Trump attacks report on FBI, saying in fact there was 'total bias'

[rooster59]

Trump attacks report on FBI, saying in fact there was 'total bias'

 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference after his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday a Justice Department inspector general's report that concluded there was no bias in how the FBI handled its investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails was wrong, saying there was "total bias."

 

"The end result was wrong," Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel, adding that the inspector general "blew it."

 

"There was total bias when you look at (FBI staff member) Peter Strzok, what he said about me; when you look at (then-FBI Director James) Comey and all his moves."

 

The 500-page report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that Comey, who was later fired by Trump, made a "serious error of judgment" when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election that he was reopening an investigation into candidate Clinton's use of a private e-mail server.

 

But the report, released on Thursday, also concluded that the FBI's investigation was not tainted by political bias, even as it uncovered an email from Strzok to then-fellow FBI employee Lisa Page during the 2016 campaign saying Trump would not become president. "We'll stop it," he said in the email. [nL1N1TG0XR]

 

The findings have no direct bearing on a separate Justice Department special counsel probe on Russia's alleged interference in the election, and the possibility there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. [nL1N1TG0XR]

 

Trump, however, has used the findings on Strzok, who also worked on the Russia probe, to sow doubts about that investigation. "They were plotting against my election," Trump said in the Fox News interview, referring to people in the FBI.

 

Russia has denied that it interfered in the election. Trump has repeatedly said there was no collusion or attempt by him to obstruct the Russia investigation, and has called Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe a "witch hunt."

 

Despite his criticism of the inspector general's report, Trump presented the report's findings as vindication of his decision to fire Comey in May last year.

 

'GREAT SERVICE' IN FIRING COMEY

 

"The IG Report is a total disaster for Comey, his minions and sadly, the FBI," Trump said in a post on Twitter. "I did a great service to the people in firing him."

 

Initially when Comey was fired, the Trump administration presented the dismissal as related to his handling of the Clinton email probe. However, Trump later said that he had the FBI's Russia probe in mind when he dismissed Comey.

 

It was Comey's dismissal that led to the Justice Department appointing Mueller to take over the federal probe into Russian election meddling.

 

Comey defended his actions in an op-ed published in the New York Times after the report was released.

 

"In 2016, my team faced an extraordinary situation — something I thought of as a 500-year flood — offering no good choices and presenting some of the hardest decisions I ever had to make," Comey wrote.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-16

[mtls2005]

Maybe someone should tell him that he won, and Hillary is not President? And that without Daddy Vladdy and Jim Comey, he probably would not be President.

 

I am certain he read the 500-page report...just kidding. He's waiting for his staff to make a one-page cartoon of the report.

[Boon Mee]

Gross, flagrant bias by the FBI is apparent throughout the report. 

[klauskunkel]

6 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Gross, flagrant bias by the FBI is apparent throughout the report. 

Nope, the word is "total", not "gloss" and not "fragrant", it's "total".  

[Chomper Higgot]

7 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Gross, flagrant bias by the FBI is apparent throughout the report. 

Gross fragrant bias apparent in you inability to accept there are no facts to backup your claim.

Edited June 16, 2018 by Chomper Higgot

[billd766]

7 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Gross, flagrant bias by the FBI is apparent throughout the report. 

 

Have you actually personally read every single page of it?

 

500 pages is the equivalent of a full length novel that would take most people 3 or 4 days to read if it was good and exciting.

 

So be honest and truthful here and confirm that you have read every single page, line and word, or not.

[Tug]

as Reporters here there are 7 words in a 500 page document that could be construed to support Donald’s point of view they could also be construed to mean we as in the opposition to Donald will defeat him in voting booth (we did)unfortunately not in the electoral college 

[lostlink]

Director Wray said Thursday  after the IG report release that all fbi employees will now receive bias training. Funny that.

[riclag]

"Despite Strzok’s extremely inappropriate texting — it’s wildly improper for someone in his position to express animus or favoritism toward a particular candidate — the inspector general found no evidence that Strzok acted on his text to Page".

“Our review did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the investigative decisions we reviewed,” the IG report states".

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/14/17465360/peter-strzok-text-inspector-general-stop

Did they teach( "[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" Page, who also worked on Mueller's staff, responded. 
"No. No he won't. We'll stop it," Strzok texted back.") that at FBI counterintelligence school!  

 

Didn't find any "documentary or testimonial evidence. According to Wray,FBI director ,we will start teaching agents not to be bias.Why now! They were found not bias! Just because they don't have evidence of a paper trail obviously doesn't mean they weren't bias... 

 

It's only the top officials involved ,not the rank and file that weaseled, unsuspectingly. 

Comey,McCabe(second in command),Stroz( top official of counter intel).

