[The Hill] President Trump on Thursday touted a report saying the FBI under former President Obama spied on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race, saying that the revelation could be "bigger than Watergate."
"Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI 'SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN IMBEDDED INFORMANT,'" the president tweeted in reference to a National Review report published last week.
"Andrew McCarthy says, 'There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.' If so, this is bigger than Watergate!"
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My guess is the end game is people are fired, perhaps without their pensions but nobody goes to prison.
If anyone is sent to prison the left claims this is part of Trump's cover-up and abuse of powers and such and they never really admit the truth of what the Obama admin and Hillary cartel attempted.
[Breitbart] A new report suggests an imminent Inspector General (IG) report may rule that FBI and Justice Department officials broke the law in their handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry said Thursday that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has "found ’reasonable grounds’ for believing there has been a violation of federal criminal law in the FBI/DOJ’s handling of the Clinton investigation/s," adding that the top watchdog official has "referred his findings of potential criminal misconduct to Huber for possible criminal prosecution."
In response to growing calls for a second special counsel to probe the Clinton email probe, along with FISA abuses that took place during the 2016 election, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in March the appointment of Utah’s top federal prosecutor, John Huber, to probe potential wrongdoing.
It was revealed this week that the Inspector General’s highly-anticipated report was submitted for review.
"Those invited to review the report were told they would have to sign nondisclosure agreements in order to read it, people familiar with the matter said. They are expected to have a few days to craft a response to any criticism in the report, which will then be incorporated in the final version to be released in coming weeks," the Wall Street Journal reported.
Multiple reports suggest the report will be made public by the end of May.
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I honestly believe Sessions has been playing Possum on this whole thing and he is not going to let it go quietly into the night. He appointed Huber to handle this because that is about as far from Washington as you can get without getting to the Left Coast.
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Take away the Clinton foundations charitable status. Fine it for all transgressions!
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The same FBI and DOJ that is investigating Russian collusion.
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I am with SPOD on this one. Huber might actually get criminal indictments on much of this. If he does, the middle management careerist class may start spilling a tidal wave of information.
[Al-Rooters] The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as "Fast and Furious" that long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama's administration.
The agreement reached by Republican President Donald Trump's administration will effectively end a six-year long legal battle in which the committee had gone to federal court to try to enforce a subpoena it had issued to obtain the records.
Congressional Republicans have been pressing the Justice Department for years about the operation. Named after a movie about car racing, the operation sought to curb gun-trafficking criminals who were selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
In June 2012, the Republican-led House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder, an Obama appointee, in contempt for failing to turn over documents about the operation. The committee sued Holder for access to the documents in August 2012. Obama asserted executive privilege to block the disclosure of the documents.
Democrats at the time accused Republicans of engaging in a partisan witch hunt.
In an effort to build bigger cases against major gun traffickers who were selling arms to Mexican cartels, U.S. law enforcement officials elected not to prosecute lower-level offenders transporting more than 2,000 illegal guns.
The operation and its flaws became public after two of those firearms were found in Arizona at the scene of a fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
In September 2012, the Justice Department's inspector general released a report faulting 12 department employees for failures related to the operation. The report vindicated Holder, concluding he neither conceived the operation nor attempted a cover-up.
Holder,now a partner at the law firm Covington and Burling LLP, could not be immediately reached at his office on Wednesday. Probably cleaning up the shart in the restroom. Embarrassing
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"In September 2012, the Justice Department's inspector general released a report faulting 12 department employees for failures related to the operation. The report vindicated Holder, concluding he neither conceived the operation nor attempted a cover-up."
translation:
The IG in 2012, guessing that Obama would be President for 4 more years and figuring that the investigation documents would never be seen found 12 fall guys to take the blame."
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Probably cleaning up the shart in the restroom. Embarrassing
Probably trying to figure out which talk show he's going to have to be on to make money after he's disbarred.
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Small arms and ammunition were only provided to the....moderate cartels. The release of additional project 'Crossfire Hurricane' information could compromise national security.
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Release might help the cause of transparency if it gets reported by the MSM. Transparency might prevent future CFs. It is doubtful that anyone will go to jail although they should. As F & F was a backdoor attack on the 2nd Amendment.
If history were written honestly, the BO admin. ought to be known as the "Gangster Government," the " Deepstate Grand Rip-Off" or "BO's Corruptacracy." I don't think any of these phrases accurately captures the magnitude of criminality and underhandedness that has gone on. Maybe someone here has a good name for what happened during the past 8 yrs? This goes back beyond the last 8 years into other admins.--not all on Hussein.
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