Look carefully at this tweet from Catherine Herridge at CBS. Notice anything?
Emphasis mine:
“#Durham filing reveals his team learned for first time, this month, the Office of the Inspector General had TWO cellphones for former FBI General Counsel who is central witness in Sussmann case, “the Government has been working diligently to review their contents.””
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has known about the Durham probe of Michael Sussmann for how long? And specifically, the criminal case against Sussmann revolved around the central witness, the point of contact with former FBI General Counsel, Jim Baker. Yet the OIG said nothing to John Durham about their possession of Baker’s phones until this month?
Think about what that tells us?
TechnoFog has more details about the latest court filing SEE HERE. He also notes the issue of the Durham team only recently being notified by the OIG in January:
…”There is also a curious paragraph discussing the fact that Durham, in January 2022 – learned from the DOJ Inspector General that they possessed “two FBI cellphones of the former FBI General Counsel to whom the defendant made his alleged false statement, along with forensic reports analyzing those cellphones.” Durham’s team is going through those cell phones now to analyze their contents.
And there will be more, with Durham stating, “the Government expects to receive additional information and documents in the coming weeks that may be relevant to the charged conduct.” (read more)
Techno has a great perspective and is always a great source for interpretation of the legal filings. However, I would draw attention to the obvious question about the internal policing unit of the DOJ, the Office of Inspector General, not notifying the special counsel of the evidence in their possession.
It’s likely, from the information inside the current and previous filings, that sometime in the interviews with James Baker (a friend of the Lawfare alliance consisting of Ben Wittes, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe), the former FBI general counsel noted he turned over his phones to the OIG, most likely as an outcome of the previous OIG investigation into the political weaponization of the FBI in the OIG FISA application investigation around Carter Page.
Baker telling Durham he gave his phones to the OIG, likely led to Durham asking DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz about them. The OIG then recently admitting they had them…. as evidence… and so, here they are.
However, on its face the OIG not informing the Durham probe about them previously confirms what we previously outlined about how the information silos are used to contain and control information adverse to the interests of the DC system, writ large. Compartmentalization is how the corrupt enterprises of the Fourth Branch of Government, in this instance the DOJ, can bury information. It’s a feature, not a flaw.
Why didn’t you tell us you had the murder weapon? Well, you didn’t ask… and so it goes.
Keep in mind who is playing this game of hide the pea in the institution of Main Justice we are talking about.
The OIG is the internal watchdog, the internal police of the federal police apparatus. The guys who are supposed to be holding the justice system to account are the same guys who are keeping the justice system from accountability.
Chew on that for a few minutes while you contemplate all the previous OIG reports that resulted in exactly nothing, despite – or actually as a feature of their carefully worded content.
Yes, that would put the main office in charge of official justice obfuscation and damage control squarely in the hands of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Does that make all those OIG reports shade a slightly different, perhaps darker color grey?
Factually, the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always a complete ruse perpetrated upon the American people, with the intended objective to stop candidate Trump, then hamstring President Trump, then cover up what they were doing to accomplish those goals, and then finally destroy the Trump presidency. Y’all know the story, I am not repeating it.
However, all of these tentacles of intrigue and rabbit hole exploration can get so intentionally complex that people lose sight of the bigger picture. The current question should be ‘why didn’t the DOJ-OIG inform Durham of the evidence they carried’?
Unfortunately, when you start asking those types of questions, you start to get too close to the heart of the issue. The entire apparatus of the U.S. Dept of Justice and the FBI are corrupt. As to the bigger question: will the Durham probe finally outline all the evidence to prove all the years of deception and fraud perpetrated by the massive aligned system of corrupt government? My short and painful answer is, NO.
The longer answer is attached to the one issue that all researched opinions and analytical theories never touch. The 800lb gorilla in the room that no one will put into their accountability prism, because it blocks all other sunlight:
If Durham was going to reveal the scale of corruption within these institutions, ie. what optimistic folks proclaim as possible; how is Durham going to handle the reality that Robert Mueller’s entire existence was in place to hide it?
