Hey trump Assholes - IG Reports No Deep State Plot

A Trail of FBI Abuse

The Horowitz report confirms that the bureau deceived FISA judges with the Steele dossier.

The press corps is portraying Monday’s report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz as absolution for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but don’t believe it. The report relates a trail of terrible judgment and violations of process that should shock Americans who thought better of their premier law-enforcement agency.

Readers can look at the detailed executive summary and decide for themselves. But our own initial reading confirms the worst of what we feared about the bureau when it was run by James Comey. The FBI corrupted the secret court process for obtaining warrants to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page. And it did so by supplying the court with false information produced by Christopher Steele, an agent of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-trail-of-fbi-abuse-11575938300?mod=opinio...

The money quote that you are leaning on is....

“did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation”

which means nothing more than no one admitted any wrongdoing (big surprise!) and there was no written evidence found in a limited investigation (ditto). 

Enjoy your "victory" while you can.  The Durham report will be much more complete.  He has the power to indict and he will use it.

Here's what you're crowing about....

• Even though Christopher Steele’s dossier was full of material Mr. Comey himself characterized as “salacious and unverified,” it played a “central and essential role” in the bureau’s decision to seek a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

• The FBI failed to inform Justice of “significant information that was available” but “was inconsistent with, or undercut,” claims in the FISA applications that Mr. Page was “an agent of a foreign power.”

• The FBI ignored various warnings about Mr. Steele’s political bias, and it took him at his word when he falsely told agents he wasn’t the source for a Yahoo News article the FBI would cite in its application to the court.

• Overall, the report identifies “at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications”—for which investigators received no “satisfactory answers.”

• The FBI also didn’t inform the FISA court that Mr. Page had served as a Central Intelligence Agency source and received a “positive assessment” for candor from the agency.

• Mr. Comey pushed to include Mr. Steele’s dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment even though the CIA “expressed concern about the lack of vetting.”

• An FBI lawyer altered an email he’d received confirming Mr. Page had been a CIA source. After he changed it to read “not a source,” the email was then used to help renew the FISA warrant on Mr. Page.

This is now all on the record and, to use a phrase, unimpeachable.  To believe that all of this happened without intent requires willfully ignoring reality.

Thom is cleaning the swamp of the derp state

Well, If there’s one thing Thom’s an expert on, it’s willfully ignoring reality, so this is concerning.

Obama, Clinton and Comey should all b indicted any day now; he should probably start holding his breath

He's still POTUS. Still running again. 

Dems still can't remove him from office. 

Stellar long game. 

Well, at least Thom has enough self awareness to understand that he is one of the assholes that the OP is addressing.  I believe that this is a big step for him.

Oh, Thom,  Horowitz also found that the FBI had an authorized purpose to launch the Russia investigation.

And Horowitz found no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claim that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign.

so conservatives now hate the fbi?

remember the good 'ol j. edgar days?

^ yes turtle...isn't it ironic?

FBI Director will be fired tomorrow, but Trump will tell the Russians today in the White House.

Keep deluding yourselves that there was nothing untoward going on here.....

"Democrats and the press are making much of Mr. Horowitz’s conclusion that he “did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation” influenced FBI decisions. But his report does show that political bias was conveyed to the FISA court from the Clinton campaign via the Steele dossier through the FBI.

It was conveyed by Bruce Ohr, a senior Justice Department official whose wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS. Mr. Horowitz may not have found a memo with the words “let’s get Trump,” but his evidence shows that getting Mr. Trump was the goal of Mr. Steele and Fusion GPS. Mr. Ohr met 13 times with the FBI to discuss the Steele findings.

Even if you buy the “no bias” line, all of this had major political consequences. Fusion GPS used its media contacts to spread word of the Steele dossier’s accusations, and news of the FBI’s use of that dossier became a media hook to suggest the accusations were credible. This became another part of the false Russia collusion narrative played up by the press and the likes of former CIA director John Brennan."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-trail-of-fbi-abuse-11575938300?mod=opinio...

