting Comey had a secret private email account and used it for work, evading FBI rules and (perhaps) the law.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 02:31 PM (rBnYq)

What was the fake name of the EPA boss email account?

So much SWAMP.

Posted by: muckrack at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (DoqY9)

127 "Why wouldn't he? Guilty people know they are guilty "

Trump Rotating Legal Team has sad face.
Posted by: The Jabberwock

It's telling that a leftist would exult in a liar and agent provocateur actively subverting representative government. Next he'll be cheering on drunk FBI agents shooting people.

Posted by: The Mad Hatter at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (rDwsX)

128

oh man

Stephen Miller @redsteeze

FBI interviewers referred to Hillary as "The President" in July of 2016

here is the statement

15:07:41, Agent 1: "...I'm done interviewing the President -- then type the 302. 18 hour day...."

and

On July 6, 2016, four days after Clinton's interview, Agent 1 sent an instant
message in which he stated that he was "done interviewing the President," referring
to Clinton. We asked Agent 1 if he thought of Clinton as the next president while
conducting the Midyear investigation. Agent 1 stated, "I think my impression going
into the election in that personal realm is that all of the polls were favoring Hillary
Clinton." We asked Agent 1 if he treated Clinton differently because of this
assumption. Agent 1 stated, "Absolutely not. I think the message they said that
our leadership told us and our actions were to find whatever was there and
whatever, whatever that means is what it means."

*cough*BS*cough*

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:44 PM (fceHP)

129 willowed:
The report is the result of 18 months of investigations. Maybe give it more than 5 minutes of analysis.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:23 PM (/tuJf)

---
most folks only need one whiff to identify bullshit.

YMMV.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (H/7NQ)

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (H/7NQ)

130 We searched for evidence that the Weiner laptop was deliberately placed on the back-burner by others in the FBI to protect Clinton, but found no evidence in emails, text messages, instant messages, or documents that suggested an improper purpose.

Of course you won't. You use outside emails, word of mouth, etc...

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (Bdeb0)

131 105 13 colonies went to war for less.

Posted by: BluesFish at June 14, 2018 02:41 PM (QSrx1)

IIRC, they won, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (7UW64)

132 lulz, Strzok's lawyer put out a statement

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:37 PM (fceHP)

I've had James Wolfe's legal defense fund GoFundMe open in another window for the past three hours. It's up to $690 now. He should've done a comic book instead.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (UBzPO)

133 106
Meanwhile...

The House is teeing up a massive last push to ram Amnesty through before the election.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I have to think Trump would veto this. Yes? I mean, I know he has to compromise here and there. Even as much as he does win, it's unrealistic to expect to win every battle. But I don't think he'll sign this if it's the dumpster fire I hear it is.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (oyCqX)

134 "Yeah. Trump's my boy, but if you think he didn't know he paid off the porn stars and playmates..."

Quote from Rudy interview?

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (2DZ7/)

135 "Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of
classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious
considerations; like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible
decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been
handled in the past."

I hold a clearance and call bullshit on this crap. I would have been in jail since the day it was discovered as would any other non-royal. There are officially two different justice systems now, so kiss our country goodbye.

Posted by: nraendowment at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (QsJVN)

136 So how do you all like your banana republic?

You didn't think I would actually turn on my brethern did you?

Posted by: IG Horowitz at June 14, 2018 02:45 PM (BbZA9)

137 The phrase "unpersuasive" comes up quite a few times. Mostly about why the FBI prosecutors dragged their heels over the Weiner laptop, but also when discussing Comey's assertion that transparency was more important than policy.

I'm mildly disappointed that no criminal referrals were indicated, but then OIG reports rarely have them.

Peter Kadzig, Peter Strozk, and Andrew McCabe had better watch their backs, though. This report was hardly indemnifying.

Posted by: trev006 at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (X2App)

138 >>Has Q weighed in yet?

Trust The Plan

Posted by: Q at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (r9UYA)

139 Trump has a lawyer. Just sayin.

And he is under investigation. If this is all a whitewash then why does Strzok need one?
Posted by: JackStraw

You forgot to include the "guilty people know they're guilty" comment.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (vzLRM)

140 They look very much alike, down to those jugs, but it's not her.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (8O3HH)

Close enough.

Mr. Google, make it so.

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (+087i)

141 The conclusions in these things are always a whitewash. The explosiveness is in the details like the Strok texts. That and the fact Hillary's secret emails were compromised are huge deals
Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:34 PM (+087i)

Agreed. But what is the IG's purview regarding recommendations? For the commerce department, the IG job is to make administrative type recommendations to promote efficiency and deter abuse, fraud, etc. So while the findings are dramatic, the recommendations will almost always be mundanely administrative.

Posted by: LASue at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (Z48ZB)

142
I was dumbfounded when Jackstraw said this IG report isn't about criminal acts; that is another process. This IG report is the report from the Inspector General on his inspection, see?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (roQNm)

143 Ooh ... but Page 9 also throws a bone to Comey - If he'd have known about the Weiner email sooner, he would have done something about it.

Page 10 - Comey's 10/28 letter to Congress wasn't politics, but he shouldn't have done it.

We found no evidence that Comeys decision to send the October 28 letter was influenced by political
preferences.

Much like with his July 5 announcement, we found that in making this decision, Comey engaged in ad hoc
decisionmaking based on his personal views even if it
meant rejecting longstanding Department policy or
practice.

James, you've been a bad, bad boy.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (fiGNd)

144 Reading the exec summary, it's pretty bad.

So far, generalizing/simplifying: some discretionary calls might not have been ideal, but IGs don't second guess such things; political bias did not directly affect investigative decisions (!!!!!), even if they did affect public perception of DOJ/FBI integrity.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (QDnY+)

145 Why does Strzok have a lawyer?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

I have a lawyer. Will the next report implicate me?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (UBzPO)

146

Time to poo poo?

Posted by: Soothi at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (ka6ta)

147 Something is going to happen with all of that outside of administrative channels.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 14, 2018 02:26 PM (Boy/L)

---
sometime in the next #twoweeks, right?

yeah, i can believe that.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (H/7NQ)

148 Devils advocate here: one of the reccomendations basically says "don't reccomend criminal actions unless you already consulted with the AG"

And it would be rather silly to also say "they're all guilty, lock them up," so I guess technically there's still the chance that Sessions can do something with this.

But I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 14, 2018 02:47 PM (mk7Bj)

149 If this is all a whitewash then why does Strzok need one?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:42 PM (/tuJf)

Are you really going to go with a "If you haven't done anything wrong then why do you need a lawyer?" claim? Seriously?

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 02:47 PM (lKs2v)

150 You don't get a lawyer because you've done something wrong.

You get a lawyer because the law is coming after you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 02:47 PM (BRvh1)

151
13 colonies went to war for less.

IIRC, they won, too.
Posted by: tcn in AK

It took too long for reinforcements to arrive back then.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2018 02:47 PM (IqV8l)

152 138 >>Has Q weighed in yet?

Trust The Plan

Posted by: Q at June 14, 2018 02:46 PM (r9UYA)

Spare me your usual frivolity, Double-0-Seven!

- - Boothroyd

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (VM6ev)

153 This is the RR modified redacted version. Trump has this and the modified unredacted version and The Original Version.

The anger from Congress is not manufactured. It's real. I'm sure Team Trump is hotter than the heat of a million Sun's right now.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (TA9CI)

154 99
Flynn's a good guy, can you let him go -> Donald Trump's will-to-power OBSTRUCTION of a federal investigation NO STOPs.

We'll stop it. -> Something Strzok texted. Who can figure out what it means?

Posted by: MSM Common-tater at June 14, 2018 02:40 PM (vDqXW)

Of course we know what it means. The question is can you prove it?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (UBzPO)

155 Huber is going to set it all right. Justice will ring out from the hills and mountaintops.

Posted by: Jim Comey on the beach at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (UDCxc)

156 Page 29 was intentionally left blank.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (4C0+v)

157 When is this White House presser?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (RD7QR)

158 The spin this Mary Anne Marsh person on FNC right now is doing - breathtaking

Posted by: jhawk90 at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (Xvo1a)

159 150 You don't get a lawyer because you've done something wrong.

You get a lawyer because the law is coming after you.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 02:47 PM (BRvh1)

Or just to help ensure that the law doesn't come after you.

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (lKs2v)

160 Fitzmas!

And I did get my h8 shake. Peachy!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (7LY+6)

161 >>Has Q weighed in yet?

I think he's still messing with Picard in the Mirror Universe or something.

Posted by: josephistan at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (7HtZB)

162 This is laughable.

Horowitz just transcribed the excuses and ridiculous explanations from the guilty parties and accepted them as fact.

Then has the gall to recommend that they all cover their tracks better next time.

Horowitz is a deep state operative.

Posted by: Slip & Slide at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (BbZA9)

163 So, maybe we can't get criminal charges against Hillary....

But what about a REEEAAALLY big class action civil suit?

Where the "class" is "Citizens of the United States of America"

?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (BRvh1)

164 150
You don't get a lawyer because you've done something wrong.

You get a lawyer because the law is coming after you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 02:47 PM (BRvh1)
Yup.

Posted by: IC at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (a0IVu)

165 Damn it feels good to be a Clinton...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FECIYlo3KRY

Posted by: Hillary! at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (LpV0I)

166 One of my favorite bits, so far: McCabe did *not* violate department guidelines on recusal by not bowing out when his candidate wife received a half million from the main bagman of the principal target of the investigation (Hillz).

It *could* be true. Which would only mean department recusal guidelines are comical.

Anyway, pretty astonishing.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (QDnY+)

167 >> As proof it is someone else there is... ?
Posted by: Paolo

I was doing very extensive research last night on these pics purported to be Abigail. There was a claim that she's actually a web-cam girl called "Rachel MFC".

She looks very much like Abby, but if you go through the whole mess of them (70+) you'll see some where you can the face is not exactly the same.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (8O3HH)

168 Page 417:

A sad! exchange on November 9, 2016. Including:

"I can't stop crying."

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (/TzhX)

169
I am still not disappointed. All of this was expected.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (roQNm)

170 Let's wait until Trump tweets to see where this goes.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (oVJmc)

171 This is the RR modified redacted version. Trump has this and the modified unredacted version and The Original Version.

The anger from Congress is not manufactured. It's real. I'm sure Team Trump is hotter than the heat of a million Sun's right now.
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo

Then drop the unredacted version.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (vzLRM)

172 I told ya, guilty, but Clinton.

Posted by: Rev Jim Comey at June 14, 2018 02:50 PM (r9YvQ)

173 Ooh, ooh, ooh! We had faulted, now we have castigated. Heads are gonna...stay on.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 14, 2018 02:50 PM (2NqXo)

174 Knock me over with a feather, I would have never guessed they would pin all wrongdoing on one guy who followed both his heart and the letter of the law, if not the completely exact meaning.

Posted by: Mega at June 14, 2018 02:50 PM (Ngpkr)

175 Why does Strzok have a lawyer?

Posted by: JackStraw

Hopefully his ex-wife has one, cause she needs it.

Posted by: The Mad Hatter at June 14, 2018 02:50 PM (rDwsX)

176 We now know that the Obama DOJ/FBI/CIA inserted spies into the campaign of the opposition candidate and yet nobody, as far as I can see, has yet been called to account for that.

But I'm supposed to believe the mafia will do a straight-up job of investigating the mafia and release a report showing all the crap said mafia has been doing.

Nope.

Posted by: DocJ at June 14, 2018 02:50 PM (NYS7S)

177 *pokes Rule of Law*
He's dead Jim.

Posted by: Bones at June 14, 2018 02:50 PM (koNhm)

178 Page 11 - Comey should have told the AG directly, in advance, that he was going to send the 10/28 letter

We believe that open and candid communication among leaders in the Department and its components is essential for the effective functioning of the Department.

Naughty, naughty James.

Also Page 11 - the Strozk texts were naughty, beneath the dignity of the FBI. But don't call it politics ...

We found that the conduct of these five FBI employees brought discredit to themselves, sowed doubt about the FBIs handling of the Midyear investigation, and impacted the reputation of the FBI. Although our review did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the specific investigative decisions we reviewed in
Chapter Five, the conduct by these employees cast a
cloud over the FBI Midyear investigation and sowed
doubt the FBIs work on, and its handling of, the
Midyear investigation.

Yeah ... I believe we're seeing a whitewash ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (fiGNd)

179 Oh comey was using personal email address to send work related emails during the Clinton investigation btw haha

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (Bnl22)

180 Then drop the unredacted version."

Is that redacted redacted?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (7LY+6)

181 Lady Justice just got throat punched.
Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (LIhNq)

I was thinking a little lower on her body.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (9BLnV)

182 171
This is the RR modified redacted version. Trump has this and the modified unredacted version and The Original Version.