 

Schummer said, six ways to Sunday the Intel agencies can get you.

   

Comey, the Insubordinate head of the entire FBI,  “You can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels,” Comey declared to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “We are honest people and....whether or not you agree with the result, this was done the way you want it to be done.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-testifies-on-extremist-violence-hillary-clinton-emails/

Edited June 16, 2018 by riclag

[smotherb]

10 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Gross, flagrant bias by the FBI is apparent throughout the report. 

Do those strings in your jaw and on your hands and feet hurt?

[stevenl]

5 hours ago, riclag said:

"Despite Strzok’s extremely inappropriate texting — it’s wildly improper for someone in his position to express animus or favoritism toward a particular candidate — the inspector general found no evidence that Strzok acted on his text to Page".

“Our review did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the investigative decisions we reviewed,” the IG report states".

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/14/17465360/peter-strzok-text-inspector-general-stop

Did they teach( "[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" Page, who also worked on Mueller's staff, responded. 
"No. No he won't. We'll stop it," Strzok texted back.") that at FBI counterintelligence school!  

 

Didn't find any "documentary or testimonial evidence. According to Wray,FBI director ,we will start teaching agents not to be bias.Why now! They were found not bias! Just because they don't have evidence of a paper trail obviously doesn't mean they weren't bias... 

 

It's only the top officials involved ,not the rank and file that weaseled, unsuspectingly. 

Comey,McCabe(second in command),Stroz( top official of counter intel).

 

Schummer said, six ways to Sunday the Intel agencies can get you.

   

Comey, the Insubordinate head of the entire FBI,  “You can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels,” Comey declared to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “We are honest people and....whether or not you agree with the result, this was done the way you want it to be done.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-testifies-on-extremist-violence-hillary-clinton-emails/

And the point of this post is what exactly?

[riclag]

5 hours ago, stevenl said:

And the point of this post is what exactly?

   Undoubted Bias and hatred from the   FBI 

Edited June 17, 2018 by riclag

[bristolboy]

5 minutes ago, riclag said:

   Undoubted Bias and hatred from the   FBI 

Because Strzok = FBI

[riclag]

3 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Because Strzok = FBI

I was commenting to Stevenl

[bristolboy]

8 minutes ago, riclag said:

I was commenting to Stevenl

I got news for you. This is an open forum. If you want to have a private conversation with stevenl, that's what PMs are for.

[stevenl]

34 minutes ago, riclag said:

I was commenting to Stevenl

If we were having a private conversation I would have sent you a PM.

 

Just noticed Bristolboy said more or less the same.

Edited June 17, 2018 by stevenl

[billd766]

38 minutes ago, riclag said:

I was commenting to Stevenl

 

It is an open forum to which anyone can reply to your post.

 

If you want it to remain just between the two of you, then send him a PM.

 

Sorry. The previous 2 posts were on a different page.

Edited June 17, 2018 by billd766
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[Kelsall]

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Edited June 17, 2018 by Kelsall

[stevenl]

1 minute ago, Kelsall said:

 

Yes, that is what this thread is about.

 

What is the point of your post?

Edited June 17, 2018 by stevenl

[Kelsall]

On 6/16/2018 at 2:16 PM, Boon Mee said:

Gross, flagrant bias by the FBI is apparent throughout the report. 

 

On 6/16/2018 at 2:25 PM, klauskunkel said:

Nope, the word is "total", not "gloss" and not "fragrant", it's "total".  

 

17 hours ago, dragonballz said:

would like to quote you on your incomprehensible post but again do not want to get banned

 

It's worse than that.  klauskunkel is ridiculing the Asian way of speaking, substituting l for r and then r for l. 

[klauskunkel]

45 minutes ago, Kelsall said:

 

 

 

It's worse than that.  klauskunkel is ridiculing the Asian way of speaking, substituting l for r and then r for l. 

How did you come up with that assumption, Kersarr? There are no Asians referenced in the whole thread.

[Justfine]

And yet he won against the media, the powers that be, the old school mob and without political experience.

 

Great win by Trump by appealing to regular people not snobs.

 

 

[bristolboy]

4 hours ago, Justfine said:

And yet he won against the media, the powers that be, the old school mob and without political experience.

 

Great win by Trump by appealing to regular people not snobs.

 

 

Do you realize that more Americans voted for his opponent than voted for him? Are you saying that the plurality of Americans are snobs? 

[riclag]

19 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

 

And thank you for extrapolating from the conduct of one FBI agent that "It was and still is an ongoing coup by the FBI and an executive branch weaponized by Barack Obama. It is aided and abetted by Hillary Clinton, the media and the Deep State (including Republicans)."