It's also nice to finally have an official report confirm that unverified opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC was funneled into the FBI and then used as a pretext to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on a private citizen.

Anyone who actually cared about the civil liberties of U.S. citizens would be appalled by all of this, but as long as it's being used to get the Bad Orange Man you are fine with it.

Thom, you are either delusional or stupid, I can't tell which or if it's both.

thom, were you also appalled by the fbi's Cointelpro  program in the late 60's when mass civil liberties were violated?

or is it just when the bad boogey clinton's are involved?

the level of hypocrisy is astounding.

Thom I admit refusing to read your post so you can troll me on that if you choose to

emBarresing

barr should be disBarred for lying under oath  what a shill Donny boy lackey  as AG?? Jesus Christ Times are sad

It amazes me how you can continue to cling so desperately to the thinnest possible thread of any credible argument

i do pray for you 

you may arise from your stupor

After having been lockrd in chains in the attic and brainwashed for years

and a rhetorical question

Can you have a witch hunt If there isn't a witch?

the ends justify the means   At any cost

Without any moral boundary  

Including endless kindergarten taunting and insulting anyone he can

Just to prove what i big dick he is

and what a big dick he doesn't have

clown shoes

Little hands

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mbFlVCJFj_s

Thom is just another irrelevant middle aged white guy with a death grip on his groups receding power in this country. They flail about blaming minorities, immigrants, Clinton's and libtards for their impending loss of power.  Their only choice now is to align themselves with other racists and white nationalists to hold onto to their slipping grip on reality. No wonder this demographic has the highest mortality rate attributed to suicide and drug overdoses.

     Greetings & salutations...I'm honestly trying to wean myself from the absurdity of taking victory laps...I'd like to thank the gentleman  who has threatened doxxing me for not carrying out those threats...I have a lot going on in my old age, there are maniacs on this message board who would cause untold mayhem to my endeavors, again, thank you.

     In defense of Tom, he's correct...I asked a buddy of mine who's a mathematician [he's also an accomplished bass player and keyboardist] to give me the exact odds of a coin flipped 17 times and landing on "heads" 17 times, his response was:

    "Lots of people state odds incorrectly. It would be the odds against 131,071 to 1"

     The point being, there were 17 "errors & omissions" in the IG report, 17 of which were unfavorable to President Trump, although the report doesn't state "bias"...you can do the math.

     Namaste  

     https://youtu.be/e7qQ6_RV4VQ

Bryen and Thom. Two stupid cunts. Move to Russia please. 

     ^ the obligatory name calling from the romper room gallery     

       https://youtu.be/td1KAgrYUGA

you are opposed to name calling?

It's pretty funny that Barr has already rejected the findings by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and has commissioned a new report. Or maybe he's now investigating Horowitz. 

guess Bry and Thom didn't get the memo. 

Poor Thom.

Republicans have "quid pro quo" with Trump for there conservative judges. They are cool with crimes as long as it puts them in charge of the show. End of story.

Nixon/Clinton/Trump couldn't be impeached after such and such voters voted for him overturning the will of the people...toddlers argument!

Prosecute Barr and pack the courts on dems secret menu for after 2020

The Deep State is Republican.  Same as it ever was.

 Bry

cry

Condescending self righteousness 

Is how you  do call names and insult constantly (gentlemen   Lol)

your mirror is broke 

 Nancy and I pray for you (Nancy P)

 Bry

cry

Condescending self righteousness 

Is how you  do call names and insult constantly (gentlemen   Lol)

your mirror is broke 

 Nancy and I pray for you (Nancy P)

And where do you re thug li cans stand can stand on gun control?  Bryen has yet to answer a question ever

maybe some deflection skills will be availed 

Who cares about Cryen & Thom they are true believers of the Trump cult. He only won the election after 25 years of Clinton propaganda by Fox news...Fact!

i actually don't think thom is a trumpkin.

he'd just rather see out democracy crumble than let a democrat win.

Pretty much describes a trumptard 

Thom’s not a trumpkin, he’s a white nationalist.