The anger from Congress is not manufactured. It's real. I'm sure
Team Trump is hotter than the heat of a million Sun's right now.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo

Then drop the unredacted version.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (vzLRM)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS!! Drop it. Drop it Monday morning so people can stew on it all week long. None of this Friday afternoon crap.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (jxbfJ)

183

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (fiGNd)

184 >>Are you really going to go with a "If you haven't done anything wrong then why do you need a lawyer?" claim? Seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

If this is all a whitewash then there will be no prosecution so no lawyer is required. Seriously.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (/tuJf)

185 If I were president, I'd drop the hammer.

Posted by: Thor at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (r9YvQ)

186 Would recommendations for indictments happen in this report or under separate cover?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 14, 2018 02:52 PM (RD7QR)

187 173 Ooh, ooh, ooh! We had faulted, now we have castigated. Heads are gonna...stay on.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 14, 2018 02:50 PM (2NqXo)

Old and busted - Masturbatin' Pete
New Hotness - Castigating Tweets

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:52 PM (VM6ev)

188 185 If I were president, I'd drop the hammer.
Posted by: Thor at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (r9YvQ)

Puny hammer.

Posted by: Hulk at June 14, 2018 02:52 PM (72PAC)

189 This is laughable.

Horowitz just transcribed the excuses and ridiculous explanations from the guilty parties and accepted them as fact.

Then has the gall to recommend that they all cover their tracks better next time.

Horowitz is a deep state operative.
Posted by: Slip & Slide at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (BbZA9)

No doubt evidence was disappeared, not just from Hillary camp. Remember they were communicating a lot "offline".

This is a huge cover up, but Americans will never look to the intel community as legit again. They are not going to clean it up and make people pay. Shame.

Everyone sees this for what it is.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:52 PM (fceHP)

190 Yes. Seriously.

If this is all a whitewash then there will be no prosecution so no lawyer is required. Seriously.

That's really reaching.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 14, 2018 02:53 PM (tVWQB)

191 181 Lady Justice just got throat punched.
Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (LIhNq)

I was thinking a little lower on her body.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (9BLnV)

Right in her Emma Lazarus...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:53 PM (VM6ev)

192 Fly, fly my pretties !

Posted by: Heard from Case Chappaqua at June 14, 2018 02:53 PM (koNhm)

193 Are you really going to go with a "If you haven't done anything wrong then why do you need a lawyer?" claim? Seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

If this is all a whitewash then there will be no prosecution so no lawyer is required. Seriously.
Posted by: JackStraw

I suppose that he's been questioned and/or deposed. beat cops won't go near anything like that without a lawyer. I'll bet that he wouldn't either.

Question is, who is paying for the lawyer?

Posted by: The Mad Hatter at June 14, 2018 02:53 PM (rDwsX)

194 Yes. Seriously.

If this is all a whitewash then there will be no prosecution so no lawyer is required. Seriously.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (/tuJf)
---
If Trump is innocent, why won't he let Mueller interview him? Sounds like Putin told him not to.

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 02:53 PM (vDqXW)

195 184 >>Are you really going to go with a "If you haven't done anything wrong then why do you need a lawyer?" claim? Seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

If this is all a whitewash then there will be no prosecution so no lawyer is required. Seriously.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (/tuJf)

Then where's the arrest warrant, and the trial date?

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (lKs2v)

196 Page 484:

Page Left Intentionally Blank

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (/TzhX)

197 So, when do they actually take a serious look at the treason and sedition committed by our "betters" on the Clinton bandwagon?

Oh.

Well, then, fuck them sideways with a pineapple.

And then have the bailiff whack their peepees.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (7UW64)

198 This basically is "mistakes were made." Predictable whitewashing BS.

Posted by: Jim Comey on the beach at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (UDCxc)

199 Maybe I'll just not pay my income tax this year and see if the IRS sends me a warning label to put on my calendar.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (r9UYA)

200 For the information of all hands, Mencken, that is all.

Posted by: Sumdumchief at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (+KpqJ)

201 Interested in their excuse for all of the immunity handed out like candy.

Posted by: DXO at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (nzKWW)

202 >>That's really reaching.

Differing opinions differ.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (/tuJf)

203 188 185 If I were president, I'd drop the hammer.
Posted by: Thor at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (r9YvQ)

Puny hammer.
Posted by: Hulk at June 14, 2018 02:52 PM (72PAC)

We all know that Thor wiped the floor with Hulk when he went glowy eyed God mode except for that damn taser thing. Which is weird that worked on Thor, seeing as he is immune to his own huge thunderbolts

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (+087i)

204 If the "insurance policy" was discussed (8/15/16) in mccabe's office, does that lend credence to the "we" that strzok's text (written a week earlier) includes mccabe?

Posted by: Ever at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (QPeHQ)

205 189 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:52 PM (fceHP)

The GOP-e doesn't deserve it, but this November is going to be a Red tidal wave because of this and next week's Amnesty attempt.

And it will be a vote for Trump.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (VM6ev)

206 If this is all a whitewash then there will be no prosecution so no lawyer is required. Seriously.

I'll believe it when the Lovebirds are charged with something more serious than jaywalking.

Until then, not so much.

Posted by: DocJ at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (NYS7S)

207 Has Horowitz gotten his CNN offer yet?

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (koNhm)

208 191
181 Lady Justice just got throat punched.

Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (LIhNq)

I was thinking a little lower on her body.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (9BLnV)

Right in her Emma Lazarus...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:53 PM (VM6ev)

So it begs the question: Where do we go from here? I ask this in terms of the 2018 midterm elections, 2020 elections, and not to mention the whole rule-of-law, equal protection, etc.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (jxbfJ)

209 A banana Republic, if you can keep it.

Posted by: Dr. Benjamin Franklin at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (rBnYq)

210

Where's all the leaks of what was removed from the initial report.

Leak it.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (fceHP)

211 Aw shucks!! Taint nuttin...just Comey being Comey!!

Posted by: dananjcon at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (xqfqx)

212 "When in trouble, when in doubt
Run in circles, scream and shout."

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (953wK)

213 Lady Justice just got throat punched.

Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (LIhNq)

---
she got made "airtight"...

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (H/7NQ)

214 I'm adding content to the post.

Comey claimed he didn't realize how important the Weiner Email discovery was because "I don't know that I knew that he was married to Huma Abedin at the time."

Preposterous!

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (PA9oZ)

215 Horowitz is a deep state operative.
Posted by: Slip & Slide at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (BbZA9)
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I'll accept "denizen". Don't know I'd go as far as "operative".

Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (vDqXW)

216 Page 497:

Conclusions

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (/TzhX)

217 THIS!! Drop it. Drop it Monday morning so people can stew on it all week long. None of this Friday afternoon crap.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Drop it now so people can digest it all over the weekend.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (vzLRM)

218 209 A banana Republic, if you can keep it.
Posted by: Dr. Benjamin Franklin at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (rBnYq)

That's an apple.

Posted by: CNN at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (72PAC)

219 We find that he violated long-standing department practices, and usurped the authority of the Attorney General.

Although we did not bother to inquire as to why he would do that, we know that it wasn't politically motivated. Swearsies.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (X8DLV)

220 You get a lawyer because the law is coming after you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 02:47 PM (BRvh1)

Or if your IQ is above 80.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (UBzPO)

221 >>Then where's the arrest warrant, and the trial date?

I guess we will have to wait and see like we did with McCabe.

I remember the night when everyone was convinced he would never be fired. Then he was. Then he would never be referred for criminal prosecution. Then he was.

I really don't understand why people think the real world works like NCIS and everything gets wrapped up in an hour including commercials.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (/tuJf)

222 IG softens its take on Strzok/Page's possible (!!!) extreme histrionic bias by noting that they reco'd stronger investigative measures at points during Mid-Year Exam.

But from what I've seen so far, the IG found nothing other than discretionary/Monday morning QB problems with an "investigation" that faced a gigantic, undeniable, systematic violation of the Espionage Act by dozens of people centered on the 7th floor of the State Dept., around/including a statutory member of the National Security Council - and found *nothing* to prosecute.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (QDnY+)

223 Page 12 - They're referring Strzok and the other texters for FBI discipline for texting opinion using FBI property. Also FBI discipline for using personal email for FBI business.

So that's something. Big win for The Process there.

Also Page 12 - They're dropping the dime on FBI leakers. Calls for "culture change" in FBI.

We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in
contact with the media, who were nevertheless in
frequent contact with reporters.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (fiGNd)

224 PITCHFORKS!!

Get your PITCHFORKS!!

Posted by: Hardware Hank at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (FZYNt)

225
Let the wrist-slapping begin!
Time for Trump to start the spying and hiding of emails on separate servers. Its allowed.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (r+sAi)

226 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (jxbfJ)

See me at 205. This, the Amnesty garbage and the DeNiro/Wellstone Memorial F-bomb will propel PDT and with him the GOP undeservedly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (VM6ev)

227 Look...this is my shocked face.

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 02:57 PM (79p/O)

228 "We find that he violated long-standing department practices, and usurped the authority of the Attorney General. "

Disrespecting bureaucratic chain of command is, after all, what motivated our Revolution.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 14, 2018 02:57 PM (koNhm)

229 Mmmm, think I hear an epic AtC rant in the works.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 02:57 PM (Bdeb0)

230 Loretta Lynch is really the victim here. Comey wasn't as straight up with her as he should have been.

Posted by: Cm9000 at June 14, 2018 02:57 PM (UDCxc)

231 Page 497:

Even more seriously, text messages between Strzok and Page pertaining to the Russia investigation, particularly a text message from Strzok on August 8 stating "No. No he's not. We'll stop it." in response to a Page text "[Trump's] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!," are not only indicative of a biased state of mind but imply a willingness to take official action to impact a presidential candidate's electoral prospects.

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (/TzhX)

232 FBI Attorney 1 and FBI Attorney 2 were assigned to the "Midyear Investigation" to provide legal support.

No names, just FBI Attorney 1 and FBI Attorney 2.

-Page 44 of the OIG report.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (953wK)

233 182 171
This is the RR modified redacted version. Trump has this and the modified unredacted version and The Original Version.

The anger from Congress is not manufactured. It's real. I'm sure
Team Trump is hotter than the heat of a million Sun's right now.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo

Then drop the unredacted version.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:49 PM (vzLRM)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS!! Drop it. Drop it Monday morning so people can stew on it all week long. None of this Friday afternoon crap.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (jxbfJ)

Trump has an EO ready to do just that. When the Original unredacted version will be released is up to the voices of The People and Team Trump.

I do believe in the near future it will be released. I'd be surprised if it was as early as Monday. But I have patience.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (TA9CI)

234 If I were president, I'd drop the hammer.
Posted by: Thor at June 14, 2018 02:51 PM (r9YvQ)

If I had a hammer
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land
I'd hammer out danger
I'd hammer out a warning
I'd hammer out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land!

Posted by: Peter, Paul and Mary at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (4C0+v)

235 Its sad that some are trying to spin the IG report that it is either more damaging than it is or that 'it's just an IG report and it's not supposed to be criminally focused' .

I'm sure the scolding of needing patience will continue. That said and in spite of my pessimism, I still hope patience is the correct refrain.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (/H5Dl)

236 "Comey said that he recalled first learning about the
additional emails on the Weiner laptop at some point in
early October 2016, although he said it was possible
this could have occurred in late September 2016.
Comey told the OIG that this information "didn't index"
with him, which he attributed to the way the
information was presented to him and the fact that, "I
don't know that I knew that [Weiner] was married to
Huma Abedin at the time."

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (PA9oZ)

237
Comey claimed he didn't realize how important the Weiner Email discovery was because "I don't know that I knew that he was married to Huma Abedin at the time."

Maybe it would do Comey good to read this Smart Military Blog

no telling what else he would learn

Posted by: Rick in SK at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (FZYNt)

238 And I did get my h8 shake. Peachy!
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (7LY+6)
------------

Thanks to the thread this morning when everyone wouldn't shut up about Chick-Fil-A, I just got one too. Delicious. But not what I should be having. Darn you people.

But it was delicious.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (rhdgT)

239 Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (/tuJf)

I want to believe you so badly. And I do, in part.

The major reasoning behind my belief that this is all a whitewash and nothing will come of it is simply that's how it has ALWAYS worked.

Maybe (hopefully) things will start changing, but the past is not a good indication of that.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (72PAC)

240
I forgot who but two Congressmen are already calling for the unredacted first drafts of the report to be released.

GOOD.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (VM6ev)

241 I DIDN'T KNOW THE SPONGE WAS A-SPOSED TO BE WET!

Posted by: That Jerkoff Prison Guard From The Green Mile, or James Comey at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (tSFch)

242 Comey claimed he didn't realize how important the Weiner Email discovery was because "I don't know that I knew that he was married to Huma Abedin at the time."

Preposterous!

Posted by: ace

--

Did he also claim that he didn't know Hillary was running for president at the time?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (7ZVPa)

243 Page 499:

Recommendations

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (/TzhX)

244 Can't wait to see ABC/NBC/CBS news tonight. OIG had a few criticisms of FBI procedures. And, in other news....

Posted by: ndisnigh at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (7wQK9)

245 wait for the report... wait for the report.... wait for the report...

that's what we've been told for weeks nigh unto months.

now that the report is out and it's obviously all whitewash and bullshit?

oh, you don't understand, the report isn't the big deal, it's what comes after it that's important.

we're not all Charlie Browns here

(kicking the football kind, not the COB)

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (H/7NQ)

246 @RepMarkMeadows 32m

This section of the IG report (420-421) is remarkable. It calls the Strzok/Page texts "not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects"

@RepMarkMeadows 2h

Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok: "(Trump's) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!"