The DOJ and FBI are corrupt and weaponized divisions of a corrupt system of U.S. government. The OIG providing willfully blind cover for the corruption within the institutions they are supposed to police is simply more evidence of the rot within them.
These institutions are being maintained in their current form by everyone in DC pretending not to know things – including John Durham.
Do we really think the same DOJ that facilitated, then defended, the targeting of parents at school board meetings would allow Durham to exist if he was a risk to their institution?
Or is it more likely that Bill Barr was the Bondo, and John Durham is the spray paint?
You decide.
The OIG (any OIG) is there to protect the institution. Period.
When MAGA takes over, I think we should designate the WEF as a foreign power terrorist organization. Watch the rats scatter.
By the time Durham finds out where the silos are buried, the statute of limitation will be done.
When MAGA takes over, a small tactical nuke, causing an avalanche that buries the whole thing in 100’s of tons of snow.
I was envisioning the MAGMA party, where lava erupts from the bowels of the earth, hailing down fire and brimstone.
Why drain the swamp when you can just evaporate the liquid? Now imagine a million-man march but instead of a protest sign, everybody carries a mirror. At high noon, everybody directs their mirror to one location, and we have instant evaporation!
The problem with a tactical nuke is everybody would be running around trying to find N-95 masks and we would be back to starting 2020 all over again.
That is MORE to my liking…These institutions NEED to be done away with and the US Marshal Service take over UNTIL the rot has been cleaned out…The US Marshal Service has ALMOST the same tools as the FBI, hell, they even use the same software for criminals and finger-prints…
After the rot is cleaned, NUKE the damn thing and scatter the ashes!!!!!
Sorry, but I can not say I trust any government agency no matter what they claim as none of them have stepped up and questioned the corrupt criminality that has been transpiring for decades.
In short, no thank you. I want to excise the corruption and reinstate the original foundation as it was intended after stripping all the illegal orders that masquerade as “law” used to usurp and corrupt the Compact of the Constitution.
I have used this quote many times for this very reason.
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
and who is going to clean that rot? it certainly won’t be the republican party.
It will have to be We The People, it may require the tree of liberty to be refreshed.
There will be no need to clean the rot, just nuke the thing and be done. Forget the ashes. They don’t deserve to even be recognized.
They will still be requesting documentation when the statute of limitations runs out. They have many ways of extending it forever.
They’ve already pushed this out to the end of March and beyond. Explored every rabbit hole link in the article Sundance wrote and all the links provided by Techno Fog.
The end of time will arrive before they complete the investigation because they have no intention of finishing it.
Also noted that the indictment U.S. vs Sussman (document 33, 21 pages) listed many references to Agency 1, 2 and internet company 1, 2 &3, Lawfirm 1, University 1, Tech Exec 1, originator 1, Russian Bank 1 and Campaign Lawyer 1 but there were no FOOTNOTES? I’m no lawyer but there is no way to know to whom they refer.
We know the university and the Russian Bank not sure about the others.
Except in those cases where EVERYBODY who was obviously guilt was granted Transactional Immunity.
They can testify and drop all the documents they have. It does not matter because they were all given the Mueller Get Out of Jail Free Card.
He knows where they are buried, he needs proof or at least corraboration.
these offices may work in smaller scale, city governments. But at the federal level its all purposefully so obfuscated that there is zero accountability
None of them are legal as they were never listed as any of the limited powers of authority granted to the federal government when it was created by the States .
Yawn……
good reporting for naught…more government three card monte.
Agreeing with Jim, it is great reporting (exactly why we all flock here) but agreeing with you, it is a yawn in so much as all we ever get is further evidence of crimes committed on top of those crimes currently being committed followed by more crimes in the queue to be executed as needed, when needed at any level up to and including mass murder in the name of science. And somewhere in that morass of reality we’re supposed to believe that it can and will all be magically cleaned up in the next election or two or one hundred.
Then again, I suppose people still need fairy tales in life.
