The Inspector General Michael Horowitz is testifying to a Senate committee today. I've heard three different media reports, and in each one, the only thing mentioned is that Horowitz's report declared that he did not find political bias in the work of the FBI in seeking to get FISA warrants and investigating if there was any relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia.
This slant from the media is totally misleading. As I wrote the other day, the IG didn't conclude that there was no political bias. He only concluded that none of the people involved admitted that there was bias and there were no documents in which bias was admitted. It doesn't matter, though, since the mainstream media is content to twist what the IG said in order to protect the Democrats.
Consider this, however. The IG found 17 instances of failures by the FBI and DOJ to follow the mandated procedures with regard to the seeking of a FISA warrant. That's pretty slipshod work. But here's the point: all 17 of the "errors" went one way only. All 17 of the "errors" pushed the FISA court towards granting the FISA warrant or the renewal of that warrant. These "errors" included items like an FBI lawyer modifying emails/text messages so that they would support the renewal request for the warrant. That's presenting fraudulent documents to the court, and it is a felony. It's rather hard to call that an error. There's no lawyer of any sort who thinks that creating phony documents and presenting them to a court is permissible. The lawyer in question knew what he was doing was both illegal and wrong. This same lawyer was vocal in his support for the anti-Trump resistance. That's about as strong an indication of political bias as one can imagine.
Many of the other "errors" are of a similar nature. They individually indicate political bias, but taken together they conclusively indicate political bias in the FBI and DOJ.
This slant from the media is totally misleading. As I wrote the other day, the IG didn't conclude that there was no political bias. He only concluded that none of the people involved admitted that there was bias and there were no documents in which bias was admitted. It doesn't matter, though, since the mainstream media is content to twist what the IG said in order to protect the Democrats.
Consider this, however. The IG found 17 instances of failures by the FBI and DOJ to follow the mandated procedures with regard to the seeking of a FISA warrant. That's pretty slipshod work. But here's the point: all 17 of the "errors" went one way only. All 17 of the "errors" pushed the FISA court towards granting the FISA warrant or the renewal of that warrant. These "errors" included items like an FBI lawyer modifying emails/text messages so that they would support the renewal request for the warrant. That's presenting fraudulent documents to the court, and it is a felony. It's rather hard to call that an error. There's no lawyer of any sort who thinks that creating phony documents and presenting them to a court is permissible. The lawyer in question knew what he was doing was both illegal and wrong. This same lawyer was vocal in his support for the anti-Trump resistance. That's about as strong an indication of political bias as one can imagine.
Many of the other "errors" are of a similar nature. They individually indicate political bias, but taken together they conclusively indicate political bias in the FBI and DOJ.
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