Friday, May 18, 2018

IG Horowitz report

Inspector General Michael Horowitz took the first step in releasing his report. The draft of his report is distributed to the principals to give them a chance to respond with additional facts. It is a fact-based report, there are no accusations of motives involved. This process takes about two weeks. The final report will be released about the end of May.

Along the way, Horowitz discovered criminal conduct and submitted requests with reasonable grounds for criminal prosecution to prosecutor John Huber.

That's why this week the people involved with FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's server and the now obviously illegal investigation into Trump conspiring with Russians to steal the 2016 election, are leaking like sieves to their favorite outlets. They're positioning themselves and preparing the public for the stinking mess they've created presently hitting the fan.

In the summer of 2016 this cabal called their illegal investigation involving a tight group of FBI officials, Crossfire Hurricane, as you know, vividly descriptive lyrics of a Rolling Stones song. They were so well pleased with themselves for their excellent choice. They're rock stars.

The New York Times article is pathetic. It reads like, 'the dog ate my homework,' and 'I lost my book on the way home from school,' and 'I spilled Cheerios over my math paper,' and 'I dropped my backpack in the mud.' What a spectacular descent to bathos. Our present day Woodward and Bernstein journalists are reduced to chirping Party parakeets. The article is beautiful, actually, loaded with large dramatic photographs, the FBI building shot at acute angle, a splendid photograph taken at a Trump rally of a an American flag, the stripes outlined in black with silhouettes of people holding up letters that read backwards, T R U, that's art right there, Andrew McCabe, always the quintessential FBI agent walking up a hallway toward the viewer in tandem with other agents, their arms parallel as in Egyptian art, soldiers at the Kremlin, so crisp you can feel the cold air, American flags on the pillars of J. Edgar Hoover building their triangular brackets draining down the post in long dark streaks, some idle point of visual interest that caught the photographer's eye, Carter Page at a podium before a broad blue background with the appearance of shattered glass, James Comey looking perfectly proper, professional and innocent.

And with partitioning subtitles, Anxiety at the Bureau, Abounding Criticism, Cautious Intelligence Gathering, Policy and Tradition, Spying in Question, Assurances Amid Doubt.

The piece is impressively professionally glossy. It says so much while omitting the essential. These people attempted a very real coup d'état and they do need to pay for that or this country is without real justice. They fail to acknowledge the plain truth. Preferring instead their truckload of excuses.

The entire article by Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos is whitewash and excuse making for the most expensive and most criminal, most damaging, political scandal in United States history. This is nothing short of a coupe attempt under the guise of investigation and using all of the government resources available but against proper legal procedure, a putsch pulled off by a gang of insiders displeased with electoral results, they say so themselves in their own emails, now scrambling like rats and hiding behind smokescreen and chaff with the assistance of New York Times.

Comments to the article start out sensible enough, surprisingly so, but they're quickly overtaken by the usual predictable muddled crap of NYT readers more interested in protecting their precious party conceits than comprehending the distinctions between legal procedures and corrupted political activities. They sound like a babbling riot.

That NYT article is the subject of this panel discussion hosted by Laura Ingraham featuring Roger Stone, Soloman Wisenberg, and Molly Hemingway, always impressively brilliant.

3 comments:

AllenS said...

I hope this gets really interesting, with heads rolling towards the end.

edutcher said...

I love the smell of schaudenfreude in the morning.

And it just keeps getting better.

ricpic said...

My prediction, for what it's worth: business as usual for our permanent government after a short period of sturm und drang. Why? Because the ruling caste, not class, caste, is so ensconced in the upper level positions of power and leverage within the permanent government that NOTHING will dislodge it, including the greatest scandal ever.