I would fully expect to see an "unredacted" version of the report, as the job of the Inspector General is not to give away company secrets. If there is heavy redaction, I might expect some real serious push back from most everyone.
Jeff Sessions has suggested that he is waiting to see the report, and won't hesitate to use the contents to clean more house in the FBI. I guess we will know (sometime today) if such action will be necessary.
UPDATE: The report is said to be approximately 500 pages, and portions of it are being leaked to a variety of sources. So far nothing unexpected or earth shattering has been reported. That being said, it will probably take some time for all 500 pages to be parsed.
Two of the objective non-biased FBI agents working the Clinton and Trump cases |
| Page: “(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?" Strzok: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.” |
Here is one portion of the report:
In undertaking our analysis, our task was made significantly more difficult because of text and instant messages exchanged on FBI devices and systems by five FBI employees involved in the Midyear investigation. These messages reflected political opinions in support of former Secretary Clinton and against her then political opponent, Donald Trump. Some of these text messages and instant messages mixed political commentary with discussions about the Midyear investigation, and raised concerns that political bias may have impacted investigative decisions.
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. As we describe in Chapter Twelve of our report, most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation, which was not a part of this review. Nonetheless, the suggestion in certain Russia-related text messages in August 2016 that Strzok might be willing to take official action to impact presidential candidate Trump’s electoral prospects caused us to question the earlier Midyear investigative decisions in which Strzok was involved, and whether he took specific actions in the Midyear investigation based on his political views. As we describe Chapter Five of our report, we found that Strzok was not the sole decisionmaker for any of the specific Midyear investigative decisions we examined in that chapter. We further found evidence that in some instances Strzok and Page advocated for more aggressive investigative measures in the Midyear investigation, such as the use of grand jury subpoenas and search warrants to obtain evidence.Contrary to the reports from the left, the report clearly does not resolve everyone of political bias. It's clear that the I.G. believes politics played a part in some of the decision making, especially as it pertains to the investigation into Russian Collusion (which of course will be in a later report). What is suggested was that there was no "documentary or testimonial evidence" of such political bias directly effecting decisions (which means that nobody wrote it down or admitted to it).
It is also clear that while the actions were not "unreasonable" - this does not mean that the I.G. felt that the actions reflected the best choice available. I think people will look at the facts of the report and come to their own conclusions. It seems obvious to me that many people will come to the conclusion that two plus two does not equal three or five.
129 comments:
I understand that it is 500 pages.
Sessions did hint that further actions similar to the firing of Comey.
Don't expect any changes against Hillary"lock her up" Clinton.
Don't expect any changes against Hillary"lock her up" Clinton.
Did Clinton work for he FBI or DOJ?
This is one reason why things are difficult to work for the President.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Asian powers on Thursday that President Trump was sticking to demands that North Korea surrender its nuclear weapons, as he sought to hold together a fragile consensus on maintaining tough sanctions against the North despite Mr. Trump’s declaration that it was “no longer a nuclear threat.”
At a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Mr. Pompeo softened some of the president’s recent comments — but did not retract them — and insisted that United Nations sanctions would remain in place until North Korea had accomplished “complete denuclearization.”
“We are going to get the complete denuclearization,” Mr. Pompeo told reporters. “Only then will there be relief from sanctions.”
His remarks were intended to reassure the American allies Japan and South Korea and refute reports in North Korea’s state media that the United States had agreed to ease sanctions against the North. They were also a clear appeal for cooperation from Beijing, where Mr. Pompeo was set to visit on Thursday night.
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Mr. Pompeo huddled with the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan in Seoul two days after Mr. Trump met North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore for the first-ever summit meeting between the leaders of their two countries. In a joint statement signed there, Mr. Kim committed to the vague promise of “complete denuclearization” and Mr. Trump promised equally vague security assurances.
The document was glaringly light on details, including when and how North Korea would dismantle its nuclear program and what it would do with its missiles.
North Korean state media on Wednesday reported that Mr. Trump had agreed to lift sanctions when relations improved and that he had endorsed a “step-by-step” denuclearization process, rather than immediate and total dismantlement. Adding to global confusion were comments by Mr. Trump that the world can “sleep well tonight” because “there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.”
President Trump said the United States would end joint military exercises with South Korea, like this one in October. North Korea has long objected to the drills.
President Trump said the United States would end joint military exercises with South Korea, like this one in October. North Korea has long objected to the drills.Ahn Young-Joon/Associated Press
Mr. Pompeo said those remarks were made “eyes wide open.”
Mr. Trump also stunned American allies in the region when he announced Tuesday that he would end joint military exercises with South Korea, calling the war games the allies have conducted for decades “very expensive” and “provocative.”
Secretary of State.
Roger - she wasn't part of the Inspector General's investigation. It was the manner in which her investigation was handled that was being investigated.
It is said it will Lynch, Loretta and Punk Comey.
C.H. TruthJune 14, 2018 at 8:13 AM
Don't expect any changes against Hillary"lock her up" Clinton.
Did Clinton work for he FBI or DOJ?
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Roger AmickJune 14, 2018 at 8:16 AM
Secretary of State"
SueAlky, is such a low educated sissy.
