Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025 View Thu 05/22/2025
2018-06-19 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Lindsey Graham To DOJ IG: How Can We Trust Strzok's Findings On Hillary's Email Knowing That He Wanted Trump To Lose?
[HOT AIR] Graham is always good during Q&A at hearings (a rarity on both sides of the aisle) and this is no exception. A simple logical progression: If Strzok was the lead investigator on Emailgate and we know that he didn’t want Trump to be president and it’s universally understood that the FBI recommending that Hillary be indicted would have fatally weakened her candidacy...

...should we not assume that the outcome of Emailgate was gamed to protect her? Why should we give Strzok any benefit of the doubt in assuming that his investigative decisions were pure? We shouldn’t ‐ and the IG doesn’t really disagree. That’s the only slightly odd note here. Michael Horowitz went out of his way to say in last week’s report that Strzok might have prioritized Russiagate over Emailgate in the final month of the campaign for partisan reasons, not wanting to reopen the Pandora’s box of Clinton’s classified-material practices so soon before the vote. To the extent that there’s any dispute here between him and Graham, it’s the differing degrees to which they’re willing to assume that bias infected the probe. Horowitz thinks the decision not to charge Clinton and much of the investigation itself were vindicated, albeit with Strzok’s motives a troubling question mark. Graham thinks Strzok’s participation necessarily taints the whole process and leads us to doubt the results. The tree was poisoned by Strzok; its fruit must necessarily be poisonous too.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-19 01:51|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Fruit of the poisoned tree.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-19 09:32||   2018-06-19 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Lindsey's realized he has to face a lot of us SC voters in 2 years.
Posted by Tom 2018-06-19 13:43||   2018-06-19 13:43|| Front Page Top

#3 By extension:
How can we trust Congress's investigation of the rigging of the election knowing that they wanted Trump to lose?
There's some rocks you don't want to turn over, particularly if you know there's a snake under it.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-06-19 16:31||   2018-06-19 16:31|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 - Maverick isn't around to tell him what position to take
Posted by Frank G 2018-06-19 16:39||   2018-06-19 16:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Maverick isn't around............

Certainly has a nice ring too it, that three word phrase.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-19 16:48||   2018-06-19 16:48|| Front Page Top

13:54 mossomo
13:51 mossomo
13:50 NoMoreBS
13:50 Abu Uluque
13:44 Abu Uluque
13:41 NoMoreBS
13:39 Abu Uluque
13:36 mossomo
13:36 swksvolFF
13:32 mossomo
13:26 Frank G
13:12 Regular joe
13:12 mossomo
13:11 swksvolFF
13:08 Abu Uluque
13:00 swksvolFF
12:59 Regular joe
12:55 Skidmark
12:53 Skidmark
12:52 Abu Uluque
12:50 Abu Uluque
12:49 Skidmark
12:48 NN2N1
12:46 Skidmark









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com