If there were a bombshell or it were damning to Trump it would have been leaked about 10 times by now.
I don’t know, an IG report snuck in some stuff about some undercover agents in Mexico messing around with prostitution before. They have a way of keeping things close to the chest until they release reports.
As with all things DOJ, the real story will be in the redacted parts. Rosenstein got to work his protective magic on the report as with all outgoing reports. Some of those redacted parts actually do end out getting revealed over time but it is a lot of work to get there, and Rosenstein is trying to run out the clock hoping that the dems will control the Congressional Committees before long. Y'all may recall that the fact that Comey prepared his draft findings long before even interviewing hillary or the witnesses- and that Peter Strzok worked with him to change the language of the report was redacted and had to be revealed through hand to hand combat. To ask someone what is in the IG's report is actually a different question than asking what they think will be in the Rosenstein sanitized report. Bombshell is a powerful word but there is not doubt that it will confirm that a shit show has gone on over at the FBI/DOJ and that if you are Hillary there is a lot of "accommodating." AND THAT COMEY RAN AND/OR ALLOWED A CLOWN SHOW.
Hopefully, times have changed. The Silencing of the Inspectors General By Victor Davis Hanson June 14, 2018 Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, an Obama administration appointee, is scheduled to deliver a report this week on DOJ and FBI abuses during the 2016 campaign cycle. Remember: His last investigation of FBI misconduct advised a criminal referral for fired former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who allegedly lied to federal investigators. McCabe and at least a half-dozen other FBI employees quit, retired, were fired or were reassigned as a result of fallout from the politicization of the FBI. Yet, as Barack Obama left office, his chief of staff, Denis McDonough, strangely boasted that the Obama administration "has been historically free of scandal." Obama himself recently concluded of his eight-year tenure, "I didn't have scandals." Those were puzzling assertions, given nearly nonstop scandals during Obama's eight years in office involving the IRS; General Services Administration; Peace Corps; Secret Service; Veterans Administration; and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, not to mention the Clinton email server scandal, the Benghazi scandal and the 2016 Democratic National Committee email scandal. For nearly eight years, the Obama administration sought to cover up serial wrongdoing by waging a veritable war against the watchdog inspectors general of various federal agencies. In 2014, 47 of the nation's 73 inspectors general signed a letter alleging that Obama had stonewalled their "ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently, and in a timely manner." The frustrated nonpartisan auditors cited systematic Obama administration refusals to turn over incriminating documents that were central to their investigations. The administration had purportedly tried to sidetrack an IG investigation into possible misconduct by then-Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. In addition, the Obama administration reportedly thwarted IG investigations of Amtrak, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the Office of Management and Budget. Despite the campaign against these independent federal auditors, a number of inspectors general still managed to issue damning indictments of unethical behavior. In 2012, Horowitz recommended that 14 Justice Department and ATF officials be disciplined for their conduct in the "Fast and Furious" gun-walking scandal. A 2013 IG audit found that the IRS had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny prior to the 2012 Obama re-election effort. In 2014, an internal audit revealed that CIA officials had hacked the Senate Intelligence Committee's computers while compiling a report on enhanced interrogation techniques. CIA Director John Brennan had claimed that his agents were not improperly monitoring Senate staff computer files. He was forced to retract his denials and apologize for his prevarication. In 2016, the State Department's inspector general found that Hillary Clinton had never sought approval for her reckless and illegal use of an unsecured private email server. The IG also found that staffers who were worried about national security being compromised by the unsecured server were silenced by other Clinton aides. Still, Obama was right in a way: A scandal does not become a scandal if no one acts on findings of improper behavior. Under former attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the findings of dozens of IGs were snubbed. That raises the question: What good are inspectors general if a president ignores any illegality and impropriety that they have uncovered? Answer: not much good at all -- unless an incoming administration is of a different political party than the outgoing administration. Once that happens in our politicized system, there is a rare interest in not covering up or ignoring a damning IG report, but in acting on it. We may now be experiencing one of those unusual occasions. Soon, various inspector general reports may appear concerning FISA court abuse and improper behavior at the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and National Security Council during the 2016 campaign cycle. The investigators are, for the most part, Obama appointees, not Trump appointees. At some point, the idea of toothless inspectors general needs to be revisited. Something is terribly wrong when dozens of IGs found wrongdoing, only to object that their efforts were being thwarted by an Obama administration that had appointed most of them -- and claimed to be scandal-free. Finding government abuse and doing nothing about it is worse than not finding any at all. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...lencing_of_the_inspectors_general_137270.html