The Biden admin is letting Durham do this to keep Hillary at bay, as well as the deep state who could take out Biden/Hunter and probably Kamala anytime they want. Most of the potential casualties of the Durham investigation are Hillary fanboys anyway.
Maybe Hilary’s recent flirtation with running in 2024 is a message to Durham, to remind him she may be his boss again. Or a message to her fanboys not to cooperate with Durham cuz Mama is coming back.
100%.
Obama corrupted the whistleblower system so that whistleblowers were reporting the crimes to the criminals themselves. Those honest and brave enough to do the right thing (Seth Rich?) were destroyed, until corruption was all that remained.
Speaking of Whistleblowers and IG Horowitz,….remember an FBI agent whistleblower went to IG Horowitz, and H gave them assurance they had whistleblower protection.
THEN the whistleblowers house was raided by FBI agents.
Things that make you go
Hmmmmm,…
That reminds me of Frank Serpico, who was a New York City detective who tried to uncover corruption in the late ’60’s. He was ostracized by his fellow officers, eventually set up for an assassination while on a drug raid and almost killed. He survived his wounds. They did a movie about it, starring Al Pacino.
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/frank-serpico
Kind of like Democrat Rep Henry Cuellar’s home being raided by the FBI after complaining about the open border and the negative impact it’s having on his constituents! Whistleblowers and complainers aren’t tolerated by Democrats and they get a visit by the FBI! You know the thing – show me the man and I’ll show you the crime! It’s how the Democrats keep so unified!
hey obama did the same thing to robert menendez for mouthing off about obama’s cuba policy. menendez had the reputation of being the most corrupt politician in new jersey for decades. nothing was ever done to him. he opposed obama’s cuba policy and poof he gets indicted for potential having sex with minors and corruption. he shuts his mouth about a topic that he spoke out about for the entire four decades of his political career. he gets a hung jury in the democrat stronghold of trenton, nj. the federal government decides to drop the case and life goes on for him with no problem.
I agree… what ever happened to the former Marine whistleblower, the guy that went to the FBI and told on Hunter Biden?
Tony Bobulinski is his name I think. I’ve wondered about him many times. And his family. I pray for their safety.
Former Penn St. wrestler
Whatever happened to Harold Martin?
Sundance that 30,000 mile view gives one a whole new perspective. It is looking more and more like the tree of Liberty is parched!
The Globalists wet dream is for “patriots” to provide a spark they can flame into a civil war.
They’d love to give the “parched” Tree of Liberty rivers of American blood.
Fortunately President Trump understands what the bloodthirsty psychopaths are up to and has thwarted their schemes with the help of his disciplined MAGA supporters. Thankfully they’re still accepting his savvy guidance.
As an aside, rather than deciding ie guessing about what may happen at some future date with Durham, I’m very comfy taking President Trumps approach which is “lets see what happens”. Meanwhile, I stay busy so time flies.
Yeah, better to just lay down and die as they use you without fighting for our country, our families, our Communities, or our lives.
No thanks, I will remain standing and not bow down to any man, especially in the face of evil.
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that “if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom,” it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.
Samuel Adams
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Samuel Adams
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
Samuel Adams
“If you will not fight for freedom when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston Churchill
I was the least likely to fight.
Now that they took what I had to protect, I’m among the most likely.
Looking for revenge.
But when the price is THEIR family, how many remain loyal? The tree of liberty will be refreshed one way or the other.
I read somewhere earlier today, Technofog, Catherine Herridge on twitter? Trying to find it.
Durham had gone back and asked them to search on misspellings of Sussmann’s name and returned with more findings.
That seems to be a rather common tactic for hiding things at the DOJ and FIB.
Found a reference to it, but the return count seems off from what I recall:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1486086381831131143.html
Wow. Am so grateful I did not work for a dishonest IG. He was so pissed off when we proved a theory of his incorrect. My audit team member and I were sweating bullets when we presented our findings to him. The IG published a POSITIVE report. Which another agency used to bolster a Congressional request.
Horowitz dug his own grave. If he has shred of integrity left in his spirit, I would hope to hear that is resigning. To “spend time with his family.” Good grief that he has so much shite on his shoes.
