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SUMMARY OF OIG REPORT PAGES 161-180

This block starts with a backpedaling of the imfamous "loaded for bear" comment and what it actually meant.

10:52 p.m., Page: "One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. You think she's going to remember or care that it was more doj than fbi?"

10:56 p.m., Strzok: "Agreed."

The common-sense interpretation is that they were worried about pissing off a notoriously vile and bloodthirsty crime boss whose presidential run was backed by all the dark powers in the universe.

The whitewashed interpretation is that Page didn't want to spook Hillary Clinton by having 50 agents at her interview. Clinton should be handled the same way as anyone else interviewed by the FBI. Her presidential run was irrelevant. Pages 161-164 expound on this point, with some added details:

-McCabe says he dindu nuffin (p. 162).

-Standard practice is 2 interviewing agents. They ended up having 4, plus 4 prosecutors. They say this is proof there was no intent to go easy on Clinton, nor was such a thing ever discussed (p. 162).

-They say the FBI had already completed their investigation before the interview and concluded that there was insufficient evidence to convict Clinton unless she confessed or lied (p. 163).

-One of the interviewers (Agent 1) texted "You should know;…. that I'm…. with her." and that he was "adamantly opposed" to being forced to deal with 20+ people demanding disparate information (p. 163). He later said he wasn't sure what he originally meant by this (p. 164).

-None of the eight people interviewing Clinton expressed concerns about how the interview was conducted (p. 164).

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Pages 165-170 mainly describe the FBI's reluctance to make anything stick to Clinton:

-Clinton had previously denied having used a personal server in order to avoid Federal requirements. She played clueless about her computer knowledge, blaming everything on her flunkies (p. 165).

-She claimed she didn't know that "(C)" meant Classified, an assertion which Agent 1 "filed in the bucket of hard to impossible to believe". Lying to the FBI would be a crime for anyone else, but Agent 1 (and others) chose to ignore this (p. 166)

-Clinton had five attorneys at the interview, including Mills and Samuelson, who were also witnesses. This looks dodgy (p. 167).

-Putting Clinton before a grand jury was one way of avoiding the issue with the two lawyers, but there was no will to put her before a grand jury, and the lawyer issue wasn't important enough to justify this (p. 169).

-Investigators were concerned a grand jury would have needed to go through clearance to hear classified information. They were concerned that using a grand jury would have been disproportionate to the case. They were concerned that it would not change the outcome, but would make the FBI look bad. Laufman said "We did not think this was worth blowing up the investigation, and, and creating what almost certainly would have become a matter of public knowledge that we had suddenly issued a grand jury subpoena to the Secretary at this stage of the national electoral process." (p. 169).

-Comey didn't think there was much of a case (p. 170).

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Pages 170-177 are about the investigation into Strozk and Page's texts and political bias. This is the FBI investigating itself, with predictable results:

-They chose to stick to the contents of the official FBI Midyear File, and not do any interviews, or look at any messages, emails, or handwritten notes! (p. 171).

-No substantial investigative oversight was found (p. 171), although this conclusion may have been based on insufficnent information (p. 172).

-There was concern that running the investigation out of the Counterintelligence Division might have limited its power, although there was no precedent for using the more powerful Crimminal Investigative Division (p. 172).

-Classified information was improperly stored on Clinton's email server and it was transmitted to foreign agents. "The treatment of the investigation as a traditional espionage matter rather than a criminal investigation significantly hindered the ability of the investigative team to obtain full, accurate and timely information." (p. 173).

-Agent 1 complained that because he was stuck in a SCIF all day during the midyear investigation, he used instant messaging for "stress relief", venting about work frustrations with his then-girlfriend, Agent 5. (p. 174). In one of these candid messages, he stated "Have a really bad feeling about this…this case…situation…. No control and horrible decisions and chaos on the most meaningless thing I’ve ever done with people acting like fucking 9/11." (p. 174). There are other messages in which he complains about the Midyear investigation being politicized (p. 175-176).

-On February 4, 2016, Agent 1 said he got one of Clinton's flunkies lying about being in her personal SCIF and handling classified documents. He complained that nothing will be done about it. (p. 176).

-My general impression of Agent 1 is that he knows Clinton committed crimes but he is still "with her".

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Pages 177-180 are about the OIG trying to determine if the FBI acted reasonably during the Midyear investigation:

-The OIG is "dissapointed" in the degree to which Agent 1 and Attorney 2 expressed political views regarding those under investigation. Others involved in the investigation were professional (p. 177).

-Strozk and Page showed bias, a desire to stop Trump, and increased aggressiveness relative to peers (p. 178). This has clouded the FBI's reputation, but the OIG found no evidence that the FBI's actions were inspired by bias (LOL)

-The File Review report had a number of inaccuracies due to limited information when the FBI investigated itself (p. 178).

-Strozk may have been biased in his decision that the Russia investigation was more important than Anthony Weiner's laptop (p. 178). Of course, we know that the Russia investigation was a witch hunt from the beginning and Weiner's laptop contains horrifying proof that pedophiles secretly rule the world.

-Prosecutors favored consent-based legal processes. Some FBI agents disagreed with this but the OIG found that there were legitimate reasons for it, mainly a desire to complete the investigation before the election (p. 179). They were also not certain that they could justify probable cause- WTF (p. 180).

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TL; DR

Hillary is a liar. The FBI is politicized and they take over investigations and turn them into coverups. Of course we all know this already. The OIG report is simultaneously damning and too soft.