The reasons the IG report has been delayed will delight Trump supporters

American Thinker ^ | 11/07/2019 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

The continuing delays in releasing the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the FISA warrant have discouraged a lot of conservatives. But according to Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, whose sources on the ongoing scandal have been excellent, the reasons behind the delay are entirely positive.  Yesterday they appeared on Lou Dobbs’s show on Fox Business Network, and laid it out. The video is embedded below, but AT contributor Mark Wauck laid out the substance and transcribed key portions in his blog, Meaning in History:

Dobbs starts it off by asking if we'll ever see the OIG FISA report, and there's a bit of kidding about dueling anonymous sources. The WaPo source says "by Thanksgiving," but another source says that's "not likely." Then they get into the substance. Two major takeaways:

1) The delay on the OIG FISA report is "partially" due to John Durham's new Grand Jury activity--which can only mean that Durham is already taking testimony from persons named in IG Horowitz's report, and

2) Durham is actively investigating the leak of the Flynn/Kislyak phone call to David Ignatius of the WaPo, which diGenova describes as "a 20 year felony." Ouch! Maybe that person--or persons--will want to go for a deal? But they'll have to have something truly major to offer. Something that Durham can't get without their cooperation. And count on it

So, the transcript in relevant part--which means, virtually all of it:

Victoria Toensing: I can tell you this, and we have darn good sources for this, it [the OIG FISA report] is going to be very bad for the people in the Obama administration. My source said to me, "It's going to be worse than you can imagine." 

[lilypad]

I watched this yesterday with delight.

[Seruzawa]

MOFOs need to stop this. Enough with the clickbait.

[tomkat]

<fingers crossed>

[LS]

Joe DiG was the guy who said Bill Clinto came apart in his deposition, turned red in the face. All bunk.

[shelterguy]

Hold the football, Lucy. I’ll kick it for real this time.

[rigelkentaurus]

Worse than I can imagine? Don’t know about that, I have quite the imagination when it comes to Rat wrong doing and criminal activity.

[BuckeyeGOP]

regarding release of the IG report.... the credibility tank is completely empty. How anyone can believe anything regarding it is beyond me.

Bartiromo is last person to get burnt taking the bait. Quite frankly if I were Hannity I wouldn’t even mention it again until it’s physically in his hands.

[Alberta's Child]

Sorry, but I'm not buying this at all.

This item jumped out at me:

Durham is actively investigating the leak of the Flynn/Kislyak phone call to David Ignatius of the WaPo, which diGenova describes as "a 20 year felony."

My understanding is that leaking the contents of such a phone call might be "a 20 year felony" under normal circumstances, but that this would not apply to the Flynn/Kislyak call because it was placed by Flynn while he was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

U.S. law would probably not provide any protection for Flynn in this case. And on top of that, I really have to question the intelligence of a "national security expert" who places such a sensitive call on his mobile phone in a Third World sh!t-hole like the Dominican Republic.

That last point is critical here, because there's more than a small chance that the call was leaked to the Washington Post from a foreign source.

[dfwgator]

Hold the football, Lucy. I’ll kick it for real this time.

"OK, that's the last time you're gonna pull that crap...DO YOU HEAR ME? DO YOU HEAR ME?"

[BushCountry]

Since when do you need an IG report to arrest anyone? Like never.

[CodeToad]

Not having prosecutions so far has hurt this country greatly. The rule of law is so broken that the democraps are holding communist style coups to overthrow the election of 2016, failing to allow a peaceful transfer of power to the newly elected president since George Washington left office.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Trust the plan!! Go 17th letter of the English alphabet go!

[daler]

If (a big if) something ever actually comes of these investigations, such as indictments of deep-staters, won’t the location of their trials be a yuge factor?

Haven’t there recently been a number of clearly corrupt Democrats acquitted by beltway juries?

[kosciusko51]

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

[AndyJackson]

NSA surveillance is born TS / SCI /SPECAT. This is not about protecting Flynn, but highly classified information.

[FtrPilot]

That last point is critical here, because there's more than a small chance that the call was leaked to the Washington Post from a foreign source.

I have to wonder if the "foreign source" was Joseph Mifsud. My guess is that capturing Mifsud's cell phones allowed Durham to connect a lot of dots.

I am cautiously optimistic.

[SaxxonWoods]

Joe “Two Weeks” Genova has made how much money telling the same thing for over a year?

[ChildOfThe60s]

I have ceased to take any of this crapolla seriously.

Unless there is a *massive* take down of these traitors [soon] we, the republic, are finished. And this take down is not going to happen.

The...Republican...Party...will...not...allow...it.

The Dems will come back & do this again, and next time will make this coup attempt look like small potatoes. They will steamroll everything.

[bigbob]

It will produce more juvenile pissing and moaning from FReepers who don’t understand things however.