He's the Inspector General, a civil servant.. I don't think he launches investigations of anything unless evdence of wrong doing has turned up during his audits, or unless some politician asks him to investigate.
Yes, he would need a basis for launching an investigation and he has launched one. Keep hoping you can make it go away.
The basis is that he was under pressure from ZBarr and the White House to launch one. That's a political basis. not one based one any facts . We will see what develops, but if I were you I wouldn't put too much stock in that kook DeGeneva. What he says may be factually correct, but wrong legally. And he is a lawyer! That's where he has always been most vulnerable, crappy lawyer.. I have no dog in this fight. I say let the dog with the correct facts win.
Except he launched his investigation long before Barr came on the scene. Although he spoke in generalities he never made any secret of the fact that he was moving on to looking at the FISA scenario and DOJ interactions with the state department and the intel agencies, and this was made known right at the time that his first investigation/report was concluded. That is one of the reasons why Huber was brought in, ie. Huber would be the one to interact with the other agencies - where Horowitz had no jurisdiction- so that they could look at the whole picture. I got it though. Congressional investigations are constitutional requirements and the independent investigations must be respected when Trump is the target. But when the swamp and the dems are the target, it's all just a bunch of political hacks/a witch-hunt at play. Duplicitous phonies- all of you tards. Your ilk are beginning to sweat bigtime though- so that is a beautiful thing. Oh, and while you are here, I will remind you that Horowitz was appointed by Barack Hussein Obama. You are welcome.
You wouldn't have to tie yourself in knots like this if only you could let the facts speak. Just go with Horowitz, you'll be fine. But make sure you're not going with the Fox version of Horowitz, or the Barr version of Mueller, etc. Always go right to the horses mouth; not to the guy selling the horse.
But...but..but....just like with the first report....I am told that the notion that Horowitz is going to examine the FISA process and issue findings and a report is just tin foil on my part.
https://saraacarter.com/ag-barr-bat...gal-surveillance-had-been-going-on-for-years/ AG Barr Battles Intel Community And FBI. Illegal Surveillance Had Been Going On For Years.
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...sa-database-and-resulting-files-on-americans/ In April 2017 Judge Collyer wrote a highly critical FISA Court opinion following discoveries by Director Admiral Rogers of government contractors accessing the NSA database, and extracting illegal search results from the electronic records of every American. Eight-five percent of all use/extraction of the NSA database was unlawful; and they were searching many of the same Americans (“identifier”), repeatedly, over different dates. This means specific Americans were being targeted, tracked and monitored… unlawfully. Within the 99-page opinion from Judge Rosemary Collyer she noted none of this FISA-702 database abuse was accidental. In a key footnote on page 87: Collyer outlined the years of unlawful violations was the result of “deliberate decisionmaking“:
You need, or, perhaps more accurately, you deserve, a clarification. If you want Barr's opinion you go to Barr, if you want Mueller's you go to Mueller, if you want Horowitz's you go to Horowitz. You don't go to a talking head on MSNBC or a talking Head on FOX, or to Bloomberg. And you don't go to Barr for Mueller's opinion, nor to Mueller for Barr's. You never go to Trump even for his own opinion, because he only has opinions du jour. always uninformed, always short lived.