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| Victor Davis Hanson - The Inspector General (IG) Hall of Mirrors |
| 2018-06-17 |
| [National Review] The professionally written and admirably researched IG report is in some sense a hall of mirrors, with all sorts of reflections that are contorted and warped, and into which all parties claim to see reality. Often the euphemistic conclusions are not supported by the data produced. The only constant to Obama-era FBI and DOJ behavior is the universal assumption that Hillary Clinton would be president, and what might be assumed as improper or illegal conduct in the present, would likely in the future be excused or rewarded. On the question of "bias," the report exhaustively catalogues communications in which government investigators and attorneys systematically deprecate Trump, and the Trump voter, and in explicit terms boast about stopping him. Apparently the IG can conclude that there is not actionable bias (although at times admitting he could not rule it out), because he did not find something such as "documentary" memos or texts outlining explicit behaviors, or some fantasy such as an admission that "the Trump voter is a POS who smells and therefore that fact is going to unprofessionally guide my investigations" ‐ as if bias and prejudice are ever in professional life so clumsily documented in a formal, self-incriminating manner. Instead, bias in government is manifested through cynicism about the objectivity of an investigation, in personal animus for those under investigation, and with disdain for particular and entire classes of perceived inferiors ‐ precisely the themes of various texts in the IG report. And, of course, bias shows up in results: Almost none of the DOJ and FBI agents in the IG report will ever face serious legal consequences for running a warped investigation quite unlike any of those they typically conduct on average Americans. What the IG often terms "improperly" would be considered "illegally" for most Americans. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 2008-2016, a time when Chicago criminalty and Arkansas criminality converged in Washington. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-06-17 23:05 |
| #1 We have not yet even seen a smidgeon of any IG report on the abuses of the FISA court, the government trafficking in the Clinton-bought dossier, or the insertion of an “informant” into the Trump campaign. But this particular IG report mostly follows the pattern of those conducted about Fast and Furious, the Lerner IRS mess, and other scandals of the prior eight years: Very telling I'd say. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-17 15:47 |