June 18, 2018 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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4122 Inspector General Report What You Need To Know!
The Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s highly anticipated report on the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation was recently released. Stefan Molyneux breaks down some of the interesting details and what you ultimately need to know about law and order in the United States. Includes: Justice Department, Clinton-mails investigation, Former FBI Director James Comey, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, disgraces FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the Donald Trump-Russia investigations, Robert Mueller, Barack Obama and much much more!Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
So a rather interesting and instructive report has, I guess, escaped from the foggy bureaucratic maze of the Justice Department into the eyeballs of a rather shocked and tense nation.
This, of course, is the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the FBI's Clinton emails investigation.
So the memo provides the outcomes of a congressional investigation into whether the Department of Justice made politically motivated decisions with respect to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of the homebrewed server And the Trump-Russia investigations.
And primarily, of course, the question is, was there a bias on the part of the FBI? Was there a pro-Hillary bias on the part of the FBI with regards to the investigation into her use of a private server to transmit classified emails?
Now, the report is long, and there's an entire chapter that's Quite startling, I suppose.
Not so much in that it happened, but rather that it is so blatant and so proven, I suppose.
So there were communications among several FBI officials which...
Really clearly show a horrifying distaste for Donald Trump, right?
So they refer to Trump as loathsome, an idiot, awful, an enormous douche.
There are a couple of fuck Trumps sprinkled around there.
The John Oliver-inspired DRUMF, which is an old joke that wasn't really that funny to begin with.
Now, these are a bunch of FBI officials, not just the homewrecking duo of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who were having an affair.
With each other, which seems to involve pretty much texting and not much else.
There's also in these texts from FBI officials bottomless contempt for Trump's supporters, right?
So Trump supporters are referred to as retarded, the crazies, you can smell them, I guess, like Agent Smith.
And what is truly appalling is is these FBI agents express a very very clear determination that they want to stop Trump from becoming president.
Now this is the most powerful enforcement agency in the world setting its swords against a democratically elected So, Strzok was asked in text if Trump would become president.
Oh, we can't let him become president!
And he says, no, no, he's not.
We'll stop it.
We'll stop it, he says.
I suppose the question is how?
Who else was involved? What was the goal?
Now, another time...
He's told that Trump's election is very unlikely.
He says, we can't take that risk!
And that the FBI needs an insurance policy against Trump.
Huh. What could that mean?
Is that the Russia collusion fantasy and witch hunt?
What is the insurance policy?
These are very important questions, which most likely will never be answered.
So, they're saying that the democratically elected Contender won't become president.
They'll stop it. They need an insurance policy against the will of the people.
Is that treason? Is that sedition?
You be the judge.
Now, there is, of course, overwhelming evidence of bias because the bias all goes one way, at least as far as what I've seen.
It's all anti-Trump, anti-Trump supporters and so on and pro-Hillary and so on.
So the Inspector General did find massive evidence Almost comprehensive evidence of bias.
But the report merely withholds judgment on whether it affected the investigation at particular key points.
Which seems to me sort of pointless.
It meets the point of having an investigation if you're not going to come to any particular conclusions other than, here's a bunch of bias, but we can't tell whether or not it affected the...
The investigation at particular points.
But look, this simply affirms or confirms the reality that we all know.
Come on. President Barack Obama and his Justice Department were never in a billion zillion years going to allow for Secretary Hillary Clinton to be charged with any kind of crime.
It didn't matter what evidence there was.
It didn't matter how comprehensive it was.
It didn't matter what she did.
It didn't matter what her associates did or her employees.
It doesn't matter. There's no way that President Obama and the Justice Department were going to charge Hillary with a crime.
And not least because that would also implicate Barack Obama, because he exchanged many emails with Hillary Clinton on her private server.
I assume that the private server had to be whitelisted, so he of course would have seen that it was not a.gov email address, or at least his associates would have known that.
So he would need to be questioned.
If Hillary was charged, Barack Obama would need to be questioned and may in fact be implicated.
And that's just not going to happen, particularly with the leftist media, particularly with the hypersensitivities involved with having the first person of color as the President of the United States.
So, it wasn't going to happen in a million years.
Now, as far as whether there were political motivations, well, look at Peter Strzok.
So, when he first heard that Ted Cruz had withdrawn from the GOP race...
Which meant that Trump was going to be the nominee, pretty much, was he said, okay, well, I'll paraphrase a little.
He said, okay, basically, we've got to wrap up these Clinton emails probe, and we've got to get it closed without charges.
And then when the Trump-Russia collusion investigation got rolling, then he commented that, well, that's the one that really matters.
That's the one that really matters.
Forget this Clinton thing.
That's the one that really matters.