Strzok reply: "No. No he's not. We'll stop it."

This Peter Strzok text about "stopping" Donald Trump was hidden from Congressional investigators. We never had it. Absolutely unreal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (zfrbv)

247 A banana Republic"

This is a banana...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (7LY+6)

248 We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in
contact with the media, who were nevertheless in
frequent contact with reporters.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (fiGNd)

Each of those is technically a crime. See. The conclusions on these suck. The devil is in the details.

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (+087i)

249 Usually, one gets arrested and then one gets a lawyer.

Has Strozk been arrested?

What's that other thing everyone here always says?

Oh yeah. That's right.

NEVER TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT A LAWYER PRESENT.

Could be why Strozk retained a lawyer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (vzLRM)

250 >>>she got made "airtight"...

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (H/7NQ)
__________
My favorite!!!

Posted by: Ali Watkins at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (vV5Hi)

251 181
Lady Justice just got throat punched.

Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (LIhNq)

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (UBzPO)

252 This report is strictly on Hilly's Email server, isn't it?

So how many issues are we still waiting for the IG to issue reports on?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (oVJmc)

253 Comey: " I did not know that I knew...."

Guys--gals too--try that one on your spouse--"Honey, I did not know that I was cheating when I had that affair...."

Car Thief: " I did not know that I knew that car belonged to someone else...."

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (y8Foj)

254 I really don't understand why people think the real world works like
NCIS and everything gets wrapped up in an hour including commercials.
Well, when was McCabe given a criminal referral? When were the handcuffs put on?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (r+sAi)

255 It's white wash. Someone on a pc should do a count on "Do not recall"

Posted by: CSMBigBird at June 14, 2018 02:25 PM (c0rKK)

My Acrobat found all of 1.
That's hard to believe.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (jjaLl)

256 Lady Justice just got throat punched.

Posted by: Heart at June 14, 2018 02:30 PM (LIhNq)

I'd hit it.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (UBzPO)
---
You know me!

Posted by: Lando! at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (vDqXW)

257

Tom Fitton

IG: 5 FBI officials on Clinton email investigation sent pro-Hillary Clinton and anti-@RealDonaldTrump text and instant messages.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (fceHP)

258 I only read one paragraph of the 500 pages, but it's definitely a whitewash!

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (+dsLj)

259 Comey told the OIG that this information "didn't index"
with him, which he attributed to the way the
information was presented to him and the fact that, "I
don't know that I knew that [Weiner] was married to
Huma Abedin at the time."
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (PA9oZ)
---------

How on EARTH can he claim that and expect people to believe it? People that live under rocks knew those two were married. So the fact that he is a slug doesn't excuse him.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (rhdgT)

260 246
This Peter Strzok text about "stopping" Donald Trump was hidden from Congressional investigators. We never had it. Absolutely unreal.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (zfrbv)

"WE'LL stop it."

Conspiracy right there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (VM6ev)

261 Posted by: redc1c4 at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (H/7NQ)

This.

Posted by: DocJ at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (NYS7S)

262 Whitewash, you mean, like, with bleach or Bleachbit?

Posted by: ShainS at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (80hY5)

263 183 hits for the search "Abedin"!

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (/TzhX)

264 But it was delicious"

You're welcome.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (7LY+6)

265 Ya, Comey is a liar. But we knew that already.

Posted by: Ben Wa at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (FTPVM)

266 Page 13 - McCabe;

With respect to these investigations, we agreed with the FBIs chief ethics official that McCabe was not at any time required to recuse under the relevant authorities.

Finally, we also found that McCabe did not fully comply with this recusal in a few instances related to the Clinton Foundation investigation.

Also Page 13 - Kadzik has been a bad boy, but not THAT bad ...

Additionally, although Department leadership
determined that Kadzik should be recused from Clinton related matters upon learning of his Heads up email
to Podesta, we found that Kadzik failed to strictly
adhere to this recusal. Lastly, because the government
information in the Heads Up email had in fact been
released publically, we did not find that Kadzik released non-public information or misused his official position.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 03:00 PM (fiGNd)

267 It's going to be a long hot summer for these assholes. Just enjoy the ride, keep family and friends and peers informed, and keep daily/hourly heat on your congressmen via phone.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (TA9CI)

268 I could froth and steam about this IG report, but I think I'm going to watch this episode of Mr. Ed with Mae West.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54dybj

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (iTpm7)

269 Does the IG get to define the scope of their investigation? Look at the scope in tje "background" section -- it was scoped out to avoid any potential wrongdoings that anyone cares about and focuses on silly process stuff

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (Bnl22)

270 230 Loretta Lynch is really the victim here. Comey wasn't as straight up with her as he should have been.
Posted by: Cm9000

Bullshit she's knee deep in it.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (Bdeb0)

271 >>I'm sure the scolding of needing patience will continue.

That shit has been trying to be peddled here since last year.

No sale.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (r9UYA)

272 This!

https://tinyurl.com/ycylxgan

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (rBnYq)

273 I know I did this in the last thread but it was sort of willowed.

I can't tell if it was "work" done or major league lighting and makeup, but Catherine Herridge is twenty years younger than she was yesterday.

I'm deep. I think deep thoughts.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (fuK7c)

274 Defund the FBI.
Defund the IG.
Decimate Justice: fire all Obama appointees and one in ten randomly of those left over, to encourage the others.
For starters....

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (koNhm)

275 196
Page 484:

Page Left Intentionally Blank

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 02:54 PM (/TzhX)

That is common. Page 483 ended one section and page 485 begins a new one.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (UBzPO)

276 Whitewash Privilege

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (oVJmc)

277 Can't wait to see ABC/NBC/CBS news tonight. OIG had a few criticisms of FBI procedures. And, in other news....
Posted by: ndisnigh at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (7wQK9)

This is why the NY AG sued The Trump Foundation.
Tailor made for this....

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (y8Foj)

278 Rush pointed out the first report to Congress deleted Strzok's answer to Page about Can Trump win?, Rush said his answer in the IG is He/they will fix it if Trump does win. Showing bias as well as conspiracy.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (pHfeF)

279 willowed:
The report is the result of 18 months of investigations. Maybe give it more than 5 minutes of analysis.
-----

Just to clarify, how long something takes doesn't attest to its quality whatsoever.
To be more specific, this was designed to take a long time, but not to be of high quality.

they got what they paid for.
so did we.
good and hard

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (z79tQ)

280 Re...avoiding the use of Gross Negligence

"Page further stated, "If the purpose of this is sort of clarity, and the purpose of this is to sort of try to explain to the American populace what happened and what we think about it, that to use a term that had an actual legal definition would be confusing" She said that the team discussed the need to find some other way to characterize former Secretary Clinton's conduct."

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (PNcou)

281 At the time I didn't know that that was *my ass* back there!

Posted by: James Comey at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (vDqXW)

282 Let's let them go through these charades. As many as they want. Comes the day, let no one say, 'Maybe we went too far.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (fA1SL)

283

It's worth repeating. Agents referred to Hillary as "the President"

holy crap, these people were living in their unicorn future

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (fceHP)

284
I did not know it was frowned upon to jack off on a ficus to some chick I'd cornered in the hall.

Posted by: Uncle Harvey Weinstein at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (8O3HH)

285 273 I know I did this in the last thread but it was sort of willowed.

I can't tell if it was "work" done or major league lighting and makeup, but Catherine Herridge is twenty years younger than she was yesterday.

I'm deep. I think deep thoughts.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:01 PM (fuK7c)

Didn't she have a cancer thing a few years ago? I know Jennifer Griffin did. Aside from the whack-o pundits, the actual FNC beat reporters are terrific.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (VM6ev)

286 Nuke the FBI!

Posted by: Marmo - yes, I am entertained, thank you very much at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (fq72/)

287 We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in
contact with the media, who were nevertheless in
frequent contact with reporters.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (fiGNd)

For example, we identified instances where FBI
employees received tickets to sporting events from journalists, went on golfing
outings with media representatives, were treated to drinks and meals after work by
reporters, and were the guests of journalists at nonpublic social events. We will
separately report on those investigations as they are concluded, consistent with the
Inspector General (IG) Act, other applicable federal statutes, and OIG policy.

Fuckin' wow. Think you'd still have a job if you accepted "gifts" in exchange for leaking proprietary information?

I really don't know why people are calling this a whitewash. It's more like Step 2.

Posted by: trev006 at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (X2App)

288 https://www.foxbusiness.com /politics/graham-calls-for-special-probe-into-doj- corruption-says-clinton-email-probe-a-joke

Why, Miss Lindsey, I never.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (7UW64)

289 What I really want to know, and feel should be included in the Mueller investigation, is "What were Hillary Clinton's liquor bills from when she was Secretary of State and during her failed presidential bid"? This was footed by the American taxpayer. It had to run in the millions. I mean, da bitch don't drink generic prescription liquor, gnomesayin? She douches with a diluted solution of Grey Goose, so you can imagine what she drinks. And that's just the vodka. That doesn't include the designer label gins, bourbons, scotches, and tequilas she gargles with.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (9BLnV)

290 This is the second time bleachbit was used in the Hillary Clinton "matter"

Posted by: IG Report at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (xOBRH)

291

EM HOLY JAMOLEY KABLOOEY FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (mPeei)

292 Comey didn't know? Thank God we had him as the head of the FIB. What a master in knowledge he is and a superior intellect.

It is a miracle that we have not had nuclear bombs going foo in all of our major cities when that clown was head cop.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (pw+jk)

293 The devil is in the details, and in how the media spins it.

Many years ago I read the 9-11 report from cover to cover. Buried in the report was the conclusion that Iraq and AQ were cooperating with each other, and Iraq was being used as a base for training operations, etc. However, Iraq did not directly and officially participate in the specific 9-11 attack.

All you ever saw in the media was that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Period. Complete absolution and innocence of any terrorism participation whatsoever. Bush lied, people died.

The spin here writes itself.

Posted by: RM at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (U3LtS)

294 wouldn't the fact that he DID NOT KNOW wiener and huma were married make it EVEN MORE OF A BIG DEAL?????????

I mean, I would have thought that an unrelated person having 300k+ emails from of the Sec of State ON HIS LAP TOP would raise some very serious fucking questions...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (8D42x)

295 I did not know Monica Lewinsky's mouth capacity was less than the amount I came

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (FZYNt)

296 "I don't know that I knew"

coming up on Animal Planet.... the distress squeak of the Washington Weasel.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (Ynlay)

297
Comey claimed he didn't realize how important the Weiner Email discovery was because "I don't know that I knew that he was married to Huma Abedin at the time."
Preposterous!
Posted by: ace

I guess he couldn't ask the guy who gave it to him why is this important to me?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (10vO4)

298 I'm deep. I think deep thoughts."

I like deep thoughts and I can not lie...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (7LY+6)

299 Finally - Page 13 - FOIA requests on the Clinton Foundation. The FBI did that just fine ...

We concluded that these requests were processed according to RMDs internal procedures like other similarly-sized requests, and found no evidence that the FOIA response was expedited or delayed in order to impact the 2016 presidential election.

Having fun yet ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (fiGNd)

300 Sean Davis...doing the reading that americans won't do

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (FOPyv)

301 221 >>Then where's the arrest warrant, and the trial date?

I guess we will have to wait and see like we did with McCabe.

I remember the night when everyone was convinced he would never be fired. Then he was. Then he would never be referred for criminal prosecution. Then he was.

I really don't understand why people think the real world works like NCIS and everything gets wrapped up in an hour including commercials.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 02:56 PM (/tuJf)

You're the one acting like the fact that he has a lawyer is somehow proof that prosecution of him is going to happen. I just think it's what you do when when you are dealing with the law. Its not a guarantee like you seem to think.

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (lKs2v)

302 In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia
investigation over following up on the Midyear-related
investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop, we
were particularly concerned about text messages sent
by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created
the appearance that investigative decisions they made
were impacted by bias or improper considerations.
Most of the text messages raising such questions
pertained to the Russia investigation, and the
implication in some of these text messages, particularly
Strzok's August 8 text message ("we'll stop" candidate
Trump from being elected), was that Strzok might be
willing to take official action to impact a presidential
candidate's electoral prospects. Under these
circumstances, we did not have confidence that Strzok's
decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over
following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead
discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (PA9oZ)

303 "What were Hillary Clinton's liquor bills from when she was Secretary of State and during her failed presidential bid"?

=
Remember the "misplaced" 6 billion under the smartest woman in the world's tenure as head of State department.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (pw+jk)

304 I do believe in the near future it will be released. I'd be surprised if it was as early as Monday. But I have patience.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (TA9CI)

Why delay it any longer? Release it today so the people can do a side-by-side comparison.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (UBzPO)

305 "keep family and friends and peers informed"

---

Yeah...

