Here are my initial observations and opinions on the DOJ IG report released on Monday.
I HAVE A SENSE that there may be those who are disappointed with the report of the DOJ IG Michael Horowitz on Monday. Don’t be.
Unless you have read Mollie Hemingway’s December 6, 2019 piece in The Federalist, “How to Prepare for the Impending Justice Department Inspector General Report,” you may be among those who expected justice for the many members of Obama’s Deep State.
In my past remarks on the IG, I attempted to alert you to the way an IG carries out his investigation, and that while he identifies wrongdoing, his aim is to learn from it and recommend department corrections.
Hemingway alluded to the IG being “like the human resource arm of a corporations” … “(that) they do not exist to help employees, but to help corporations. The take care of problems and protect the corporation.”
I have not read the IG report, but I understand there are 17 significant errors or omissions in the preparation and submission of the FISA documents alone within the near 500-page report.
“FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source,” Barr stated. “The inspector general found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory.”
I noted that Attorney General Bill Barr sharply criticized the IG’s finding that the FBI had adequate reason in 2016 to open the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia, however, Barr stated that “the inspector general’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.”
If you are wondering why you haven’t heard any mention of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey and former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, keep in mind that Horowitz referred them for possible criminal charges in April 2019. And it was Horowitz who tipped off Robert Mueller about the bias team of Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, who were then removed from his team.
It is interesting to note that on the release of the IG report, John H. Durham, the federal prosecutor appointed by Barr to run a separate criminal investigation, said, “we advised the inspector general that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.”
Durham noted that he had access to more information than Horowitz, probably gained in his trips to meet with foreign intelligence officials abroad, and his examination of roles of the CIA and FBI regarding Russian election interference.
More to come.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