You reap what you sow Horowitz. Good luck Chuck.
Remember James Corney?
And Joe and Hunter Biclen
And Brennan, Clapper, Rice… the whole gang, starting with Hillary should be in prison. Instead, innocent Americans lie wasting away in that DC Gulag.
Misspellings matter.
Also, this wasn’t anyone’s first rodeo. It’s one of the main reasons Hillary set up her own server that was not searched as any other government server would be for materials responsive to a FOIA request. Saves them the outright lie.
“Sussman”? No, no responsive docs . . . In the meantime there are 2000 docs with Michael Sussmann or Michel Susman.
Oh, we did the search, yes we did. We ain’t lying, of course not.
Kinda like that former FBI Director James “Corney” eh.
Durham is gathering info on Hillary’s people to hand it over to the Bush people for leverage
That’s what this is all about.
It’s a swamp full of greedy crooks. It’s what the do. The Bush people want some dirty DC deals as well… They need some wars to sell military equipment and make millions.
They need lots of leverage to have some saying in this Joebama administration.
Miss Cheney is acting like she owns DC, isn’t she? She came out of nowhere. Even Papa Cheney showed up in DC on Jan 06. These people are back in the game and want everyone to know it.
Miss Cheney will be rewarded, she won’t need to get reelected. She may be running an entire agency soon.
Clintons are dirty. Probably have billions tucked away. Hillary is surrounded. Could just be a leverage blackmail deal.
The Bush-Clinton “Foundation.” Yeah, right. A money funneling operation.
SD knows this,
I know this,
You know this.
And not a damn thing we can do about it
Except scream at the sky and blog about it.
The same people who believe Muh Russia, don’t care at all,
or are in on it.
It’s like that scene in the movie lords of war.
When Nicholas Cage is finally caught red handed and is sitting in the room.
He explains how there will be a knock on the door by someone high up, who congratulates the agent on a job well done.
Excuses the agent, hands Nicholas a bag of cash and escorts him to his waiting ride home.
No one will ever be held accountable because they were actually just doing their job.
Given that there is only one party, given the coordinated opposition to PDJT to every entity in DC, the notion that the swamp could or would investigate itself, or hold itself, or any of its institutions or individuals accountable, is absurd.
Yeah, like Pfiser conducting a legitimate drug trial, its,an absurd notion.
…
I am completely amazed Sundance is still talking about Durham et el, and even more, that it is seemingly new information that the entire government apparatus is working in a way antithetical to the founding tenants of this nation.
Guess I have been away too long, or maybe not long enough.
In my opinion anyone who thinks this country is going to litigate or elect it’s way out of this malaise does not begin to understand the power of a GOD who turns men’s hearts over to their evil nature as He has so clearly done.
I watched a sliver of the PBS show having something to do with a female bureaucrat extolling the virtues of some other female colleague who had purposefully “lost” a new legally passed law repeatedly thereby effectively killing its implementation.
This smug woman was so proud of the “role” they played and apparently JFK agreed as he gave the offending bureaucrat an award for doing it.
Point being there are not just three branches of government and short of a complete system restart, expect more of the same.
Follow the pen
Indeed. 😘
This from Techno Frog:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/durham-dnc-lawyer-marc-elias-has-given-grand-jury-testimony
I read Durham’s filing earlier today and was struck by more than what this post covers in regards to Horowitz behavior.
I would recommend reading the filing…it’s only about 20 pages.
As an old auditor, I understand that people do not volunteer anything….you must ask the right questions to get any info.
But I was somewhat taken aback that an IG wouldn’t volunteer info and my main takeaway from the filing was wondering why an IG would not volunteer his data to a Special Counsel since in theory they are both supposed to be working on the same side. In other words, my takeaway is that Horowitz (or iGs in general) are a joke.
Not a lightening bolt since Horowitz’ various reports that I have read, beginning with Servergate were obviously pulled punches
The Report was intentional coverup-doublespeak-to begin with.
