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Justice Dept. IG report released on FBI's handling of Clinton email case; Comey found 'insubordinate'

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Thursday released his long-awaited report detailing his review of the FBI and DOJ’s Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 presidential election, finding then-FBI Director James Comey to be “insubordinate” with his public statements on the investigation.

For more than a year, Horowitz has been reviewing the agencies’ actions related to its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Horowitz’s investigation looked at a variety of allegations, including whether it was improper for Comey to make a public announcement about not recommending prosecution over the Clinton email arrangement.


"We found that it was extraordinary and insubordinate for Comey to conceal his intentions from his superiors, the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, for the admitted purpose of preventing them from telling him not to make the statement, and to instruct his subordinates in the FBI to do the same," Horowitz’s report says.

Newly discovered texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page also play a key role in the findings.

“In particular, we were concerned about text messages exchanged by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Special Counsel to the Deputy Director, that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations,” the report says.

According to the report, Strzok texted Page in August 2016 that “we’ll stop” Donald Trump from becoming president.

“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok.

“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.

Horowitz's review months ago revealed other anti-Trump texts between the two officials, who were romantically involved. The "stop" Trump text goes further, and is likely to fuel claims from the White House that the bureau was working against him.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said in a statement the report shows “an alarming and destructive level of animus displayed by top officials at the FBI.”

Other Republican lawmakers pounced on the new text.

“In Louisiana, we call that bias, we don't call that objective,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime” on Thursday.

Strzok had been assigned to Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe, but has since been reassigned. Page later resigned.

The final report could lead to repercussions for some in the DOJ and FBI.

In an interview with The Hill’s new web show “Rising” on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the option of “termination” is on the table for those accused of serious wrongdoing. Some of the key figures, though, have already been fired or left the government.

The release of the report itself has been delayed for weeks, as the department and FBI have carefully reviewed a draft copy to identify information they want protected from disclosure.

A related review already has put former top FBI official Andrew McCabe in legal jeopardy. The Justice Department’s internal watchdog sent a criminal referral for McCabe in April to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington. That was in response to Horowitz’s finding that McCabe leaked information to the press and later lied about it to Comey and federal investigators, prompting Sessions to fire him in March. The Washington Post reported that Comey has since been questioned by the U.S. attorney’s office as part of a McCabe investigation.

In November, Horowitz said his team had interviewed dozens of people and reviewed thousands of records in the course of its investigation. He said his team was looking at whether “certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/...ubordinate.html

The Justice Department's internal watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey's actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation deviated from the department's norms but that Comey was not motivated by political bias, according to two sources familiar with the report.

The inspector general released a sweeping report Thursday detailing a series of failures by the top federal officials in charge of the investigation ahead of the election, including how Clinton handled classified information while secretary of state.
The report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that the prosecutorial decisions in the Clinton case were "consistent" and not affected by bias or other improper actions. But it said that senior leaders' handling of the Clinton case cast a cloud over the bureau and did lasting damage to the FBI's reputation.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/14/politics/ig-report-clinton-email-investigation/index.html

so in other words, another dead conspiracy by the GOP.

Reads to me like the opening salvo of evidence in America's first coup attempt.

“In particular, we were concerned about text messages exchanged by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Special Counsel to the Deputy Director, that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations,” the report says.

According to the report, Strzok texted Page in August 2016 that “we’ll stop” Donald Trump from becoming president.

“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok.

“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.

Once again it sounds like both sides screwed up as usual

two underlings who were summarily fired as soon as their impropreties were discovered.

So... keep chewing on that nothing burger, son.

0 calories
0 nutrition
Junk food for consumers who don't read labels.

Can you imagine all the dirt that the FBI must have collected on DJT even before he started any of his campaigns? Knowing what they know about him and hoping he didn't become POTUS wasn't political, it was just the right patriotic thing to do.

Ex-Senate aide James Wolfe turns himself in over 'FBI leaks'

A former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee has turned himself in to the FBI as part of an investigation into government leaks.

James A Wolfe, 58, had served for almost 30 years as the committee's director of security. He is now charged with lying to the FBI.

Mr Wolfe was entrusted with top secret information during his tenure, but he has not been charged for any leaks.

He lied to the FBI about contacts with three reporters, prosecutors say.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44444139

They sure as heck better after SPYING, millions of documents, hundreds of witnesses, 20 MILLION PLUS dollars and over 18 months.

Not to mention the LIES and cover ups the left did.

Well the rest of our government has higher standards than you about how America works as both parties are up in arms...

