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DOJ watchdog will ‘assess’ allegations of irregularities in Comey testimony

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DOJ watchdog will ‘assess’ allegations of irregularities in Comey testimony | Fox News

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz -- who's been conducting high-profile probes related to the FBI and DOJ’s actions in the Russia election meddling investigation – told lawmakers Wednesday his investigators will “assess” new Republican allegations of “inconsistencies” in former FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony.

Horowitz made the comments during an appearance before a House Oversight Committee hearing with other inspectors general.


“We would assess it,” Horowitz said, under questioning from Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.

Meadows told Horowitz that he and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan plan to make a referral to him about inconsistencies in what Comey has said about opening up an obstruction case against President Trump.

“I'm finding just a number of irregularities,” Meadows said. “So would it be appropriate if ranking member Jordan and I were to refer those inconsistencies to the IG and if we did that with the IG look at those inconsistencies?”

Horowitz replied: “It's certainly appropriate for us to get a referral about a then-employee of the department.”

Meadows told Horowitz he believes Comey gave conflicting information when his closed-door testimony in December 2018 is compared against what’s in Horowitz’s latest report. That report, released last month, found that Comey violated bureau policies by drafting, leaking and retaining memos documenting private discussions with Trump.

Meadows said Comey told lawmakers he denied initiating an obstruction-of-justice investigation because of comments the president made to him. But the inspector general’s report on Comey said the former FBI director purposely leaked his memos of those conversations with Trump to spark a special counsel investigation of alleged obstruction.

“So two of those can't be true,” Meadows said. He added, “So we'll be referring those inconsistencies to you today, Mr. Horowitz.”

“Our concern was empowering FBI directors or frankly any FBI employee or other law enforcement official with the authority to decide that they're not going to follow established norms and procedures because in their view they've made a judgment that the individuals they're dealing with can't be trusted,” he said.

Last week, Horowitz told lawmakers his team is nearly finished with a hotly anticipated review of alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and FBI during the Russia investigation, saying that a draft was sent to Attorney General Bill Barr, and that the report is being finalized ahead of a public release.

Horowitz and his investigators have probed how the infamous and salacious anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was used to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant for former Trump aide Carter Page in October 2016, as well as three FISA renewals. Horowitz’s team has questioned why the FBI considered Steele a credible source, and why the bureau seemed to use news reports to bolster Steele’s credibility.

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Mr. Higher Calling better be calling his lawyer. Apparently Comey's testimony under oath to congress and his testimony under oath to the IG don't match. Jim has got some explaining to do.
 
Horowitz is sending a draft of his report to Barr? Is Barr going to present his own summary of that report to the public first? Because if so then that summary is going to be some grade A bull****.

And then Barr will refuse to let anyone else see the full report. Yeah, we’ve been here before.
 
DOJ watchdog will ‘assess’ allegations of irregularities in Comey testimony | Fox News

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz -- who's been conducting high-profile probes related to the FBI and DOJ’s actions in the Russia election meddling investigation – told lawmakers Wednesday his investigators will “assess” new Republican allegations of “inconsistencies” in former FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony.

Horowitz made the comments during an appearance before a House Oversight Committee hearing with other inspectors general.


“We would assess it,” Horowitz said, under questioning from Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.

Meadows told Horowitz that he and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan plan to make a referral to him about inconsistencies in what Comey has said about opening up an obstruction case against President Trump.

“I'm finding just a number of irregularities,” Meadows said. “So would it be appropriate if ranking member Jordan and I were to refer those inconsistencies to the IG and if we did that with the IG look at those inconsistencies?”

Horowitz replied: “It's certainly appropriate for us to get a referral about a then-employee of the department.”

Meadows told Horowitz he believes Comey gave conflicting information when his closed-door testimony in December 2018 is compared against what’s in Horowitz’s latest report. That report, released last month, found that Comey violated bureau policies by drafting, leaking and retaining memos documenting private discussions with Trump.

Meadows said Comey told lawmakers he denied initiating an obstruction-of-justice investigation because of comments the president made to him. But the inspector general’s report on Comey said the former FBI director purposely leaked his memos of those conversations with Trump to spark a special counsel investigation of alleged obstruction.

“So two of those can't be true,” Meadows said. He added, “So we'll be referring those inconsistencies to you today, Mr. Horowitz.”

“Our concern was empowering FBI directors or frankly any FBI employee or other law enforcement official with the authority to decide that they're not going to follow established norms and procedures because in their view they've made a judgment that the individuals they're dealing with can't be trusted,” he said.

Last week, Horowitz told lawmakers his team is nearly finished with a hotly anticipated review of alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and FBI during the Russia investigation, saying that a draft was sent to Attorney General Bill Barr, and that the report is being finalized ahead of a public release.

Horowitz and his investigators have probed how the infamous and salacious anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was used to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant for former Trump aide Carter Page in October 2016, as well as three FISA renewals. Horowitz’s team has questioned why the FBI considered Steele a credible source, and why the bureau seemed to use news reports to bolster Steele’s credibility.

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Mr. Higher Calling better be calling his lawyer. Apparently Comey's testimony under oath to congress and his testimony under oath to the IG don't match. Jim has got some explaining to do.

I expect, given the prepwork done to discredit Barr after the Weissman report flop, whatever Horowitz or Durham come up with will be dismissed by blaming Barr.
 
Here is looking at it and seeing what has to be redacted. They say he is going to declassify some documents for transparency,
 
I expect, given the prepwork done to discredit Barr after the Weissman report flop, whatever Horowitz or Durham come up with will be dismissed by blaming Barr.

