Did you read it? IG makes no recommendations either way on any prosecutions. THAT'S NOT HIS JOB. Unlike a certain former FBI Director who made it his job to give a recommendation, Horowitz stays out of this.
His recommendations are related to FBI behavior, which IS HIS JOB… and notable, Wray and the FBI accept every. single. one.
Including that Comey was insubordinate. So much for a "Higher Loyalty".
^^^^ This!
Not the OIG's job.
This is important; this is only one piece of the puzzle.
Yep. And if you read the FBI's response, they have referred certain individuals to their internal processes for "discipline" (aka, termination).
Redacted (a) doesn't necessarily mean black lines everywhere.. and (b) there's two whole fucking appendices that have been redacted!
Read the report again. He wasn't required to recuse because the ethics office didn't say he had to. He DID report it; they said nothingburger because there was no policy in place for this scenario (one of the recommendations).
Anyone can see he should have recused based purely on everything that happened (perception-wise) when he didn't, which the report addresses. But McCabe did what he was REQUIRED to do. (These guys know the playbook inside out… they wrote it!)
It's in there, multiple times.
Simple. They believe it was outside the boundaries of the investigation. (The report even notes this.) So… based on everything I have read so far in the document, the door is not only ajar, but widely open, for the investigation to be re-opened as there are CLEARLY places that they didn't go but should have done.
You are assuming he got a phone call…
Page 66, referring to Obama's 60 Minutes interview where he called Clinton's use of private email server "a mistake":
Department prosecutors also were concerned. Responding to an email from
Laufman about Obama’s 60 Minutes interview, Toscas stated, “Saw this. And as
[one of the prosecutors] and I discussed last week, of course it had no—and will
never have any—effect whatsoever on our work and our independent judgment.”
Prosecutor 4 told the OIG that Obama’s statement was the genesis of the FBI’s
suspicions that the Department’s leadership was politically biased. This prosecutor
stated, “I know that the FBI considered those [statements] inappropriate. And that
it…[generated] a suspicion that there was a political bias…going on from the
Executive Branch.”
Noooooo. You think?
Got 702 reauthorized.
Door is ——→ way
Ad? The report covers the period PRIOR to the election… she didn't work for the DOJ during that time