The OIG report concluded that political bias overall was not the motivation behind the renewal of the FISA warrants, however, Horowitz’s own findings did not support absolutely the signature ‘no bias claim,’ which was dangled for Democrats and media to use in their false narrative campaigns.
As I recall, what Horowitz was saying is HE FOUND NO EVIDENCE of bias….no one admitted it to him and there were no smoking gun emails.
I felt he worded it that way to confuse people. He could just as easily said that any reasonable person would suspect bias but he was unable to prove it. Or bias is the best explanation but I couldn’t prove it, etc.
The Weissmann dossier did everything to cast things in the worst light possible and Horowitz does everything to cast things in the best light. Disgusting.
Remember when IG Horowitz issued a whitewash statement about the FBIs involvement in Russia gate?
Remember when notoriously closed mouthed Durham SIMULTANEOUSLY issued a DC shocking statement?
Remember that Durhams statement was basically, said that he had more info and was stating, publicly, that he disagreed with Horowitzs conclusions?
I sure so. The simultaneous timing and content of Durhams only (?) public statement is still intriguing.
FBI, DOJ, and OIG met with representatives of Ukraine Jan 19-21, 2016. Horowitz was there. His name was on the agenda with Ciaramella.
Here’s one result of the meeting:
https://clintonfoundationtimeline.com/february-1-2016-a-nabu-press-release-says-ukraine-will-receive-special-computer-equipment-from-british-and-american-governments/
Biden’s Ukraine anti corruption agency NABU, received computer equipment, a server, training, and staff from the FBI in early 2016.
When did NABU turn over the Manafort ledgers?
Here is an account of Stephen McIntyre’s research regarding the firing of Ukraine’s prosecutor by quid pro Joe Bribem, including an account of the Jan 2016 meetings:
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2019/11/bombshell-report-whistleblower-eric.html
Here’s Stephen McIntyre’s
(@ClimateAudit) full Twitter thread:
This thread is a must read,keeping mind that Horowitz was involved.
It may explain why Joe is so eager to go to war in Ukraine, at this moment.
This comment by Hans Mahncke makes sense:
What does Horowitz know about quid pro Joe’s involvement in Ukraine, the firing of it’s prosecutor and 10,000 judges, and the involvement of Davos, and the IMF leadership?
What was the FBI actually doing on their office in Ukraine in 2016, IG Horowitz?
Notice all the retirements. RATS scrambling to get out of the Government, get those pensions, stay under the radar and spend more time with the family.
Oh I wish for the days of a hungry, energitic, 45 year old Rudi Giuliani.
so sally Yates wrote a 54 page brief on why she and the rest of the Obama DOJ didn’t need an inspector general. When PDJT came into office so did IG Horowitz. Horowitz was the guy that literally changed his assigned objective to “Political Bias” uncovered in the starting of the “crossfire hurricane investigation.” He found enough errors and mistakes to go beyond sloppy work but could not show evidence of partisanship
No one knew he inserted the bias clause on his own until he presented to congress. He also shortened this moniker from “political bias” to “bias” to weaponize the out for the communist dems.
I happen to be a big Carter Page fan. Many do not agree with me but I keep up with him and his suit of Comey and others. His attorney is a women named Margot Cleveland, and here is her elaboration on the Durham filing and how it relates to Horowitz. There had been talk of a budding Durham/Horowitz rivalry prior to the filing, but I think it is out for pretty much all to see now.
Also not sure if she had the original thought on the document, but she was dang close to one of the first posters of it.
I was mistaken. Cleveland is the attorney that posts about Carter Page’s suit and his filings. CP’s attorney is Leslie MCadoo. Both are young hard charging and smart lawyers whom I mixed up.
Thanks gsonFit – great share!
Carter Page worked on behalf of the CIA. He was sent to Russia, working for whatever investment firm it was, to report economic energy issues out of Moscow. He was inserted into the Trump Campaign team specifically for the reason he was used – to get a FISA warrant and “legally” eavesdrop on the Trump Campaign. Nothing about it was legal. Carter Page is as guilty as John Brennan.