She is unaware of the branches of Government and what this IG Report is about.
SueAlky,
The idiocy continues
Shocking...donnies foundation is a fraud, just like him.....
The New York attorney general has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and three of his children over what she says was "persistently illegal conduct" at the nonprofit Donald J. Trump Foundation, The Washington Post reports. The state's investigation, which stemmed from the Post's 2016 reporting on the charity, found that the Trump family allegedly violated a law that requires tax-exempt foundations to benefit the public good rather than the founders privately. Trump allegedly used the Donald J. Trump Foundation to pay off creditors, settle legal disputes for his businesses, and, in one case, buy a $10,000 portrait of himself.
Nothing will come of this other than sycophants complaining how unfair the press is and that NY AG is biased......
I'm aware of that. That's why I said that.
Again you jump to conclusions based upon your prejudices.,
New York attorney general sues Trump and family over charity, claiming 'illegal conduct' for 'more than a decade'
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued President Donald Trump, three of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, and the Donald J. Trump Foundation charity on Thursday.
Underwood alleges "a pattern of persistent illegal conduct" for more than a decade that included "extensive unlawful political coordination with the Trump presidential campaign."
The AG is seeking $2.8 million in restitution and wants to dissolve the foundation.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.
The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!...
So, the Democrats make up a phony crime, Collusion with the Russians, pay a fortune to make the crime sound real, illegally leak (Comey) classified information so that a Special Councel will be appointed, and then Collude to make this pile of garbage take on life in Fake News!
These include a $100K payment to settle legal claims against Mr. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort, $158K to settle legal claims against Trump National Golf Club, and $10K to purchase a painting of Mr. Trump displayed at the Trump National Doral.
The clintons also live in ny. I wonder why their foundation didnt get sued.
Actually, no i don't wonder. We all know why.
http://www.newsweek.com/child-immigration-detention-center-jail-977179
IMMIGRANT CHILDREN DETENTION CENTER HAS MURAL OF TRUMP, DESCRIBED AS 'JAIL' BY REPORTER WHO TOURED FACILITY.
Soboroff was part of a small group of journalists allowed inside the Casa Padre shelter that houses nearly 1,500 boys from 10- to 17-years-old who, for the most part, cross over the U.S.-Mexico illegally to seek asylum. The childcare facilities are run by the non-profit organization Southwest Key Programs and is contracted with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, an umbrella agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Newsweek reported on Tuesday that the childcare facility Soboroff toured was one of 16 Southwest shelters across the state where Texas inspectors found nearly 150 health violations in the past year. At that specific Casa Padre shelter, a child who tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease was not given medial treatment for two weeks. On June 3, Democratic U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon was denied access to the same shelter just before staff called police on him.
Related: Texas immigrant children shelters had 150 health violations in past year
Soboroff related the inside of the detention center, which was once a Wal-Mart with no windows on the inside, to federal prisons and county jails. He said although the kids are not in cells, they are still incarcerated. A shelter employee asked him and other reporters to smile at hundreds of migrant kids in line for food because “they feel like animals in a cage being looked at.”
It's only young beaners.
It's only now Roger seems to care, jackass
The family detention centers the Obama administration has been operating in Texas and Pennsylvania have been an expedient way to handle the soaring numbers of Central Americans, many of them young children, who have arrived at the Southern border since 2014. They give a sense that Homeland Security has the border situation under control, and they supposedly send a message to other would-be refugees not to come.
But these privately run, unlicensed lockups are no place for children. Or mothers. Their existence belies President Obama’s oft-professed concern for the humane treatment of people fleeing crime and violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
And the centers stand on dubious legal ground. Last year, a district judge ruled that the administration was violating a 1997 court-ordered settlement, called the Flores agreement, that governs the treatment of underage migrants who seek asylum or enter the country illegally. The judge said the children were being held for too long, and ordered the administration to release them as quickly as possible to the care of relatives or other guardians as their cases move through the immigration courts.
The administration appealed, saying that the agreement applied only to children who had crossed the border alone, not those who were accompanied by parents or other adult relatives. On July 6, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit disagreed, upholding the district ruling that Flores covers all children, accompanied or not. But it said the administration could still detain their parents.
Which leaves things pretty much where they were — unsettled, unsatisfactory, unfit for a country that aspires (or once did, anyway) to be an example to the world in its welcome for desperate refugees. The administration hasn’t said whether it will appeal, but it’s hard to imagine that it will use the appeals court ruling to break up families — sending children to foster care, maybe, while continuing to hold their mothers behind bars. On a separate issue not addressed by the Ninth Circuit ruling, plaintiffs have accused the administration of subjecting children to miserable conditions at Border Patrol stations.
If the Obama administration took its principles to heart, it would be closing its family prisons and abandoning its emphasis on border crackdowns in favor of greater efforts to connect Central Americans with pro bono lawyers and to provide family- and community-based alternatives to detention. Much money and effort have been spent to deter and detain them, to speed them through court, to hunt down those who are later found to be deportable.
It would be far better to to score a humanitarian victory by reuniting children and families, especially since data show that Central Americans with asylum claims are far more likely to show up in court — and win their cases — when they have lawyers.
