Justice Department
Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence
indicating disgraced former FBI Director James Comey was misleading President
Trump. Even as he repeatedly assured the President he was not a target, Comey
was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case while acting as an investigative
agent.
Two U.S. officials
briefed on the Inspector General’s investigation of possible FBI misconduct
said Comey was essentially “running a covert operation against” the President,
starting with a private “defensive briefing” he gave Trump just weeks before
his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages
and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting a
“counterintelligence assessment” of Trump during their January 2017 meeting in
New York.
We learned yesterday the
Justice Department instructed former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in a letter
not to answer a wide variety of questions about his investigation of President
Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election when he testifies tomorrow.
Mueller will first
appear before the House Judiciary Committee starting at 8:30 AM. Because of the
Committee’s size, that hearing is expected to last about three hours. He will
then appear before the House Intelligence Committee at noon, in a hearing that
is expected to last about two hours.
The Justice Department
expects that Mueller will “not go beyond” the public version of his March
report.
Let it be known Mueller
will be a reluctant witness appearing only under the threat of subpoena. Democrats
have this fever dream in which they get Mueller to read from his report and the
public will be jarred to hear what’s in it.
On Sunday, House
Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said on Fox News Sunday, “the report presents
very substantial evidence the President is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The hearings are being
billed as the last chance for the Democrats to rekindle fading public interest
in the Mueller investigation.
There are more than 2,000
footnotes included in Mueller’s report. Most of the citations are
matter-of-fact support for claims made in the main text. But a close reading
reveals that many of the footnotes raise more questions than they answer,
especially regarding Mueller’s methods and intent. Some footnotes show that key
allegations often rely on the flimsy say-so of media accounts; others
show a willingness to accept the claims of anti-Trump critics at face value.
Mueller and his team also used the footnotes as the place to include
unsubstantiated gossip and speculation.
Yes, Mr. Mueller’s
testimony will indeed be must-see TV. I
have an inflatable swimming pool in my storage shed for Jerry Nadler and his
ilk to swim in their own tears after this circus is over. No minds will be changed.
It is paramount to remember
Mueller could never establish the underlying crime he was assigned to
investigate. So, Democrats will showcase an investigation that was not
obstructed into a crime that investigators could not establish actually
happened.
UPDATE: Welcome readers of Bad Blue Uncensored
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