That only works on those that want to be informed.

Otherwise, you're a h8r that wants to be a killjoy.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (Jvty4)

306 24 I kinda get the idea that Gowdy had pushed things as far as they could go and decided he'd just lie in wait until the IG report was released and he would have better information.
Posted by: Axeman at June 14, 2018 02:28 PM

Yeah, keep betting on Gowdy. He and Sessions haven't let us down yet!

Posted by: Grimaldi at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (LpV0I)

307 See-Vee-Enn-Tees.

All of them.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (WDCYi)

308 293 The devil is in the details, and in how the media spins it.

Many years ago I read the 9-11 report from cover to cover. Buried in the report was the conclusion that Iraq and AQ were cooperating with each other, and Iraq was being used as a base for training operations, etc. However, Iraq did not directly and officially participate in the specific 9-11 attack.

All you ever saw in the media was that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Period. Complete absolution and innocence of any terrorism participation whatsoever. Bush lied, people died.

The spin here writes itself.
Posted by: RM at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (U3LtS)

Tonight's lead story will be the NY AG charging the Trump Foundation with fraud.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (VM6ev)

309 Just wait till the NEXT investigation! You'll see! You'll see!
We couldn't do these things in a public report you see, it's all going to happen behind the scenes now, you'll see! you'll see!
The Russian might read it and use it to influence the secret behind the scenes investigations that are even now taking place.
You'll see! Just wait! You'll see!

We are soooooo screwed.

Posted by: Damnedyankee at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (37IEG)

310 Page xiv:

Executive Summary: Recommendations

Kinda blah.

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (/TzhX)

311 "It seems like a whitewash"

waaaaaaaay too early to say that.

Posted by: ArthurK at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (+O81W)

312 The "well stop it" text exclusion by the DOJ is certainly a fireable offense.

more like a nuke them form orbit offense. Fire Rosenstein and the several obama drones that are placed below him until you reach an intern that trump hired.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (FOPyv)

313 !!!

>>>300 Sean Davis...doing the reading that americans won't do
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast

Hey I'm reading too. I was just about to send the "I don't know that I knew" line to Sean when he sent it to me.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (PA9oZ)

314 I wasn't cheating on my wife at the time I was having sex with that woman because at the time it did not index with me that I was married to my wife.

Posted by: James Comey at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (xOBRH)

315 Second look at civil war?

Posted by: Gaius Julius Caesar at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (FTPVM)

316 It's worth repeating. Agents referred to Hillary as "the President"

holy crap, these people were living in their unicorn future
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (fceHP)

I have no words for this.

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (+lOpA)

317 I told you to believe in miracles

Posted by: Zombie Hans Gruber at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (FZYNt)

318 I didn't realize I had a penis at the time.

James Comey

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (79p/O)

319 Just read Legal Insurrection, COB Leslie Eastman comments the NY AG lawsuit is a distraction from the IG, even if they didn't know what was coming out I would think.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (pHfeF)

320 The Press is ready to pounce at Sanders in Press Briefing:

I predict:

"The President has called Hillary "crooked" but the IG just submitted a five hundred page report saying that's not the case."

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (G0vdT)

321 >>>11 "It seems like a whitewash"

waaaaaaaay too early to say that.

...

yeah may be. See my latest update to the main post.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (PA9oZ)

322 Oh, hes married to THAT huma abedin who worked at state and regularly emailed hillary Clinton?!

I was thinking of another huma abedin who works at state and has 300,000+ hillary emails on her computer.

Posted by: ST James Comey at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (Bnl22)

323 "It seems like a whitewash"

The crimes are heinous enough that a simple statement of the facts is damning.

Posted by: ArthurK at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (+O81W)

324 So.... anyone arrested?

Anyone new fired?

ANYTHING actually happening now that the IG report has been released...

Or... is this a case of.. 'Release the Kraken'...

and out pops a guppy...

Posted by: Don Q at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (NgKpN)

325 300 Sean Davis...doing the reading that americans won't do
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (FOPyv)

The fact that this fucking turd is 500+ pages long in and of itself is a tell. It is to make you toss your hands in the air and give up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (VM6ev)

326

Presser starting with Sarah H-S

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (fceHP)

327 294 wouldn't the fact that he DID NOT KNOW wiener and huma were married make it EVEN MORE OF A BIG DEAL?????????

I mean, I would have thought that an unrelated person having 300k+ emails from of the Sec of State ON HIS LAP TOP would raise some very serious fucking questions...
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 14, 2018 03:03 PM (8D42x)

This guy makes Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes

Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (9221z)

328 Oh yeah. That's right.

NEVER TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT A LAWYER PRESENT.

Could be why Strozk retained a lawyer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (vzLRM)

Nope, now apparently if you get a lawyer it's proof of guilt.

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (lKs2v)

329 I really don't understand why people think the real world works like NCIS and everything gets wrapped up in an hour including commercials.

Well, when was McCabe given a criminal referral? When were the handcuffs put on?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Considering that this IG report is only about Hillary's email server, we've known about this for what, 4 to 6 years?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (vzLRM)

330 It's worth repeating. Agents referred to Hillary as "the President"

holy crap, these people were living in their unicorn future

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (fceHP)

===

This just proves that there was ZERO political pressure or bias in the FIB.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (pw+jk)

331 DAMNATION, WHO PUT MY TOP SECRET RECIPE FOR MY "FAMOUS" OLD FASHIONED IN THE REPORT?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (TcM5G)

332 318 I didn't realize I had a penis at the time.

James Comey

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 03:05 PM (79p/O)

Well, it's not like it worked or anything.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (7UW64)

333 288 https://www.foxbusiness.com /politics/graham-calls-for-special-probe-into-doj- corruption-says-clinton-email-probe-a-joke

Why, Miss Lindsey, I never.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (7UW64)

When you lose Miss Lindsey....

There is already an investigation (several) I believe in the Clinton Crime Family so I don't know what a 2nd special prosecutor or investigation would do about the original investigation?

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (TA9CI)

334 Was that wrong?

Should I have not done that?

I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that taking money for talking to reporters was frowned upon, you know, 'cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.

Posted by: Special Agent George Constanza at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (vDqXW)

335 I'm withholding judgement on this IG report until Bill Kristol, Jen Rubin, David Frum, Nicole Wallace and Rick Wilson tweet their opinions on it....

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (y8Foj)

336 Mein Fuehrer....

Steiner...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (wvKQF)

337 snicker

Posted by: Bill Kristol at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (FTPVM)

338 >>>214
Comey claimed he didn't realize how important the Weiner Email discovery was because "I don't know that I knew that he was married to Huma Abedin at the time."

Preposterous!
Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (PA9oZ)

"I don't know that I knew."
!!!

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (/TzhX)

339 Sanders up.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (G0vdT)

340 the DOJ withheld the Stop text simply to try to mold public opinion.

Fire everyone.

Or don't, just wait for the next betrayal.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (FOPyv)

341 here Charlie Brown, come kick this football

Posted by: Lucy at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (FZYNt)

342 189
This is laughable.

Horowitz just transcribed the excuses and ridiculous explanations from the guilty parties and accepted them as fact.

Then has the gall to recommend that they all cover their tracks better next time.

Horowitz is a deep state operative.

Posted by: Slip Slide at June 14, 2018 02:48 PM (BbZA9)

No doubt evidence was disappeared, not just from Hillary camp. Remember they were communicating a lot "offline".

This is a huge cover up, but Americans will never look to the intel
community as legit again. They are not going to clean it up and make
people pay. Shame.

Everyone sees this for what it is.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 02:52 PM (fceHP)

Does these people have desks full of burner phones?

Use one a week and then they meet a 30 pound hammer and a hard place.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (ymnmz)

343 335 I'm withholding judgement on this IG report until Bill Kristol, Jen Rubin, David Frum, Nicole Wallace and Rick Wilson tweet their opinions on it....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (y8Foj)

Dude?

Posted by: Erick Erickson - PLEASE REMEMBER ME!!! at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (72PAC)

344 Oh, Jame's Wolfe's legal defense GoFundMe has a goal of $500,000. Still at $690.
GoFundMe says "This campaign is trending!"

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (UBzPO)

345 anyone believe this?

stupid or weasel, or both

We asked Comey to explain why this initial information about the Weiner laptop did not "index" with him given that Abedin was closely connected to Clinton. Comey stated, "I don't know that I knew that [ Weiner ] was married to Huma Abedin at the time."

liar

whenever he is lying he says "I don't know that I knew" bs line

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (fceHP)

346 >>You're the one acting like the fact that he has a lawyer is somehow proof that prosecution of him is going to happen. I just think it's what you do when when you are dealing with the law. Its not a guarantee like you seem to think.

I seem to think so because Sessions appointed Huber to work with Horowitz as soon as potential criminal activity was uncovered by Strzok and Page in the summer of 2017. Federal prosecutors only do criminal investigations and so yes, I think Strzok is indeed under criminal investigation.

We'll see how it turns out.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (/tuJf)

347 The way I see it the IG report clears the way to reopen the Clinton email case and appoint a special council team to investigate the whole mess.. At least the FBI

Posted by: sOME mORON at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (ICWiF)

348 Honestly I'm surprised Sessions hasn't fired more scum out of the SDNY & EDNY offices. These are the cesspits that Spawned Comey and Baharra after all.

Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (9221z)

349 Comey is quite a shit. A crap-weasel as Ross would say.

Things he didn't know...

notice he didn't know that the Steele report was a clinton product BUT HE SURE THE FUCK KNEW ABOUT THE RUMORS THAT IT WAS GOP.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (FOPyv)

350 The Federal Government of the United States of Dissembling.

Posted by: Revision Suggested at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (vDqXW)

351 And the big finish ... Recommendations. Some of you went straight to that. Smarter than me ...

1 - Tighten up witness interviews
2 - FBI doesn't say shit without talking to AG first
3 - Tighten up press statements
4 - Tighten up monitoring FBI texts
5 - The stupid warning label on FBI phones
6 - Train FBI texting
7 - Train FBI press leaking
8 - Tighten up FBI spouses taking donations

Dare I give my own summary ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (fiGNd)

352 Just read Legal Insurrection, COB Leslie Eastman comments the NY AG lawsuit is a distraction from the IG, even if they didn't know what was coming out I would think.
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (pHfeF)

They didn't know they knew the IG report was coming today.....

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (y8Foj)

353 What kind of person says something like "I don't know that I knew..."?

Posted by: Marmo - yes, I am entertained, thank you very much at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (fq72/)

354 weft I think the latest bombshell text was only recovered/discovered recently - no time to tell Congress. If true, the "hidden from Congress" thing will be a nothing-burger.

Peebles, this report is just about the "investigation" of the improper handling of communications by the Clinton team at State.

Just skimming and commenting mode now, but at several points in the exec summary the IG repeats that investigative decisions were based on the team's conclusion that no prosecutable crimes were to be found. WTFF? Isn't *THAT* precisely the whole point of this review - to look at why such a massive and obvious and undeniable pattern of crimes were *not* investigated and prosecuted?

It's completely, pristinely, idiotically circular.

And I'm wondering if the report looked at the jaw-dropping edit in the investigative report that just brazenly changed the conclusion there was evidence for a charge under the recklessness provision of the Espionage Act for language using made-up concepts having nothing to do with the law.

That's public, that is unambiguous, cannot see any way that could be found normal, lawful, or sane - but since Comey has essentially blessed the IG report, I'm assuming the IG simply didn't examine it. Amazing.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (QDnY+)

355 >>>327 294 wouldn't the fact that he DID NOT KNOW wiener and huma were married make it EVEN MORE OF A BIG DEAL?????????

I mean, I would have thought that an unrelated person having 300k+ emails from of the Sec of State ON HIS LAP TOP would raise some very serious fucking questions...
Posted by: SturmToddler a

good point

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (PA9oZ)

356 "I don't know that I knew...(fill in blank) at the time?"

Comey says that a lot. With a lilt at the end like he's asking a question. I'd have to upgrade my opinion of him just to reach utter contempt.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (2NqXo)

357 James Comey was pretty sure that Anthony Weiner was married to some 12-year-old girl he hooked-up with on the interwebs.

Posted by: ShainS at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (80hY5)

358 343 335 I'm withholding judgement on this IG report until Bill Kristol, Jen Rubin, David Frum, Nicole Wallace and Rick Wilson tweet their opinions on it....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (y8Foj)

Dude?
Posted by: Erick Erickson - PLEASE REMEMBER ME!!! at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (72PAC)

WHAT ABOUT ME!111!?!?!

Posted by: Max Boot, Struggling to Remain Relevant at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (4C0+v)

359 344 Oh, Jame's Wolfe's legal defense GoFundMe has a goal of $500,000. Still at $690.
GoFundMe says "This campaign is trending!"
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (UBzPO)

Needs to sign up on the Go F@@k Me page..

