Posted on 05/21/2018 1:14:24 PM PDT by jerod
WASHINGTON (AP) — An upcoming report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog is expected to criticize senior FBI leaders for not moving quickly enough to review a trove of Hillary Clinton emails discovered late in the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with findings.
The FBI's timing has been a sore point for Clinton supporters, who say then-director James Comey's announcement of the review less than two weeks before the Nov. 8, 2016, election contributed to her loss. The agency's findings affirming their decision not to pursue criminal charges against Clinton were disclosed two days before the vote — too late, her supporters say, to undo the damage.
Some FBI officials knew in September 2016 of the emails on former Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop but the bureau did not obtain a warrant to review them until the following month. Clinton supporters say the candidate's name could have been cleared much faster if the FBI acted on the emails as soon as they knew about them.
An inspector general report examining a broad range of FBI actions during the Clinton email investigation will criticize officials, including Comey, for not moving fast enough to examine the email trove and for a weekslong delay in getting a warrant, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press....
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An upcoming report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog...
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Expected to be released on Labor Day. Timing the report’s release on holiday is strongly suggestive of protecting the agency.
Oppps, correction: I meant Memorial Day.
FBI and CIA leaders are going to get thrown under the bus before key Senators, Congressmen, IRS, State Dept and DOJ get implicated.
Hey, they moved quick enough once McCabe admitted to having the new material from Weinie and Huma’s computer.
How fast did they review those 650,000 (IIRC) documents? 3 days?
That must be some sort of record for speed reading!
Actually, it would serve the interest of the Deep State for the IG to blame the Clinton people for delay in access.
Hillary’s time is past and new players want her out of the spotlight anyway, and the FBI/DOJ insiders want to dodge any responsibility.
Just as your humble (okay, maybe not-so-humble) scribe predicted.
I said the other day the OIG report would focus on how Hillary got screwed.
The report would fault Comey for publicly announcing that Hillary's emails were on Weiner's unsecure laptop close before an election.
Comey's defense would be that if only McCabe had told him earlier about the Hillary emails, he could have cleared Hillary in early October, weeks before the election.
And the report will fault Comey for going into details about Hillary's conduct instead of simply exonerating her and leaving it at that. (Comey's defense: I had to at least give the impression we really did seriously look at her conduct or no one would believe it wasn't fixed.)
Uh, are they saying that it’s the FBI’s fault that they didn’t act quickly enough to stop Hillary from bleach-biting her homebrew bathroom mail server?
Hey, it was just an honest difference of opinion on strategy by two long-time federal law enforcement officials.
McCabe wanted to protect Hillary by sitting on them until after the election.
Comey wanted to protect Hillary by doing a quickie sham review of the emails and then ‘clearing’ her well before the election.
Notice how today Rosenstein referred the matter of Obama’s FBI planting a spy in the Trump camping to IG, instead of to a ‘Special Prosecutor’.
An Inspector General produces reports and makes suggestions.
And a Special Prosecutor lays charges, threatens witnesses and can generally reek havoc on those they are investigating.
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department Inspector General has agreed to investigate reports that claim the Obama administration placed an FBI informant inside the Trump campaign, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The request was made by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
I.E. When investigating Clinton, Obama, etc... Refer it to the IG. When investigating Trump, refer it to a Special Prosecutor.
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Rosenstein runs every single decision by Mueller, even non-Russia related strategy.
Sessions is AWOL.
This is per DeSantis and what witnesses have told them. He was in the Radio in DC today.
Rosenstein = saboteur
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I think that word on the street is out that it is going to be very bad for Democrats and the Deep State. If that is the case then creating as much confusing spin so the public doesn't understand the scope and direction of the report when it is released is probably the best Democratic Party strategy. Kind of a Fog of War approach to public relations. If the fog is too great, the sheep will not be able to understand the truth.
Yeah the AP wants you to believe the main take away from this report is going to be it took the FBI too long to review Hillary’s emails and released the results too late in the campaign and that cost her the election. Well we will see but I will be surprised as heck if that is the major criticism and only fault they find in how this was handled. Fact is the AP is about as reliable a sourceon thing Hillary as Ma Barker was about her sons foibles.
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