Probably. Almost definitely in fact.
But was he a double agent? And I don’t mean for the Russians.
Me thinks, DNI, but I guess that all remains to be seen. Wouldnt Clapper or Brennan have recognized carter page if he was CIA? They missed him because he was military. I think much of this whole thing is JFK’s special forces v Security State started by Dulles and his crew after WW2. The CIA
And no one can still determine who really controls our Federal Gov’t. It’s not Biden, Obama and Co., Soros, Putin, or the CCP. It’s a quasi Communist-Crony Capitalist-Oligarch hybrid run by banking and corporate interests. Who are the real people controlling America, and the rest of the world for that matter.
From a human perspective I know you are right. Corruption and deception everywhere, organized and powerful, but GOD:
“He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand?
For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.
If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”
Mark 4:21-23 NIV
No lie will be allowed to stand, and it is not human effort that will accomplish this, but the Almighty HIMSELF!
We are at the point that the deception that started 6K years ago in the garden, “you will be like gods” is in it’s last gasps of existence. Those who are willing, will see that everything this world is founded on is a lie and they will turn to the light and those who prefer the darkness will be allowed to have it. Keep looking up
^^^^
This.
I am looking toward that “new Heaven and new Earth” that we are promised.
Amen to that.
Horowitz was a keynote on the agenda for the Jan 19-23, 2016 meetings in Washington with Ukraine.
I posted a link to the document long ago.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1197960034094702592.html
…In January 2016 “some of Ukraine’ s top corruption prosecutors and investigators [met] …with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).”
More on the meeting:
https://libertymetron.com/posts/whistleblower-hosted-key-ukraine-meeting-at-white-house
Looking for a link to the agenda…
John Solomon had it:
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion
…”The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).
BY JOHN SOLOMON
As Donald Trump began his meteoric rise to the presidency, the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington to coordinate ongoing anti-corruption efforts inside Russia’s most critical neighbor.
The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).
The agenda suggested the purpose was training and coordination. But Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long — during the meetings and afterward — to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President Joe Biden’s family and one that involved a lobbying firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump.
U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii Telizhenko, then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting.
Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukrainian Embassy, said U.S. officials volunteered during the meetings — one of which was held in the White House’s Old Executive Office Building — that they had an interest in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions.”…
Horowitz was at this event, as a keynote participant, as noted on the agenda. Ciaramella was there too.
I made more than one mistake this morning, so here is the correct background. Michael Horowitz was appointed by Obama in 2012. AAG Sally Yates made a 68 page memo in 2015 sidelining Horowitz and denying access to DOJ actions for a bit over a year. Below is a NY Times article (Not Paywalled) that describes Horowitz getting back into the game in the spring of 2016 just as the setup of Russiagate began. So Horowitz was supposed to be a neutral party in the above marymorse post.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/us/justice-dept-restoring-inspectors-access-to-records.html
Do these folks really think we will not notice their shenanigans? BTW, Horowitz was appointed to head up an IG “efficiency” committee the year Obama’s crew was cheating so much (2015).
Aren’t WE the American taxpayer paying the salary of Durham and his crew? How much money has been flushed down the drain while this mountebank Durham, stashes away enough of our dough to “live off the fat of the land?” This is evil. I grow more disgusted every day. Mountebank goes for Horror-witz, too. The accepted and protected “norm” is lower than anyone imagines.
Bill Barr is as bad or worse. Sundance is right again. Horror-witz, Barr, Durham and their whole crew are also willing puppets of the criminals in the swamp. I see no good or benefit to anything they MAY produce. It’s a feral charade. GTH the bunch of them! They’ve lost all morality and conscience, if, in fact, they ever had either one.
“Aren’t WE the American taxpayer paying the salary of Durham and his crew? How much money has been flushed down the drain”
There is some info on the following DOJ website. I’ve read where a couple people, who have analyzed the spending and resources, say the spending, if anything, is way low (low not meaning efficient) for a serious investigation.
https://www.justice.gov/sco-durham
You just took those words outa my thoughts.
