the beginning of the end I.G. Horowitz Report Thread

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Reporters snapped photos of Barr and Trump during their animated meeting in the White House.

 

 

Earlier this week there were rumblings that the Inspector General’s report was going through the final stages before it is released.
Inspector General Horowitz has been working on the report for over a year.

 

There were reports late in the summer that Prosecutor John Durham’s criminal investigation was delaying the release of the IG report.

Washington Examiner reporter Steven Nelson reported on President Trump’s late departure from the White House following his meeting with AG Bill Barr.

 

 

President Trump delayed his departure and sat down with Communications Director Stephanie Grisham, Hogan Gidley, Mulvaney and others.

President Trump called in Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.

 

 

President Trump and Pat Cipollone entered the private study to talk.

 

 

President Trump left for his Louisiana campaign rally 45 minutes late.

 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

I think that this is about to come to fruition. And furthermore, several people are about to be charged with 

multiple criminal violations and some even with TREASON. These leftest monsters can play their games

of double speak and manipulations all they want but Hilldabeast said it best, " If that f-ing Bastard wins we're all going to hang".

There are serious signs that her statement is coming true. 

 

Yesterday morning around 8 am William Barr met with President Trump and top White House officials 

in what has been described as a very animated conversation.

 

 

Then later the same evening William Barr made this statement. 

The important thing to remember here is that Barr is the Attorney General and 

that his job is Upholding the law. 

 

 

 

[CSM (R) Thack]

59 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

I think that this is about to come to fruition. And furthermore, several people are about to be charged with 

multiple criminal violations and some even with TREASON. These leftest monsters can play their games

of double speak and manipulations all they want but Hilldabeast said it best, " If that f-ing Bastard wins we're all going to hang".

There are serious signs that her statement is coming true. 

 

Yesterday morning around 8 am William Barr met with President Trump and top White House officials 

in what has been described as a very animated conversation.

 

 

Then later the same evening William Barr made this statement. 

The important thing to remember here is that Barr is the Attorney General and 

that his job is Upholding the law. 

 

 

 

Agreed!!👍🇺🇸

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Again remember that the behavior he's calling out it's his duty to deal with the violations. 

 

 

Barr recounted numerous significant instances in which a coalition of primarily unelected bureaucrats have obstructed Trump's use of presidential powers to an extent they never have for any other president.

By Joy Pullmann

 

The anti-Trump “resistance” is projecting their own disregard for self-government and the rule of law onto President Trump, thereby crippling Americans’ control of their governments, argued U.S. Attorney General William Barr before a convention of originalist lawyers on Friday.

This “resistance,” Barr said, immediately after Trump’s election chose to use “every tool and maneuver available to sabotage” his use of the powers the American people chose to give him. “nstead of viewing themselves as the ‘loyal opposition,’ as opposing parties have done in the past, they essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple, by any means necessary, a duly elected government.

 

At the annual Federalist Society convention, Barr recounted numerous significant instances in which a coalition heavily comprised of unelected bureaucrats, such as judges and federal employees, have obstructed Trump’s use of presidential powers as they never have for any other president. He gave as an example the use of nationwide injunctions against Trump, in which one regional judge assumes the power to dictate presidential prerogatives, such as U.S. foreign policy.

Since President Trump took office, district courts have issued over 40 nationwide injunctions against the government. By comparison, during President Obama’s first two years, district courts issued a total of two nationwide injunctions against the government. Both were vacated by the Ninth Circuit.

It is no exaggeration to say that virtually every major policy of the Trump Administration has been subjected to immediate freezing by the lower courts. No other President has been subjected to such sustained efforts to debilitate his policy agenda.

Barr also mentioned Democrats’ recent dramatic uptick in using a Senate procedure known as cloture to block Trump from another presidential prerogative: nominating people to federal positions and and them receiving an up or down vote.

As of September of this year, the Senate had been forced to invoke cloture on 236 Trump nominees — each of those representing its own massive consumption of legislative time meant only to delay an inevitable confirmation. How many times was cloture invoked on nominees during President Obama’s first term? 17 times. The Second President Bush’s first term? Four times. It is reasonable to wonder whether a future President will actually be able to form a functioning administration if his or her party does not hold the Senate.

Barr didn’t even name Democrats’ so-called “impeachment inquiry” or Russia collusion hoax as other major fabricated distractions from conducting the nation’s business. He did reference the massive amount of records demanded partly in pursuit of impeachment as “constant harassment” aiming to make it impossible for Trump or even Congress to govern.

I do not deny that Congress has some implied authority to conduct oversight as an incident to its Legislative Power. But the sheer volume of what we see today – the pursuit of scores of parallel ‘investigations’ through an avalanche of subpoenas – is plainly designed to incapacitate the Executive Branch, and indeed is touted as such.

