Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Up to His -- and Their -- Old Tricks

Report on F.B.I. Russia Inquiry Finds Serious Errors but Debunks Anti-Trump Plot ...He also exonerated former F.B.I. leaders, broadly rejecting Mr. Trump’s accusations that they engaged in a politicized conspiracy to sabotage him. [More]
Did it really "debunk"?  Did he really "exonerate"?
We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced” officials’ decision to open the investigation, the report said.
That they did not find something is not the same as proving it does not exist.

Horowitz -- you gotta understand who the guy is and where he's coming from.

You gotta understand he pulled the same crap on his "Gunwalker" report:
Case in point, Chapter One of the report identifies key individuals who declined to be interviewed ... Simlarly of significance, and hardly surprising to those following this story, the report notes “The White House did not produce to us any internal White House communications, noting that “’the White House is beyond the purview of the Inspector General’s Office, which has jurisdiction over Department of Justice programs and personnel.’”
The result?
That has not stopped the search term “clears Holder” from already becoming the meme du jour on the “Authorized Journalist” Google News feed, meaning it will soon become “common knowledge’ among those who are not long-term and in-depth observers. 
It's all a continuing con job that most are oblivious to. Of the remainder, most will excuse and even champion it, and of the ones who don't, most will do nothing about it.

3 comments:

DDS said...

Excerpt from an old Fire Sign Theater bit:

Kissinger's voice: "Mr. President, what we need is a fall guy."

Nixon's voice: "I know, Henry. But I've used up so many lately!"

So, throw a few "fall guys" under the bus, (Comey, Strzok, page) then circle the wagons. Someone on the J Edgar Hoover building's top floor, we don't yet know who, is making a run at unseating Hoover as the most corrupt cop in FBI history.

DDS said...

Just heard this on the radio. The Horowitz report identified 17 separate "mistakes" committed by FBI personnel. Each and every one of those mistakes went against Trump. Yet Mr. Horowitz couldn't find any evidence of anti Trump bias.

Well, try this one on for size. Imagine flipping a coin and getting 17 heads in a row.

BTW, the odds of flipping 17 heads in a row would be 131072 to 1.

Hey Mr. Horowitz. There's the evidence you couldn't find.

Ed said...

I had a college professor explain to me that the results of one coin flip are entirely independent of another, but after six in a row of either all heads or all tails (64 to 1 odds) it would be wise to check the coin for a bias.