Expect a biased
IG investigation
report:
Justice Department
Inspector General
Michael Horowitz
has a long history
of pulling punches,
to protect the
deep state,
according to
RealClear
Investigations'
Paul Sperry.
Horowitz had
"volunteered on the
political campaigns
of several Democrats
while in college
and later donated
to the campaign
of Colorado Sen.
Michael Bennet,
a former colleague
who is seeking the
2020 Democratic
presidential nomination
– and who has slammed
Trump's praise of Russian
President Vladimir Putin."
Horowitz is married to a
former Democrat political
activist, and Obama donor,
Alexandra Kauffman Horowitz,
who helped run campaigns
for liberal Democrats,
before producing content
for CNN's Washington
bureau.
James Comey
illegally leaked
classified information
to the New York Times.
He admitted it.
But Horowitz
accepted Comey's
weak argument
that the memo
of a conversation
with President Trump
was sensitive,
but “not classified” –
even though the memo
contained information
about the FBI's ongoing
counterintelligence
investigation of the
president’s national
security adviser
Michael Flynn.
"I see a pattern of him
( Horowitz )
pulling up short
and trying to be
a bit of a statesman
instead of making
the hard calls,"
said a 24-year
FBI veteran,
Chris Swecker,
who served as
assistant director
of its criminal
investigative
division:
"I’m afraid he’s going
to do the same thing
with the FISA report
– a finding
that sounds tough,
but in the end,
'No harm, no foul.’"
Horowitz hasn't
even interviewed
Carter Page, the
victim of the FBI,
thanks to abuses
of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) !
Horowitz says he conducted
more than 100 interviews
of witnesses, (but he)
... failed to interview Page,
the alleged victim of a
controversial FISA warrant.
RealClearInvestigations
found many instances
of Horowitz
stopping short
of pursuing evidence,
and being content
to take high-level officials
at their word, even in
the face of conflicting
evidence.
Horowitz gave former
FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe
special treatment,
accepting McCabe's
claim that he had
nothing to do with
his wife's Senate
campaign, even
though he:
-- Personally met with her sponsor
and fundraiser Terry McAulliffe;
-- Drove her to campaign stops;
-- Attended one of her
candidate debates;
-- Discussed the campaign
with her on FBI equipment;
-- Appeared in a family photo
used in a campaign mailer;
and,
-- Posed with her
wearing her official
campaign T-shirt
for a photo distributed
on social media
to promote
her candidacy.
Paul Sperry asks:
"Were such actions
violations of
the Hatch Act,
a federal law
that prohibits
federal employees
from engaging
“in political activity
in an official capacity
at any time”?
If so, the topic
didn’t interest
Horowitz,
who accepted
on face value the FBI’s
argument in a letter
to the Senate that he
played no formal role
in his wife’s campaign,
and that his activities
were permissible
under the law."
"Everybody
and their mother
knew he (McCabe)
was engaged in
political activities,"
said the former
Pentagon IG General
Joseph E. Schmitz.
During his 17-month probe
into the FBI's investigation
of Hillary Clinton's emails,
Horowitz repeatedly declined
to use his subpoena power
- he allowed key players
to provide their own evidence !
Horowitz also allowed
two lead FBI officials,
Peter Strzok
and Lisa Page,
to sort through
which of
their electronic
communications
were "personal"
vs. "work related",
according to
the report.
"The inspector general
and I arranged
an agreement
where I would
go through
my personal accounts
and identify
any material
that was relevant
to FBI business
and turn it over,”
Strzok said,
while testifying
before Congress.
Michael Horowitz
did criticize both
Strzok and Page
for their obvious
"political bias,"
however
he concluded
that their
clear preference
for Hillary Clinton,
and against
Donald Trump,
did not influence
their investigations,
despite the fact that
an August 2016 text
from Strzok to Page
strongly suggests
they were actively
working against Trump:
"[Trump’s] not ever going
to become president, right?
Right?!"
Page asked Strzok,
Page asked Strzok,
to which he replied
"No.
No he won't.
We’ll stop it."
Horowitz essentially
cleared the FBI agents
of fixing the case
for Hillary Clinton,
only acknowledging
several irregularities
in the email probe,
such as Comey
drafting a statement
that exonerated
Hillary Clinton,
months before
FBI agents
interviewed her.
Horowitz failed
to demand access
to James Comey’s
private Gmail account,
that he sometimes used
for official FBI business.
Read the rest
of Paul Sperry's