Or the report could just be presented to the public directly. But we know that won't happen because Barr will need to sanitize it in order to present Trump in the best possible light. Eventually the truth will come out, but it will be too late by then as the public narrative will have already been set.

Yeah, like I said: we've been here before.
 
Or the report could just be presented to the public directly. But we know that won't happen because Barr will need to sanitize it in order to present Trump in the best possible light. Eventually the truth will come out, but it will be too late by then as the public narrative will have already been set.

Yeah, like I said: we've been here before.
Well any classified information cannot be released so hopefully Barr will declassify most of it. But I doubt you will like what you see when it’s declassified because it’s going to be bad for the Dems. You had better pray Barr doesn’t declassify a lot of it.
 
Well any classified information cannot be released so hopefully Barr wil-

Yeah, we've heard this horse**** before.
 
Wait and watch it shouldn’t be too long a few weeks most likely.

I only know that if Barr intercepts the report again, it will have precisely zero value. If Republicans genuinely believe the report is damning to the intelligence community during the Obama administration, then they'll let the report go directly to the public. If there's classified information then it can be handled by a bipartisan House Committee.

But if Republicans are okay with nobody believing the contents of the report, then they'll let it be intercepted by Barr first.

It's just a question of whether or not you want the public to believe the report.
 
I only know that if Barr intercepts the report again, it will have precisely zero value. If Republicans genuinely believe the report is damning to the intelligence community during the Obama administration, then they'll let the report go directly to the public. If there's classified information then it can be handled by a bipartisan House Committee.

But if Republicans are okay with nobody believing the contents of the report, then they'll let it be intercepted by Barr first.

It's just a question of whether or not you want the public to believe the report.
You don’t have to worry more about what is redacted you have to worry about what is not redacted :lol:
 
You don’t have to worry more about what is redacted you have to worry about what is not redacted :lol:

If there are redactions and Barr is doing the redacting then the report will be grade A bull****.
 
You sound scared. :lamo

Pragmatic. I don't believe corrupt liars. Why do you? Is it because he's your corrupt liar?
 
Or the report could just be presented to the public directly. But we know that won't happen because Barr will need to sanitize it in order to present Trump in the best possible light. Eventually the truth will come out, but it will be too late by then as the public narrative will have already been set.

Yeah, like I said: we've been here before.

But you saw the Weissman Report as was promised so what makes you think you won't see the other ones?

Are you already prepared with your own narrative? Is that your concern? It would be too fanciful to fly? Crash and burn on liftoff?
 
DOJ watchdog will ‘assess’ allegations of irregularities in Comey testimony | Fox News

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz -- who's been conducting high-profile probes related to the FBI and DOJ’s actions in the Russia election meddling investigation – told lawmakers Wednesday his investigators will “assess” new Republican allegations of “inconsistencies” in former FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony.

Horowitz made the comments during an appearance before a House Oversight Committee hearing with other inspectors general.


“We would assess it,” Horowitz said, under questioning from Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.

Meadows told Horowitz that he and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan plan to make a referral to him about inconsistencies in what Comey has said about opening up an obstruction case against President Trump.

“I'm finding just a number of irregularities,” Meadows said. “So would it be appropriate if ranking member Jordan and I were to refer those inconsistencies to the IG and if we did that with the IG look at those inconsistencies?”

Horowitz replied: “It's certainly appropriate for us to get a referral about a then-employee of the department.”

Meadows told Horowitz he believes Comey gave conflicting information when his closed-door testimony in December 2018 is compared against what’s in Horowitz’s latest report. That report, released last month, found that Comey violated bureau policies by drafting, leaking and retaining memos documenting private discussions with Trump.

Meadows said Comey told lawmakers he denied initiating an obstruction-of-justice investigation because of comments the president made to him. But the inspector general’s report on Comey said the former FBI director purposely leaked his memos of those conversations with Trump to spark a special counsel investigation of alleged obstruction.

“So two of those can't be true,” Meadows said. He added, “So we'll be referring those inconsistencies to you today, Mr. Horowitz.”

“Our concern was empowering FBI directors or frankly any FBI employee or other law enforcement official with the authority to decide that they're not going to follow established norms and procedures because in their view they've made a judgment that the individuals they're dealing with can't be trusted,” he said.

Last week, Horowitz told lawmakers his team is nearly finished with a hotly anticipated review of alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and FBI during the Russia investigation, saying that a draft was sent to Attorney General Bill Barr, and that the report is being finalized ahead of a public release.

Horowitz and his investigators have probed how the infamous and salacious anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was used to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant for former Trump aide Carter Page in October 2016, as well as three FISA renewals. Horowitz’s team has questioned why the FBI considered Steele a credible source, and why the bureau seemed to use news reports to bolster Steele’s credibility.

===================================================================

Mr. Higher Calling better be calling his lawyer. Apparently Comey's testimony under oath to congress and his testimony under oath to the IG don't match. Jim has got some explaining to do.

LMAO.

Republicans: "If we submitted a complaint what would you do?"
Horowitz: "We would assess it just like any complaint."

Fox News: BREAKING! IG HOROWITZ ASSESSING MAJOR IRREGULARITIES IN COMEY TESTIMONY
 
But you saw the Weissman Report as was promised so what makes you think you won't see the other ones?

Are you already prepared with your own narrative? Is that your concern? It would be too fanciful to fly? Crash and burn on liftoff?
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