Legislation introduced this month in Congress seeks to attack the problem at its root, with funds for combating human trafficking and resettling refugees within Central America and Mexico. But Congress is unlikely to pass it, which leaves the crisis in the president’s hands. Donald Trump and his Republican Party minions have taken the immigration debate to sickening lows, with disgraceful animus toward Mexicans and Muslims. Mr. Obama has forcefully denounced such nativism. But he can add strength to his words by ensuring greater protection for those who arrived, defenseless, at the Southern border.
Cali, outstanding find.
KDJune 14, 2018 at 11:49 AM
IG Report. TWO HIGH RANKING AGENTS PROMISE TO "STOP TRUMP" from becoming President.
Obama Knew!!!
Cali, outstanding find.
Outstanding that the original fuck up is now worse than evah with kids being taken from their parents and locked up now by Trump,...Seems to me the right never learns from history and only repeats it....Thank god cali found a way to blame Obama!!!! And toss in that congress hasn't done shit in the last 2 years to alleviate the problem is also the Dem's fault.....Gotta love it!!!
What the IG report actually said about the agents...
“We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed,” Horowitz said in the report to be issued Thursday.
The report has been highly anticipated in Washington, not least by President Trump, who has argued that a secret coterie of F.B.I. agents rigged the investigation to help Mrs. Clinton win the presidency. The findings, as described by officials who spoke on condition of anonymity before the report’s release Thursday afternoon, cite no evidence to support that theory.
IOW's the report shows trump is full of shit again and you sycophants will not care.....no surprise there!!!!!
IG Horowitz according to Denise
oPie, Impeachment, how is that coming along?
"It's only now Roger seems to care, jackass
The family detention centers the Obama administration has been operating in Texas and Pennsylvania have been an expedient way to handle the soaring numbers of Central Americans, many of them young children, who have arrived at the Southern border since 2014. They give a sense that Homeland Security has the border situation under control, and they supposedly send a message to other would-be refugees not to come.
But these privately run, unlicensed lockups are no place for children. Or mothers. Their existence belies President Obama’s oft-professed concern for the humane treatment of people fleeing crime and violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
And the centers stand on dubious legal ground. Last year, a district judge ruled that the administration was violating a 1997 court-ordered settlement, called the Flores agreement, that governs the treatment of underage migrants who seek asylum or enter the country illegally. The judge said the children were being held for too long, and ordered the administration to release them as quickly as possible to the care of relatives or other guardians as their cases move through the immigration courts.
The administration appealed, saying that the agreement applied only to children who had crossed the border alone, not those who were accompanied by parents or other adult relatives. On July 6, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit disagreed, upholding the district ruling that Flores covers all children, accompanied or not. But it said the administration could still detain their parents.
Which leaves things pretty much where they were — unsettled, unsatisfactory, unfit for a country that aspires (or once did, anyway) to be an example to the world in its welcome for desperate refugees. The administration hasn’t said whether it will appeal, but it’s hard to imagine that it will use the appeals court ruling to break up families — sending children to foster care, maybe, while continuing to hold their mothers behind bars. On a separate issue not addressed by the Ninth Circuit ruling, plaintiffs have accused the administration of subjecting children to miserable conditions at Border Patrol stations.
If the Obama administration took its principles to heart, it would be closing its family prisons and abandoning its emphasis on border crackdowns in favor of greater efforts to connect Central Americans with pro bono lawyers and to provide family- and community-based alternatives to detention. Much money and effort have been spent to deter and detain them, to speed them through court, to hunt down those who are later found to be deportable.
It would be far better to to score a humanitarian victory by reuniting children and families, especially since data show that Central Americans with asylum claims are far more likely to show up in court — and win their cases — when they have lawyers.
Legislation introduced this month in Congress seeks to attack the problem at its root, with funds for combating human trafficking and resettling refugees within Central America and Mexico. But Congress is unlikely to pass it, which leaves the crisis in the president’s hands. Donald Trump and his Republican Party minions have taken the immigration debate to sickening lows, with disgraceful animus toward Mexicans and Muslims. Mr. Obama has forcefully denounced such nativism. But he can add strength to his words by ensuring greater protection for those who arrived, defenseless, at the Southern border."
Barack Hussein Obama - mmm, mmm, mmm
The Lost Years President knew what AG
Lynch, Comey and Clapper were up to in thier efforts to nullify ever Trump Voter.
Huh
Obama administration officials are rushing to explain photos from 2014 that went viral this weekend showing locked-up immigrant children
"This policy is new, cruel, and unprecedented," Favreau tweeted"
LOL. Liar.
WELL THEN, WHILE YOU ARE WAITING, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS:
New York Files Suit Against Trump
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed suit against President Trump and his three eldest children alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the president’s personal charity, saying Trump “repeatedly misused the nonprofit — to pay off his businesses’ creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion dollar giveaway at his 2016 campaign events,” the Washington Post reports.
“She said a 20-month state investigation found that Trump had repeatedly violated laws that set the ground rules for tax-exempt foundations — most importantly, that their money is meant to serve the public good, and not to provide private benefits to their founders.”
