The report itself contradicts the conclusions that (1) there
was proper predication to start spying on the president’s team and that there
was (2) “no political bias” in the FBI’s launching of “crossfire hurricane”,
the single greatest criminal political conspiracy in the history of this
country.
The general public and CNN/MSNBC viewers in particular are
being duped. Though I will continue to break it down for you as I go through
it, here are just some of the preliminary facts I was able to pull right out of
the IG report:
(1)
OPENING THE
INVESTIGATION WAS LEGAL BECAUSE IT ONLY NEEDED TO BE APPROVED BY FBI LEADERSHIP.
Professional discretion granted to them by
the rules (AG and DIOG) allows them to do pretty much whatever the heck they
want. Nobody in the horribly corrupt media tells you this. This is about dirty
cops covering their own despicable behavior. Here’s what Horowitz stated,
“The
AG Guidelines and the DIOG do not provide heightened predication standards for
sensitive matters, or allegations potentially IMPACTING CONSTITUTIONALLY
PROTECTED ACTIVITY, SUCH AS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. Rather, the approval and
notification requirements contained in the AG Guidelines and the DIOG are, in
part, intended to provide the means by which such concerns can be considered by
senior officials. However, we were concerned to find that neither the AG
Guidelines nor the DIOG contain a provision requiring Department consultation before
opening an investigation such as the one here involving the alleged conduct of
individuals associated with a major party presidential campaign.”
The
report continues,
“Crossfire
Hurricane was opened as a Full Investigation and all of the senior FBI
officials who participated in discussions about whether to open a case told us
the information warranted opening it… we concluded that the quantum of information
articulated by the FBI to open the individual investigations on Papadopoulos,
Page, Flynn, and Manafort in August 2016 was sufficient to satisfy THE LOW
THRESHOLD ESTABLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT AND THE FBI.”
(2) HOROWITZ
CONTRACDICTS HIMSELF REGARDING HIS FINDING OF NO POLITICAL BIAS IN THE BODY OF
THE REPORT ITSELF.
In
the report, Horowitz admits that Strzok, an obviously politically biased
individual, WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE DECISION TO START THE INVESTIGATION.
So why not conclude that it was politically motivated? Because technically
Strzok’s boss made the actual final decision!
The
biased assistant here (Strzok) likely recommended that the investigation should
be started without ever revealing his political bias to his boss, and his boss obviously
took that recommendation to heart and decided to move ahead with the
investigation, all the while mistakenly believing that his employee (Strzok)
was politically neutral. Horowitz essentially dismissed political motivation in
starting the investigation ONLY BECAUSE HE DID NOT HAVE DIRECT EVIDENCE OF BIAS
AS RELATING DIRECTLY TO STRZOK’S BOSS, while yet admitting in the report that
Strzok was still clearly allowed to influence the final decision. This is total
hypocritical idiocy.
This
is what Horowitz delivered to the American Public:
“We further found that while STRZOK WAS
DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE DECISIONS TO OPEN CROSSFIRE HURRICANE AND THE FOUR
INDIVIDUAL CASES, he was NOT THE
SOLE,
OR EVEN THE HIGHEST-LEVEL, DECISION MAKER AS TO ANY OF THOSE MATTERS. As noted
above, then CD AD Priestap, STRZOK'S SUPERVISOR, was the official who ULTIMATELY
MADE THE DECISION TO OPEN THE INVESTIGATION, and evidence reflected that this
decision by Priestap was reached by consensus after multiple days of discussions
and meetings that included Strzok and other leadership in CD, the FBI Deputy
Director, the FBI General Counsel, and a FBI Deputy General Counsel. We
concluded that Priestap's exercise of discretion in opening the investigation
was in compliance with Department and FBI policies, and we DID NOT FIND
DOCUMENTARY OR TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE THAT POLITICAL BIAS OR IMPROPER MOTIVATION
INFLUENCED HIS DECISION. We similarly found that, while the formal
documentation opening each of the four individual investigations was approved
by Strzok (as required by the DIOG)”