Posted by: sOME mORON at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (ICWiF)

360 The fact that this fucking turd is 500+ pages long in and of itself is a tell. It is to make you toss your hands in the air and give up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (VM6ev)
---------

Judging solely from the snippets that ace is posting, they could have done with a harsh editor. Using thirty words when three will do far more nicely is not a sign of intelligence, as they seem to think.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (rhdgT)

361 And the big finish ... Recommendations. Some of you went straight to that. Smarter than me ...

1 - Tighten up witness interviews
2 - FBI doesn't say shit without talking to AG first
3 - Tighten up press statements
4 - Tighten up monitoring FBI texts
5 - The stupid warning label on FBI phones
6 - Train FBI texting
7 - Train FBI press leaking
8 - Tighten up FBI spouses taking donations

Dare I give my own summary ?

You forgot # 9

9---HILLARY BECOMES PREZIDENT!!

Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (y8Foj)

362 I made it to page ii of the executive summary before giving up. The part about allowing Mills and Samuelson (Clinton's attorneys) to attend her "interview" even though they were fact witnesses is completely glossed over. The report says there was no persuasive evidence that their attendance impacted Hillary's "interview".

Does not mention (i) there are no fucking notes so how would we know? and (ii) the date that both those bitches were granted immunity. What in the fuck?

An 8th grader could have written this and saved the country at least 3 pallets of cash.

Posted by: Eli Cash at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (a+WIL)

363 304 I do believe in the near future it will be released. I'd be surprised if it was as early as Monday. But I have patience.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 02:58 PM (TA9CI)

Why delay it any longer? Release it today so the people can do a side-by-side comparison.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:04 PM (UBzPO)

Why not wait and let them MSM and others paint themselves into a corner on the record and then release it. Why the rush? Patience is a virtue when your enemy is making mistakes and continue to cover up crimes and getting caught.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (TA9CI)

364 288
https://www.foxbusiness.com /politics/graham-calls-for-special-probe-into-doj- corruption-says-clinton-email-probe-a-joke

Why, Miss Lindsey, I never.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:02 PM (7UW64)

Please. This WAS the special probe you jackass!

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (UBzPO)

365
Comey on the beat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6muq1smaVCQ

Also, how they conduct "my secret investigations" which they do "under the covers".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g_mWXCJRP8

And, you have to get up pretty early to fool Comey-seau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P2ERa5beGw

Note the homage to Dr. Strangelove, "I can walk!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (8O3HH)

366 333
When you lose Miss Lindsey....

There is already an investigation (several) I believe in the Clinton Crime Family so I don't know what a 2nd special prosecutor or investigation would do about the original investigation?
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (TA9CI)

Grahamnesty has been somewhat awake ever since Songbird McGlioblastoma's hand was forcefully removed from his ass.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (WDCYi)

367 This IG report was sooooooo worth the months of delay.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (pw+jk)

368 From the FBI response to the OIG report, regarding "Conduct creating a perception that political bias could have influenced certain actions or decisions":

"Disciplinary referrals from the OIG report will be handled pursuant to the FBI's disciplinary investigation and adjudication processes. Any allegation of misconduct by an FBI employee is reviewed, and if merited, investigated by either the FBI Inspection Division or the DOJ OIG, as occurred here. At the conclusion of the investigation, the matter is referred to the FBI's OPR for adjudication.
. . .
the FBI OPR has already opened and is conducting investigations, or has concluded misconduct investigations arising out of or related to the conduct identified in the Report. It would not be appropriate to comment here on any particular individual who was or may be the subject of such an investigation."

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (953wK)

369 338
>>>214

Comey claimed he didn't realize how important the Weiner Email
discovery was because "I don't know that I knew that he was married to
Huma Abedin at the time."

Preposterous!

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (PA9oZ)

"I don't know that I knew."

!!!

Posted by: m at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (/TzhX)

You have heard of the term Idiot Savant, right?

This is an example of retard genius.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (ymnmz)

370 356 "I don't know that I knew...(fill in blank) at the time?"

Comey says that a lot. With a lilt at the end like he's asking a question. I'd have to upgrade my opinion of him just to reach utter contempt."

----------
-0-------

right, like he didn't know the actual damning facts but is happy to mention the DNC spin about those facts.

weird, huh? kind of a tell.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (FOPyv)

371 "Loretta Lynch is really the victim here. Comey wasn't as straight up with her as he should have been."

Heck, at this point shouldn't Trump just offer some sort of omnibus apology in general to Hilary, Comey, McCabe, Loretta Lynch, Val-Jar, Obama, Bill Clinton, Susan Rice, Schumerand the whole Democrat party?

Posted by: RM at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (U3LtS)

372 I'm waiting for the unexpurgatred, unmodified, unredacted, original undissembled version before drawing any conclusions.

Posted by: Undocumented at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (5NMZN)

373 343 335 I'm withholding judgement on this IG report until Bill Kristol, Jen Rubin, David Frum, Nicole Wallace and Rick Wilson tweet their opinions on it....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (y8Foj)

Dude?
Posted by: Erick Erickson - PLEASE REMEMBER ME!!! at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (72PAC)

WHAT ABOUT ME!111!?!?!
Posted by: Max Boot, Struggling to Remain Relevant at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (4C0+v)

And (clicking his tongue) ME!!!

Posted by: Ralph Peters at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (y8Foj)

374
We asked Comey to explain why this initial information about the
Weiner laptop did not "index" with him given that Abedin was closely
connected to Clinton. Comey stated, "I don't know that I knew that [
Weiner ] was married to Huma Abedin at the time."

So Comey completely missed all the scandal and the quickie wedding?

Top Men in our intelligence services, they is.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (oVJmc)

375 356 "I don't know that I knew...(fill in blank) at the time?"

Comey says that a lot. With a lilt at the end like he's asking a question. I'd have to upgrade my opinion of him just to reach utter contempt.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (2NqXo)

He can dodge by saying "I wasn't sure if they were divorced at the time" because the media made it seem like they were getting back together, when it was probably just two parents coordinating about their kid.

Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (9221z)

376 39
Screw this.

I want to see the first unedited draft of this.

And it is a total whitewash, but this was expected so not going to get nuts about it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Yes, this is an edited "modified" and redacted version, per Q. This is a whitewash, or an attempt at a whitewash by the guilty parties, but little nuggets of damaging info may have been missed. Don't give up, this is a long, long process, and Pres. Trump is showing amazing patience to stick with it. More reports...and hopefully unredacted reports...are coming.

Sarah Sanders in news conference on live now.

Posted by: Just wondering at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (WBYpW)

377 Our favorite incel ex-CIA spook, Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion. In other words, Strzok was motivated by a deep ense of justice, NOT partisan hatred of Trump.

Posted by: Fortunato at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (/WWMI)

378 360
The fact that this fucking turd is 500+ pages long in and of itself is a
tell. It is to make you toss your hands in the air and give up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (VM6ev)

---------

Exactly. I was just going to say this. Gottam bastards.

Posted by: Eli Cash at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (a+WIL)

379 Sanders up.

This is an example -- I'm going to continue my theme of really deep thinking in this thread -- about how much hawter smarts make a girl.

Sarah's kind of a middle of the road, could go either way girl. But she kicks ass.

Ass kicking is so hawt.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (fuK7c)

380 Comey is a very stupid man. He did not seem to have known anything, based on his own accounts. And they made this guy the head of the FBI?

Posted by: IC at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (a0IVu)

381 348 Honestly I'm surprised Sessions hasn't fired more scum out of the SDNY & EDNY offices. These are the cesspits that Spawned Comey and Baharra after all.
Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (9221z)

And Schneidermanxivm.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (WDCYi)

382 According to the IG, Comey claimed that he didn't know Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were married when he was told about the 347,000 Clinton-related e-mails discovered on Weiner's laptop in September 2016

Ladies and gentlemen, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation!

Top. Man.

Posted by: DocJ at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (NYS7S)

383 Using thirty words when three will do far more nicely is not a sign of intelligence, "

It is in government. 100 slide PowerPoint presentations to say "no one knows" are common...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (7LY+6)

384 I'm filing my own report. One that makes more sense. One that says, in big ol' cap letters, "THE PIAPS IS TREASONOUS & SHOULD BE HUNG."

I know it misses some of the subtlety that the IG Report maintains, but I think it has merit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (7UW64)

385 353 What kind of person says something like "I don't know that I knew..."?
Posted by: Marmo - yes, I am entertained, thank you very much at June 14, 2018 03:08 PM (fq72/)

A lawyer. That way when a someone says "no, James, you knew! I saw you playing golf with Anthony wiener!" I can say "shoot, I guess I did know. Oops!" And I wasn't just mistaken, not lying. Duh.

Posted by: ST James Comey at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (Bnl22)

386 Whew I was worried. Miss Gramnesty is calling for ANOTHER probe. This time they will get those damn kids over in the deep state and democrat part...birm.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (pw+jk)

387 David "Schvanzenegger" Frum is too busy pleasing all the women in DC to offer advice. Just ask him.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (Ynlay)

388 Texts from FBI interviewer (Strzock) referred to Hillary as The President in June 2016. Nope. No bias.

Posted by: PhilDirt at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (C7HdL)

389 I think the report is damning enough as it is to give PDT reason to shit can muler's investigation, and I don't mean by friing him, but undercutting him and the rational for the investigation in the frist place

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (m8J9w)

390 328 Oh yeah. That's right.

NEVER TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT A LAWYER PRESENT.

Could be why Strozk retained a lawyer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 02:59 PM (vzLRM)

Nope, now apparently if you get a lawyer it's proof of guilt.
Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 03:06 PM (lKs2v)

And they go after your lawyer too!

Posted by: Don Q at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (NgKpN)

391 Comey stated, "I don't know that I knew that [ Weiner ] was married to Huma Abedin at the time."

--

Well at the very least, this report absolutely exhilarates Trump for firing Comey. Because seriously, how can the director of the FBI not know the spouse of the closest side to an investigation target who has been in the public sector for 40 years.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (mk7Bj)

392 Does these people have desks full of burner phones?

Use one a week and then they meet a 30 pound hammer and a hard place.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

When you spend $70k on one desk, what's a case of $20 burner phones?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (vzLRM)

393 Our favorite incel ex-CIA spook, Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll
stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that
Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion.

They keep saying this, but the Mueller investigation continues to drag on with no collusion-related charges brought or alleged...

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (oVJmc)

394 382 According to the IG, Comey claimed that he didn't know Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were married when he was told about the 347,000 Clinton-related e-mails discovered on Weiner's laptop in September 2016

Ladies and gentlemen, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation!

Top. Man.

Posted by: DocJ at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (NYS7S)

I know the liar meant this as some kind of excuse, but if they weren't married, wouldn't that make it worse?

It would mean that it wasn't just an incident, but actual theft, etc.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (7UW64)

395 So Comey is leading the investigation of Hillary Clinton and her felonious servers, and subpoenas cellphones from people, including Abedin, and he doesn't know that Abedin is married to Weiner?

What were his credentials for the job anyway? A certificate of participation in a DeVry University investigators' weekend class?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (7ZVPa)

396 OMG, I love it when godless heathens use the Bible to push a godless heathen proposition.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (pw+jk)

397 Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion.

"Evidence" that seems to have escaped the purview of Bobby Mueller and his merry band of anti-Trump jihadist Democrat-Primary-Donating investigators. Imagine that.

Posted by: DocJ at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (NYS7S)

398 Texts from FBI interviewer (Strzock) referred to Hillary as The President in June 2016. Nope. No bias.

Posted by: PhilDirt at June 14, 2018 03:12 PM (C7HdL)

They did not clear Strozock of bias..they said comey did not act with bias and since he fucked both sides, it may just be his is incompetent and an asshole

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (m8J9w)

399 one of the 15th dimensional chess player moves that smart-trump did is now apparent:

1. by being so fucking patient and almost a potted plant about the whole thing, including letting mueller and rosenstein do whatever they wanted for 1.5 years

is 2. that now when cucks like graham call for special counsel II, there isn't any "but trump" fallback position.

ermmm....you know what I'm saying. He spooled at a mile of rope to let the various participants hang themselves.

or....dumb trump was just being rolled and ineffectual. probably because of his small hands.

you decide.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (FOPyv)

400 So straight-shootin' Jim was using his Gmail account for official business. I'd like to see someone make an FOIA filing on his personal email, using logic that his use of it in that manner makes it a defacto work email. Not just his work related stuff, but every yoga routine and plan for Chelsea's wedding.

Posted by: Joe, no that other one at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (QFnhZ)

401 384 I'm filing my own report. One that makes more sense. One that says, in big ol' cap letters, "THE PIAPS IS TREASONOUS & SHOULD BE HUNG."

---------

And you was right!

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (wvKQF)

402 Hmmm, the report may be more damaging that thought. Only one question on IG report so far at the Press Briefing.

They don't want to talk about it.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (G0vdT)

403 What kind of person says something like "I don't know that I knew..."?
Posted by: Marmo

A lawyer.
Wha'd I win?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (zfrbv)

404 What were his credentials for the job anyway? A
certificate of participation in a DeVry University investigators'
weekend class?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (7ZVPa)

---------------------------
Trump University

Posted by: Undocumented at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (5NMZN)

405 Comey "didn't know they were married"?
Well, Sherlock, why the fuck do you think he had Clinton's email on his laptop?