New York Times: “The lawsuit, which seeks to dissolve the foundation and bar President Trump and three of his children from serving on the boards of nonprofits, was an extraordinary rebuke of a sitting president. The attorney general also sent referral letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission for possible further action, adding to Mr. Trump’s extensive legal problems.”
________________
Nothing to worry about, says C. H. Truth:
A US President cannot be indicted for breaking the law.
Trump Salutes North Korean General
North Korean state media released new behind-the-scenes footage of President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un, showing Trump saluting a North Korean General.
___________
Has he also taken an oath of allegiance to N. Korea?
Democratic Women Keep Winning
Molly Ball: “On June 5, the biggest primary day of the year, 42 of the 48 candidates endorsed by Emily’s List, which supports pro-choice Democratic women, prevailed in races up and down the ballot in eight states, from governor to state legislature… The trend shows no signs of abating… The result is that women, many of them new to politics, will be the face of the Democratic Party in the first national election of the Trump era.
“Why are all these women winning in spite of such obstacles? One reason is other women are campaigning, organizing and voting for them… Democratic strategists hope this crop of fresh-faced women will give the party an advantage in November, primarily by providing a contrast to President Trump. Female candidates, they say, will appeal to voters looking for change and be natural messengers for issues, such as health care and education, on which polls show women candidates tend to be more trusted.”
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Also women are quick to spot the biggest male chauvinist pig we have ever had in the White House.
Hey pedophile he isn't doing an apology tour and bowing Moslem autocrats.
Idiot
No reads spam by the pedophile.
I scroll right by it.
Hey, liars. You well know I'm no pedophile.
Also, you know Obama never once apologized:
It's not an apology when you say, "You Europeans
have sometimes been too critical of us, and we
Americans have sometimes been to critical of you,
and that is not helpful."
No, that is called truth-telling, and is one of the
reasons Obama was and remains popular with our allies.
Unlike bull-in-the-China-shop foreign-policy-ignoramus
Trump.
Cohn Says Trade War Could Wipe Out Tax Cut Gains
FORMER TRUMP ECONOMIC ADVISOR Gary Cohn said that an escalating trade war could wipe out the benefits of the Republican tax law passed last fall, the Washington Post reports.
Said Cohn: “If you end up with a tariff battle, you will end up with price inflation, and you could end up with consumer debt. Those are all historic ingredients for an economic slowdown.”
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Trump's tax cut law is already not paying off politically nearly as much a he had hoped. His moronic trade wars will make it even less popular.
Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower
There you go pedophile
"I scroll right by it."
He isn't smart enough to actually debate anything on his own.
"I think people will look at the facts of the report and come to their own conclusions."
So, Gomer Pyle aka Comey is dumb but not biased.
Ok.
the report made clear, "our review did not find evidence to connect the political views expressed in these messages to the specific investigative decisions that we reviewed."
For the past year and a half, the inspector general's office has been looking into an array of allegations that the Justice Department and FBI may have allowed political considerations to poison its investigative decisions in the Clinton-related case and other inquiries.
Most controversial was Comey's July 2016 announcement on national TV that Clinton would not face charges because there was no "clear evidence" that she "intended to violate" the law. But, Comey said, the former secretary of state was "extremely careless" in her "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."
Comey did not consult with the Justice Department at all before making the announcement.
"We found that it was extraordinary and insubordinate for Comey to do so," the inspector general's report released Thursday said. "We concluded that Comey's unilateral announcement was inconsistent with Department policy and violated longstanding Department practice and protocol by, among other things, criticizing Clinton's uncharged conduct."
However, Horowitz said the "judgment calls" made by those investigation Clinton "were not unreasonable," and the ultimate decision not to charge Clinton "was consistent with the Department’s 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."
Sought to obtain evidence whenever possible t hrough consent but also used compulsory process, including grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, and 2703(d) orders (court orders for non-content email information) to obtain various evidence. We found that the prosecutors provided justifications for the preference for consent that were supported by Department and FBI policy and practice; • Conducted voluntary witness interviews to obtain testimony, including from Clinton and her senior aides, and did not require any witnesses t o testify before the grand jury. We found that one of the reasons for not using the grand jury for testimony involved concerns about exposing grand jurors to classified information; • Did not seek to obtain every device, including t hose of Clinton’s senior aides, or the contents of every email account through which a classified email may have traversed. We found t hat the reasons for not doing so were based on limitations the Midyear team imposed on the investigation’s scope, the desire to complete the investigation well before the election, and the belief that the foregone evidence was likely of limited value. We further found that those reasons were, in part, in tension with Comey’s response in October 2016 to the discovery of Clinton emails on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, t he husband of Clinton’s former Deputy Chief of Staff and personal assistant, Huma Abedin; • Considered but did not seek permission from t he Department to review certain highly classified materials that may have included information potentially relevant to the Midyear investigation. The classified appendix to this report describes in more detail the highly classified information, its potential relevance to t he Midyear investigation, the FBI’s reasons for not seeking access to it, and our analysis; • Granted letter use immunity and/or “Queen for a Day” immunity to three witnesses in exchange for their testimony after considering, as provided for in Department policy, the value of t he witness’s testimony, the witness’s relative culpability, and the possibility of a successful prosecution; • Used consent agreements and “act of production” immunity to obtain the culling laptops used by Mills and Samuelson, in part to avoid the uncertainty and delays of a potential motion to quash any subpoenas or search warrants. We found that these decisions were occurring at a time when Comey and the Midyear team had already concluded that there was likely no prosecutable case and believed it was unlikely the culling laptops would change t he
outcome of the investigation; • Asked Clinton what appeared to be appropriate questions and made use of documents to challenge Clinton’s testimony and assess her credibility during her interview. We found that, by the date of her interview, the Midyear team and Comey had concluded that the evidence did not support criminal charges (absent a confession or false statement by Clinton during t he interview), and that the interview had little effect on the outcome of the investigation; and • Allowed Mills and Samuelson to attend the Clinton interview as Clinton’s counsel, even t hough they also were fact witnesses, because t he Midyear team determined that the only way t o exclude them was to subpoena Clinton to t estify before the grand jury, an option that we found was not seriously considered. We found no persuasive evidence that Mills’s or Samuelson’s presence influenced Clinton’s interview. Nevertheless, we found the decision t o allow them to attend the interview was inconsistent with typical investigative strategy.
