mr. horwitz was also looking at things like the fisa process and whatnot. and if i remember from the hillary clinton email investigation, it was the i.g. i think it was the i.c., i.g., who referred to the fbi some questions or concerns about potential criminal conduct. did that happen in this case? did the doj/i.g. finish their investigation and report this with concerns about crimes? so, this process has been a little bit opaque. we know that there was a rush to get the report to get some of the conclusions regarding andy mccabe out public. but we haven t seen the main report here. and this is not a criminal investigation or at least not primarily, nicole. this is an administrative sort of an after-action report. did things happen the way they should have. did people follow doj policy. as you point out, the i.g. can make a criminal referral.
after his perceived enemies. the crime being investigated remains unknown. and vice chairman of the senate intel committee wants answers. senate intel is wrapping up a three-year bipartisan investigation. we found nothing remotely justifying this. mr. barr s investigation has already jeopardized key international intelligence partnerships. he needs to come before congress and explain himself. joining our conversation, former u.s. attorney joyce vance. joyce, i have some questions about this. one, wasn t there are three investigations into the origins of the russia investigation. one was by a guy named john huber. did we ever find out what happened to his investigation? we have not found out. john huber is the highly regarded u.s. attorney in utah. and there have been crickets on any outcome from his work. okay, joyce. the second one was the doj i.g.
happened. he wants to get to the bottom of something that he thinks is wrong. and so now we see an administrative inquiry turned into a criminal matter that puts us on very dangerous ground to send a signal to rank and file intelligence and law enforcement officials if you try to do the right thing, we are coming after you if we don t like your results. carol lee, this was precisely the scenario that former u.s. government official articulated being concerned about that the targets are very obvious. they are the men and women who investigated russia s attack on our democracy that robert mueller found donald trump welcomed because it supported and benefitted him. so if you can t find any wrongdoing through your doj/i.g., you go to the other end of where the information came from, the intel community. this is thought to be an investigation into or an effort to target john brennan and others at the cia. to what end? well, it s for the president s own personal he wants this. i mean,
these issues is not adequate then of course the doj i.g., the cia i.g., the ic, i.g. they could all do reviews of bits of pieces of things still uncertain. but nobody who s really paying attention believes any of this is uncertain. and so that just leaves one explanation which is politics. and that s not the purpose of an investigation. it seems like what he does in each case is he gets caught. there was russian help in that campaign, whether it was marginally important or not is not important. the fact is they tried to screw with our elections. they rooted for him. they helped him. they wanted hillary definitely to lose. he seems to want to prove not so much it didn t happen as much, he wants to get the people who caught him. like he wants to get the whistleblower. it s a punishment, it s a punitive raid on all the institutions we re talking about. it s to go back there and get even for catching him. he doesn t take these issues but he s not going to prove
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