Did you ask, G-Man?

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (VpIIl)

406 The same Weiner Laptop that has been searched and seized on 9/26/16 and is exhibit A in the case of the United States vs. Anthony Wiener in the Eastern District of NY. Really makes you think.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (TA9CI)

407 Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion.

Tell McMuffin I ant extra cheese and to get his shne box

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (m8J9w)

408 We're really not that bad.

Posted by: Goolag Work Camps at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (r9UYA)

409 We found no email, written documentations or text from James Comey that said the words "I understand that Huma Abedin is married to Anthony Weiner whose laptop contained $347K emails from the SOC Hillary Clinton's private server."

So yeah, OK. What a weird coinkydinc.

Posted by: IG Report at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (ymnmz)

410 News flash: Jim Acosta is being a douchebag again.

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (79p/O)

411 What a fcking joke. This is total whitewash. Let's have all of Comey's personal emails right now. Brennans, Clappers, the fcking lot of these traitors. Lets have them all exposed for the fcks that they all are. Burn the fcking village.

Posted by: SoonmyAss at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (AzZAE)

412 Graham just seems so random. I have no idea what to make of that guy.

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (+lOpA)

413 Comey "didn't know they were married"?

TOP men at the fbi

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (m8J9w)

414 377
Our favorite incel ex-CIA spook, Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll
stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that
Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion. In other words, Strzok was
motivated by a deep ense of justice, NOT partisan hatred of Trump.

Posted by: Fortunato at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (/WWMI)

-----I keep reading this but... no one ever says why the hell Strozk and Page didn't, and still have not, produced one single fucking tiny piece of evidence supporting a claim of collusion. It wasn't political bias, it was just... what?

What else could it be if there is no evidence to support the only other logical reason why an FBI agent that high in the chart would say he would stop the election.

Posted by: Eli Cash at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (a+WIL)

415 There is already an investigation (several) I
believe in the Clinton Crime Family so I don't know what a 2nd special
prosecutor or investigation would do about the original investigation?

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:07 PM (TA9CI)

Yet they suit against the Trump Foundation is already filed.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (UBzPO)

416 More reports...and hopefully unredacted reports...are coming.

Sarah Sanders in news conference on live now.
Posted by: Just wondering at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (WBYpW)

Why would Jeff Sessionz, allow a redacted report to come out???

Isn't HE the Attorney General?

Posted by: Don Q at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (NgKpN)

417 Improper Disclosure of Non-Public Information
As we also describe in Chapter Twelve, among the
issues we reviewed were allegations that Department
and FBI employees improperly disclosed non-public
information regarding the Midyear investigation.
Although FBI policy strictly limits the employees who
are authorized to speak to the media, we found that
this policy appeared to be widely ignored during the
period we reviewed.
We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of
the organization and with no official reason to be in
contact with the media, who were nevertheless in
frequent contact with reporters. Attached to this report
as Attachments E and F are two link charts that reflect
the volume of communications that we identified
between FBI employees and media representatives in
April/May and October 2016. We have profound
concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized
media contacts by FBI personnel that we have
uncovered during our review.
In addition, we identified instances where FBI
employees improperly received benefits from reporters,
including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings,
drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social
events. We will separately report on those
investigations as they are concluded, consistent with
the Inspector General Act, other applicable federal
statutes, and OIG policy

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (PA9oZ)

418

Comey: "I don't know that I knew"

Slick Willy: "I don't recall" riddled throughout Lynch tarmac meeting.

scumbags

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (fceHP)

419 Our favorite incel ex-CIA spook, Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll
stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that
Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion.

They keep saying this, but the Mueller investigation continues to drag on with no collusion-related charges brought or alleged...
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (oVJmc)

Everyone avoids mentioning this but with embedded spies in place Mueller should've had a treasure trove of data available instantly.

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (y7DUB)

420 393 Our favorite incel ex-CIA spook, Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll
stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that
Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion.

They keep saying this, but the Mueller investigation continues to drag on with no collusion-related charges brought or alleged...
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 03:13 PM (oVJmc)

Well I think there is a reason for that. But I think it's best to have someone of a legal mind explain that. So either ask her, or if she's lurking, Hey Alexthechick, why haven't there been any Collusion charges brought forth yet?

Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (lKs2v)

421 I'm a little confused, does the collective still consider Session a good guy?

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (r9UYA)

422 399 one of the 15th dimensional chess player moves that smart-trump did is now apparent:

1. by being so fucking patient and almost a potted plant about the whole thing, including letting mueller and rosenstein do whatever they wanted for 1.5 years

is 2. that now when cucks like graham call for special counsel II, there isn't any "but trump" fallback position.

ermmm....you know what I'm saying. He spooled at a mile of rope to let the various participants hang themselves.

or....dumb trump was just being rolled and ineffectual. probably because of his small hands.

you decide.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (FOPyv)

=============

I've had that feeling for a while. That's probably why Rosie hasn't been canned, either. Trump's waiting for something from Congress, say an impeachment or a finding of contempt.

Posted by: Jackal at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (Gey7X)

423 weird that that Bloomberg report quoted the language that merely said the OIG could find no "documentary evidence" of bias on the part of Strzok, while missing the earlier statement that the OIG is in fact unconvinced that there was no bias here.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (PA9oZ)

424 What a fcking joke. This is total whitewash. Let's have all of Comey's personal emails right now. Brennans, Clappers, the fcking lot of these traitors. Lets have them all exposed for the fcks that they all are. Burn the fcking village.

Posted by: SoonmyAss at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (AzZAE)

I don't think it is a total whitewash..PDT will now come out fring. This is just the start. Just be ready to duck when the shit starts flying.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (m8J9w)

425 407
Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll stop him!" line refers to Strzok's
reaction to all of the evidence that Strzok had on Trump's Russian
collusion.

Tell McMuffin I ant extra cheese and to get his shne box

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:14 PM (m8J9w)

Cough, that they fabricated, cough

Posted by: IG Report at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (ymnmz)

426 I know the liar meant this as some kind of excuse, but if they weren't married, wouldn't that make it worse?

As a crime (mishandling of classified information)? Certainly worse. No doubt.

But really? That Comey didn't know Huma was married to Weiner - a former CONgressman? If true, it's really, really damning.

Posted by: DocJ at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (NYS7S)

427 Daily Caller is reporting another attorney on Mueller's witch hunt squad got caught sending anti-Trump texts, but was still on the team until this year. WTF?
Can we fire Mueller NOW?

Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (9221z)

428 Is there anyone here who would be surprised if we found out that ex-CIA Egg McMuffin was a Brennan plot to deny Trump the win?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (oVJmc)

429 >>Hmmm, the report may be more damaging that thought. Only one question on IG report so far at the Press Briefing.

Attachment B, the FBI Response to the Report is pretty interesting and talks about a number of follow up investigations being done.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (/tuJf)

430 So straight-shootin' Jim was using his Gmail account for official business. I'd like to see someone make an FOIA filing on his personal email, using logic that his use of it in that manner makes it a defacto work email. Not just his work related stuff, but every yoga routine and plan for Chelsea's wedding.
Posted by: Joe

No standing.
Posted by: Random Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (vzLRM)

431 OMG the WH press corp is becoming unglued.

It's glorious.

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (79p/O)

432 I don't know that I knew if I dropped a plugged-in toaster in the tub while taking a bath I would fry? I guess at some point I became aware of it? But I won't even try to guess when that was. Maybe when I turned five? Maybe I was ten? Hard to say. I don't know.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (2NqXo)

433 The only thing that could redeem Comey's asinine "I don't know that I knew..." nonsense is if the redacted end of that statement was...

"but i mean, yeah, i knew they were still bangin'."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (BRvh1)

434

JC this clown at the presser yelling over and over Don't you have any empathy!!!! to Sarah over illegal kids

He wouldn't stop his rant

Jackasses all over the media

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (fceHP)

435 Can't you peons see? I'M the victim here!

Where the FUCK is that VODKA?! It's been 7 minutes already!

Posted by: hillary (. ) (' ) at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (Evws/)

436 410 News flash: Jim Acosta is being a douchebag again.

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (79p/O)

How is this news?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (7UW64)

437 If the whitewash purpose was to put some shine back on the FBI apple, they failed miserably. It's now rotten with maggots.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (VpIIl)

438 pg 66

Prosecutor 4 told the OIG that Obama's statement was the genesis of the FBI's suspicions that the Department's leadership was politically biased. This prosecutor stated, "I know that the FBI considered those statements inappropriate. And that it generated a suspicion that there was a political bias going on from the Executive Branch."

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (Bdeb0)

439 209 A banana Republic, if you can keep it.
Posted by: Dr. Benjamin Franklin at June 14, 2018 02:55 PM (rBnYq)

----

Franklins son was a Tory. Governor of New Jersey. Prescient, I guess, as every following governor was a fn rentseeker as well.

Posted by: BluesFish at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (QSrx1)

440 421 I'm a little confused, does the collective still consider Session a good guy?
Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (r9UYA)

Incompetent, but with heart in right place.
Some say he's just building a case, but this has gone on too long, and the corruption is too blatant for him to be on the sidelines THIS long.

Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (9221z)

441 Daily Caller is reporting another attorney on Mueller's witch hunt squad got caught sending anti-Trump texts, but was still on the team until this year. WTF?
Can we fire Mueller NOW?

Posted by: Iblis at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (9221z)

Yes top right headline on Drudge

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (m8J9w)

442 Comey claimed he didn't realize how important the Weiner Email
discovery was because "I don't know that I knew that he was married to
Huma Abedin at the time."

=====

Comey was in NYSD for years (Martha Stewart) and he didn't know the up and coming (heh) NY rep and his wife, aide to Hillary (NY Senator), were married? Puhleese.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (MIKMs)

443 Why would Jeff Sessionz, allow a redacted report to come out???

Isn't HE the Attorney General?
Posted by: Don Q at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (NgKpN)

Not really since his recusal.

Posted by: Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (4C0+v)

444 "What do you maker of this, Johnny?"

"Well, I can make a hat. Or a broach! Or a pterodactyl!"

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (ycWCI)

445 "Egg McMuffin, tweets that the "We'll stop him!" line refers to Strzok's reaction to all of the evidence that Strzok had on Trump's Russian collusion."

Yeah, that's why they witheld that text. Because it had such an innocent explanation. GTFO you cueball looking mother furcker and take your boyfriend Rick Wilson with you.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (OD2ni)

446 Leaking is criminal, so is taking gifts.

Posted by: dagny at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (nRWPy)

447 The problem with being a compulsive liar is getting all those footprints on your dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (BRvh1)

448 >>With that said, the FBI OPR has already opened and is conducting investigations, or has concluded misconduct investigations arising out of or related to the conduct identified in the Report. It would not be appropriate to comment here on any particular individual who was or may be the subject of such an investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (/tuJf)

449

We identified numerous instances in which Comey used a personal email account (a Gmail account) to conduct FBI business. We cite five examples of such
use in this section and include information provided by Comey and Rybicki about Comey's use of a personal email account.

no laws, no policies
not for them

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (fceHP)

450 OMG the WH press corp is becoming unglued.

It's glorious.

I don't know who that guy was who just wet his pants, but SHS dealt with him perfectly.

It is, in fact, glorious.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (fuK7c)

451 "I've had that feeling for a while. That's probably why Rosie hasn't been canned, either. Trump's waiting for something from Congress, say an impeachment or a finding of contempt."

-----------------------

the shoe has dropped so hard on rosenstein that I halfway expect that they're currently videotaping a boardroom firing scene with a "you're fired" at the end.

quick, check where DJTjr and ivanka and that other blonde who was a judge on the Apprentice...where are they?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (FOPyv)

452 I bet right now there are a bunch of eager beavers in the White House reading through this report and pulling out all of the facts that will be needed for an official statement on this.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Proudly Sponsors The Last Voyage of the Sea Cuck! at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (hLRSq)

453
After Sessions appearance on Tucker the other night where he defended Rosenpenis, he needs firin'.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (8O3HH)

454 Sarah Sanders is a saint. I would have turned a flamethrower on the whole press corp(se) and walked out.

What a bunch of circus clowns.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (ptqGC)

455 What evidence, McMuffin?

Posted by: dagny at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (nRWPy)

456 418

Comey: "I don't know that I knew"

Slick Willy: "I don't recall" riddled throughout Lynch tarmac meeting.

scumbags
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (fceHP)

At least when Hillary says she doesn't recall, she's got the excuse of the mass quantities of alcohol eating through her memory.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (WDCYi)

457
I don't know who that guy was who just wet his pants, but SHS dealt with him perfectly.

It is, in fact, glorious.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (fuK7c)
Damn it...wish I was in front of the telly

Posted by: IC at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (a0IVu)

458 Wow, punctilious is a REALLY BIG WORD!

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (79p/O)

459 There's a lot of "concern" in this IG report, and then referrals to the FBI code of conduct. I'm sure we'll see real action there, such as FBI agents being docked with paid leave and being sent letters with a stern warning not to do it again.

