Skjellyfetti wrote:SDHornet wrote:
All your spinning aside, you do know that the FBI had its mind made up on this "matter" before its recommendation was made right? Kind of an important tidbit you left out of your spin.
Which "matter"?
Are you talking about the Clinton email investigation or the Russia investigation?
I assume you're talking about the Clinton email investigation. In which case - we should probably take it to that thread. Don't want this one to get artificially inflated.
The IOG report has about 20 pages that walk through the decision not to prosecute Clinton. If you really want to hash it out again here... ok. But, it doesn't have anything to do with Mueller and his investigation.

That same report - which the IG also reiterated in Congressional testimony - outlines significant bias on the part of lead agents and attorneys ... it makes no finding of guilt, only lays out the factual matters the IG is tasked with examining. It is a fairly typical report, and the IG correctly states that it is intended to be a report from which observers can draw their own conclusions - not a conclusion in and of itself.
Trey Gowdy was absolutely correct in his comments about how the Clinton investigation hinged on intent (not an element of the statute, btw) ... and in any intent case you must question the person who may or may not have had intent. That's Criminal Investigation 101 and the leading LE agency of the land didn't follow it.
The IG report certainly does leave us to draw our own conclusions .... and I see two: incompetence, or a finger on the scale
either way, it makes no difference at this point. they arent going to go back and have a do-over (politically impossible) - but it has bearing on the Russia investigation as it gives us frame of mind context with the major players
FYI... Strzock lost his sec clearance as a result of Part 2 of the IG investigation- not because of these findings. Maybe it was nothing
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