the inspector general report today was good for us american citizens, and it was validating for the fbi on one level, but it exposed some issues that they need to fix as well. here are the big takeaways. one, the fbi properly opened its investigation into russian elections interference. no more hoax. no more witch hunt. that s not what it was. two, the origins of the investigation were not politically motivated. three, this president and his attorney general have been trashing our government without cause. and, yes, as i said at the top, there were problems, including on several of the fisa applications made on carter page. but here s the key point. they re not perfect. they ve never been perfect. journalists go after them all the time. the i.g. says it didn t affect the legitimacy of the surveillance on page nor the probe itself. so the deep state they spied on
congressman, on two things. one, something you said. and, one, something that isn t said in the reporting. first what you said. a pattern of conduct. pattern of conduct, as you just said about whether it s self-enrichment or behavior vis-a-vis investigations, that dovetails into additional articles of impeachment that i think abuse of power here would have to be at some point articulated as bribery or extortion by you guys. i don t see the extortion, but that s up for you. the idea of bringing in the mueller probe and the obstruction there, you say the reporting is obstruction of congress, not obstruction of justice, which is what mueller was talking about. is mueller going to be left out of this? well, i don t know the answer to that, and i mean and it s coming out tomorrow? i can t tell because i don t know. well, i m not quite sure exactly what s coming out tomorrow. it may just be a statement of what the schedule for the rest of the week is. i just i m not quite sure
something that no fbi personnel should ever be involved in. so i m not going to pre-judge the young man. i know that it is currently under investigation. we ll see where that goes. with respect to the other inaccuracies in the fisa and omissions. omissions. yeah, look, that is not what the fbi should be doing. we should be perfect in the facts that we represent to the dort and t court and the way we present facts in a transparent and fulsome way. it seems in this case we didn t do that. those mistakes should be rectified and people should be held accountable as appropriate. but let s remember even the i.g. determined that none of those mistakes he didn t find any indicators that those mistakes were intentional misrepresentations or omissions to the court. it was rather a matter of sloppiness or mistakes or what have you. right. i don t buy it because i m an investigative journalist and i m the guy who is usually fighting with you people. i m not usually in the business of hav
us riff from trump and co, the toxic hoax hiecype, it should b dead but it isn t. trump and co are actually acting like he put out a statement about his own agency s i.g. report sounding more trump attorney than attorney general. the report now makes clear the fbi launched an inintrusive investigation of a u.s. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions in my view were insufficient to justify the steps taken. the russian government confirmed that they sponsored effort. they did not find that they clueded in those efforts.
findings in a way that flatters this president and then launched his own investigation with his own hand picked employee to chase down his own suspicions of lying. and lo and behold, his guy pulled a comey today. that means that john durham addressed an ongoing investigation which they say they never do, right? it s a no-no as we learned with comey. he didn t do it to reveal facts. just to rain on the i.g. report. the statement. we advise the inspector general that we do not agree with the conclusions, how the fbi case was open. you know what that means. more stink is coming. that s very deep state. as for barr s thinnest of suspicions crack about the basis to start the probe, he s once again going bad on his own agency. the investigation found investigators were following fbi guidelines. but who made them?