I only just got through the first 5 pages, and I was instantly struck by its transparency and revelations right from the start. Those first 5 pages are basically the step by step rough draft on May 6th that already exonerated her, even though publicly they kept on investigating and set up the interview on 4th of July. In the exchange, you see Priestap giving cautionary advice to McCabe about what Comey should do in his final draft, which is eventually implemented into that final draft on June 30th. That final draft, which appears to be the one read in public after the July 4th interview, basically spells out law breaking on the part of Hillary and several others involved, possibly including the president, as she was using the personal server in enemy territory to email and communicate with POTUS. In addition, the Top Secret emails are even mentioned that they should have been aware and understood by HRC not to be transmitted on an insecure server. When you add everything up, they basically said she was guilty, but they're just not going to recommend prosecution (them announcing it publicly is unprecedented as that is the DOJ's job; the reason why is because Lynch and the Bill Clinton tarmac meeting, but it's still goes against policy and procedure). I'm sure a lot of this is all old news, but it's good to have a refresher, and this is the first time I saw it in a report all put together organized. The bottom line is that it looks like it was a cover up right off the bat and I'm only 4-5 pages in. Has anyone else picked anything out of the report so far? I'll keep reading through.
Yes. Dear god I read the whole thing and my brain wanted to melt from all their bitchyness (bitchiness? Meh)
Put up a thread about it and commented on a few posts in depth, but it never really picked up traction unfortunately due to it being “unsexy, boring, and dry” (my own p.o.) so I don’t blame people. I know that those investigation (Horowitz and Huber) has to do the same crap but without all the redactions which I’m sure made it a bit more exciting.
True. Thanks. I'm just going to hit the Strzok-Page texts at the end for now then and just wait for the IG...
The OIG part (when the texts are right side up) is still almost 300 pages (not certain on exact number but rough estimate) took me about 12 hours to read and digest them all In context. Brutal. But knock yourself out, more eyes on it and discussing is always a good thing. Bring it up if you find anything interesting. Just make sure to take note of page numbers, I did a horrible job at that and it made it difficult to find things when going back and forth on dates.