Lawmakers accuse FBI of 'destructive level of animus' following release of IG report

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle slammed former FBI Director James Comey and other agency personnel on Thursday after Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a long awaited report on the FBI and DOJ’s Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 presidential election.

Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina issued arguably the most vociferous statement of the day, saying that he was “alarmed, angered, and deeply disappointed by the Inspector General's finding of numerous failures by DOJ and FBI” and noted that the report showed “an alarming and destructive level of animus displayed by top officials at the FBI.”

Gowdy, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, added that “the treatment afforded to former Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton and other potential subjects and targets was starkly different from the FBI's investigation into Trump campaign officials.”


Sessions warns IG report on Clinton email case could lead to more firings
The Justice Department report, which was a stinging rebuke of the FBI for its handling of the Clinton email investigation, called Comey “insubordinate” and said his actions were “extraordinary.” The report, however, did not find that Comey’s actions were motivated by any political bias or preference.

The report made no recommendation of leveling any charges against Comey, but it gave both Democrats and Republicans plenty of ammunition to criticize him and the FBI.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois blamed Comey and others in the FBI for hindering Clinton’s presidential bid and, in turn, aiding the campaign of President Trump.

“This report makes clear that FBI Director Comey and FBI personnel failed to follow the rules, and in doing so, hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign and helped Donald Trump’s,” the Senate minority whip said in a statement.

Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the report showed that "there were serious errors of judgement made."

"Those errors of judgement were not made owing to political bias, but nonetheless they were serious mistakes and those mistakes had the effect of helping the Trump campaign," Schiff added. "None of this reflects on the Special Counsel’s work and we are determined to make sure that work goes on unimpeded."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer added that Comey had made "an error of judgement, but not an error of credibility" in response to claims that the former FBI director could be an unreliable witness in Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Republican lawmakers took a different approach even as they also went after Comey and the FBI – claiming that, despite the report’s findings, the Clinton email investigation was determined to find the former secretary of state innocent.

“Director James Comey blatantly broke protocol on numerous occasions, to the point of what the report calls ‘insubordination,’” North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows said in a statement. “It is clear his department resolved to determine Secretary Clinton’s innocence well before the investigation was even close to complete—and before an interview with Secretary Clinton even occurred.”

Republicans also heavily criticized FBI agent Peter Strzok, who in an August 2016 text exchange with FBI lawyer Lisa Page said that “we’ll stop” Donald Trump from becoming president.

The report stated that investigators "did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected [the Clinton email investigation]," but added that “we were concerned about text messages exchanged by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Special Counsel to the Deputy Director, that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations.”

Republicans jumped on the texts between Strzok and Page even before the report was released.

“In Louisiana, we call that bias, we don't call that objective,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime” on Thursday.

North Carolina’s Meadows, quoting from the report itself, said in his statement later in the day that Strzok “displayed such a stunning level of political bias against candidate Donald Trump that IG Horowitz called Strzok’s conduct ‘antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice.’”

The final report could lead to repercussions for some in the DOJ and FBI.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement that the report “reveals a number of significant errors by the senior leadership of the Department of Justice and the FBI during the previous administration.”

Speaking at the White House press briefing on Thursday, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that President Trump “was briefed on the IG report earlier today and it reaffirmed the president’s suspicions of Comey’s conduct.”

The release of the report itself was delayed for weeks, as the department and FBI carefully reviewed a draft copy to identify information they want protected from disclosure.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/...-ig-report.html

TL/DNR

You wasted your time.
Time you'll never get back.
Time I didn't squander.

"Shorter of breath... and one day closer to Death."

YAAAAAAWN.

Snap out of it already!

Go out the yard for fresh air and walk like an Egyptian or something!

Spent a fine day working my property, educating (indocrinating) the next gen... and fixing a 4-star meal with my lovely wife.

I walk upright.
I'll gladly give you lessons, so your knuckles have a chance to heal.

wanna know how this report was a massive dud?

lack of responses in this thread, lack of trash talk coming from the GOP, lack of massive tweet storms coming from the president, and lack of outrage amongst trump supporters on social media.

another tried and failed conspiracy by the right.

so lets recap:

birther movement - fail
jade helm - fail
pizzagate - fail
benghazi - fail
emails - fail
FISA court - fail
obama wiretaps - fail
uranium one - fail
political bias from comey - fail
spygate- fail

at this point, im waiting on my boys Willit, 40, and vambo to bring back the 9/11 truther movement.

Dawg, that's why I'm barely around, any more.

I was here for the first snoozefests they tried to sponsor.
Every single issue raised a whole flocka nuttin.'