You guys heard ivanka fucked the dossier guy, right?

No swamp to see here, move along.

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1204227355688013825

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1204458306095505409

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1204453273656340480

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1204528795291725825

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1204464762530217985

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https://twitter.com/LauraLitvan/status/1204530758498635776

^^^
Somebody is spouting alternative facts.

I wonder who that could be?

Hmmmmm

K 38

We need the EPA to investigate toilets

when the turd takes a turd

he needs 10 or 15 flushes 

Truly amazing this guy thinks he has a high IQ and puts down others as low IQ

Isn't that the definition of a trumpkin 

Toto was Dorothy's lil buddy

 and also my toilet of choice is  

Toto was Dorothy's lil buddy

 and also my toilet of choice is  

Speaking of "high" IQ

It's ridiculous how easy it is to go through over the border wall

the emperor has no clothes 

(God what a frightening sight )

I guess white  the First Lady lives on different floor entirely

another loss  for rump

https://apple.news/ALCUpRdNwQG6HsZj8F7mzxw

I won't ask why the lawyers can't put him behind bars. Nobody knows why. 

Speaking of "high" IQ

It's ridiculous how easy it is to go through over the border wall

the emperor has no clothes 

(God what a frightening sight )

I guess white  the first lady different floor entirely

another loss  for rump

https://apple.news/ALCUpRdNwQG6HsZj8F7mzxw

Putin's bitch

works for Thom

https://apple.news/AsOjcfAuWQeiX0EfaoPU9Zw

Putin's bitch

works for Thom

https://apple.news/AsOjcfAuWQeiX0EfaoPU9Zw

Wait until Mitt Romney starts recruiting republican senators for impeachment seeing a 2020 path for himself and a GOP fallback plan B. Democrats need to have paid oppo research funding on par with GOP's.

Bloomberg & Steyer money would have been better spent pointing out Trump criminal behavior documented in Mueller Report in commercials instead of short term political jobs program. Contract work 3 months nothing longer lol

Bry

gun control??

>> The point being, there were 17 (reports of) "errors & omissions" in the IG report, 17 of which were unfavorable to President Trump, although the report doesn't state "bias"...you can do the math. <<

Byren...were there any criminal referrals for these errors & omissions?

Of course, all 17 are bad, and I wish none have them occurred. It muddles what is otherwise a very clear rebuke to your tin-foil hat claims of coup and treason.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1204805553274458112

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1204786674217242625

National poll: In a series of head-to-head matchups in the Quinnipiac poll, six of the potential Democratic nominees each lead Trump by a significant margin in each one (Biden by 9 percentage points, Sanders +8, Warren +7, Bloomberg +6, Buttigieg +5, and Klobuchar +4).

Ball of confusion 

https://apple.news/AZtu8Lq6fQjq9Xj0ezPtD3g

The impeachment proceedings have revealed a Republican Party whose elected officials are loath to acknowledge any wrongdoing by a president who insists he acted perfectly despite evidence to the contrary, let alone the question of whether what he did warrants his removal from office.

Meanwhile, Trump took the Justice Department’s inspector general’s report on the Russia investigation, which knocked down his long-stated assertion that the probe was politically motivated, and used elements of it to continue his attack on the FBI — furthering the divide that has been created between the president and the bureaucracy he oversees.

This latest volley is of a pattern with White House efforts to discredit the testimony of career Foreign Service and other officials, who outlined before the House Intelligence Committee misconduct by Trump in pressuring Ukrainian leaders to announce an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden, a potential 2020 opponent, and his son Hunter.

The resulting division has led to an impeachment process now defined by Trump’s supporters as wholly partisan.

“People view their facts through that divide,” said Jim Doyle, a former Democratic governor of Wisconsin. “Sadly, we now have a president who rather than trying to do something about that exploits it for everything he can.”

Facts no longer matter to the majority of the GOP and Trump supporters. They’re all useful idiots for Russia now. Brainwashed by the KGB. 

SAD!!!

