The February fracas around the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone is now being probed by the office of DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, NBC News reported Monday.
Exactly how ‘independent’ is Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz. Does he have any effective pull? Sure - in sane times - and IG would be heeded and his recommendations gold. But is this just a fart in the wind? If he issues a ‘memo’ saying “Yup - this whole interference was unprecedented and speaks of political partisanship. I don’t like it - but there’s no recourse” - where’s the value?
How did Horowitz manage to escape being fired by the tRump Crime Family? One might come to think its just a matter of time before the axe eventually falls on Horowitz as well.
Given previous DOJ IG reports, this one is going to be … interesting. The earlier ones pretty much made mountains of of molehills, but I would not be surprised if this one made an atomically flat plain of Everest.
Mark Meadows: “Welp, time to get rid of ANOTHER IG, Sir!”
Let ME review it.
And Off topic but I like this…
https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1305274530311462913?s=21
Horowitz is also in charge of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) since the previous IG in charge of that was fired. Its a game of musical chairs.
My head hurts.
Like any other IG investigation has had any meaningful impact. Unless of course you count the IG’s losing their jobs. 
The February fracas around the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone is now being probed by the office of DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz
Don’t move too quickly, now. That’s (pauses to use fingers on other hand) seven months from the sentencing overrule to starting an investigation.
Presumably, by doing nothing. Maybe he figures now is too close to the election to fire him, but he’s meat come the day after the election.
The Trump Cesspool™
The value of any Horowitz IG finding will be retrospective, if the country survives in more than name only. Under this administration and AG, that is a BIG if.
Don’t worry, Bill Barr has this under control…
“Horowitz”
Sooooo, another milquetoast exoneration of Trump and Barr sprinkled with hints of wrongdoing, maybe even crimes, committed by the people who opposed or angered them…
Horowitz is perhaps one of the top 5 most useless people in Washington…unless you’re a budding neofascist authoritarian who he needs to please to keep his job that is…
Trump’s Washington isn’t a swamp, it’s a damned sewer!
“Is now being probed” might not equal “is just starting an investigation now.” The probe might be seven months deep and two anonymous sources are now ready to float its coming release.
What kind of anti-corruption fight can we engage in, in the court of public opinion, if we do not even unearth the corruption in an official capacity? It can be argued, on the contrary, that way too much corruption is not being investigated, documented, and brought to public attention, a sad state of affairs leading to an immensely uninformed electorate.
If Horowitz is in charge ofthe Pandemic Response Accountability Committee and isn’t lighting his hair on fire by now he’s most likely just another useless tit on a boar.