Sessions warns IG report on Clinton email case could lead to more firings By Brooke Singman | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email Hillary Clinton IG report: Who's in the crosshairs With the IG report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation about to be released, here is who could be in the report's crosshairs and why they are potential targets. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on the eve of the release of a long-awaited watchdog report on the Hillary Clinton email case, pointedly warned that the findings could lead to more firings. The Justice Department inspector general report reviewing the FBI and DOJ's handling of that case is slated to drop Thursday. In an exclusive interview with The Hill’s new web show “Rising” on Wednesday, Sessions said the option of “termination” is on the table for those accused of serious wrongdoing. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he was open to firing more officials in connection with Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report. (AP) “If anyone else shows up in this report to have done something that requires termination we will do so,” Sessions told The Hill. It's unclear whether Sessions knows which individuals will be cited in the report, but several top FBI and DOJ officials are likely to come under criticism in the findings by IG Michael Horowitz. For more than a year, the inspector general has been reviewing those agencies' actions related to its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. IG REPORT TO BE RELEASED: WHO'S IN THE CROSSHAIRS? “I think it will be a lengthy report and a careful report,” Sessions said, adding that he thinks it will “help us better fix any problems that we have and reassure the American people that some of the concerns that have been raised are not true.” The report is expected to look at, among other things, whether “certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations.” “I think it's going to put a lot of the missing pieces in this giant puzzle together,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., predicted Wednesday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been investigating whether decisions in the Clinton email probe were based on "improper considerations" for over a year. (AP) Among the officials expected to come under scrutiny in the report are former FBI Director James Comey, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and FBI official Peter Strzok. Comey and McCabe have already been fired from the department, in part over issues related to the probe. Horowitz has investigated whether it was improper for Comey to make a public announcement about his decision to not recommend prosecution for Clinton over the private email server and mishandling of classified information. Comey, in that announcement, called Clinton and her associates “extremely careless.” A draft of Horowitz’s report reportedly called Comey “insubordinate,” while also criticizing his decision to notify Congress the probe was being reopened just days before the 2016 election. Former FBI Director James Comey was fired in May 2017 following a recommendation to President Trump by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. (ABC) Comey was fired in May 2017, upon recommendation by current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. They cited his handling of the Clinton case, though President Trump later indicated the Russia probe was also a factor. Trump has continued to decry that investigation as a "witch hunt" and is likely to seize on the IG findings to further question the FBI's integrity. At the same time, some of the IG findings may hit the bureau for actions seen as harmful to Clinton. Sessions told The Hill that Comey’s firing was justified. “It was the right thing to do. The facts were pretty clear on it. He made a big mistake and he testified only a few weeks before the termination that he would do it again [announce reopening the Clinton probe] if he had the opportunity,” Sessions said. McCabe wasn’t fired until March of this year, following a separate inspector general finding that he leaked a self-serving story to the press and later lied about it to Comey and federal investigators. Horowitz’s office sent a criminal referral for McCabe to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington. Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in March after the inspector general's report revealed that he made an unauthorized leak to the media, and later lied about it to Comey and federal investigators. (AP) In this report, though, Horowitz has investigated whether McCabe should have recused himself from the Clinton email investigation due to this family’s ties to the Democratic Party. He did not decide to do so until a week before the election. McCabe could also come under scrutiny over the timeline of his knowledge of additional Clinton-tied emails found on disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop. McCabe and others knew that the emails were found as early as September 2016, but the FBI did not work to obtain a warrant to review them until October. This week, lawyers representing McCabe filed a suit against the Justice Department and the FBI alleging that they wouldn’t give up files connected to his firing. As for Strzok -- who wasn’t fired but rather re-assigned from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team to the FBI’s Human Resources Department last year -- the official came under fire when Horowitz found a trove of anti-Trump text messages between him and former FBI employee Lisa Page, with whom he was romantically involved. Lynch also is expected to come under scrutiny, yet again, over the now-infamous Arizona tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton, just days before the FBI announced it would not press criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. Lynch has claimed she and the former president only discussed “innocuous things,” and that the meeting was just a “chance encounter.” Horowitz is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week on the report. Fox News' Alex Pappas and Judson Berger contributed to this report.
I agree. Obama's legacy was instituting and implementing Chicago style, corrupt politics, throughout the federal bureaucracy.
In an ironic twist Rod Rosenstein is not half way across the world but in the Oval Office briefing Trump on the IG report. Doh!