Interesting. So we've got to wrap up the Hillary facade, the kabuki theater of pretend justice.
But I've got to get on to the investigation that really matters.
Now, the day after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel, Strzok was, I guess, interested in joining the investigation of...
Trump, and he said, Peter Strzok said, and I quote, for me, in this case, I personally have a sense of unfinished business.
I unleashed it with MYE, that's the mid-year exam, that's the FBI's code word for the Clinton emails investigation.
Now I need to fix it and finish it.
Gotta finish it. And later in the same exchange, if there's, he says, well, if there's a choice, If I'm just going to be another FBI assistant director or if I'm going to participate in, and I quote, investigation leading to impeachment.
Hmm. That is quite interesting.
So I've got to wrap up the Clinton thing without charges because I really want to jump on the mule or witch hunt for an investigation that leads to an impeachment.
Huh. Pretty early on there, Peter.
I'm not sure whether you know for sure it's going to lead to an impeachment or not, but you seem to be pretty certain of all of that, right?
Looks like they're fact-finding not.
Guilty finding, yes.
Now, the report also confirms that President Trump was more than justified in dismissing Director Comey.
I mean, it was just crazy.
So, here's the big problem that the FBI faced prior to the election.
Well, thousands of emails had gone through Hillary's private server, right?
She wasn't allowed to do that.
I mean, for a variety of reasons.
Of course, it was not a secure system.
And also, Hillary's emails are supposed to be kept in the public record, which means they have to be backed up on a government server.
So there was no doubt that Hillary had transmitted and received...
Classified information all the way up to like special program access or whatever it is like top secret top top top secret.
It was no doubt that she had done that and the evidence was very very clear.
So then what do you do when there's clear evidence of a crime but you don't want to charge someone?
Well you make up a special out called intent.
See, intent is a state of mind question, right?
Which is, you can make up anything you want, unless there's sort of clear statements like, I know I'm doing this, I want to do it, and of course people don't make those kinds of statements, right?
So, because a clear crime had been committed by Hillary Clinton, they had to charge her, unless they could make up this magical escape clause called intent.
What was her intent? Now, the effect of Hillary's email server in her basement, or was it next to her toilet, some sort of data dump thing, but...
And this is from the actual report.
Foreign actors did obtain access to some of Hillary Clinton's emails, including at least one email that was classified as secret.
So foreign actors...
Gained access to some of Mr.
Clinton's emails, including at least one that was classified as secret.
The private accounts of Clinton staffers were also breached by foreign actors.
They're not named. I don't know if they're known or not known or whatever.
And that's what the memo states.
So now we know that foreign actors gained access to classified information as a result of Hillary Clinton using this private server.
Now, the report also talks about the secret classification.
This refers to information that if foreign actors get a hold of it, or people outside the government get a hold of it, could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to the national security.
Intent is one of these things like, if you act in a manner that is so careless, That it's going to result in these kinds of problems.
I'm not sure how intent matters.
Like if someone blindfolds themselves and then drives down a busy street and hits people and they say, well, I wasn't trying to hit anyone, but you were acting in a way that people were most likely to get hit.
This is why drunk drivers get charged, even if they don't mean to hit anyone or don't want to hit anyone, because you're acting in a way that you understand, right?
So creating this thing called intent, again, I'm no lawyer, just to me it seems kind of like, well, now we can have an escape clause called mind reading.
Now, the House committee did chastise Comey for reaching an outcome that was predetermined.
Because their perception is that he basically decided not to charge Clinton before he had interviewed her, before he had interviewed other key witnesses.
And the memo that was produced also questions Comey's interpretation of this law.
And Comey's basic argument is that because there was no evidence of intent on Hillary Clinton's behalf, she could not be charged.
Intent is not part of the law as I see it.
Again, I'm no expert, but intent doesn't seem to be part.
And there's certainly other people who've been charged with breaching security or being careless with security where intent hasn't even come up.
Now, you could argue that any content of classified information showing up in an unclassified system is...
Evidence of intent in and of itself, because these systems are very separate.
It's not like you have on the same computer, you know, one email client for your unsecured emails and another email client for your secured and just copy and paste between them.
You can't. They're separate systems, often separate computers.
It's very distinct, right?
So you can't just copy and paste From a classified to an unclassified system.
You can't just forward emails from a classified system to an unclassified system.
And one of the ways we know that is that the emails on Hillary Clinton's basement server didn't contain classified headers.
So what you have to do if you want to send classified information in an unclassified system or through an unclassified system is you have to eyeball The classified email, and then you have to summarize it or type it all out again on another platform.
And that takes concentration, effort, time.
It takes a conscious bypassing of security protocols.
