{"id":37733,"date":"2019-12-12T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37733"},"modified":"2019-12-12T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:18:34","slug":"the-swamp-has-been-the-swamp-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37733","title":{"rendered":"The Swamp Has Been The Swamp For A While"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issues & Insights<\/a> posted an article today with the following headine, “This Isn\u2019t The First Time The IG Denied Flagrant Bias At The FBI.”<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Democrats and the mainstream press \u2013 is there any difference between the two these days? \u2013 have been clinging to the \u201cno bias\u201d statement by the Justice Department inspector general with all their might.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The IG said that he couldn\u2019t state definitively that political bias motivated officials at the FBI to launch and then sustain an investigation against the Trump campaign based on the Clinton-campaign funded and thoroughly discredited Steele Dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was enough for press to run headlines such as:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBias didn\u2019t taint FBI leaders running Trump-Russia Investigation\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cReport on F.B.I. Debunks Anti-Trump Plot\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMistakes, but no political bias in FBI probe of Trump campaign: watchdog\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

And when Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Democrats repeatedly pressed him to state his \u201cno bias\u201d claim over and over.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou didn\u2019t find a \u2018deep state\u2019 conspiracy against candidate or President Trump,\u201d Sen. Diane Feinstein asked in the form of a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe found no bias,\u201d Horowitz said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Patrick Leahy repeated the \u201cquestion,\u201d saying that the IG had found \u201cno evidence that the investigation was motivated by anti-Trump or political bias.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The notion that there was \u201cno bias\u201d at all is impossible to believe when you look at the evidence that Horowitz gathered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article also notes:<\/p>\n

In any case, this \u201cno bias\u201d language in the latest IG report is almost identical to what Horowitz said in his June 2018 report about the hopelessly biased FBI \u201cinvestigation\u201d into Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server when she was secretary of State.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In that report, the also G claimed that there was \u201cno evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias.\u201d The report then went on to say that officials made a series of \u201cjudgment calls\u201d that were technically proper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the truth is that every single one of these judgment calls benefited Clinton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus, the IG found plenty of evidence of flagrant bias among the key players in that investigation, including exchanges between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page about how \u201cwe\u2019ll stop\u201d Trump from being elected.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

What kind of \u201cinaccuracies and omissions\u201d? Oh, things like hiding from the court information that \u201craised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele reporting that was used.\u201d And failing to tell the court that Page had been an FBI informant, which involved working with Russian intelligence officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe also found\u201d he went on, \u201cbasic, fundamental, and serious errors during the completion of the FBI\u2019s factual accuracy reviews.\u201d And it found that FBI officials \u201cdid not give appropriate attention to facts that cut against probable cause.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, any shreds of evidence that there was no reason to spy on Page.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Horowitz said these \u201cbasic and fundamental errors\u201d were made by \u201cthree separate, hand-picked investigative teams.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the FBI were simply incompetent, you\u2019d expect these \u201cfundamental errors\u201d to be more random. But as with the \u201cjudgment calls\u201d during the Clinton email investigation, all of these mistakes just happened to cut in one direction only. In this case of Clinton, they all helped the FBI reach the decision they\u2019d made at the start to exonerate her. In Trump\u2019s case, every supposed screw-up all helped to keep the probe going.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even Horowitz himself wouldn\u2019t categorically deny that bias played a role in the FISA applications. As he told Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat, \u201cit gets murkier \u2026 when you get to the FISA.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMurkier\u201d is one way of putting it. \u201cDeep state, anti-Trump bias\u201d is another way. Just because an inspector general won\u2019t say those words doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We truly are on a quest to restore equal justice under the law. Right now we don’t have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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