Tuesday, December 10, 2019

DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, Does It Again with another Whitewash

In his just-released report, Horowitz slapped a few wrists just like he did in his prior investigation into the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe and pointed out a number of inconsistencies with established FBI procedures, but he found no criminal wrongdoing by anyone in a senior position at the FBI. It took over a year and millions of dollars of tax-payer funds for the OIG to issue its findings on potential FISA abuse.

By LV. So it took over a year for the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice to issue its findings regarding the FBI's handling of its probe into Hillary Clinton's emails.

At every turn, Inspector General Michael Horowitz plays down internal decisions of how FBI investigators managed the Clinton case, such as the granting of immunity to a number of Clinton associates, or allowing Clinton's attorneys, who were also witnesses, to sit in on her interview with FBI agents.

What the IG report fails to do, intentionally or inadvertently, is piece together all the individual decisions made by FBI investigators in their handling of the Clinton case in order to determine whether a pattern emerges regarding the general thrust and validity of the overall investigation.

Horowitz concludes that Comey was simply guilty of violating departmental procedures and protocols by intentionally circumventing his superiors on a number of occasions; i.e., announcing his exoneration of Clinton without first notifying Attorney General Loretta Lynch and her deputies and doing the same thing when he decided to notify congress that he was reopening the Clinton case eleven days before the presidential election.

The IG report will probably convince even more Americans that the FBI's decision-making process in the Clinton case was not only wrong, but was also a complete whitewash.

The Clinton whitewash spawned another whitewash by an Inspector General, who couldn't seem to find evidence of FBI corruption when it was staring him right in the face.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/doj-inspector-general-michael-horowitz-does-it-again-with-another-whitewash/

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