So, again, I'm no lawyer, but from a reasonably intelligent layperson standpoint, That's what they call intention, because you're taking stuff from a classified system and retyping it or summarizing it into an unclassified system.
So clearly the goal is to bypass classification.
That's intention right there.
Now, another criticism that comes out of the IG report is that the FBI is not prosecution.
It's an investigation, right? Mr.
Comey was the chief investigator.
He was not a prosecutor.
So it was not Comey's job to figure out what a reasonable prosecutor would do with all the evidence collected by the FBI. It was his job to say, here are the results of the investigation, and it is not his job to say whether someone should or should not be charged.
That's the job of the Justice Department.
Now, New email, sorry, new tax messages also came up that weren't provided before.
The Justice Department has recovered some of these missing tax messages.
Remember, they said they had a technical glitch, and mysteriously, all of their important messages were vanished, had vanished.
Yeah, you try that. Try saying that to the FBI if you're under investigation.
Oh, the technical glitch, it's all gone, even though I'm supposed to keep them.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Now, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were all included in this kind of stuff, and...
This is one of the ones that showed up.
It's where Strzok says, we're going to stop or I'm going to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.
And there were thousands of texts that were already provided to Congress.
That one, among others, was missing and has now shown up.
And of course, somebody asked the Justice Department spokesperson why this message was missing from previous document productions.
Just unable to say it, basically unable to say why.
So here's another exchange.
This is from February 2016.
Now, a lot of these FBI agents, of course, aren't named.
This is an Agent 1. He's talking to another FBI employee about interviewing Hillary Clinton's personal IT staffer.
So the FBI employee asked how the interview went.
Agent 1 replied, Awesome!
Light his ass off!
So, they're talking to Hillary Clinton's IT person, interviewing him.
How did it go, says one FBI agent.
The other one says, awesome.
He, basically, he lied his ass off.
Now, lying to investigators, of course, is a federal crime.
You just ask former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn or former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, because they're being charged with that.
And the FBI employee was joking that it would be funny if the guy, Hillary Clinton's IT staffer, was charged.
The FBI employee replied, would it be funny if he was the only guy charged in this deal?
AG1 responded that even though Hillary Clinton's IT staffer lied, quote, ain't no one gonna do shit.
Yeah. But apparently there's no bias that affected investigative decisions.
Now, there are other exchanges that strongly indicate Agent 1's belief that the outcome of the investigation was predetermined, right?
So, he sent a text message to a fellow FBI agent on the case.
He was also involved in a relationship, but anyway.
This FBI agent said, basically, he advocated against even bothering to interview Hillary Clinton.
Quote,"'We have nothing.
Shouldn't even be interviewing.'" He also messaged, My God, I'm actually starting to have embarrassment sprinkled on my disappointment.
Ever been forced to do something you adamantly opposed?
In a later message, he also wrote, Yeah, so it's conceivable that there may have been some political bias in the investigation.
In a later message, this FBI agent wrote, Sorry, the FBI agent sent a message on February 9th, 2016, complaining about the investigative work she was being given.
And this FBI agent wrote her back.
Yeah, I hear you.
You guys have a shitty task in a shitty environment to look for something conjured in a place where you can't find it for a case that doesn't matter and is predestined.
for a case that doesn't matter and is predestined.
On election day, this FBI sent her this message, the FBI agents sent her this message.
You should know that I'm with her.
That's one of Hillary Clinton's campaign slogans.
He also referred to the investigation as, and I quote, the most meaningless thing I've ever done.
A quote, continued waste of resources and time and focus.
He wrote, it's just so obvious how pointless this exercise is.
Here's an exchange between two agents, Agent 5 and Agent 1.
Agent 5 says, I'm trying to think of a would-I-rather instead of spending time with those people, which is Trump supporters.
Agent 1, stick your tongue in a fan.
Agent 5, I would rather have brunch with Trump.
Agent 1, ha! Agent 1, French toast with drumpf.
Agent 5, I would rather have brunch with Trump and a bunch of his supporters like the ones from Ohio that are retarded.
Agent 5 sent a smiley face.
It's possible there might have been some kind of bias, but it's hard to know.
It's really hard to know.
Now something else interesting came up.
So there's part of the Department of Justice's Inspector General report, which reports that several FBI officials, including James Comey, actually used personal email accounts to do government business.
Huh. Not allowed, right?
Because you've got to... Now, there's no indication, at least from what we've seen, that classified information was sent or received, but you're not supposed to use personal email accounts to do official government business because, again, it all has to be archived and searchable and available for Freedom of Information Act requests and so on.
And so, basically, you have James Comey, who himself...
Is bypassing secure government systems in order to conduct official business through his personal email account, investigating someone who is bypassing classified information systems in order to do government business on a personal email account.
But no conflict of interest, apparently, either.
