IG report absolutely damning for FBI, DOJ, Hilliary, Obama. MSM claims it's nothing

Early in March of 2015 Americans learned that Hilliary had conducted ALL her official business as Obama's Secretary of State on a private, non-government email account. 

This didn't bother Democrat voters because it never dawned on 'em that the Secretary of State routinely handles highly-classified information, which should only be on relatively secure government email servers.  So a private email account was bad enough.  But to make matters worse, her email account was set up and maintained on a private, unsecured server in her home in New York.

So a few days after we learned about Hilliary's private email account, on March 7th, 2015, in a carefully-edited softball interview on CBS, interviewer Bill Plante asked the bastard emperor Obama when he learned that his SecState was using a private, non-government email account for official business.

Obama replied "The same time everybody else learned it, through news reports."

Americans would later learn--three years later--that this was a flat-out, brazen lie--because Obama had been exchanging emails with Hilliary at her private email address for months, using his own "alias" account. 

(Let me note here that before CBS scrubs the video of Plante's interview you really, REALLY need to click the link above, and watch the video of the lyin' son of a bitch in action as he lies--effortlessly, smoothly-- to the American people.  Because sooner or later CBS will disappear the vid.  And they'll claim they didn't delete it, but that the video evidence just mysteriously vanished all by itsself.).

(Sort of like Hilliary deleted 33,000 emails after being ordered to preserve them, and then hired a computer firm to completely wipe the server beyond possibility of "forensic recovery.")

In the interview, watch Obama's eyes carefully at the moment he lies.  Then notice how he tries to make the lie more believable by adding "The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency."  And "I'm glad that Hillary has instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed."

Ah, now, don't you feel reassured?  "Everything now resolved so move on," eh citizen?

But never fear, citizen:  Your watchdog press will investigate this and if there's anything fishy....

Hahahahahahahaha!  To the surprise of no one with any brains, even though Obama's statement was a flat lie, The New York Times nevertheless published an article supporting the lie, claiming the emperor's denial was true.

"Wait, isn't that, like, "fake news" or something?"

Why, I think you're right!  But surely it's the only lie they've ever published, so don't worry.  (Gosh..."fake news."  That sounds familiar.  Where have we heard that term before?)

Well...I and other bloggers told y'all about this two years ago, but we're just deplorables so don't pay any attention.  Ah, but now the Inspector-General of the whole GD FBI has finally completed his report on the entire cesspool, and guess what?  He confirms it.  All of it.  But you'd need to read it to find that.  And the report is 582 pages, so how many Americans will take the time to do that? 

Yeah.  Which means the Lying Mainstream Media can tell you the IG report cleared everyone, and virtually all Americans will believe them.

But if you read the IG report...in a footnote on page 89 it says,

“FBI analysts and Prosecutor 2 told us that former President Barack Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account,”

If you read several 'grafs above that you'll understand that the IG was talking about the time period before Hilly's email account was revealed to the public.  In other words, it confirms Obama was lying.

This is why the FBI and DOJ were absolutely determined not to charge Hilliary for ANYTHING regarding her private email account, regardless of how much above-Top-Secret information they found on it--because Obama knew all about her private account.  And lied to you about it.

If the DOJ charged Hilliary, Obama's brazen lie would be revealed, which would presumably damage his credibility--at least a tiny bit.  And with his people working frantically to send Iran's mullahs $150 BILLION via a treaty the senate would never ratify, a known penchant for lying would reduce the chances of him being able to do the "Iran deal.".

Ooooh, damn dominoes tend to do their thing, eh?

And we're just getting started, folks.

Turns out that FBI director James Comey--the guy who personally determined that no charges whatsoever would be brought against Connected Hilliary-- had a serious conflict of interest about using private email to conduct government business--something he carefully didn't reveal.

Can you guess what it was?  Yep:  Comey himself used personal email for government business too.  So like Obama, he knew that if he charged Hilly with anything, his own use of a non-gov account for official business would have likely come out. 

Clearly, he should have recused himself.

Oh wait, didn't he do that?

Hahahahahahahahahaha!  No.  And that's huge.  So when the folks who knew all this said "The Fix was in," and the Lying Media sneered and wouldn't investigate, now you can read it in the report from the IG himself.  Of course no one will, but it's there if you wanted to.

And there's more.

In his testimony before the House committee on July 5th, 2016, the committee wanted to know if Hilliary had sent or received classified information on her private server.  Here Democrat members succeeded in detouring the focus by taking half an hour to trivialize this critical question.  In listening to it live, Democrat members led witness Comey into focusing on just four paragraphs in one document, which they established were marked with a "C" for "confidential," which is the lowest level of classified information. 