Burn it all down.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (+dsLj)

460 You're going to love your new banana republic!!

Posted by: Zombie Hugo Chavez at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (Y9uH4)

461 Anyone watching this press conference? I would pay to watch Sarah actually spank a few of these reporters, they act like a bunch of children.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (pHfeF)

462 "But our review did not find evidence to connect the political views expressed in these messages to the specific investigative decisions that we reviewed; rather, consistent with the analytic approach described above, we found that these specific decisions were the result of discretionary judgments made during the course of an investigation by the Midyear agents and prosecutors and that these judgment calls were not unreasonable." (Page 3, exec summary)

To me this is the heart of it.

An unbelievable, undeniable, unprecedented crime wave by a cabinet member and many of her staff, involving one of the most important laws, was just not prosecuted - notwithstanding how brazen, open, and well-documented it was.

But the jaw-dropping bias amply documented in internal comms was found not to be related.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (QDnY+)

463 I don't think it is a total whitewash..PDT will now come out fring. This is just the start. Just be ready to duck when the shit starts flying.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (m8J9w)

This thing was not the finish line. It was the starter's gun.

And this ain't gonna be a sprint, I'm afraid.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (953wK)

464 Why not wait and let them MSM and others paint
themselves into a corner on the record and then release it. Why the
rush? Patience is a virtue when your enemy is making mistakes and
continue to cover up crimes and getting caught.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (TA9CI)

Because this isn't a fucking game.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (UBzPO)

465 412 Graham just seems so random. I have no idea what to make of that guy.
Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (+lOpA)

====================

He's protecting himself politically. He sees the way the wind is blowing (towards Trump) and he means to be reelected.

Posted by: Jackal at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (Gey7X)

466 I'd be kicked out of the Military for stating my intention to "Stop" The president

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (m8J9w)

467 >>Although former Director Comey and Ms Page are no longer employed by the FBI the OIG referred Mr Strzok for an investigation into whether his use of personal email accounts violated FBI or DOJ policy The FBI will handle this referral pursuant to the FBIs disciplinary investigation and adjudication processes

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (/tuJf)

468 Leaking is criminal, so is taking gifts.
Posted by: dagny at June 14, 2018 03:18 PM (nRWPy)

---------

Yikes. I can usually stop the leaking, but I'm addicted to the gifts.

*hic*

HUMA, ANOTHER BOX OF DEPENDS!!!!

Posted by: Hillary! 2016, Who Will Never Be POTUS at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (wvKQF)

469 Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (PA9oZ)

But did they INTEND to be bribed in to spilling classified information?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (Bnl22)

470 News flash: Jim Acosta is being a douchebag again.

Posted by: mpfs,

--

In a related story, the Sun rose again this morning.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (7ZVPa)

471 Just got a service is not available option when trying to refresh. Let's see if this works.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (72PAC)

472 So what are "recommendations"? If the OIG report absolutely does not include criminal referrals, and those can be continuing right now, why would there be "recommendations" listed at all in this report? Isn't that silly and superfluous?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (aW5/6)

473 John Podhoretz

Once again, as we read this, we should be aware that while the Deep State exists, it is full of morons.

This is exactly how I read this, and have always thought. I never would have thought the intel leaders were this bad though.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (fceHP)

474 This IG report was sooooooo worth the months of delay.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (pw+jk)

But ... it was. It absolutely, positively was - to the right people. This report is all about Preserving the FBI As Is.

You just got 500 of the most beautiful pages of obfuscation and misdirection the FBI could produce.
Oh ... Sure ... some will go through every page, hold up every shred of wrong-doing, and shout "See !!! See !!!".

Doesn't matter. Not the point. Never was. Because here's the point - the point that many of you know but don't want to say ... and others would rather die than acknowledge.

This doesn't have a fucking thing to do with Law and Order. This is all about Public Opinion. And that's all it ever was.

No Court was ever going to stick its own neck out and bust down the FBI without some external prompting. And only Massive Public Outrage was going to fuel that. So what did this report just do ?

First - chilled that Outrage by putting almost two years between the events and the report. Second - turned any remaining Outrage into Confusion.

So - go ahead Justice Seekers. Go through every one of those pages. Find all the evidence you want.

Then tell me ... who's going to do anything about it ? Not the FBI. They're going to do some training. Not the DOJ. They helped come up with the training.

But look on the bright side ... you still got Order.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (fiGNd)

475 454 Sarah Sanders is a saint. I would have turned a flamethrower on the whole press corp(se) and walked out.

What a bunch of circus clowns.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (ptqGC)

She's a daycare worker, in essence.

They are toddlers with bad attitudes.

She treats them accordingly.

And yes, it is glorious.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (7UW64)

476 I had to get off the 'puter because of a really violent thunderstorm. Hate those things.

Been watching the presser. Jim Acosta was awful, but the angry blonde who immediately followed him, and then the shabby, angry guy were unbelievable.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (ptqGC)

477 I don't know who that guy was who just wet his pants, but SHS dealt with him perfectly.

It is, in fact, glorious.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:19 PM (fuK7c)
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Yeah, they don't have any agenda or not part of the Dem propaganda machine.

Posted by: WisRich at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (G0vdT)

478 Anyone watching this press conference? I would pay to watch Sarah actually spank a few of these reporters, they act like a bunch of children.
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (pHfeF)

Was that Acosta who stood up without being called and proceeded to totally lose his shit?

I fully expected him to fall to the floor and writhe about screaming in a full-on toddler tantrum.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (953wK)

479 Robbing that liquor store is totally legal as long as you completely forget that you did it immediately afterwards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (BRvh1)

480 This thing was not the finish line. It was the starter's gun.

And this ain't gonna be a sprint, I'm afraid.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (953wK)

Yup. I also thinks this gives PDT the ammo to tell mueller no interview, unless 100% on my terms, and go fuck yourself and friing him if he pushes it. I see civil war a coming

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (m8J9w)

481 I would love to see Sarah H Sanders' thought bubbles as she conducts this press conference.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (rhdgT)

482 This is an example -- I'm going to continue my theme
of really deep thinking in this thread -- about how much hawter smarts
make a girl.

Sarah's kind of a middle of the road, could go either way girl. But she kicks ass.

Ass kicking is so hawt.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (fuK7c)

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+1. She's a one anyway, but she also manages to constantly get hotter.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (VgKNm)

483 Been watching the presser. Jim Acosta was awful, but
the angry blonde who immediately followed him, and then the shabby,
angry guy were unbelievable.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (ptqGC)
They are giving hobos press credentials now?

Posted by: IC at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (a0IVu)

484 Lachlan Markay @lachlan

Sarah Sanders defends the Trump Foundation: "The foundation raised $18 million and gave nearly $19 million to charity while having virtually zero in expenses."

As it happens, that's basically the exact defense offered by supporters of the Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:23 PM (fceHP)

485 At my desk in Hospital...did acosta loose it in presser?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 14, 2018 03:23 PM (m8J9w)

486 Does anyone else understand that the completely different treatments of the two "investigations" is the documentary evidence. 100% of the time they broke with FBI policy to favor The Bollard Queen and 100% of the time the broke FBI policy crush PDT. Politics is their policy.

That is the documentary evidence. The IG hiding behind the fact that no one wrote in an email saying " Let's fuck Trump". Or "I will stop him". Oh wait they did that.

WTF Hey Tom Sawyer , I got a job for you.

How can they lay out the facts and then say yep, don't see it? THIS IS A HUGE LIE.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2018 03:23 PM (ymnmz)

487 In draining the swamp, it is necessary to skim the surface...and that is where you find the scum.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2018 03:23 PM (0tfLf)

488 Anyone who previously predicted the IG report would be significantly damaging want to concede it did not live up to expectations? Anyone?

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 14, 2018 03:23 PM (/H5Dl)

489 Also you're welcome for the new thread since that's apparently my superpower now. Some people get flight, some people get invisibility, some get telekinesis. I get "50-50 chance of summoning new threads just by posting."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (VgKNm)

490 464 Why not wait and let them MSM and others paint
themselves into a corner on the record and then release it. Why the
rush? Patience is a virtue when your enemy is making mistakes and
continue to cover up crimes and getting caught.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (TA9CI)

Because this isn't a fucking game.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (UBzPO)

Yup, the damage being done to the Electorates faith in the Rule of Law, and Equal Application of said Law, is being severely damaged.

Which is a MUCH larger issue, than the FBIs reputation being diminished by its own actions...

or.... who is more popular right now.

Posted by: Don Q at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (NgKpN)

491 nood

Posted by: IC at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (a0IVu)

492 Strzok wrote: For me, and this case, I personally have a sense of unfinished business. I unleashed it with MYE. Now I need to fix it and finish it. Later in the same exchange, Strzok, apparently while weighing his career options, made this comparison: Who gives a fuck, one more A[ssistant] D[irector]...[versus] [a]n investigation leading to impeachment?

Posted by: motionview at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (pYQR/)

493 Was that Acosta who stood up without being called and proceeded to totally lose his shit?

I fully expected him to fall to the floor and writhe about screaming in a full-on toddler tantrum.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:22 PM (953wK)

No, Acosta is the prim, well-coiffed douche who was sitting.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (ptqGC)

494

hmmm, Sarah Sanders with tears in her eyes when they asked if she was leaving.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (fceHP)

495 How do you guys copy and paste from other sources without Pixy giving you the red-text screen of death???

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (jjaLl)

496
Now that this small bother is over, I can concentrate on my 2020 campaign....

Winning!!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (mPeei)

497 382 According to the IG, Comey claimed that he didn't know Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were married when he was told about the 347,000 Clinton-related e-mails discovered on Weiner's laptop in September 2016

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the most incurious man in the world forgot to ask "How the FUCK did the get THERE???"

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (PNcou)

498 "This is an example -- I'm going to continue my theme
of really deep thinking in this thread -- about how much hawter smarts make a girl.

Sarah's kind of a middle of the road, could go either way girl. But she kicks ass.

Ass kicking is so hawt.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:11 PM (fuK7c)"

Yup. That is why I like when Sara Carter is on Fox. Especially when they show her from profile and she is in a tight blouse....

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (OD2ni)

499 SHS is do unhappy. Always frowning. Or is that just her belly button?

Posted by: The Jabberwock at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (2DZ7/)

500 Good find on the OPR referral, JackStraw.

I'm wondering if there would be anything substantive and legally significant, vs. mere violations of internal guidelines, in all that.

Nothing - nothing - will or should satisfy any serious person about his until the substantive issue is addressed: why were massive, undeniable, systematic, ipso facto Espionage Act violations *not* prosecuted?

Everything else, as bad as some of it is, is secondary.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (QDnY+)

501

This guy... lol

https://twitter.com/dbongino/with_replies

Bongino is awesome.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (fceHP)

502 weird that that Bloomberg report quoted the language that merely said the OIG could find no "documentary evidence" of bias on the part of Strzok, while missing the earlier statement that the OIG is in fact unconvinced that there was no bias here.

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (PA9oZ)

Given what documentary evidence they do have, I wonder what is enough.

Maybe a Strzok text saying "I admit I am biased against Trump and will do whatever necessary even if illegal to make sure he does not become president or if he does, that he is impeached based on a falsified FISA warrant and fake evidence."

Would that do it?

Posted by: LASue at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (Z48ZB)

503 The 2 pm CDT ABC Radio news actually led with how the FBI done f'ed up. (Not that exact phrase, but it was surprisingly harsh and didn't follow with any "buts").

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (953wK)

504 >>488
Anyone who previously predicted the IG report would be significantly
damaging want to concede it did not live up to expectations? Anyone?

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp

The goal posts have already been moved. We must have moar patience damnit.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (r9UYA)

505 Anyone who previously predicted the IG report would be significantly damaging want to concede it did not live up to expectations? Anyone?

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

This isn't the only IG report that will come out but yeah this one seems to be a shit sandwich. We see lots of political bias, but what we wanted to see was this political bias was the catalyst for blatantly illegal actions and hence having the need for criminal referrals. Instead it's just a "concern" for a lack of professional conduct.

Big fucking deal.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (+dsLj)

506 There is a nood.

It's garrett's responsibility to have called the nood.

You never know how this time machine works, but if this is your first nood blame garrett.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (fuK7c)

507 But look on the bright side ... you still got Order.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 03:21 PM (fiGNd)

You know, I was banging on in similar direction a thread or two ago.

The solution to this mess is never going to be "Legal". It won't be investigations and memoranda that bring the bastards to heel. It will be a swing in public opinion and a handful of strongmen (Trump?) riding roughshod over "The System" for as long as they have the public good will at their backs.

Or, if we wait long enough, torches and pitchforks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (BRvh1)

508 490 464 Why not wait and let them MSM and others paint
themselves into a corner on the record and then release it. Why the
rush? Patience is a virtue when your enemy is making mistakes and
continue to cover up crimes and getting caught.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:10 PM (TA9CI)

Because this isn't a fucking game.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:20 PM (UBzPO)

Yup, the damage being done to the Electorates faith in the Rule of Law, and Equal Application of said Law, is being severely damaged.

