Posted on 12/31/2020 6:34:18 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
When Barack Obama appointed Michael Horowitz to be the inspector general for the Department of Justice in April of 2012, it might have seemed a safe choice for the entitled petty nobility who really run things in Washington.
Horowitz earned his law degree from Harvard, magna cum laude, no less. Horowitz spent eight years as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, nicknamed the “Sovereign District of New York,” for its ability to resist Republican presidents who think that winning an election gives them the right to run things. But there were signs even then that Horowitz wasn’t going to play ball.
In 1995, the Department of Justice awarded him the “Distinguished Service Award,” for his role in exposing and prosecuting a ring of dirty cops in the 30th Precinct of the New York Police Department. Horowitz is from a long-ago era; before law schools taught that the law is mere putty to be molded to achieve social and political objectives.
Within months of his appointment to the Justice Department inspector general role, Horowitz issued a stinging 514-page report on the notorious, “Operation Fast and Furious,” during which undercover federal agents supplied Mexican cartels with weapons. Within hours of that report, a dozen employees of the Department of Justice and the ATF faced punishment or retired in disgrace...
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His wife is in league with all the Swamp wives and they form a cozy bunch in DC.
But we got on him and started criticizing him as being like Romney speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Paul Sperry joined in and nailed him.
Well, he took umbrage to the criticism and he decided to do the right thing or more in line with the right thing.
I detect he has a moral compass which is hard for him to grab as he swims through the sewage of the Swamp.
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