Unless I missed it, no Repub members of the committee ever said "This is trivial.  Director Comey, did you find evidence that Ms. Clinton had sent or received Secret or Top Secret or even more-highly classified documents?"  Because now--three years later, long after it could have affected the election--we learn she did send and receive the most highly classified documents.  Which could easily have been copied by foreign agents.

But no one asked, and Comey didn't volunteer this information---because the decision had already been made to clear Hilliary of any negligence. 

The IG report confirms that Comey knew Hilliary had sent and received far more-highly-classified information on page 194 of the report:

For example, seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails from others about the same matters.

"Special Access Program" is higher than Top Secret.  And I've never found that Comey said a single word to the House committee about this.  The public only learned about it now, long after this discovery could have had any affect on the election.

So we have undisputed evidence that Comey knew that Clinton had sent and received emails far, far more critical than just "confidential," yet as far as I can determine, said nothing about that to the House committee.  This enabled the Democrat members of the committee to make it appear to the American public that the only classified information Hilly sent was just the lowest level ("confidential").  In other words, Comey succeeded.  Mission accomplished.

Further:  in June of 2016, with Hilly now an official candidate, Comey was trying to draft a statement to the House committee (for his July 5th testimony) explaining why he had single-handedly determined not to prosecute Clinton for anything.  This draft went through at least five versions.  The IG report notes that in the first one, on May 2, Comey described Hilliary's handling of classified information--which we only now know was beyond Top Secret--as "grossly negligent." [p195]  The draft used this exact phrase three times.

... there is evidence that [Secretary Clinton or her colleagues] were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
   Similarly, the sheer volume of information that was properly classified as Secret at the time it was discussed on email (that is, excluding the “up classified” emails) supports an inference that the participants were grossly negligent in their handling of that information....

But in Comey's testimony to the House, every instance of this phrase had been removed.  Moreover, the phrase "the sheer volume of information that was properly classified" was also removed.  It was replaced with a phrase that the information discovered was “especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on servers not supported by full-time staff.”

Ah.  Much more soothing, eh?

Significantly, the report says when the IG team interviewed Comey, he claimed "he did not recall that his original draft used the term “gross negligence,” and further, that he did not recall even having any discussions about that issue.  Yet in his IG interviews he admitted to struggling with exactly the issue of how to word what the FBI knew about her email server, claiming to have agonized over exactly the "gross negligence" wording he claimed he did not recall using.  Unbelievable.  Literally.

It's critical to note here that no one from the FBI interviewed Hilliary until July 2, 2016, which was just 3 days before Comey was scheduled to testify before congress.  Yet Comey had been preparing a script for his testimony clearing Hilliary since May 2.  Clearly, Comey planned to clear her regardless of the result of her "interview."  

Moreover, when she was finally interviewed there were two huge violations of standard procedure in her interview:  First, it wasn't under oath, meaning if she lied there was no risk of perjury.  And second--arguably more critical--the interview was not recorded, either by machine or stenographer.

This is a bombshell, because it means there is absolutely no way to prove what she said.

Also:  Agent Strzok insisted that only four examiners attend, two from DOJ and two from the FBI.  A DOJ official wanted to bring four, but both McCabe and Strzok opposed this.  Of course McCabe's wife had gotten $600,000 from Hilliary lackey Terry McAuliff to run for political office, so McCabe had a huge motive to protect his benefactor, and Strzok was later found to have written hundreds of Trump-hating messages, so he would agree to anything to protect Hilliary.

But there's still more.

Comey knew that Obama had lied in March of 2015 when Obozo claimed he'd just that week learned from news reports that Clinton used a private email address for ALL official business.  And the June 25th draft of Comey's testimony to the House [p195] included this:

[Clinton] also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including from the territory of sophisticated adversaries.  That use included an email exchange with the President while Secretary Clinton was on [sic] the territory of such an adversary.”  

Someone at the FBI soon realized "Whoa, we can't say that, cuz that will be an admission that Obama knew about the private email server!"  So on June 30, FBI agent Rybicki circulated a version that replaced the sentence in red above with “another senior government official,” deleting the reference to the president.

But more cunning lackeys soon realized that even using this phrase might prompt House members to ask who the "senior government official" was.  So the final version of Comey's statement omitted this reference altogether, reducing the paragraph above to this:

She used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.

"See how transparent we are, citizen?  Nothing but the truth from America's premier law-ridiculing agency!  Oh wait, we meant "law-enforcement agency."   And let's quickly add that Comey didn't make these changes.  His assistants did.  The ones who are still working for the FBI, drawing princely salaries and eventually a magnificent pension.  Nice, huh.

And theres still more: In early September of 2016--just over two months before the election--the FBI field office for the southern district of New York learned that cops had found hundreds of thousands of Hilliary emails and Blackberry texts found on on a laptop belonging to former congresswhore Anthony Weiner--who by incredible coincidence happened to be married to Hilliary's closest aide, Huma Abedin.  The field agent notified FBI headquarters immediately--but no response.  Zip.

