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| The quiet probe into Clinton email investigation could be a landmine for Robert Mueller |
| 2017-12-26 |
| [USA Today] WASHINGTON ‐ In early January, news that the Justice Department’s inspector general launched an investigation into the government's disputed handling of the Hillary Clinton email inquiry was quickly overtaken by the chaotic run-up to President Trump’s inauguration. Nearly a year later, Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s wide-ranging review of the FBI and Justice’s work in the politically-charged Clinton case now looms as a potential landmine for Russia special counsel Robert Mueller. For months, Horowitz’s investigation ‐ which has amassed interviews with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI Director James Comey and other key officials ‐ had been grinding on in near anonymity. That is, until earlier this month when the inspector general acknowledged that Mueller was alerted to a cache of text messages exchanged between two FBI officials on his staff that disparaged Trump. The communications, involving senior counter-intelligence agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page, were gathered in the course of Horowitz’s internal review of the Clinton case, which Strzok also helped oversee. Horowitz’s investigation is not examining Mueller’s operation. But the disclosures already have provided a hammer to Trump loyalists who are escalating their criticisms of the legitimacy of the special counsel’s inquiry. Earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein only highlighted the potential gravity of the inspector general's work when they repeatedly urged Republican House committee members during separate hearings to withhold judgment about allegations of bias within the FBI until the internal Justice probe is completed. Justice officials have indicated that a report is likely in the next few months. "The inspector general's investigation is very important," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., told Rosenstein at a Dec. 13 hearing. The deputy attorney general cited the probe multiple times as the reason for declining to respond to lawmakers' questions about how the texts might affect Mueller's probe. "It is very encouraging to us that (Horowitz) is doing what I think is good, unbiased work," the chairman said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Actually, the genesis of this mess is at the CIA/Brennan. |
| Posted by: TopRev 2017-12-26 23:00 |
| #5 Comey and Mueller are up to theri necks in their dishonesty and obstruction of justice when it comes to the Benghazi and Clinton Emails investigation. |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2017-12-26 20:24 |
| #4 Fun fact: you know who wrote the infamous WMD memo that got us into the Iraq War? Robert Mueller. Yup, the same one. And people claim the Deep State doesn't exist. https://fas.org/irp/congress/2003_hr/021103mueller.html |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-12-26 14:34 |
| #3 From the inestimable Sharyl Attkisson: Investigating the Investigators at DOJ and FBI Why do heads seem to be rolling—or at least tilting—at the Department of Justice and FBI? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-26 13:31 |
| #2 George Webb Day 67.1 Fusion GPS timeline - Whitehouse Pow Wows Thank you MOSSAD. |
| Posted by: P. Speaking for B. 2017-12-26 10:34 |
| #1 Hope it's a landmine for someone. So far it's been a lot of wind and musical chairs. What happened to the 31 indictments? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-26 09:51 |