Posted on 03/30/2018 11:35:19 AM PDT by catnipman
Obama nominated Michael Horowitz in July of 2011 to fill a vacancy left open by the resignation of Glenn Fine in February. Mr. Horowitz was confirmed in March the following year, and sworn in on April 16th, 2012.
It was a nomination Obama would come to regret.
Horowitz inherited a position that was effectively neutered in 2011 by Eric Holder's interpretation of § 6 of The Inspector General Act of 1978. (Authority of Inspector General)
Holder and his legal team determined that the IG had to request information. This allowed Holder (and other agency heads) to bog down IG requests in bureaucratic red tape, and in some cases, deny them outright.
Michael Horowitz was a lame duck on day one. What did he do? He methodically went to war. One might call it a war of independence, because that is exactly what it was.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
IG Horowitz has every reason in the world to hate Obama's guts as well as Eric Holder and Holder's DOJ ...
Thanks, bfl.
And yet he found nothing criminal about running guns to Mexican cartels.
So why did Trump trash him?
For all intents and purposes, the investigation was over.
But, ... but Holder just announced that he might run for president in 2020.
Does a "contempt of Congress" have no value .. ?
The same Attorney General who armed the Cartels ?
Perhaps we should ask the Mexicans, or the relatives of the dead, whether he should run anything ..?
Better yet, Eric, go south of the border and visit Mexico !!,
and if you don't happen come back, we'll leave the light on for ya !
Perhaps you should follow the link and read the entire string of twitter postings.
Where it all began : Fast and Furious IG Horowitz details the obstruction of Holder that began with his investigation into Fast and Furious.
I’ll believe he’s a white knight when the indictments come down.
Now for the truth. Horowitz had to make a decision: believe the facts and evidence, or believe Holder’s lies.
He believed Holder.
:
The Inspector General’s Exoneration of Eric Holder
Written by Gun Owners of America
Published: 22 September 2012
The “see no evil, hear no evil” defense
Much of the media has moved quickly to close the books on Attorney General Eric Holder’s role in the Fast and Furious scandal, based on this week’s report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s office, headed by Michael E. Horowitz.
But for many others, the 471-page report is nothing more than an effort by an employee to exonerate his boss.
https://www.gunowners.org/igreportanalysis2012.htm
Exactly right, thanks for posting this - I’ve just given up trying to educate FReepers to do some research rather than just spewing the same old BS. Horowitz did not quit when Obama and Holder screwed him over, instead he fought them by allying himself with other Inspectors General from the other Federal agencies and working with congress to enact this reform (the IG Empowerment Act).
Obama signed it because by Dec. 2017 he probably figured it could be used against Trump.
Horowitz initiated his review a month later, as if there was a pent-up demand to dig into this - no hesitation at all. A strong will to do his job and proactive stance, that’s the kind of man IG Horowitz is.
It will be some time before his reports are released to the public but the important thing is they are being released in part to those who actually matter, and who are going to be acting on them with prosecutions.
Wray, Rosenstein, Sessions and yes, Horowitz are now "bogging down" Congressional requests for documents and witnesses.
For Horowitz, to stonewall Congress is to be hypocritical.
Come up for air from your hero worship. You talk about research—did you read the link I posted? Here’s a longer excerpt. Horowitz literally had all the facts and evidence saying one thing and Holder claiming the opposite. So instead of finding Holder guilty, or even not guilty, Horowitz went that extra mile and found Holder completely innocent.
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‘Some Inspector Generals and special counsels in the past have shown rare courage in challenging superiors who have the capacity to destroy their careers. Sadly, Inspector General Horowitz does not appear to be one of them.
Gun Owners of America has focused, in particular, on the pathetic two-paragraph conclusion concerning Attorney General Eric Holder [on page 453] and have examined its validity — based on the extensive knowledge and participation of Gun Owners of America, as we have helped unearth this scandal.
The Inspector General (IG) exonerated Holder, not based on what the Attorney General knew or should have known … or what he constructively knew … or on what information was provided to him.
Rather, Holder was vindicated based on his ability to misstate facts so effectively there was little to nothing for the IG to “pin on him.”
The key sentence is on p. 453:
We determined that Attorney General Holder did not learn about Operation Fast and Furious until late January or early February 2011 …
In the next paragraph, comes the following statement:
Although the Office of the Attorney General received various weekly reports from components in the Department that mentioned Operation Fast and Furious, we found that Attorney General Holder did not personally review these reports at the time that his office received them and that his staff did not highlight them for his review. [p. 453]’
https://www.gunowners.org/igreportanalysis2012.htm
Holder re-interpreted the IG law to make the IG have to submit requests for any documents, and then if approved (and the testimony is that the requests only were approved if they supported something the AG wanted) issued a letter to any organization specifying what they were to turn over.
So...delay by weeks...specific warning to the investigated...specific permission needed to follow any leads deveolped...and refusal by the AG to turn over materials even under subpoena.
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Toothless IG will write stern report and no one will be held accountable.
Seen this way too many times.
When Washington wants to get you, it’s no-knock warrants, Charges of lying to the FBI are parlayed into more charges, and every weak person is exploited.
Here, they just want to be able to say they did something. That something is a toothless report.
I'll believe it when I actually see things happening. Up to this point, I'm seeing a wimpy AG getting rolled by Obama acolytes. Mueller's team is stacked with Hillary pals, Rosenstein is a Dem, the Utah judge is an Obama appointee, Horowitz is an Obama appointee - are they seriously suggesting that only these crooks can do the investigating? Sorry, but that isn't even remotely OK, and I doubt the outcome will do anything but favor the Deep State.
I have always believed that the spirit of the US Constitution determines that an informed, non-felon, mentally healthy true citizen of the U.S. outranks the power of any and all Federal elected or appointed criminal officials, and it is a capital offense, with no Statute of limitations.
Execution to be carried out within 90 days. No appeals. The "appearance of impropriety" shall finally have meaning. No more hillary-deer-in-the headlights fake "innocent" look!
Why?
Because these criminals literally have the power of life and death, physically or effectively, over all citizens.
Execution to occur after due process by a judicial system proven to be free of corruption or taint of conspiracy with other government agents or agencies.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson
Of course, in a perfect world, it would just be the blood of criminal tyrants.
His findings are what enabled the firing of McCabe.
Time will tell, but I’m not holding my breath.
‘His findings are what enabled the firing of McCabe.’
So Sessions is helpless and clueless without the IG? He had a year to investigate, but without Horowitz he couldn’t detect horse manure if he stepped in it? [HT to, Without a Clue.]
The FBI is under Sesdions’ purview. But again, sans Horowitz they are helpless. The only possible way for the DOJ/FBI to discover perjury is if Horowitz feeds them the info.
Smh.
Was the fake president Magic Negro Constitutionally empowered to do that?
I recall no findings of national interests fake, or otherwise, to do that.
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