*****BREAKING*****INSPECTOR GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE FBI HANDLING OF CLINTON E-MAILS

[DemocratSinceBirth]

VLADIMIR PUTIN AND JAMES COMEY STABBED US IN THE BACKS

[drray23]

1. in what regards ?

The fact that they bungled it and used it as a political weapon breaking the hatch act in the process ?

[BeyondGeography]

2. Comey is under investigation for eight days?

And the NYC rogue office? Hurry please.

[uponit7771]

5. +1

[LeftInTX]

9. It's more like WTF

Nothing but clickbait to get our hopes up.

[BeyondGeography]

10. Well, it pisses Comey off

Which is lovely. That's about it though.

[Pantagruel]

3. This investigation

will quietly fold up its tent and go home in 8 days. Call me crazy but I just don't see Sessions pushing this rather than squashing it.

[triron]

4. Why now???

Why not sooner???

[hatrack]

7. Wow, just in time!

[Sparkly]

6. WaPo has headline

BREAKING: Justice Department inspector general to investigate pre-election actions by department and FBI

No other info yet.

I hope Comey gets whatever he deserves.

Edit: An article is up, but it won't load... Probably getting slammed right now.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, the whole election story including the emails and the MiniPoot collusion Comey is in the center

... of it.

[oasis]

11. Investigation tentacles will lead them to the Giulliani/NY FBI cabal.

They were involved, big time.

[pangaia]

16. That is what is way way back in the distant reaches of my hopeful brain..

get giully by the juglar...

[GoCubsGo]

12. Better late than never, I guess. n/t

[Thinkingabout]

13. I hope they look into the statements made by Rudy Giuliani on having inside information and then

back tracked because he probably received this information from agents in NY who was trying to bring down HRC. Again it was wrong when Comey came out so close to the election and cast a large shadow of doubt on HRC and should not have happened by FBI director.

[Grey Lemercier]

14. MSNBC is reporting that some of the investigation is going to be about the FBI leaking TO CLINTON

ffs!!!

Also Politico confirms that and also says they are looking in the Clinton Foundation as well. grrrrrr


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/justice-department-watchdog-opens-review-of-clinton-email-investigation-233549

In addition to the Clinton email investigation, it appears the new inspector general review will examine other Clinton-related matters the FBI worked on before the election, including preliminary inquiries into alleged misconduct at the Clinton Foundation.

Horowitz's statement alludes to claims by some FBI agents that Deputy Director Andrew McCabe should have recused himself from decisions on those matters because his wife, Jill McCabe, ran for the Virginia state senate as a Democrat in 2015 with backing from Gov. Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe is a longtime friend of the Clintons and has worked closely with the Clinton Foundation.

While the review will be welcomed by many Democrats, Horowitz also plans to explore some allegations Republicans would like to see pursued: claims that Justice's top legislative affairs official, Peter Kadzik, "improperly disclosed non-public information to the Clinton campaign and/or should have been recused from participating in certain matters."

Some emails published by WikiLeaks show Kadzik using a personal email account to communicate with Clinton campaign chief John Podesta about upcoming action in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits related to Clinton.

Horowitz, an Obama appointee, is expected to remain in his job into the Trump administration.

[world wide wally]

15. Its about time!

That asshole shouldn't be able to show his face in public

[disalitervisum]

17. It just occurred to me

trump will be committing perjury the moment he takes the oath. Actively violating the Constitution while swearing to uphold it. Of course, no word ever given by this revolting bag of vomit has ever been honored.

[hadEnuf]

18. Trump and the Trumpzis will squash this as soon as they take power.

As if they give a flying fuck about the law and what people think of them....

Bottom line: Who is going to stop them and how will they be able to make them stop?

[RiverStone]

19. Nothing to get excited about. Window dressing to a clusterfuck.

Comey can rot in hell and we are still saddled with a fascist unstable idiot for president.

Unlikely Comey will get more than a memo in his personnel file, no jail time.

[mcar]

20. Finally!

[Gothmog]

21. Comey is pond scum and lacks any professional or other ethics

[Scruffy1]

22. L. Patrick Gray redux.

I just can't quite figure out Comey. It seems that by his nature he was honest even if a R. But L. Patrick Gray had the same rep and he obstructed justice in the Watergate investigation. Of course, nothing happened to him. except some investigations until the furor quieted down. It seems that once you leave it's ok. That's the way Washing toon works. He actually burned evidence. There must be something in the Republican mind that ethics and professionalism always take a back seat to tribal loyalty. The cynical side of me says they never appoint anyone they don't have control over. Blackmail comes to mind. Between the RNC and the Russians they could find some dirt on about anyone. Being in the party is almost an indictment in my book and Obama didn't understand the true nature of the Republican tribe because he was never in it. You can bet that any appointees have a large secrete dossier somewhere hanging over their head. I know it sounds like conspiracy crap, which I loathe, but I can think of no other explanation. Both Gray and Comey had reputations for honesty and professionalism but folded under pressure. The alternative is that the authoritarian mind always bows to power.
It's not really important at this stage, because the deed is done and the fascists have the reins. A new Department of Justice OIG will be installed and the whole thing will fade into history once the public is bored with it and returns to their sports entertainment. The only thing left is mockery and resistance.

[Gothmog]

23. It will not be easy for trump to stop this investigation

I saw this on the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/12/there-will-be-an-investigation-of-james-comeys-conduct-we-might-get-some-accountability-after-all/?utm_term=.25630ca46fd1

UPDATE: Amy Jeffress, a former senior Justice Department official and currently an attorney at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, emails more detail on whether this probe could be closed down under Trump:

The Inspector General Act authorizes the Attorney General to interfere with an IG investigation under certain exceptional circumstances, one of which relates to intelligence matters, which arguably could apply here. But the Attorney General would have to find that action is “necessary to prevent the significant impairment to the national interests of the United States” (and there are congressional notification requirements as well). I can’t think of any precedent for taking this step, and politically it would be hugely controversial, and therefore unlikely.

It may be harder that we think for Trump to block this investigation

BTW Comey is pond scum