Which is a MUCH larger issue, than the FBIs reputation being diminished by its own actions...

or.... who is more popular right now.
Posted by: Don Q at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (NgKpN)

This is not a game. It's a propaganda war to win the minds of The People away from The Deep State which has owned them since the end of WWII. Rushing things doesn't help.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (TA9CI)

509 No, Acosta is the prim, well-coiffed douche who was sitting.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 14, 2018 03:24 PM (ptqGC)

They all look alike to me.

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (953wK)

510 436 410 News flash: Jim Acosta is being a douchebag again.

Posted by: mpfs, The road to Hell is paved with Hillary's pant suits at June 14, 2018 03:15 PM (79p/O)

How is this news?
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2018 03:17 PM (7UW64)

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that implies that he stopped at some point

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (PNcou)

511
FBI Employee. All the people who were initially voting for her would not, and were not, swayed by any decision the FBI put out. Trumps supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. They probably didnt watch the debates, arent fully educated on his policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm.

Posted by: motionview at June 14, 2018 03:27 PM (pYQR/)

512 It's all for the children! You have children don't you?

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 03:27 PM (pHfeF)

513
Sarah Sanders defends the Trump Foundation: "The foundation
raised $18 million and gave nearly $19 million to charity while having
virtually zero in expenses."

As it happens, that's basically the exact defense offered by supporters of the Clinton Foundation.

They've paid out more than they've taken in? To whom?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 14, 2018 03:27 PM (oVJmc)

514 Or, if we wait long enough, torches and pitchforks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (BRvh1)

Just stop. My reputation is already ruined - talking about shit like that.

No reason for you to ruin yours too.

*fistbump*

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 14, 2018 03:27 PM (fiGNd)

515 Put the Page-Strozk and damning "FBI Attorney 1" (and other unnamed FBI employees messaging) in context with Comey's communications with the IC community starting on report page 346 (pdf page 375).
The quote from the USIC (US Intelligence Community) dated Oct. 6, 2016, which all but names Trump and the Republican Party, and Comey's response (report page 347 pdf page 376) gives a good read on where things were heading.

Posted by: mrp at June 14, 2018 03:27 PM (Pqytn)

516 >>'m wondering if there would be anything substantive and legally significant, vs. mere violations of internal guidelines, in all that.

McCabe was referred to the OPR and then fired. Then a criminal referral. Probably the same pattern here.

But those who keep insisting nothing has happened or is happening don't seem to think that a criminal referral against the Deputy Director of the FBI is anything.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 03:28 PM (/tuJf)

517 So from the comments I surmise that there will not be midnight house raids and leg irons. I'm bummed. But not surprised.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 14, 2018 03:28 PM (2CQCl)

518 Can we call Horowitz the "wanker"?

Posted by: MAGA at June 14, 2018 03:28 PM (w9XQw)

519 good god. pg 74

one of the emails, including those that were found to contain classified information, included a header or footer with classification markings. As we discuss further in Chapter Seven, this absence of clear classification markings played a significant role in the decision by the Midyear prosecutors to recommend to Attorney General Lynch in July 2016 that the investigation should be closed without prosecution. According to the LHM, the FBI, with the assistance of other USIC agencies, identified "81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton's personal server." In other words, the USIC agencies determined that these 81 email chains, although not marked classified, contained information classified at the time the emails were sent and should have been so marked. Twelve of the 81 classified email chains were not among the 30,490 that Clinton's lawyers had produced to the State Department, and these were all classified at the Secret or Confidential levels. Seven of the 81 email chains contained information associated with a Special Access Program "SAP", which witnesses told us is considered particularly sensitive. The emails containing Top Secret and SAP information were included in the 30,490 provided to the State Department.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 14, 2018 03:28 PM (Bdeb0)

520 If Comey is a boy scout I must be a saint

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2018 03:28 PM (pHfeF)

521 Giving 'gifts' is bribery if an agent ever leaks back to the giver. It's still criminal to take the gift.

Posted by: torabora at June 14, 2018 03:29 PM (Y274z)

522 Maybe a Strzok text saying "I admit I am biased
against Trump and will do whatever necessary even if illegal to make
sure he does not become president or if he does, that he is impeached
based on a falsified FISA warrant and fake evidence."

Would that do it?

Posted by: LASue at June 14, 2018 03:25 PM (Z48ZB)

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Still no intent, so not enough.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 14, 2018 03:30 PM (pw+jk)

523 (479) Forget what?

Posted by: Burger Chef at June 14, 2018 03:30 PM (RuIsu)

524 i need strong cawfee to handle any of this. luego.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 14, 2018 03:32 PM (2CQCl)

525 519 good god. pg 74

one of the emails, including those that were found to contain classified information, included a header or footer with classification markings. As we discuss further in Chapter Seven, this absence of clear classification markings played a significant role in the decision by the Midyear prosecutors to recommend to Attorney General Lynch in July 2016 that the investigation should be closed without prosecution. According to the LHM, the FBI, with the assistance of other USIC agencies, identified "81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton's personal server." In other words, the USIC agencies determined that these 81 email chains, although not marked classified, contained information classified at the time the emails were sent and should have been so marked. Twelve of the 81 classified email chains were not among the 30,490 that Clinton's lawyers had produced to the State Department, and these were all classified at the Secret or Confidential levels. Seven of the 81 email chains contained information associated with a Special Access Program "SAP", which witnesses told us is considered particularly sensitive. The emails containing Top Secret and SAP information were included in the 30,490 provided to the State Department.
Posted by: wrg500

Every single person involved in this -- both the people on Team Hillary who committed the security breach, as wel as the Fed agents who purposely looked the other way in order to influence an election -- need to be in jail this instant and stayed there until the rats have cleaned their bones.

Posted by: zombie at June 14, 2018 03:35 PM (c+2jX)

526 McCabe was referred to the OPR and then fired. Then a criminal referral. Probably the same pattern here.

But those who keep insisting nothing has happened or is happening don't seem to think that a criminal referral against the Deputy Director of the FBI is anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2018 03:28 PM (/tuJf)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a Federal District Attorney (should one exist who was running a parallel investigation) would not necessarily require a referral from the OPR to bring an indictment of a DOJ employee, would he or she?

Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2018 03:35 PM (953wK)

527 Let's see. Someone on Clinton's staff deliberately bridges the air gap between classified and unclassified systems, strips classification markings from the bridged documents and both the FBI and the IG say:

"Oh well! Shit happens!"

AYFKM????

Even better, they find evidence 'foreign actors' accessed that classified and are completely unconcerned. Papadopolus mumbles about dirt on Hillary and its a full on CI investigation; they go whistling past a real and discovered intel op on the SecState.

Holy shit. Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the earth. Bounce the rubble as needed.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at June 14, 2018 03:37 PM (O9qtX)

528 Everyone avoids mentioning this but with embedded spies in place Mueller should've had a treasure trove of data available instantly.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 14, 2018 03:16 PM (y7DUB)
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There is no evidence the DoJ or FBI spied on the Trump campaign. Trump is just saying this to undermine faith in our law enforcers, and provide himself cover against their accusations of wrongdoing.

If you believe differently your just a tribalist! and a danger to America.

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at June 14, 2018 03:39 PM (AzW6q)

529 Will stop him? You mean like a cattle futures buy-stop order at $100,000?

Posted by: ShainS at June 14, 2018 03:39 PM (80hY5)

530 488
Anyone who previously predicted the IG report would be significantly
damaging want to concede it did not live up to expectations? Anyone?

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 14, 2018 03:23 PM (/H5Dl)

You're supposed to read between the lines and use your imagination for all the things it didn't say.
Exactly what we predicted.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:40 PM (UBzPO)

531 I don't know that I knew I was the FBI director.

Posted by: J. Comey, sooper jeenyus at June 14, 2018 03:41 PM (fq72/)

532 We just need to have patience and let the process play out until the Democrats are in control again.

Yea that's the ticket

Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at June 14, 2018 03:41 PM (czkHE)

533 Unless you kill the swamp they are just going to keep creeping back, they have no shame. Perfect example, the CPH Climate Summit, all those leaked emails showing what a scam Global warming was. No shame, they admitted nothing and still insisting the their fake data is real and now called Climate Change. Face it our government is corrupt beyond our comprehension. I think we are only scratching the surface. There needs to be a total cleansing. Our institutions are shyt. Unless there is massive change, arrests, prosecutions of these sell outs the country is lost and should be split up. Sorry, it's the truth.

Posted by: SoonmyAss at June 14, 2018 03:42 PM (AzZAE)

534 This is not a game. It's a propaganda war to win the
minds of The People away from The Deep State which has owned them since
the end of WWII. Rushing things doesn't help.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (TA9CI)

Dragging it out for 5 years is what doesn't help.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:43 PM (UBzPO)

535
If you believe differently your just a tribalist! and a danger to America.

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at June 14, 2018 03:39 PM (AzW6q)

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The JournOList meme-du-jour is cultist; get with the program, comrade!

Posted by: ShainS at June 14, 2018 03:43 PM (80hY5)

536 Other witnesses told the OIG that Comey included thiscriticism to avoid creating the appearance that the FBIwas letting [Clinton] off the hook, as well as tomessag[e] the decision to the FBI workforce toemphasize that employees would be disciplined forsimilar conduct and to distinguish the Clintoninvestigation from the cases of other public figures whohad been prosecuted for mishandling violationsto distinguish the Clinton investigation from other investigations in which the suspect did not have financial conflict of interest issues with Comey or McCabe.I do wonder if the OIG report address these CFR violations on Comey's or McCabe's part...

Posted by: Grad School Fool at June 14, 2018 03:44 PM (swEzU)

537 wtf??? formatting

Posted by: Grad School Fool at June 14, 2018 03:44 PM (swEzU)

538 At their sentencing, Senator Warren and Inspector Comey should be given an atomic wedgies as punishment.

Posted by: SoonmyAss at June 14, 2018 03:46 PM (AzZAE)

539 Chapter 13 deals with McCabe conflict of interest>We agreed with Kelley, the FBIs chief ethics official, that McCabe was not at any time required to recuse from the Clinton-related investigations under the relevant authorities. However, following the October 23 WSJ article and discussions with Comey, McCabe recused from the Clinton-related investigations on November 1, 2016. Once McCabe recused himself, he was required to cease participation in those matters. Voluntary recusal is always permissible with the approval of a supervisor or ethics official, even where the elements in section 502a are not present. We found that McCabe did not fully comply with his recusal in a few instances related to the Clinton Foundation investigation.
I see nothing about Comey's HSBC conflict of interest
and goddamn pixy

Posted by: Grad School Fool at June 14, 2018 03:53 PM (swEzU)

540 I am going to rob a bank. And if caught, I am going to tell the authorities that I did not know that the money belonged to other people.

Posted by: Soona at June 14, 2018 03:58 PM (Fs5vw)

541 I am going to rob a bank. And if caught, I am going to tell the authorities that I did not know that the money belonged to other people.
Posted by: Soona at June 14, 2018 03:58 PM (Fs5vw)

Excellent! The old George Costanza defense.
"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? If I knew that that sort of thing was frowned upon.."

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 14, 2018 04:11 PM (9BLnV)

542 534 This is not a game. It's a propaganda war to win the
minds of The People away from The Deep State which has owned them since
the end of WWII. Rushing things doesn't help.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 03:26 PM (TA9CI)

Dragging it out for 5 years is what doesn't help.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 14, 2018 03:43 PM (UBzPO)

Trump is been in office for 18 months. That's 3.5 years short of 5 years. Things are moving forward. You have to be blind not to see this and see how this IG report hurts the credibility of the Deep State.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 14, 2018 04:22 PM (TA9CI)

543 To keep some things in perspective, I really want to be seeing some special interest posts/items on examples in the past where the FBI came down on various nobodies like a ton of bricks and ruined their lives over relatively minor / chickenshit infractions.

Posted by: McInTx (formerly (T)expat - West Africa Time at June 14, 2018 04:29 PM (/vgwe)

544
good point

Posted by: ace at June 14, 2018 03:09 PM (PA9oZ)

Great! ace's hash has changed again.

I still miss FUNeh!

Posted by: Spun & Murky at June 14, 2018 04:45 PM (4DCSq)

545 The matter of the Justice Department's independence is
particularly salient right now given that, according to multiple
reports, at least two current FBI employees held over from the
Obama administration and possibly several other FBI associates are
currently under federal investigation for improper activities as relates to long-standing DOJ policy.

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at June 14, 2018 04:50 PM (e8kgV)

546 These texts - and not just the Strzok/Page texts - are damning.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 05:20 PM (W+vEI)

547 In chat with an FBI agent freaking out about Trump election:

https://twitter.com/AmandaLeeHouse/status/1007367988792778755

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 05:23 PM (W+vEI)

548 >>"81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton's personal server."

The worst part is this still never addresses WHY Hillary was using the personal email server and passing around classified docs - some she was not authorized to even read - like freakin' party favors. Was she selling this information? Was she passing it to others to sue for their personal business/gain, which then resulted in a kick-back to the foundation? Was she illegally running a shadow intelligence operation?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 14, 2018 05:27 PM (W+vEI)

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