Barb,
Of all the bad actors who outed themselves during the Trump Administration, my deepest contempt is reserved for the bagpiper and the Alabama coward. They COULD have led the way toward cleaning up the putrid mess we have in DC. Instead, they were crooked from the start and conspired in every way possible to undermine both President Trump and the country.
I read Barr’s comment about President Trump complaining about the election theft, “Just a deposed king ranting…” and thought that in an honest country with a functioning justice system, Barr would be looking at having a hangman’s noose placed around his fat neck with a six-foot drop quickly to follow. May God damn him, Sessions, Comey and Judas Pence to the deepest, darkest, hottest depths of Hell.
I keep going back to the very first “statement” made to Sundance when he had his sit down with Durham’s chief investigator: “How did you find me?”.
That is not the statement of a person engaged in providing sunlight and bleach to open up that which was hidden.
You don’t rise to the level these “honorable” civil servants have risen to without being acceptable to the Swamp–and we all know that the Swamp will do whatever it takes to perpetuate and enrich itself.
What part of the government is not corrupt. We just move on, now we have the Mueller Jan 6 committee which is more corrupt than any prior government operation. There are huge and powerful obstacles that are deeply entrenched and will never leave voluntarily. These entrenched forces are fortified by multiple others, big tech, media, corporations.
We have seen through the fake news, fake politicians, fake bureaucrats, fake education, fake elections etc. We will either fight back or be enslaved. They have all the powerful weapons. We have a growing number of people. Who will win.
Law enforcement whether federal, state, or local, at its core, is designed only for one singular purpose (in a constitutional republic) and that is, namely, to serve the greater community at large and keep it safe so it can survive and flourish. We don’t have that at the federal level and we are losing it at the state and local too. At some point, we will have to make a stand. And, I’m not talking about a handholding, feel good event. 1984 is around the corner…
We’ve come to an intellectual understanding of the depth of the corruption and the danger. We need to transition to a realization of what will be required to stop or root it out.
In other words….yawn.
In order to corrupt any Executive branch organization for a long time, you must control their Inspector General office.
But how is that possible? The compliance officers should never mix with the front-line, sales type operatives. There should be a better system after 240 years
The deep state controls our elections. They aren’t going to allow anyone to stop them.
So what is to be done, then? If we should expect nothing to come of this, but the realization that pretty much our entire government, and it’s tentacles, are corrupt….what are we to do? How are we to go against this? I know there are many that want to do something, but what? Even at the local level there is so much corruption! Good and honest citizens don’t seem to have much of a chance anymore.
If you look through the noise, you will understand that we are currently winning.
The revolution won’t be televised, but it is occurring. Look at Virginia. Look at the Canadian truckers. Look at Constitutional carry spreading like wildfire. Look at the money follows the child laws being adopted.
I don’t know whether the mysterious Mr. Durham is dead or alive, one of ours or one of theirs, a Hillary operation, an Obama operation, or a Trump sleeper operation. To some degree, to the extent that it keeps any of the snakes up at night worrying about what’s in Marc Elias’s emails, it keeps their attention focused on Washington, not Austin or Richmond.
That’s a good thing. We the people are taking power. Like death, Washington will be the last to be conquered.
The campaign is in the countryside. When we finally cross the Potomac (figuratively) like Ceasar crossed the Rubicon, the war will have been won long before that.
To prove his existence, Durham only has to drop a few crumbs of truth along the way, but keeps most of the cake for himself. Trust no one in DC, with very few exceptions.
Agree, Sundance. No doubt it’s all kabuki theater. They protect each other because they are corrupt to the core. They will trot out a few scapegoats and that will be the end of it.
They are card carrying members of the Uniparty after all these years in government.
We know the truth. But it doesn’t set us free. Yet.
There is NO justice in America today, only court costs.
It’s simple.
Durham is being kept in place by Biden-Harris (Obama) to keep Hillary Clinton “in check”.