>>>>six of the potential Democratic nominees each lead Trump by a significant margin

While that is encouraging, I would be wary of national polls because they don't reflect the electoral college dynamic.  For example, every man, woman, and child in the state of California could tell pollsters they will be voting for the Democratic candidate and that would be a huge number of people tilting the polls towards the dems.   However, even if every one of them turned out on election day and cast their ballot for the democrat, it would result in the same number of electoral college votes as if the Democratic candidate won by a razor thin margin.

What I would like to see is a comprehensive analysis of voter preferences in the various swing states where the election will be decided.   

What made grace slick cry?

Volunteers 50th anny

The only band Possibly Superior to the dead back on the day

for me jack held the title as worlds  best bass plAyer over Phil by a smidge

She also went to Castilleja a prestigious girls school in Palo Alto 

Grace Slick: The title Volunteers is not quite as in depth or as important as you might think. Marty, who was the founder of Jefferson Airplane, happened to see a truck go by that said “Volunteers of America” on it. It’s an outfit that helps underprivileged people. He liked the title, so he just used it. [Laughs.] None of us were sure what it meant—we used to just grab things out of the air. I suppose you could turn it around and say that we were rebellious patriots. And lately, I’ve been even more rebellious. When Donald Trump got elected, it made me cry—and I don’t cry. I thought, “If the founding fathers could see what’s going on right now, they’d be stunned.” The President of the United States is a clown. People have joked, “Even you Democrats would pray for Bush.” [Laughs.] It’s even more repulsive now than it was then. I just hope that I live long enough to see another president, like [Elizabeth] Warren, get in there—a regular human being. It’s hard for it to get worse than it is right now. We had Nixon to contend with, but he was a much better president than Trump—unbelievable.

DOSING EDICT

GS: I was invited to [the White House during Nixon’s presidency]. I went to the same college—and I use that word loosely because it was really a finishing school where they taught you how to get a Princeton or Yale boy—as Tricia Nixon. Since it was so small, she sent invitations to all the alumni to come for tea at the White House. Because it was addressed to my maiden name, they just thought I was some broad who went there. I brought Abbie Hoffman, who was one of the Chicago Seven, with me and, as we were in line to go into the White House, security came up to me and said, “I’m sorry, you can’t go in because you’re a security risk.” I said, “No, I’m not. I’m a rockand-roll singer!” They didn’t even talk to Abbie, even though he was standing right there and on the FBI’s most wanted list!

It’s good that they didn’t [let me in] because I had about 600 mics of LSD in my pocket. I knew how to do “formalities” because of finishing school. I had a very long, little pinky fingernail and, as I was talking to Richard, I was gonna reach into my pocket, get some LSD under my nail and then gesture over his teacup. We got a big chuckle out of the fact that he would be wandering around the White House, talking about the walls melting. But they wouldn’t let me in, so I didn’t get a chance to do that. It’s probably for the best—it’s rude to dose people with acid unless they’ve had it before. We used to dose each other—if you left a Coca-Cola can open at one of our concerts, where the Dead or Quicksilver and Janice were, you were gonna get dosed.

>>>What I would like to see is a comprehensive analysis of voter preferences in the various swing states where the election will be decided.   

538 is decent:  https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/

Donny be classy

https://apple.news/ALQxnsxfSSXWkWxZZbQnFnA

as for the nra and gun control 

Donny pure trump Republican 

https://apple.news/A9PAsTno1S5mF0xuQCm06KA

trumpkins be proud

Not that funny

thombry

will you proudly join the confederate army?

may explain you staying mum about gun control...

https://apple.news/A1pTyDUr5RZCKCudD9Wwu3g

power and party ahead of truth and country.”

https://apple.news/ANcw54HhDQEmct7uwDqAWPQ

im

peach the low life

Republicans ask

what is trump hiding?

https://apple.news/Atw55DzmMQfyvFK5VEtSnKw

is justice a four letter word?

Ahh russia

surprise

https://apple.news/Ay5IsZGOSTueKsz-ViWSkHQ