Posted on 11/14/2019 6:12:08 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The Justice Department will reportedly not allow witnesses in the ongoing inspector general (IG) investigation into the origins of the probe into the Trump campaign and Russian interference into the 2016 election to submit written feedback on drafts of the final report.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that the restriction, which critics say could hamper the report's accuracy, comes as the entire IG report has been deemed top secret raising questions over the level of control the IG has over the report.
Sources familiar with the Justice Department's work on the report told the Post that it could be released after Thanksgiving, with witness interviews set to conclude by Nov. 21.
Trump and his allies argue that the investigation into his campaign started on false pretenses spread by an unverified dossier of supposed connections between then-candidate Trump and Russia, which was funded in part by lawyers for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Democrats are hoping that the review, ordered by Attorney General William Barr earlier this year, will prove that the investigation began due to comments made by a Trump campaign staffer to Australian diplomats concerning emails belonging to Clinton that the staffer and the Trump campaign wished to obtain.
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I said it would be between Thanksgiving and Christmas!
And all the delays are not a good sign.
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666D chess!
Of what year?
Whitewash thick enough to cover all these crimes takes time.
“witness interviews set to conclude by Nov. 21”
Whu? They’re not even done yet? But they said they were.
The only conclusion I can draw is that those who have been saying for so long that the release of he report is imminent don’t know their asses from page 8.
hmmm...
George Papadopoulos
@GeorgePapa19
Key players involved in spying on me and interfering in election for foreign governments: Alexander Downer and Joseph Mifsud, have begun to talk about their involvement with the US investigators over the past 72 hours. Criminal probe out for their bosses. They were errand boys.
“DOJ watchdog won’t let witnesses submit written feedback on investigation into Russia probe...”
DOJ watchpimp.
Horse Hockey!
“ Sources familiar with the Justice Department’s work on the report told the Post that it could be released after Thanksgiving, with witness interviews set to conclude by Nov. 21.”
It sounds like between Thanksgiving and Christmas. But, I’m pretty discouraged by these delays.
Right?! They said they were finished.
THE HAMMER IS THE KEY TO THE COUP
https://theamericanreport.org/2019/11/10/the-hammer-is-the-key-to-the-coup/
Since when have people under investigation been called “witnesses”?
Top Secret for the entire report?
Only if they found US Intel and DOJ/FBI seditiously conspired with multiple foreign nations to overturn the elective will of the American people.
That’s treason by any reasonable definition.
So, I guess that what the report says.
And we need to hang them for it in the streets.
If one paragraph is classified Top Secret, the entire report becomes Top Secret. Remove that paragraph, the report falls to the next highest classified paragraph(s). And so on. That's what redaction does to make the released report unclassified.
Typically the IG report would include recommendations for criminal referrals. But if Durham was already overseeing a criminal investigation, then this would clearly mean that a preliminary IG report had already been released internally in the DOJ to get that moving along. Importantly, it would also mean that the final IG report would also be likely to change as people who were mentioned by name might suddenly become cooperating witnesses and provide a treasure trove of information that wasn't available to the IG previously.
You may be right. I hope you’re right. But I can’t help but remember Chuck Grassley complaining about how it hasn’t been released yet.
This might be the first positive, in my opinion, that I’ve seen about the actual release of report.
Missed deadline after missed deadline.
The last promise was “before Thanksgiving”
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