He did point out that due to the left’s choice to conduct bureaucratic shenanigans rather than take their arguments to the American people to implement their policies by winning elections, President Trump has been stuck having to carry out President Obama’s signature immigration policy, which Trump campaigned against and is illegal. That would be Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, in which Obama unilaterally suspended the law requiring illegally present noncitizens to be returned to the countries where they hold citizenship.

Thus a single unelected judge appointed by the opposition party has seized control of the nation’s immigration policy for now three years despite an election in which the American people voted for a man who promised to reverse that policy to instead follow the actual law.

“…President Trump will have spent almost his entire first term enforcing President Obama’s signature immigration policy, even though that policy is discretionary and half the Supreme Court concluded that a legally indistinguishable policy was unlawful,” Barr noted. “That is not how our democratic system is supposed to work.”

Democrats have spent decades insisting they care about “democracy,” a conceptual stand-in for the American birthright of self-government. The United States was created as a unique country in which the sovereignty, or the power of deciding the laws that rule our lives, is located in the people, not in government officials. We delegate some of our power to representatives to do our bidding, as we express that will over time and after thoughtful public discussion.

Through more than a century of slow institutional warfare, however, the left has steadily sought to convert the rule of the whole people into the rule of the connected few who adhere to the left’s ideology. This is why bureaucracy is not neutral. It is a political weapon that fights for the left.

Despite all their placarding about “democracy,” the left’s mask has slipped. It’s now obvious that Democrats don’t believe in the political process when it doesn’t give them the “right” answer. If the political process yields a President Trump, they insist it’s time to trash the political processes that made that possible. It’s time to dissolve the people and elect another. It’s time to forum-shop for the “right” judge or the “right” “whistleblower.” It’s their way or the highway.

“The fact is that this Administration’s policy initiatives and proposed rules, including the Travel Ban, have transgressed neither constitutional, nor traditional, norms, and have been amply supported by the law and patiently litigated through the Court system to vindication,” Barr said. “…The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of ‘Resistance’ against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law.”

Nice little business ya got there. You wouldn’t want the IRS, or OSHA, or the EPA to “inspect” it into oblivion, would you? Nice little kids ya got there. You wouldn’t want them to be outed as hating haters who hate male-bodied girls, would you? Nice little election you voted in there. You didn’t really mean to pull the lever for that insane orange man, did you?

The left has no faith in their fellow citizens’ right to choose our own representatives, have a say in our own laws, and make local decisions in as many affairs as possible. In other words, they have no faith in America itself, for self-government is the very heart of the United States’s identity. Yet if we don’t govern ourselves, we the people no longer truly exist.

And right now, self-government’s biggest enemy is the administrative state, which is now openly waging political war against the elected president whose step into the room has brought all the rats scurrying out from under the rug to “testify” on CNN. Let’s hope Barr and a whole lot of other people are taking their names and, if they ever end up actually legislating, the first thing Republicans in Congress do is rightsize these department’s budgets — to zero.

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Get ready for a tsunami of Mass Shootings. 

 

 

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AG Barr’s US Attorney John Durham is reportedly digging deeper into the Deep State actions in 2015 through 2017 related to candidate and President Trump.  Durham reported traveled to Italy for a third time last week and he’s also reportedly looking into actions in the Pentagon as well.

Sara Carter reported US Attorney Durham is now investigating personnel in the Pentagon.

ustice Department prosecutor U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning personnel connected to the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, which awarded multiple contracts to FBI informant Stephan Halper. Halper, who was informing the bureau on Trump campaign advisors, is a central figure in the FBI’s original investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, SaraACarter.com has learned.

These latest developments reveal the expansive nature of what is now a Justice Department criminal probe into the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign. The revelation also comes on the heels of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report regarding the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, announced to Fox News’ Sean Hannity Wednesday night the lengthy investigative report will be released to the public on Dec., 9.

The Washington Examiner reported that Iowa Senator Grassley requested information from the Pentagon and received an inadequate reply –

 

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to then-acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper earlier this month seeking details about contracts the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment had with Stefan Halper, a former Republican operative and White House aide who became a foreign policy academic with close ties to both American and British intelligence.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Halper had discussions with at least three Trump campaign members: foreign policy aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page as well as Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis. The New York Times reported in April that the Justice Department inspector general was looking into his actions to see if he exceeded the scope of his assignment.

Grassley’s letter, which cited concerns about whether the defense contracts “were used to support potential partisan political or other improper or wasteful activities,” set a July 25 deadline. And while the Defense Department responded to the Iowa Republican’s demand, Grassley’s office said the department’s response was inadequate.

We know and have reported that Halper was also involved with and had discussions with a fourth Trump campaign associate and that was General Michael Flynn, the war hero and President Trump’s National Security Advisor.  Halper set up Flynn in December 2015.  He invited Flynn to London to an event and Halper seated the General right next to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  This was then used by the Deep State to tie candidate Trump to the Russians.

