“Critically flawed” - maybe but the trending legal term on Google is “hysterical dithyramb.”
Hundreds of garage bands will be re-named tonight.
It’s 2018 so I had to click through to see if this was about Anthony Weiner’s laptop or if there was some new “weiner laptop” on the political landscape.
Hope you didn’t come upon Weiner lap photos in error, my friend!
This is a bigger flop than Lajes Boy’s “The Memo”
Lucy/Football time for the MAGAts…again !
What is frigg’n sad about the entire thing is that:
(1) Comey did what he did because he was affraid that republicans would go fully crazy on him, and bent over backwards (electing Trump in the process) to insulate himself from challange; and
(2) Horowitz is now doing the same thing, trying to put in some - ill supported - scraps in for the Trumpsters.
So, no collusion.
“[W]e did not have confidence that Strzok’s decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias,” the IG report read.
So prioritizing an investigation into treason over a thoroughly investigated case which had some maybe new info is bias?
Weird how the Republican mind works.
Disclaimer: I haven’t read the report yet.
What I’m wondering, though, is whether Strzok’s reluctance/delay might have to do with how they found the Clinton emails?
– Clinton’s stint as SoS ended in 2013.
– The laptop seized by the FBI was brand new in 2015.
– By 2015, Abedin & Weiner’s relationship had been rocky for years, making it HIGHLY unlikely (to my mind) that she would choose to place an archive of highly-sensitive-but-old emails on her husband’s laptop, when she already knows he’s not terribly trustworthy and has terrible judgment.
– There’s no reason they would be sharing a laptop; they easily have enough money to each have their own computers.
– The FBI has tools, to be used in anti-terrorism investigations, that allow them to access cloud accounts if someone has logged in to that account from a given machine, even if none of the contents of that cloud account are saved directly to that machine.
– Using those tools in a non-terrorism-related investigation is iffy at best, and could potentially taint the evidence found in that investigation due to 4th amendment violations.
– If FBI agents did indeed use anti-terrorism tools inappropriately in an effort to smear Clinton, the FBI as a whole would be rather unlikely to admit it, and would go to extensive lengths to avoid talking about it.
– One thing the IG report is clear on is that Comey broke several iron-clad rules in an effort to protect the FBI’s reputation.