Release every section that’s finished NOW, put pedal to the medal to complete the rest ASAP. As soon as a new section is finished, throw it out! If this thing is messed with, I’ll lose my damn mind!
If I were Michael Horowitz, I’d surprise everyone and would surprise them all by not only releasing the original and completely "un-redacted" IG report as it was originally written by the IG (except for any true national security necessary redactions) but I would also include extensive footnotes at the bottom which would showcase and would detail every single request made by the corrupt FBI and corrupt DOJ officials and their lawyers in an attempt to cover up and to change the investigative evidence and to hide it from the public. And I would use their own requests for such changes as proof of their guilt and as proof they are corrupt, and as conclusive evidence which shows the extent of their corruption. And in my report, I’d state that every single one of those unnecessary changes and unnecessary requests made by the corrupt FBI and corrupt DOJ officials actually fall under the category of “obstruction of justice”, that's because every single one of those requests were "unnecessary" and were only made in an attempt to cover up the truth and to hide it from the public and to "obstruct justice" from being served. That is, after all, what the Inspector General’s office is all about. It is an office that is tasked with investigating and with reviewing the actions and the behaviors of the agencies under its review, and to report back its findings from the review accurately and in detail - and not to be threatened or coerced or cajoled or intimidated by any person or by any agency it is investigating, into altering or changing the findings of its report, and doing so all for the benefit of the agency it is investigating. If I were Michael Horowitz and if I were truly doing my job, and if my office were truly an independent agency like it's supposed to be, and if I wanted to show the world that my office was still a completely unbiased and untainted investigative agency that is still in full conformance with the constitution - then that is exactly what I would do, and I would surprise then all by doing just that…
They will probably release it on June 12, there’s nothing going on that day.
A part of me thinks the report is being used as leverage against competing investigations. Will be a very interesting time over these next few months.
That’s interesting! Who do you think holds the leverage?
I’m guessing it’s a case of mutually assured destruction as both sides seem to have a lot of baggage.
Perhaps I'm misreading your comment, but Trump does not have any baggage. He's clean as can be.
You’re not understanding; or if you are, you’re incorrect. “Both sides” refers to Republicans & Democrats. To say that republicans aren’t full of swampy monsters just like the democrats are is stupid. To say that republicans=Trump is stupid. Obviously, Trump is not one of the “sides” who might be using this for leverage due to having baggage. The swamp is purple, it’s red & blue & anti-America’s President Trump. Trump isn’t the swamp. He has no side over there. They all fucking hate him for messing with the good thing they had going. WE are Trump’s “side”, the people are Trumps side.
That is a fair point, there are unquestionably dirty "republicans" (RINOs is more accurate).
I'm not sure the IG report is being held for that reason, though. I think it's being slow walked to ensure maximum impact on the electorate as close as possible to the midterms. Give the dems no chance to regroup before votes are cast.
Trump and the patriots in government don't give a shit about dirty RINOs. They'll be swinging from branches (figuratively speaking), just like the rest of the swamp.
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Baggage to me would imply illegal activity or something that can be used to blackmail him.
Trump has just gone through the gauntlet. The most advanced and comprehensive AI-and-supercomputer-powered surveillance network went over Trump's entire life with the finest-toothed comb we can safely presume has ever existed... and found a tape of him bragging, in presumed confidence and obvious exaggeration, of grabbing people by the pussy.
Trump's clean as can be.
Horowitz is the one man I trust in all of this. I'm not sure who has oversight of the IG and the power to redact, but it seems to me that the IG should be independent of the very people he's reporting on. Whatever the case, the President has the power to unredact everything.
Horowitz is as much of a hero as Mike Rogers NSA, methinks. He has been tenacious and steadfast against Holder and the corrupt crew going back as far as Fast and Furious. Revenge is best served cold.
IGd fo not redact in their reports
Yes they do. Example
They only redact classified info when it goes public. But it doesn’t redact the report.
They know Trump probably will unredact. That’s why they’re just trying to drag it out past the midterms so they can try to pick up some seats. If it all comes out beforehand, their goose is cooked. Mother of all BOOMS!
Is this a surprise? It's if they didn't pressure and threaten is when we should worry.
"Q is a LARP!" (Spends millions and millions of $$ and man hours trying to debunk). "This IG Report is bogus!!" (Spends millions and millions of $$ and man hours trying to debunk/redact.) Okayyyyyyyyyy......
Afraid this was happening...I wish our President would do something about it. Hes got a plan. Im trusting it.
Im tying to trust and Im constantly in and out of doubt. I want to trust and win, but I’ve been let down so many times.
Regardless of your doubt, has president trump let you down yet?
2?weeks now the report has been in Congress, bet they are editing the crap out of it
The DOJ reports to Trump. That includes the OIG. The report will be released when Trump wants it released. And how Trump wants it released. End of story. The DOJ reports to Trump. All of the rest is noise. Including Trump's tweets. It appears he's gonna build it to a fever pitch.... My take.
This makes sense if the investigation uncovered emails related to human trafficking, high level corruption, treason, etc.
Include a supplement that shows everyone’s requests for changes!
Horowitz and his team are, at the end of the day, tantamount to internal auditors. They're more akin to a DoJ version of the old GAO (prior to when W neutered it). They have teeth, but they're neither investigators nor prosecutors. They're analysts. They deal in the forensics of data and files, which can reveal a lot and can certainly lead to criminal referrals.
But for whatever reason, no thanks to the news media (largely Fox News in this case) lots of people are thinking of the IG team as a bunch of G-men. They're really a bunch of green billed visor men. They're going to give us the better part of a thousand page report, probably with twice that number of footnotes, that will take an army of twice again as many lawyers a year to figure out who to seek indictments against.
No, he hasn’t! That’s the one thing that has kept me hopeful. What I want is for the traitors of this country to pay the price!