If Clinton tries to run then just watch Durham start indicting those around Clinton.
Has anyone noticed talk of Clinton running again?
It CAN’T HAPPEN – Because Durham.
The best thing forward would be to shut everything down revert to a pure version of federalism. seriously 50 states equals 50 laboratories type thing, maybe even split states into smaller states any time their population crosses 10 million.
Horowitz to announce retirement in 3, 2, 1, …
This is no great surprise. The scum of DC, profit big time from all the corruption, and in order to do that they all cover for each other.
How many politicians have we seen prosecuted over the years, only the ones the scum want removed, no more.
I wonder if Durham or Horowitz read Sundance? They may be exposed by Sundance but in odd way maybe reassured by Sundance that nothing will happen, the deep state will remain deep? Do they say to themselves “Even Sundance admits nothing will happen so we’re good to go!”? Just wondering when one is so intertwined with government corruption how they live with their conscience? Do they believe in God? The God of the Bible? Do they pray and for what? Who knows?
How many of the Obama era IGs have been charged with serious crimes? TWO that I know of… but NOTHING related to spy gate or Russia Russia Russia.
It tells us that corruption is everywhere; but, we knew that.
I get that Barr was the Bondo; however, considering the short attention span of most Americans, why the need for spray paint, aka Durham. The whole affair was destined to dry up and blow away without Durham, so why was he necessary? It seems to be a situation where two criminals are pointing loaded weapons at each other. One twitch, and both guns go off.
I have always been an optimist. I like to believe that the corruption was/is so deep and thick that Mr. Durham can only filter so much at a time to get the clarity needed to reveal what went on with Russiagate and how it continues to this day. I want to believe we will eventually get at the truth and it will shatter the illusion constructed by the corrupt entities so long controlling the information America has been fed. Since all of DC is a criminal Democrat cabal, that revelation will open the eyes of voters hoodwinked by the corrupt media and a sea change in government will occur. I hold out hope for Mr. Durham. I cannot surrender my faith.
Trump wanted to demolish and rebuild the FBI HQ building. Apparently that line item request never made its way into the budget. A controlled demolition of the bureau itself would have been even better.
DC is by design, completely corrupt. A majority of the politicians, who’ve been in office for many years, no longer represent their constituents. DC is a cancer, that will only be salvaged, when every criminal element politician, lobbyist, Soros, and others are brought to trial and convicted. Patriots from outside the DC area will have to use extreme measures to rid dc of the corruption. Short of that, nothing will change.
Hey Horowitz! Hillary called and she wants to give you some pointers on those cell phones.
The Intelligence State Rules…
Another EXCELLENT post and analysis by Sundance, along with some very interesting comments by the Treepers.
As usual, kudos to Catherine Herridge for her reporting – regardless of who she is working for!
Is it possible that after “seeing the light” that Durham will do the right thing?
Or will Garland shut him down?
Maybe Durham could fill the bill as the AG in PDJT’s (or MAGA’s) next term…………..
Graham + McConnell = Durham + Barr
Same operation and BS just worked in different branches of government.
Did anyone really think that Horowitz wasn’t part of the Deep State?
I believe in the normal the OIG exists as cleaners for the DOJ the same way that FIB operates as cleaners for the swamp and round and round it goes.
“BUT!” Their nasty little swamp gang is being exposed and little by little, the facade is being torn away and is being revealed to more normies daily. Though I expect to see anything of substance to come from any internal investigation of the swamp from another swamp rat. They now have to look over their shoulder because they’ve lost the narrative and lost the people, so maybe just maybe in a quest to save their own hides, actual criminals will actually be arrested. We’ll see.
Another tidbit most forget is that is was Barr and Durham I believe who personally went over to Italy and collected Mifsud’s phone.
Whatever happened to that and not to mention the 30 wiped FIB phones, or the Wiener laptop, or the 46 Hard drives or the Hillary server and emails?
Justice is dead
Destroyed by those who sold out Americans and this great Republic.
Michael Horowitz was put in the job of DOJ IG to protect the miscreants and for no other reason.