Huffington Post is in a good mood, making Holocaust Joke.
Scrolling right past SueAlky spam.
We found that, by the date of her interview, the Midyear team and Comey had concluded that the evidence did not support criminal charges (absent a confession or false statement by Clinton during t he interview), and that the interview had little effect on the outcome of the investigation; and • Allowed Mills and Samuelson to attend the Clinton interview as Clinton’s counsel, even t hough they also were fact witnesses, because t he Midyear team determined that the only way t o exclude them was to subpoena Clinton to t estify before the grand jury, an option that we found was not seriously considered. We found no persuasive evidence that Mills’s or Samuelson’s presence influenced Clinton’s interview. Nevertheless, we found the decision t o allow them to attend the interview was inconsistent with typical investigative strategy.
He isn't smart enough to actually debate anything on his own." Ette
Applies to SueAlky as well.
ABC and the official report
Kiss my ass kput'z
"Scrolling right past SueAlky spam."
Yep.
I don't care what the traitorous war monger spams.
I'll wait for updates from CH.
"Applies to SueAlky as well."
Absolutely.
The two people who posted irresponsible comments were not involved in the decisions on the email leaks. 11,200 children are being held captive right now.
Comey’s Public Statement on July 5 “Endgame” Discussions As we describe in Chapter Six of the report, by the Spring of 2016, Comey and the Midyear team had determined that, absent an unexpected development, evidence to support a criminal prosecution of Clinton was lacking. Midyear team members told us that they based this assessment on a lack of evidence showing intent to place classified information on the server, or knowledge that the information was classified. We describe the factors that the Department took into account in its decision to decline prosecution in Chapter Seven of our report and below. Comey told the OIG that as he began to realize the investigation was likely to result in a declination, he began to think of ways to credibly announce its closing. Comey engaged then DAG Yates in discussions in April 2016 about the “endgame” for the Midyear investigation. Comey said that he encouraged Yates to consider the most transparent options for announcing a declination. Yates told the OIG that, as a result of her
discussions with Comey, she thought the Department and FBI would jointly announce any declination. Comey said he also told Yates that the closer they got t o the political conventions, the more likely he would be t o insist that a special counsel be appointed, because he did not believe the Department could credibly announce t he closing of the investigation once Clinton was the Democratic Party nominee. However, we did not find evidence that Comey ever seriously considered requesting a special counsel; instead, he used the reference to a special counsel as an effort to induce the Department to move more quickly to obtain the Mills and Samuelson culling laptops and to complete the investigation. Although Comey engaged with the Department in these “endgame” discussions, he told us that he was concerned that involvement by then AG Loretta Lynch in a declination announcement would result in “corrosive doubt” about whether the decision was objective and impartial because Lynch was appointed by a President from the same political party as Clinton. Comey cited other factors to us that he said caused him to be concerned by early May 2016 that Lynch could not credibly participate in announcing a declination: • An alleged instruction from Lynch at a meeting in September 2015 to call the Midyear investigation a “matter” in statements to the media and Congress, which we describe in Chapter Four of our report; • Statements made by then President Barack Obama about the Midyear investigation, which also are discussed in Chapter Four; and • Concerns that certain classified information mentioning Lynch would leak, which we describe in Chapter Six and in the classified appendix. As we discuss below and in Chapter Six of our report, t he meeting between Lynch and former President Clinton on June 27, 2016 also played a role in Comey’s decision to deliver a unilateral statement. Comey did not raise any of these concerns with Lynch or Yates. Rather, unbeknownst to them, Comey began considering the possibility of an FBI-only public statement in late April and early May 2016. Comey told t he OIG that a separate public statement was warranted by the “500-year flood” in which the FBI found itself, and that he weighed the need to preserve t he credibility and integrity of the Department and the FBI, and the need to protect “a sense of justice more broadly in the country—that things are fair not fixed, and they’re done independently.” Comey’s Draft Statement Comey’s initial draft statement, which he shared with FBI senior leadership on May 2, criticized Clinton’s handling of classified information as “grossly negligent,” but concluded that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case based on the facts developed in the Midyear investigation. Over the course of the next 2 months, Comey’s draft statement underwent various language changes, including the following: • The description of Clinton’s handling of classified information was changed from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless;” • A
statement that the sheer volume of information classified as Secret supported an inference of gross negligence was removed and replaced with a statement that the classified information they discovered was “especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on servers not supported by full-time staff”; • A statement that the FBI assessed that it was “reasonably likely” that hostile actors gained access to Clinton’s private email server was changed to “possible.” The statement also acknowledged that the FBI investigation and its forensic analysis did not find evidence that Clinton’s email server systems were compromised; and • A paragraph summarizing the factors that led t he FBI to assess that it was possible that hostile actors accessed Clinton’s server was added, and at one point referenced Clinton’s use of her private email for an exchange with t hen President Obama while in the territory of a foreign adversary. This reference later was changed to “another senior government official,” and ultimately was omitted. Each version of the statement criticized Clinton’s handling of classified information. Comey told us that he included criticism of former Secretary Clinton’s uncharged conduct because “unusual transparency…was necessary for an unprecedented situation,” and that such transparency “was the best chance we had of having the American people have confidence that the j ustice system works[.]”
