Monday is the ‘big day” for release of IG Horowitz’s report on FISA court applications regarding investigations of then candidate Trump. Presumed knowledgeable sources have signaled not to expect much and even that it might be a whitewash protecting deep-state actors.
Maybe the report will point to a fall guy with fingerprints on a smoking gun that folks may understand as more of a peashooter. Democrats will portray any violations by their people as mere technical violations in their exuberance for doing their job to protect the integrity of the election process. Yah right.
The report on possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will be released Monday, setting up a possible conflict between Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and Attorney General William Barr.
Reports suggest Horowitz, who headed the investigation, and Barr diverge on whether the FBI was justified in launching its 2016 counterintelligence inquiry into possible ties between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, later wrapped into special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Mueller concluded Russia interfered but did not establish a criminal conspiracy between President Trump and Russia.
Barr disagrees with Horowitz’s supposed conclusion that the FBI had sufficient information to justify launching its Trump-Russia investigation, according to the Washington Post, and Barr isn’t persuaded by Horowitz’s findings and believes agencies outside of the DOJ, such as the CIA, might be able to reveal details that could change Horowitz’s mind. The investigation conducted by Barr’s right-hand man, U.S. Attorney John Durham, uncovered information that could buttress Barr’s doubts, according to a lawyer associated with Durham’s team.
Dropping the report tomorrow means it will be before an actual House Judiciary Committee impeachment vote by House Democrats (who else?). Though it might include some embarrassments for them we do not expect that it will cool their jets, (one reason why they moved to a focus on Ukraine rather than the Russia connected FISA abuses. Maybe it will make them more insane.
The process the House Democrats have used and are intent on furthering for the final vote to impeach is so unfair that it is unlikely to cost Trump any Republican support. Their pursuit is more about the House Democrats own insulated insanity and that of their base who they feel are itching for this. They do not see a downside to being so partisan.
Their own deep-state operatives are so dirty it is felt necessary to throw out as much innuendo and lies as they can. They are trying to protect their base congressional district support. Their machine politics need impeachment to fuel their rabid base or they risk loosing some of that “energy” to the extent of loosing not only toss-up seats and all those who are running in seats Trump won, but normally semi-safe bluish seats. There is no downside in their view only necessity. They may see themselves loosing some no-party folks, but those voters don’t pay the bills, and they may be doing this eyes wide open that Trump will now win reelection.
There is also no downside because the dominant liberal media will work overtime to protect them, avoid damaging matters and concentrate on sensational accusations, change the subject, etc.. The media has a big part in the impeachment coup. They will not report the implications of the Horowitz findings if significantly damaging, they will accentuate any exoneration (how they say we spun the Mueller report) and they will continue to cover Nadler’s impeachment show hoping to do as much damage as they can produce, as essentially producers of this theater). They really should add a credit line to the proceedings “Produced by your friends at leftist media.org”
More from the Washington Examiner article:
Barr and Durham have not said when they will release their conclusions, but Trump weighed in Tuesday when asked if he’d heard about the disagreement between Horowitz and Barr.
“If what I read is correct, that would be a little disappointing, but it was just one aspect of the report, so we’ll see what happens,” Trump said.
Trump said he heard from the news that Horowitz’s report would be “very powerful” and “devastating” and also raised expectations for what Barr and Durham might uncover.
“I do think the big report to wait for is the Durham report,” Trump said. “That’s the one that people are really waiting for. And he’s highly respected, and he’s worked very hard and he’s worked long hours, I can tell you, and gone all over the world. So we’ll see.”
Durham’s portfolio of powers is much more than Horowitz’s and there are reports that he has uncovered criminal behavior and is pursuing it. Not holding our breath on that one either given the depth of the deep state.
