Posted on 12/03/2019 11:48:17 AM PST by COUNTrecount
There is a popular new narrative in both the Left and Right news media that when Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has his latest report publicly released on December 9, it will lead to a huge letdown.
It is being claimed that Horowitzs year and a half long deep dive into issues surrounding FISA warrants granted to the FBI targeting the Trump presidential campaign during the 2016 election and continuing into the Trump administration itself through several renewals of that warrant will lead to no criminal investigations and certainly not any criminal prosecutions.
It is confidently asserted that once again, the so called Deep State is about to demonstrate to the entire country how powerful it is, as we get to watch all the key SpyGate plotters walk away without any consequences.
Those pushing this popular new narrative are, quite bluntly, absolutely wrong.
So blinded by their own narrative are many of these news media figures and commentators that they cant even see what is happening right out in the open, in front of their eyes.
The Declassification of Key SpyGate Evidence Has Already Begun
Because many people have an unrealistic expectation of how Attorney General William Barr would go about declassifying the remaining SpyGate evidence and starting investigations based upon that newly declassified evidence, they dont realize hes already quietly doing it.
There is this expectation fixed in peoples minds that there will be some sort of official announcement, like a press conference or something, where Barr will hold up a binder full of documents and declare hes just now done the long anticipated declassification of all the remaining classified SpyGate documents.
But that is not how Barr has been using the declassification powers that President Trump delegated to him back in May of this year. Instead of declassifying key documents all at once, dramatically, Barr has been doing it quietly one key document at a time.
Thats right. Barr has already been declassifying and releasing some of the key SpyGate evidence collected by IG Horowitz to at least one US Attorney we know of; John Durham. It is why we keep seeing announcements that Durham is expanding his criminal investigation into the origins of the RussiaGate hoax. In just the past week it was announced that Durham was now opening up two new fronts in his criminal probe:
A criminal case against a former FBI lawyer who was discovered to have altered a key FISA document and An investigation into suspicious contracts out of the Pentagons Office of Net Assessment [ONA] being awarded to key SpyGate informant Stefan Halper
Barr has also taken action to give very recently declassified SpyGate evidence to the lawyers of the target of a malicious prosecution by the Mueller Special Counsel as it worked in concert with the SpyGate plotters. Sidney Powell, who is lead defense counsel for Lt. General Michael Flynn, revealed this newly declassified SpyGate evidence that had long been held back by the DOJ in her explosive court filing back on November 4.
The evidence consists of text messages and emails exchanged between former FBI officials Peter Strzok & Lisa Page in which they not only discuss tampering with the FD-302 form from the Flynn interview, they are also seen talking about how they can influence the judge who was presiding over Flynns case.
The Strzok/Page texts had been previously released but in a very heavily redacted form. Quietly, without fanfare or any public announcement, suddenly Flynns defense counsel was in possession of not only the unredacted text messages, but also may have been a draft section of Horowitzs FISA report.
This is because Powells court filing contains an eye-opening three page exhibit in which Lisa Page is being interviewed by OIG investigators who ask her if she had made any material changes to the Flynn 302 form. When she denies having made any edits to the only official record of the Flynn interview, upon which the charge of perjury against him was founded, the OIG investigators then confronted Page with her own text messages exchanged with Peter Stzok, causing her to immediately change her story and admit she had edited the form.
Recall that IG Horowitz first surfaced to hand off the first collection of SpyGate-related evidence to Congress in early December of 2017. That included a very large batch of Strzok/Page text messages. The Strzok/Page text messages that were unredacted got an immense amount of press coverage.
Later, some text messages were unredacted in which the pair is seen discussing attempting to influence Judge Rudolph Contreras, who was presiding over Flynns perjury case.
[Immediately after General Flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of perjury with that 302 form as the key evidence, Judge Contreras was suddenly recused from the case and replaced by Judge Emmet Sullivan]
At no time in the next two years, did we see the text messages that revealed Strzok and Page had also been discussing tampering with the FD-302 form from the Flynn interview at the White House back on January 24, 2017.
This means Barr must have not only recently declassified these particular Strzok/Page texts about tampering with the 302 form, the Attorney General went a step further and paved the way for this now declassified key SpyGate evidence to be given to Flynns lawyers.
It is transparently obvious that Powell is able to legally use this official FBI document as an exhibit in her court filing because this is an authorized disclosure and the Attorney General approved it. Because if it was not an authorized disclosure, Powell would not dare use it in an official court filing.
At this point, its pretty clear the 302 tampering texts are included in Horowitzs FISA report. So Barr made an early authorized disclosure to Flynns defense team. Watch, youll see Im right when the report is released, and the 302 editing texts are in there.
If you think top FBI officials getting caught tampering with an official document that, after they had altered it, was used to make a bogus perjury charge against General Flynn wont result in criminal prosecutions, you and I are just going to have to disagree about that.
Brian Cates entered the political arena in March 2012, following the death of Andrew Breitbart. He is currently a political columnist for The Epoch Times and UncoverDC. Brian is based in South Texas and is the author of: Nobody Asked For My Opinion But Here It Is Anyway!
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LOL.
Let's hope he's right
Brian Cates is one of the most consistently interesting of the commentators writing today.
“...will lead to no criminal investigations and certainly not any criminal prosecutions.”
What a surprise. Not.
Wasn't he all in on Huber?
Will the IG’s report use words like “careless” and “didn’t follow policy”, or will it list actual laws that were perceived to have been violated? That’ll be key as to how we can expect the Justice Department to handle things.
I’m still predicting wrist slaps that don’t involve handcuffs. No zerobama people will lose their freedom or their pensions. I hope I’m wrong.
The point of the article is the exact opposite.
Total BS, slow walking while the guilty escape out the back door.
I hope this really destroys those who plotted against Trump
“I hope this really destroys those who plotted against Trump.”
To me, the gist of the article is that nothing will happen to anyone in the Deep State. Ever. And don’t even think about justice for the bad guys, because other bad guys are responsible for meting out justice. (Maybe I read it wrong.)
Sroking Strzok
There was a lawyer named Page,
Who Trump got all in a rage,
She peddled her ass,
For Pâté de Foie Gras,
And stroked Strzok,
On the open world stage.
( By that Great Limerickateer, Benjamin Franklin Trump, The Renunciate)
I posted this today from the same source:
Impeachment Motivations Part 2 Hiding Links to Corruption
https://uncoverdc.com/2019/12/02/impeachment-motivations-part-2-hiding-links-to-corruption/
FR Comments: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3797979/posts
Ukraine, Burisma, Templeton, BlackRock, Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, Yovanovich, Poroshenko
The FISA report will be an epic whitewash. IG’s are there to protect the agencies they work for. That is a well known fact to anyone who has ever worked in the Swamp.
There is no such thing as accountability in DC. And when there is no accountability the concept of a functioning republic is a total farce.
The system is deeply corrupt and unfixable. It is what it is.
The only folks going to jail are Trump associates. That’s NOT going to change. Don’t get too excited.
Well said.
If you want political disclosure everything could be released to the media now.
If you want effective unraveling of the criminal conspiracy followed by effective prosecutions it’ll take a few more months.
Barr was only granted access a few months back.
The IG report is likely to be inconsequential compared to what DOJ does in the lead up to the election.
Trump is expressing a great deal of confidence in Barr and Durham.
It appears that the Deep Staters in the DoJ and FBI like to admit that they made mistakes, but that the mistakes did not change the outcome, so there shouldn't be any punishment. That was pretty much the summation from the last Horowitz report.
“Interesting” doesn’t mean much. Plenty of authors write “interesting” works of pure fiction.
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