This was Pres. Obama oversight and direction to his FBI.
"Several FBI employees Who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages,” IG report says.
It cites Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok: “(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Strzok: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
9:44 AM - Jun 14, 2018"
Remember Pres. Obama was aware of everything all the time, so informed.
SueAlky, 3 Rd failure to sue me.
Why?
"11,200 children are being held captive right now"
Sponsor some.
Send some money to your family grifters first.
I have been reading this report.
Mistakes happened. Inappropriate behavior by people in the FBI was not influential in the investigation on the email issues. The Obama administration didn't use dirty tricks on Trump using the FBI.
Several FBI employees Who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages,” IG report says.
They were not involved with the decisions on any of the investigations nor did they influence the email issue and investigation.
LOL.
I don't trust traitorous war monger spams.
I have been reading this report.
Mistakes happened. Inappropriate behavior by people in the FBI was not influential in the investigation on the email issues. The Obama administration didn't use dirty tricks on Trump using the FBI.
If you were actually reading the report, Roger... You would know that it doesn't address the Trump investigation.
You shouldn't bluff.
The report must be bad given all of the frantic spamming roger is doing.
You shouldn't bluff. " CHT
Lol@SueAlky.
Ette, broke alky can't send money, he has none.
I have not been disturbed by the report.
Read English yourself instead of going to the usual right wing websites.
I haven't gone to a single partisan website.
There was no evidence of political motivation on the Clinton emails.
"The report must be bad given all of the frantic spamming roger is doing."
Myballs
Yep, he is triggered.
This post have Obama is innocent because Berry didn't know what his administration was doing.
I actually made an error. The President did not influence the investigation into the Clinton emails.
I have known to make mistakes.
But again Scott the FBI investigation into the Crooked Hillary lies by the President.
SueAlky,
"They were not involved with the decisions on any of the investigations nor did they influence the email issue and investigation."
Which FBI Special Agent Conducted the Hillary Clinton Interview?
SueAlky your Jeopardy moment.
President Barack Obama didn't influence the email invitation as you have been claiming for a year.
Trump is going to demand an independent investigation into the FBI report.
Because it doesn't mean Crooked Hillary isn't going to prison.
Dumb and dirty
"IG REPORT – 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.
The harm caused by leaks, fear of potential leaks, and a culture of unauthorized media contacts is illustrated in Chapters Ten and Eleven of our report, where we detail the fact that these issues influenced FBI officials who were advising Comey on consequential investigative decisions in October 2016.
[…] We do not believe the problem is with the FBI’s policy, which we found to be clear and unambiguous. Rather, we concluded that these leaks highlight the need to change what appears to be a cultural attitude among many in the organization.""
On Page Xii of the IG report the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG)
Come on Alky you got this one.
Which FBI Special Agent Conducted the Hillary Clinton Interview?
SueAlky your Jeopardy moment.
Comey Cited as ‘Insubordinate,’ but Report Finds No Bias in F.B.I. Decision to Clear Clinton
The biggest disappoint for the report.....They found they followed the law!!!! CH needs a crying towel.....
SueAlky
The fucktard is still a fool.....and an asshole....!!
They found they followed the law!!!!
The IG report has five criminal referrals to the DOJ. Yeah, that’s following the law.
I pledge allegiance to the Trump and to the President of the United States and for which he stands so help me Trump.
Inappropriate behavior by the FBI employees. They need to change what appears to be a cultural attitude among many in the organization."
What's your point twit?
A review of the various actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in advance of the 2016 election.
We found no evidence that Comey's public statement announcing that the results of bias or an effort to influence the election.
The President and all of you cultist have been claiming that he intentionally attempted to influence the election in the direction of Hillary Clinton.
Prove it
Reopening the investigation into the Clinton emails swung the election to Trump. His decision was not intended to influence the election, but the 72,000 votes in three states swung the election to Trump.
You were hoping to find evidence that Comey's actions were designed to defeat Trump. The Coldheartedtruth is it was just the opposite.
