Posted on 06/21/2018 6:20:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Imagine what defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, during the O.J. Simpson murder trial, would have done with notes to and from LAPD lead detectives Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter in which they demeaned Simpson's fans. Imagine a written exchange in which one detective said, "We'll stop him!" Imagine Cochran's opening and closing arguments, to say nothing of his cross-examination, if he'd had evidence similar to the kind of bias found in the Department of Justice inspector general's report on the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
The DOJ IG report included several messages between FBI attorneys and employees who worked on the email investigation. Here is one from an unidentified FBI employee (who didn't work on the email investigation) to FBI attorneys, the day after Trump's election: "I can't stop crying. ... You promised me this wouldn't happen. YOU PROMISED. ... Trump's supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. They probably didn't watch the debates, aren't fully educated on his policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm."
This is an Aug. 8, 2016, text message exchange between an FBI investigator -- who was helping lead the investigation into Russia's interference in the election at the time -- and an FBI senior attorney, who were both married to other people and having an affair with each other. In the message, released to the public for the first time, FBI attorney Lisa Page wrote: "(Trump's) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" "No. No he won't. We'll stop it," said lead agent Peter Strzok.
Yet, incredibly, the IG concluded that political bias did not influence the outcome of the investigation. The report said: "We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed."
Still, when IG Michael Horowitz testified about his report, as ex-CBS News reporter, currently an investigative reporter with "Full Measure News" and author of The Smear, Sharyl Attkisson notes, Horowitz used many double negatives: "What we say here is not ... that there was no bias." As to FBI lead investigator Peter Strzok's prioritizing the Trump/Russia collusion investigation over the Clinton email probe, Horowitz said, "We were not convinced that that was not a biased decision."
Horowitz also said this about Strzok's bias: "The one area where we were concerned about bias was in the October time period, and the ... weighing of Agent Strzok between focusing on the Russia investigation versus the Weiner laptop (Clinton emails), and our concern about his decision given the text messages."
Consider this exchange between Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Horowitz:
Sen.Crapo: "What you're telling us is you found bias; those who you found the bias among said, 'Well, we didn't let it bleed into our work performance,' and you don't have evidence to disprove that."
Horowitz: "Correct."
The IG report said: "When one senior FBI official, Strzok, who was helping to lead the Russia investigation at the time, conveys in a text message to another senior FBI official, Page, that 'we'll stop' candidate Trump from being elected -- after other extensive text messages between the two disparaging candidate Trump -- it is not only indicative of a biased state of mind but, even more seriously, implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects. This is antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice."
Simpson defense attorney Cochran vilified white cop Mark Fuhrman as a "genocidal racist." What made Fuhrman a "genocidal racist"? Fuhrman, the "dream team" learned, used the N-word a number of times while discussing his police work in a taped conversation with a screenwriter (SET ITAL) seven years earlier.(END ITAL) And three witnesses testified that Fuhrman used the N-word in conversations with them in the mid-1980s. Imagine if witnesses had credibly testified that, during the investigation, they heard Fuhrman calling Simpson and/or his fans "deplorables" or "uneducated, lazy POS."
In fact, during the O.J. Simpson case, then-LAPD Chief Willie Williams, who happened to be black, ordered a report to determine whether any bias or misconduct affected the integrity of their investigation. Some investigators, the report found, made minor procedural errors. But the report found neither evidence of bias against Simpson nor evidence of misconduct by any of the investigators, let alone any bias or misconduct that affected the judgment of the investigators.
Now suppose the LAPD report had noted numerous instances of bias and demeaning remarks by several investigators toward Simpson, yet the report nevertheless concluded, "We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed."
Seriously?
Remember when Bill Clinton weaponized the FBI to kill people at Waco and Ruby Ridge?
This is not new to democrats.
‘”We’ll stop him” would have to refer to keeping him out of a game, unrelated to any crime.
“”used the N-word a number of times while””
Love Larry Elder but he knows that the whole “racism” gambit was based on F. Lee Bailey’s question to Mark Fuhrman (below). NOT had he USED the TERM in the past ten years. That set off the perjury claim and prosecution of Fuhrman. That was so clear in the courtroom at the time and yet no one in the DA’s office made an issue of it. At that point, they didn’t have any interest in protecting their own witness. Many things about the trial always bugged me but that one question was twisted beyond belief and I’ve never forgotten it.
“”You say under oath that you have not addressed any black person as a nigger or spoken.....””
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-16/news/mn-43467_1_racial-epithet
Good analogy.
Fuhrman Was the bad guy for describing a cold blooded serial killer that slit the throats of two whites as the N-word. Using a word is the real crime here, not the serial murders. That’s what they call justice. In the face of indisputable evidence, an ironclad case, and a jury dominated by African scum, let this murdering piece of garbage go because someone used a word they didn’t like. What was judge Ito’s take; and I mean money, in all of this?
It was in connection with the ill fitted “bloody glove.” Forensics could have done better with it, for example if it had been wetted before nefarious use and when dry again, shrank. The talk may have also brought overconfidence.
The difference? The Brown Shirt Media WANTED to exonerate OJ.
Remember when the FBI allowed itself to be weaponized to kill people at Waco and Ruby Ridge?
This is not new to the Feds.
I stopped trusting the “rank and file” field agents then.
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