Many agents of the career professtional FBI ,not just Stroz  ( Stroz,Andy and Lisa Page) referencing  to Andy's office where the insurance policy(bias) was discussed . Also the FBI agents that worked with those 3 ."But the IG report tells us that it's Peter Strzok and it's Lisa Page, but it's also teams of agents and lawyers that are identified in this IG report, five of whom who have been referred to the Office of Professional Responsibility for their anti-Trump texts". 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/17/rep_john_ratcliffe_on_important_takeaways_from_doj_inspector_generals_report.html

Edited June 18, 2018 by riclag

[Silurian]

Here is a pretty good summary of the 500 page report.

 

The 500-Page Inspector General’s Report In 900 Words

 

My favorite part...

 

Quote

3. The report is vindication for Clinton

...

The report also basically confirms that she should not have been charged with any crime for email use. Of course, that doesn’t undo Comey’s actions, which may have cost Clinton the election.

 

All this talk of the FBI trying to get Clinton elected is just smoke. If anything, the FBI helped the reality TV con artist.

 

Edited June 18, 2018 by Silurian

[bristolboy]

18 minutes ago, riclag said:

Many agents of the career professtional FBI ,not just Stroz  ( Stroz,Andy and Lisa Page) referencing  to Andy's office where the insurance policy(bias) was discussed . Also the FBI agents that worked with those 3 ."But the IG report tells us that it's Peter Strzok and it's Lisa Page, but it's also teams of agents and lawyers that are identified in this IG report, five of whom who have been referred to the Office of Professional Responsibility for their anti-Trump texts". 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/17/rep_john_ratcliffe_on_important_takeaways_from_doj_inspector_generals_report.html

Apparently Strzek is so afraid of being held accountable for his obviously criminal acts that he has volunteered to testify before Congress without immunity and without invoking his 5th Amendment rights. 

 

"The FBI agent who was removed from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign for sending anti-Trump texts intends to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and any other congressional committee that asks, his attorney said in a letter made public Sunday.

Peter Strzok, who was singled out in a recent Justice Department inspector general report for the politically charged messages, would be willing to testify without immunity, and he would not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to any question, his attorney, Aitan Goelman, said in an interview Sunday."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agent-removed-from-russia-probe-for-anti-trump-texts-says-hes-willing-to-testify-before-congress/2018/06/17/8d144160-7256-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c883a1b923c9

[Becker]

3 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Apparently Strzek is so afraid of being held accountable for his obviously criminal acts that he has volunteered to testify before Congress without immunity and without invoking his 5th Amendment rights. 

 

"The FBI agent who was removed from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign for sending anti-Trump texts intends to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and any other congressional committee that asks, his attorney said in a letter made public Sunday.

Peter Strzok, who was singled out in a recent Justice Department inspector general report for the politically charged messages, would be willing to testify without immunity, and he would not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to any question, his attorney, Aitan Goelman, said in an interview Sunday."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agent-removed-from-russia-probe-for-anti-trump-texts-says-hes-willing-to-testify-before-congress/2018/06/17/8d144160-7256-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c883a1b923c9

This is just a ruse by the Deep State, HRC, Muslim Overlords et al to confuse the base man-child supporters. Shame on them!

MAWA!!!

[Becker]

The man-child REALLY shouldn't accuse anyone of lying:

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/17/opinions/trump-bigger-liar-than-obama-obeidallah/index.html

[riclag]

2 hours ago, bristolboy said:

Apparently Strzek is so afraid of being held accountable for his obviously criminal acts that he has volunteered to testify before Congress without immunity and without invoking his 5th Amendment rights. 

 

"The FBI agent who was removed from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign for sending anti-Trump texts intends to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and any other congressional committee that asks, his attorney said in a letter made public Sunday.

Peter Strzok, who was singled out in a recent Justice Department inspector general report for the politically charged messages, would be willing to testify without immunity, and he would not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to any question, his attorney, Aitan Goelman, said in an interview Sunday."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agent-removed-from-russia-probe-for-anti-trump-texts-says-hes-willing-to-testify-before-congress/2018/06/17/8d144160-7256-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c883a1b923c9

Good I'm very happy to see that he volunteered as oppose to being  subpoena . Hopefully all the other career professionals will be brought in front of the committee.. As mention in my PP

Edited June 18, 2018 by riclag

[bristolboy]

7 minutes ago, riclag said:

Good I'm very happy to see that he volunteered as oppose to being  subpoena 

Nice attempt to ignore the significance of his offer. It's not that he's volunteered to appear. It's that he won't invoke the 5th Amendment and he will testify without immunity. Sounds like he's got nothing to be scared of. I predict that his testimony will be a debacle for the House Judiciary Committee Republicans.