Reopening the investigation into the Clinton emails swung the election to Trump.
It had nothing to do with her lying and duplicitinous, cray cray stop.
You ran the shittiest candidate ever.
Get over it and accept the man duly elected to be president, quit crying and whinging
People get fired every week for insubordination.
I guess we are done with the firing argument.
Contrary to the reports from the left, the report clearly does not resolve everyone of political bias.
The text messages between the two, who were in a romantic relationship, suggest that they were deeply, and inappropriately, biased against Trump. But they did not have the authority to make major decisions about the Clinton investigation. And the one who was still involved in the Russia investigation was removed from the case once his supervisor learned of his attitude.
I think people will look at the facts of the report and come to their own conclusions. It seems obvious to me that many people will come to the conclusion that two plus two does not equal three or five.
Your predetermined beliefs that the two FBI employees influences on the investigations add up to zero.
Strzok did have a whole lot of influence. He's pretty much the common thread.
These seven words make you believe that there was a deep state conspiracy to keep Trump out of the White House.
STRZOK: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it."
Five hundred pages, that in the bottom line, say that Comey acted inappropriately, but there was no deep state conspiracy and one low level employee make the entire FBI work to defeat Trump, by no doing an investigation into the email that the report says is did not merit an investigation.
568 pages and the President hasn't read a word of it.
Rep. Peter King of New York slammed "the shameful anti-Trump political bias" of Strzok and Page as having cast an "indelible cloud" over Mueller's investigation.
Yet Mueller removed Strzok from the Russia investigation after learning of the agent's improper text messages; Page has left the FBI. The only improper FBI conduct Horowitz identified that mattered in the 2016 election hurt Clinton, not Trump.
Mueller removed Strzok from the Russia investigation after learning of the agent's improper text messages; Page has left the FBI.
Read the fucking report, don't depend on Fox News to tell you what the report says.. Strozok was FIRED.
MyBalls, great job of putting the clown suit on SueAlky.
Comey got Trump Elected. T crossed and I dotted.
Is this THE final reason ?
Letter to Congress From F.B.I. Director on Clinton Email Case
OCT. 28, 2016
In the letter, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said that new emails had surfaced in a case unrelated to the closed investigation into whether Hillary Clinton or her aides had mishandled classified information, and that the messages “appear to be pertinent to the investigation.
This report changed the results of the election. Clinton ddn't have time to recover and it lead to the disaster we face now.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/28/us/politics/fbi-letter.html
Honorable Jason Chaffetz
Chairman
Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform
In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton?s personal email server. Due to recent developments, 1 am writing to supplement my previous testimony.
In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence ol?emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain
classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.
Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant. and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is importantto update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony.
Sincerely yours,
James B. Comey
Director
Comey got Trump Elected. T crossed and I dotted.
Is this THE final reason ?
:"This report changed the results of the election. Clinton ddn't have time to recover and it lead to the disaster we face now. " SueAlky
You're unable to understand how stupid you look.
Where did you learn that?
SueAlky's is Bad mouthing Comey. Oh oh.
SueAlky, I am quoting you.
Bleach Bitch :
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Hillary Clinton
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@HillaryClinton
But my emails.
Kyle Cheney
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@kyledcheney
IG found that on numerous occasions, COMEY used a personal GMail account to conduct official FBI business, according to source briefed on the report."
Donald Trump has claimed parents pleaded with him to bring back the remains of their sons who died in the Korean War 65 years ago.
The US president made the remarks a day after signing a joint statement with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in which both countries agreed to “immediate repatriation” of identified soldiers.
“The soldiers that died in Korea, their remains are going to be coming back home,” he told Fox News aboard Air Force One.
“And we have thousands of people that have asked for that, thousands and thousands of people. So many people asked when I was on the campaign, I’d say ‘Wait a minute, I don’t have any relationship…’, but they said, ‘When you can President, we’d love our son to be brought back home’. You know the remains.
“And I asked [Mr Kim], we had pretty much finished, and I said, ‘Will you do me a favour? The remains of these great fallen heroes, can we do something?’ He agreed to it immediately. It was pretty great.”
The comments shocked viewers, who pointed out any parents still alive to make the request of Mr Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign would have been at least in their late 90s, and more likely well over a hundred. The Korean War armistice was signed in 1953. I was two years old.
“My father was a Korean War veteran who would be 90 today,” Maureen McFadden, a TV reporter, wrote on Twitter. “His parents were long gone during the election, as was he.”
Angus Johnston, a US historian, said: “An 18-year-old parent of an 18-year-old soldier killed on the last day of the Korean War would have been 99 years old in 2016. Trump says ‘so many’ of them reached out to him personally during the campaign.”
He claimed to have met hundreds of parents of the Korean war veterans who's bodies were never returned home to their families.
My father could have served in Korea. My grandfather was born in 1881. He would be 137 years old this year.
IG found that on numerous occasions, COMEY used a personal GMail account to conduct official FBI business, according to source briefed on the report."
This is exactly what I have been saying all day.. Comey acted inappropriately.
IMO he changed the result of the election. It wasn't intentional. He went against policy because he should have run it by the DOJ Secretary.
You made my point.
