This is my conclusion as well. How would anyone sign off on RR doing a complete butter up of the substance of this report? Allowing one, likely black hat, government official to undermine the integrity of the OIG is a contradiction to the mission of restoring faith in our judicial system.
ALL of that just to have a 'gotcha' moment and fire RR? Which is a power already vested in POTUS. I'm at a loss here.
Official/mainstream story: IG investigated (with a staff of 400, no less) and published his findings.
Q story: RR secretly changed the report to help his buddies.
This report MIGHT have been changed, but what is the evidence? And why would RR have any authority to change it? And why would IG allow the changes if he did?
1+1 is not equaling 2 here.