At that meal in London in 2015 there were two individuals who spied on General Flynn.  Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud was also in attendance.  The Obama Deep State was already spying on candidate Trump in late 2015 as we first reported in June 2018.

Now it’s being reported by Italian media that US Attorney Durham took his third trip to Italy related to his investigation into the Deep State’s 2015-16 actions-

This comes as a former FBI employee is accused of altering FISA documents and is under criminal investigation by Durham.

 

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Washington(CNN)A former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, several people briefed on the matter told CNN.

The possibility of a substantive change to an investigative document is likely to fuel accusations from President Donald Trump and his allies that the FBI committed wrongdoing in its investigation of connections between Russian election meddling and the Trump campaign. After CNN first reported on the investigation, the Washington Post reported that the inspector general concluded the alteration did not change the validity of the surveillance application.

The finding is expected to be part of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's review of the FBI's effort to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide. Horowitz will release the report next month.

Horowitz turned over evidence on the allegedly altered document to John Durham, the federal prosecutor appointed early this year by Attorney General William Barr to conduct a broad investigation of intelligence gathered for the Russia probe by the CIA and other agencies, including the FBI. The altered document is also at least one focus of Durham's criminal probe.

It's unknown how significant a role the altered document played in the FBI's investigation of Page. The alterations were significant enough to have shifted the document's meaning and came up during a part of Horowitz's FISA review where details were classified, according to the sources. According to the Washington Post, it did not change Horowitz's finding that the FISA application had a legal basis.

Some witnesses who have been interviewed in Horowitz's investigation have said they expect the inspector general to find mistakes in the FBI's handling of the FISA process, but that those mistakes do not undermine the premise for the FBI's investigation.

American intelligence agencies and the Justice Department have not swayed from their finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 election by hacking the Democrats and spreading pro-Trump propaganda online. And even former top Trump campaign officials have corroborated special counsel Robert Mueller's finding that the Trump campaign planned some of its strategy around the Russian hacks, and had multiple contacts with Kremlin-linked individuals in 2016.

Horowitz's investigators conducted more than 100 witness interviews in their review. During one of interviews this year, they confronted the witness about the document. The witness admitted to the change, the sources said.

The lawyer, who was a line attorney, is no longer working at the bureau, said a person familiar with the matter. A line attorney is a lower level lawyer within the FBI.

No charges that could reflect the situation have been filed publicly in court.

The Justice Department and inspector general's office declined to comment.

 

Horowitz report

 

Horowitz is expected to release his report on December 9 and testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee two days later.

The internal, independent investigator so far, over several reports, has criticized top members of the FBI for their actions leading up to and during the Russia investigation. Those IG reports have looked at situations including former FBI Director James Comey's handling of his personal memos about meetings with the President and former official Peter Strzok's anti-Trump text messages.

A finding of alleged wrongdoing from Horowitz could further fuel Republican criticism and conspiracies about previous investigators' targeting of Trump associates. It could also provide them a political boost at a moment where Democrats' impeachment investigation into Trump's political quid pro quo with Ukraine has battered the President.

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12 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

..............................Horowitz's finding that the FISA application had a legal basis.

Some witnesses who have been interviewed in Horowitz's investigation have said they expect the inspector general to find mistakes in the FBI's handling of the FISA process, but that those mistakes do not undermine the premise for the FBI's investigation.

American intelligence agencies and the Justice Department have not swayed from their finding that Russia............

 

Somebody should remind I.G. Horowitz that if his findings don't lead to indictments......he may find himself atop the Never Trumper stockpile.  As always, just my opinion.

 

GO RV, then BV

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The Washington Post published another alleged leak on Monday one week prior to the release of the Inspector General report on the Obama administration’s spying on the Trump campaign in 2016.

 

Deep State operatives, Democrats and their far left media are working feverishly to diffuse the effect of the momentous report before its release.

According to the Washington Post Barr does not agree with IG that the Obama deep state had justification to spy on the Trump campaign and Trump Transition Team in 2016.

Barr may include a formal letter in the report or may publicly state his concern.

 

Read more

 

 

It certainly should be a grave concern to every American that the DOJ and FBI can spy on their political opponents during a campaign. If that is the future for America we are no better than a banana republic.

There will be millions of Americans who will not agree with an IG report that allows the coup perpetrators to walk free.

The Washington Post reported:

Attorney General William Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report – that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, is due to release his long-awaited findings in a week, but behind the scenes at the Justice Department, disagreement has surfaced about one of Horowitz’s central conclusions on the origins of the Russia investigation. The discord could be the prelude to a major fissure within federal law enforcement on the controversial question of investigating a presidential campaign.

Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz’s rationale for concluding that the FBI had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31, 2016, these people said.

Barr’s public defenses of President Donald Trump, including his assertion that intelligence agents spied on the Trump campaign, have led Democrats to accuse him of acting like the president’s personal attorney and eroding the independence of the Justice Department. But Trump and his Republican Barr’s public defenses of President Donald Trump, including his assertion that intelligence agents spied on the Trump campaign, have led Democrats to accuse him of acting like the president’s personal attorney and eroding the independence of the Justice Department. But Trump and his Republican allies have cheered Barr’s skepticism of the Russia investigation.

 

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"Obama corrupted everything he could touch"

 

And Trump has bankrupted everything he touches and the sad part he is now touching America... He's just piling on the debt and turning on our trade partners and China is moving in... I'm glad he doesn't make deals for me and my family.

 

B/A

[MyLadiesDaddy]

If ya still think nothing will come of the Horowitz  and Duram report's just remember "Ya don't put on a condom unless your gonna "

 

 

 

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Something tells me that the days of the Democratic rule is coming to and end,

Remember, President Trump calls his actions Traitorous. 

 

 

On the exact same day that the media confirmed that U.S. Attorney John Durham has begun investigating disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan’s role in disseminating the fraudulent Steele dossier, eleven of the most radical House Democrats signed a letter demanding he drop his “sham” investigation and resign.

Addressed to both Durham and Attorney General Bill Barr, the letter by radical Democrats such as Sheila Jackson Lee, Rashida Tlaib and Pramila Jayapal accused both men of being partisan hacks and derided the Russia predicate probe as a “sham.”

That Democrats would attack Barr was not unusual. They’ve been pining for him ever since the climactic release of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s collusion report last spring.

But that they’ve now begun targeting Durham — a renowned legal authority who’d performed work for the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations — is stunning.

They submitted the letter on Dec. 19, the same day that The New York Times confirmed that Durham “has begun examining the role of the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia’s 2016 election interference.”

“[Durham] has requested Mr. Brennan’s emails, call logs and other documents from the C.I.A.,” the Times reported. “He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.’s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.”

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According to the Times’ sources, Durham is also “examining whether Mr. Brennan privately contradicted his public comments, including May 2017 testimony to Congress, about both the dossier and about any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on Russia’s interference.”

It sounds like retired U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova may have been correct when he predicted last spring that Brennan would need at least “five” lawyers to defend himself once the lid blew off of the Russia “coup.”

The House Democrats letter about Durham began by accusing him of trying to undermine Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s findings regarding now-proven FISA abuse by the FBI.

“John Durham has also consistently attempted to undermine the legitimacy of the OIG report and the top law enforcement agencies in our country in the defense of Donald Trump,” the troop of radical Democrats wrote.

While Horowitz’s report outlined over a dozen “fundamental errors” that FBI officials committed during their probe of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, it stopped short of accusing the officials of having made these “errors” out of political bias.

Both Barr and Durham disagreed with this assessment, as did the president:

 

 

 

 

And they did so justifiably, as it was never in Horowitz’ mandate to determine political bias. It was in his mandate only to determine whether the FISA process was flawed. The question of political bias has instead been left to Durham to investigate.

And this leads to the Democrats’ next complaint, which is that Durham has “opened his own sham investigation into the legitimate work of the FBI.”

“Mr. Durham spoke openly about the investigation as it was ongoing, and more damningly claims to have access to additional evidence not available to the Office of the Inspector General, further vandalizing the credibility of the OIG report,” they wrote.

“Mr. Barr, your course of conduct makes clear your allegiance is to Donald Trump over the Department of Justice and American people that you serve,” the letter concludes. ” You are unfit to hold the position of Attorney General and your dedication to eroding public trust in our legal systems represents the antithesis of what a Justice Department official should be.”

“Mr. Durham is equally as complicit in this mission and together your actions demonstrate that neither of you possess the integrity necessary to serve in the Department of Justice.”

These radical Democrats aren’t the only ones upset over Durham doing his job.

 

“I find this troubling and I suspect many inside the intelligence community do as well,” retired CIA operative John Sipher whined to Politico this week in regard to Durham’s new focus on Brennan. “[The probe] was initiated and sold in a partisan manner and this news only highlights that concern.”

Judging by his Twitter feed, Sipher is a far-left zealot. One who, ironically enough, thinks that the president is a “whiner” …

And one who, not surprisingly enough, has been one of the intelligence community’s staunchest defenders throughout the Russia probe.

Back in 2017, for instance, he claimed that the Steele dossier would never be used as part of an official report:

 

Two years later, Horowitz’s findings have proven that claim to be 100 percent false. What remains to be seen is what other claims will be proven false once Durham completes his own so-called “sham” investigation.

 

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Sounds like 11 more investigations need to be started. 

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