"And I asked [Mr Kim], we had pretty much finished, and I said, ‘Will you do me a favour? The remains of these great fallen heroes, can we do something?’ He agreed to it immediately. It was pretty great.”"
Fuck em, right traitor?
"Is this THE final reason ?"
LOL.
“An 18-year-old parent of an 18-year-old soldier killed on the last day of the Korean War would have been 99 years old in 2016. Trump says ‘so many’ of them reached out to him personally during the campaign.”
He claimed to have met hundreds of parents of the Korean war veterans who's bodies were never returned home to their families.
Trump is the traitor and liar in Chief. Cultists do not care, like twit.
Yeah, and Obama claimed his dead mother died due to lack of insurance, traitor.
Trump claimed that Obama was born in Kenya.
Traitor and liar support makes you a traitor
Bill Clinton, yep tarmac Bill is making this Story about, wait for it.......... Him.
Please never go Away.
"When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration increasingly appears to have been a bottomless pit of deception."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/06/08/obama_took_lying_to_new_heights_with_iran_deal_444401.html
Traitor
Well, will wonders never cease...
No liberal traitor tried to kill Republicans last night.
Can't let our guard down, one of you unhinged lunatics will TRY again.
The IG report gave us the reason, according to SueAlky, why Kankles lost. Comey.
You know that Trump is winning when Roger goes apeshit over the little stuff.
No liberal traitor tried to kill Republicans last night.
Too bad as the right tries to twist and squirm that 2 idiots posting personal thoughts had anything to do with anything!!!! Comey pushed the trump win with his october surprise which now comes to light....That alone will drive you and trump crazy!!! BTW, sessions and his bible quote rationalizing taking kids away and sarah the whale blaming D'S for trump policy blunders...Toss in Ryan denying he knows anything about pruitt is just another example of the complete takeover of trump's lying....
Roger was 100% clueless of the role Peter Strzok played in all of this.
Trump is again proven Right. Comey was a cancer on the FBI.
Good Morning Denise. I see your under SueAlky again.
Comey IS the reason Hillary lost, OK.
Good Morning Denise. I see your under SueAlky again.
Comey IS the reason Hillary lost, OK.
Obama put Lynch and Comey in thier positions of power. They worked for him.
"Trump is again proven Right. Comey was a cancer on the FBI"
Bingo.
However, if he helped Trump win...
I'm okay with that.
Obama put Lynch and Comey in thier positions of power. They worked for him.
"Comey IS the reason Hillary lost"
At least Gomer Pyle aka Comey, was good for something.
Good Morning Denise. I see your under SueAlky again.
And you are under bessie......what's your point, asshole...?????
Thanx to comey, you all won!!!! Oh well, being friends with the devil suits you to a T!!!
One thing about gomer.....unlike trump, he is an honorable man, unlike the hooker fucker you fellate...
Comey was a cancer on the FBI"
Really? The POTUS debasing everything law is a cancer on the Union....and you worship the ground he spits on....sad..
Interesting turn in Ga Politics....blue may be the new way of life in red state GA....from the AJC
Three weeks later, some of the juicier numbers from last month’s primary have begun rolling in.
Chris Huttman is a Democratic operative now crunching numbers on behalf of Lucy McBath of Marietta, one of two Democratic candidates in the Sixth District congressional runoff. She faces Kevin Abel, a Sandy Springs businessman, in the July 24 runoff.
Huttman sent over a spreadsheet on Wednesday that broke down the GOP and Democratic primaries by race, voting history, and the 14 congressional districts. Some of his findings:
-- African-Americans made up 29 percent of the voting universe on May 22, counting both Republican and Democratic ballots. Which means that Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor, still has turnout work to do. Thirty percent of the 6.1 million registered voters statewide are African-American, an area in which Abrams must overperform if she’s to have a chance in November.
-- On the other hand,102,330 participants in the Democratic primary, who cast 21 percent of the ballots, were new or had not voted in a primary at least since 2010. On the GOP side, 50,533 were likewise new or infrequent voters – making up 8 percent of Republican ballots cast. A 2-to-1 ratio when it comes to new voters is good news for Democrats.
-- If Huttman’s figures are correct, the May primary produced some evidence of white voter dissatisfaction with the GOP brand among new or infrequent voters. On the Democratic side, 60 percent of all votes were cast by African-Americans. (Black voters made up 1 percent of the GOP electorate.)
But when looking only at the new or infrequent voters who participated in the Democratic primary, we find that 52 percent are African-American, which indicates an uptick in white participation.
"Thanx to comey, you all won!!!!"
I know.
Ain't it GREAT?
Depends on what great means.....:>
Good Morning Denise. I see your under SueAlky again.
And " Denise
I take it you never took a debate Class in college. See your "and" means you agree with my statement.
Ette, SueAlky and Denise agree Comey IS the reason Kankles Lost.
I am sooooooo goooood with that .
Ette, SueAlky and Denise agree Comey IS the reason Kankles Lost.
I am sooooooo goooood with that .
.from the AJC
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
you spent money on that pile of crap for a newspaper????
Don't forget, fatty you predictred Nunn's daughter would be a senator and queef boy would now my Rep.
Idiot
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