This forum reminds of some bathroom graffiti I read when I was 12, back at Farout Park in my childhood town:

"Some folks come to sit and think.
Others come to s it and stink.
I come here to scratch my balls-
-and read the BS on the walls."

Well like I posted above, the entire government, both parties, thinks you guys are sleep walking as they are up in arms over this.

both parties stay outraged over something. whats new?

FBI employee crudely slams Trump voters as 'all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS,' IG report says

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/...eport-says.html

An unidentified FBI employee described Trump voters as "uneducated" and "lazy POS" the day after the 2016 presidential election, according to the Justice Department watchdog's bombshell report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation...

Yea, I was just reading this. Man o Man, when it rains it pours!

You know, there are a lot of great and dedicated guys and gals in the FBI but their leadership has really embarrassed them all.

I have never in my life seen so many emotionally compromised people in America. TDS is real.

It's a shame that the standard playbook of calling people racists/bigots/etc, misrepresenting opposing positions, and falsely assigning motives to others employed by the more liberal progressive types on the forums chased away all the High Class play.

Frankly, in spite of the self proclaimed intellects on these Boards, there really isn't much put out by liberal posters that has much in the way of intellectual value either. It's hard to have an exchange of ideas when one side isn't actually interested in an exchange of ideas.

So yes Clem, what you have left is bathroom graffiti. The only difference between Left and Right is as you said in another thread: liberals spell better.

BTW, my 2 favorite pieces of graffiti I've come across in real life:

2) (written on the toilet seat of a construction site portajohn) "Lift lid for free chili"

1) (Written next to a condom machine in a bar bathroom) "For refund, take baby to the bar"

Let's hope and pray that the outrage and concern expressed over this - is matched equally when the "exploits" or rather the real life crimes that members of Trump's campaign are found guilty of.

What's ironic - there is more than a strong possibility that Comey helped win Trump the election with his actions. As he has explained - and I believe him - he was faced with a situation where there was no good choices. . . . and he believed as most did that that Clinton was going to win the election, without going public (which is what he is getting criticized for) he believed he would de-legitimize her presidency when all this became public after the election . . . but what he ended up doing was tipping the election her way.

j/c

BO told us that he found out about Hillary's espionage at the same time we did...through the news stories. Well...he sent her emails using an alias to her clintonemail account. So...he's either ignorant or a liar.

Why did he use an alias? Why did he knowingly email her using a non-secure server? Who else did he email using an alias? Why did he so boldly lie to us?

If you came away thinking this investigation is 'much ado about nothing' after reading the IG release, you cannot be reasoned with on this matter. This whole thing is disgusting.

You don't subscribe to the theory that Trump is actually the first Coup?

I'm in shock

By the way 40, did you read all 500+ pages of the report or are you just taking the tiny view from FOX or Brietbart or Alex Jones at Infowars?

receipts, please.

Think of this like Algebra: show you work, or you get zero credit for your test answers.

No, I am not finished reading them yet.

But here is what I know so far...

Peter Strzok not Only Wanted To Stop the Trump Campaign, But Got On Mueller's Probe Because He Wanted To Impeach Trump.

From his texts, he lost interest because in his own words, "There is no there there."

Yeah the entire FBI is corrupt... lock em all up and let Trump have his dictatorship. Crazy crap going on in your GOP world. I'll just say Zig Heil! Enjoy!

No, the FBI is good. It is the leadership that is corrupt.

Hitler would most certainly approve of what they have done.

How about COMIE didn't have any Idea that UMA was married to A. WEINER. during the Clinton Non-investigation LMAO

No bias ??? And yet he contradicts his own conclusions.

..."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."

"Under these circumstances, we did not have confidence that Strzok's decision to prioritize the Russian investigation over following up on the midyear-related [Hillary e-mail] investigation lead discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias."

Why does the report redact the names of some of the conspiracy minded participants at the FBI, with numbers? This is not transparency.

"I'm clinging to small pockets of happiness in the dark time of the Republic's destruction."

This is deep state globalism rhetoric.

But move along goyim, there is nothing here to see. Good grief!

Everything is part of the deepstate if it doesn’t go the way you want.

That’s snowflake behavior.

move along goyim

Let me know if you finally get down to who shot Tupac.

If you want to know what a goyim is, go to the bathroom, gaze in the mirror.

Tupac is beer that comes in 2 bottles, right?

I never asked what a goyim is, not do I care.

Me neither but I figure you gotta be one.

goyim?

Hava Nagila?

Rocky, calm yourself, we ain't allowed to curse on these boards!

English translation: Goyim < 'Cattle', a reference given to 'the people', who are not the Roman Catholic Church magisterium, or the Oligarchy.

"Just an ordinary average guy" ... S.W