The IG report is obviously a problem for Trump. While it found mistakes it also directly undercuts Trump's conspiracy theory. And I feel very badly for Horowitz because he will pay for presenting a report that contradicts Trump. Whatever Barr presents will have to be rock solid. That means if sources are from former Ukrainian officials that were kicked out for being corrupt and are now living in Russia, forget it outside the Trump cult.
Horowitz will pay for consistently downplaying the true facts,
not even quoting them in his report and refusing to pull the trigger on what is clearly a conspiracy in the FBI, DOJ, CIA, State Department and other federal branches:
LISA PAGE: Trump isn't going to be president, right? RIGHT?!?
PETER STRZOK: No. No he won't. We will stop it.
PETER STRZOK: I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40...
LISA PAGE (to Strzok): “The last thing you need [is Hillary Clinton] going in there loaded for bear,” Page continued. “You think she’s going to remember or care that it was more [DOJ] than [FBI]?”
[i.e., they thought Hillary Clinton was definitely going to be the next president, and Page was recommending they don't go after her too aggressively in their investigation, because she would be the next president, and would be angered that they as top FBI agents had pushed too hard to investigate her, that could make her "loaded for bear" (angry, seeking revenge, wanting to fire or demote the FBI agents who pushed too hard to investigate her. Keep in mind that Strzok and Page were deeply supportive of Hillary in 2016, and even they were afraid of her. ]
PETER STRZOK: Hillary should win 100 million to zero
KEVIN CLINESMITH: Viva la resistance!
[ Clinesmith is also the high-level lawyer in FBI's FISA division who excluded exculpatory information to make Carter Page look guilty when they KNEW he was not, just so they could get FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. And then proceeded to use the same lies in 3 more FISA warrants, to spy on the elected president Trump's transition team, and then on Trump's inaugurated administration officials. ]
Keep in mind, these are the central people in multiple investigations:
(1) of Hillary Clinton's e-mails, (2) in the 10-month Trump/Russia investigation, and (3) assigned as some of the 17 lawyers on Muller's special investigation. Until these texts were made public and Mueller was forced to fire them for appearances' sake.
Basically
the entire top floor of both the FBI and the DOJ, all like-minded Hillary worshippers and Trump-haters, who openly supported Hillary in 2016, and openly detedted Donald Trump. More than that: Felt it their holy mission to use their power to prevent Trump from becoming president (
STROK: "No, no he won't. We will stop it" ).
They exonerated Hillary Clinton, allowed her to delete 33,000 e-mails, smash computers and cel phones with records subpoenaed by both the FBI *and* the Senate and Congress, with no federal obstruction charges against Hillary and her staff, and
actuually gave Mills and Abedin immunity ! FOR WHAT?!? Horowitz never bothered to ask these questions.
And these same FBI agents interviewed Hillary and Cheryl Mills,
*NOT* under oath (as they tricked Flynn and Manafort and others, in perjury traps). In the case of Hillary and Mills and Abedin, Strzok and other FBI agents didn't even tape-record or transcribe the interviews!
There is a clear pattern of favoritism toward Democrats investigated and not charging them, and letting the evidence against them be destroyed and disappear.
And conversely with Trump and his officials, of malicious prosecution, fabricating evidence (and hiding exculpatory evidence),employing moles and informants, of baiting traps with guys like Stefan Halper, Mifsud from Malta, using British agents and the Australian ambassadors to entrap Papadapoulos, and in multiple countries using foreign assets to entrap Trump officials in ways they could never legally do in the United States. That also extends back to overzealous prosecution of Scooter Libby (who thanks to assistant defense secretary Richard Armitage coming forward, he admitted that it was he, not Scooter Libby, who inadvertantly gave reporter Robert Novak clues to out Valerie Plane as a CIA agent, that Libby was convicted for.) And Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens who the FBI vindictively prosecuted and destroyed (whose conviction was overturned on appeal, but that didn't give him his Senate seat back, that the FBI prosecution caused his seat to be lost to a Democrat. An interesting parallel to the malicious prosecution of Trump. )
And Enron. And Arthur Andersen. And Martha Stewart. All cases overseen by the likes of Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein and Weissmann, employing the same vicious tactics used on Trump, Flynn, Manafort, Roger Stone and others. Hiding exculpaatory evidence to convict innocent men, just to win a case and/or for partisan reasons, should be a crime that puts you in federal prison. What you would do to innocent men, should be done to you as a malicious prosecutor.
So...
Fuck yes, Horowitz will be punished, for failing to report the obvious,
not even quoting it in his I G report, and essentially flying cover, to continue to enable the corruption in FBI and DOJ.
Unlike Michael Horowitz and Christopher Wray, Durham and Barr intend to clean house.
I fully expected Horowitz to fly cover and softpedal the evidence. I wish he'd surprised us all and actually done his job.