That is, headquarters ignored the bombshell report from the field office.

FBI headquarters said nothing and did nothing in response, for weeks, only acting after the New York office complained repeatedly.  Finally by October 3, the case agent assigned to the Weiner investigation "expressed concern" that the FBI appeared to be deliberately ignoring the information he’d told them.  He told the IG:

The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come crashing down…. We [had] potentially 10 times the volume that Director Comey said we had on the record.  Why isn’t anybody here...?   And that nobody reached out to me that night, I still to this day I don’t understand what the hell went wrong.
And I told her, I’m a little scared here. I don’t know what to do because I’m not political. Like I don’t care who wins this election, but this is going to make us look really, really horrible.  And…I said the thing that also bothers me is that Comey’s testimony is inaccurate.

The excuse given by Comey for why no one at headquarters so much as phoned the New York field office to say "Don't worry, we're studying this" is even more unbelievable, outrageous:  When the IG asked Comey why, after learning that "hundreds of thousands" of Hilliary's emails were found on Anthony Weiner's laptop, Comey didn't immediately react to the report, the oh-so-brilliant FBI director astonishingly claimed he didn’t grasp the significance of this because he didn’t know that Weiner was married to Clinton's aide, Abedin.

Not only is this too ridiculous to believe (their wedding was front-page news for over a week), even if it were true it shouldn't have led Comey to think the find itself wasn't important, since it would mean hundreds of thousands of Clinton emails relevant to a highly charged criminal investigation were found on the laptop of some totally unrelated man.

Dominoes, baby.  Even Comey himself couldn't come up with believable lies.  But it wasn't supposed to ever matter, cuz if she'd won--and every one of the brilliant "elites" were positive she would--none of this would ever have come out.

The bureau itself had four excuses for taking no action when they first learned about the laptop:
   1. The FBI "Midyear team" [code for the Hilliary email investigation] was waiting for additional information about the contents of the laptop from [the NY field office], which was not provided until late October.
   2. The team claimed they couldn't review the emails without additional legal authority, such as consent or a new search warrant.
   3. The team "and senior FBI officials" didn't think the information on the laptop was likely to be significant.
   4. Key members of the team had been reassigned to the investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. election, which was a higher priority.”

The IG said these excuses were hogwash.  Did anyone really say that the team that was already investigating Hilliary's emails couldn't investigate the emails found on the laptop without a new search warrant?  What utter horse-shit.

And "Oh, we didn't investigate because we didn't think the information was likely to be significant"? Again, total bullshit.  Some congressman needs to interview every asshole at FBI HQ and say "Did you ever hear anyone say this, and if so, who was it and when?"  I'm betting no one ever said such ridiculous bullshit, and they just made up these bullshit excuses way after they realized the problem.

Finally, the report quotes hundreds of nasty, anti-Trump emails between an agent who was initially Mueller's lead investigator, Peter Strzok, and his mistress, Lisa Page.  Almost four months before the election, in July 2016, Strzok emailed Page,

 “Trump is a disaster. I have no idea how destabilizing his Presidency would be.” 

After the election Page wrote that she’d bought “All the President’s Men,” adding, “Figure I needed to brush up on watergate.” The two openly fantasize about impeachment.

As top FBI agents prepared to finally interview Clinton as part of the criminal probe, Page emailed some of her colleagues cautioning them to take it easy on Clinton.

“One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear.”

On August 8, 2016, Page messaged Strzok, “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Strzok responded,

‘No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.’ 

When asked about this text message Strzok stated that he did not specifically recall sending it, but believed he was simply trying to reassure Page that Trump would not be elected, not to suggest that "we" would do something to prevent that from happening.  Unbelievable.

Finally, it's hugely significant that when the bureau finally gave congress supposedly accurate copies of the texts and messages between top FBI officials, even though the conversation above was included up to "No.  No he's not," the next three words--"We'll stop it"--had been redacted.

This shows the culpability of the current FBI director and top aides.  They're all corrupt. 

Current director Chris Wray will likely respond: "Oh, we never intended to redact that.  One of the secretaries just misunderstood when I ordered Chinese takeout while she was standing near my desk.  I ordered a dish that sounded like "redact that part."  What?  No, I don't recall what it was.  And I don't recall who the secretary was.  I mean, we have hundreds here, because we do so much absolutely, totally critical national security work for the American peon-- uh, people."

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The folks who have done some really good work on this are Ace of Spades, and The Federalist.
Just the *comments* at Ace's link are a hoot!  I may pull the best ones into a separate post later.

If you want to read the full IG report--and it's really explosive-- you can download the whole thing here.