If you're investigating someone for doing something wrong and you yourself are also doing that wrong thing, that might have just a smidge of an effect on what it is that you end up doing.
Now, there's a kind of time lag that goes on, right?
So, Uma Abedin's emails were found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
This was in late September.
And Comey claimed that he didn't realize that Anthony Weiner was Uma Abedin's husband.
I don't know what he thought.
Hey, there's all of these Clinton slash Aberdeen emails showing up on some guy's laptop who lives in the same place and is married to her, but he said he had no idea that Anthony Weiner was Uma Aberdeen's husband, because that's the kind of crack investigation that only James Comey is available.
And then there is this weird gap, right?
So Comey learned of Uma Aberdeen's emails that were on Anthony Weiner's laptop in late September.
But his letter about all of this came out at the end of October, so it's kind of like a month there where who knows what's happening.
Now, the report has found that five agents of the FBI, including Page and Strzok, should be referred to disciplinary action because they say the report says careless use of government property to communicate their personal opinions.
Also, last but not least, and there's more, you should read it yourself, but Basically, there were lots of FBI agents who were taking lots of goodies and benefits from reporters, I can only assume, in return for leaks.
And I quote, So the FBI agents were taking huge benefits from reporters.
Again, we can assume in return...
For leaks. So it's really, really important to see that the FBI investigate corruption from its sterling white steed of integrity.
Now, spoiler, nothing's gonna happen.
FBI agents aren't going to be fired.
There may be a little bit of disciplinary action.
Something may go in a file for show.
Nothing's going to happen. Nothing's going to be reopened.
And Hillary Clinton is never going to see time behind jail bars.
Nothing of the sort is going to happen.
The IG report is the appearance of doing something.
Right? So people say, well, there's all this bias, all these questions, and all of these, you know, heavy leftist Democrats who are investigating Hillary, who seem to be pro-Hillary.
Now a bunch of heavy leftist Democrats are investigating Trump's imaginary Russia collusion, very, very anti-Trump.
that you've got this political attack force that is used to do the biddings of leftists.
And by the way, by the way, this is why it was so essential.
This kind of corruption and this kind of pro-Hillary bias is precisely why it was so important to keep the weaponized and politicized and corrupt FBI out of the claws of Hillary Clinton.
I mean, the fact that they're attacking Trump, oh, well, that's more Mueller-Buller.
But the fact that all of the swamp is attacking Trump is better than it being wielded by Hillary Clinton to attack her political enemies, which certainly would have happened.
Remember, all organizations, not specifically anti-leftist, always end up drifting to the left.
It's just one of these iron laws of entropy and nature.
You look at... Political parties, even the Republicans, are unrecognizable from a generation or two ago in their leftism.
You look at Google or Twitter or other places, you know, there's just this relentless drift leftward for reasons we can go into another time.
And the same thing is true, of course, of the FBI. And after eight years of Obama rule, Well, we can see exactly what's happened to these agencies.
So this is all the appearance of doing something.
People say, well, there's a lot of bias.
It's like, no, no, we've got an investigation.
And then the report comes out and say, well, now we have a report, and people can fluffle over what the contents of the report are, and then everyone's just supposed to move on.
It's kind of theater, right?
The real corruption is occurring, but you're supposed to look at the magician's hand rather than the actual corrupt hand that's doing the trick, right?
So... And there was no way that Hillary Clinton was going to be prosecuted.
I mean, I had my moments where it was like, yeah, maybe, but no, this is late Roman Empire stuff.
Obama, I mean, the fact that Hillary would have led to Obama meant that the black privilege that he has was not going to be called on as a witness or to be questioned or to be prosecuted in any way, shape or form.
And This appearance of doing things is important not to be distracted by it.
Really, really focus on, you know, speaking the truth to power, fighting evil and all that kind of good stuff.
But to expect that this report is going to lead to anything conclusive or decisive is a fool.
Fool's game, right? I mean, these days, the mob rules.
The corrupt rule.
And it is merely the appearance of justice that is summoned.
That's all. With the exception of Trump and a few other people, this corruption is growing and swelling.
So the mob rules, the dependent and the hysterical rule, the angry, the enraged and the bitter rule, the corrupt rule.
Yeah, they'll pretend to be doing something, but basically the swamp does rule.
And the swamp strikes when the lights go on.
And... Trump is almost certainly not going to be able to reverse this completely.
He is like McCarthy in the past.
He'll buy us a little bit of time in the West.
He'll buy us a little bit of time.
And that means go out and gather your resources and get ready.
And get ready. Because the swamp may push back.
Maybe pushed back a little bit, but then it generally gathers strength and strikes back.
So be ready.
Be ready for what is coming.
Trump has bought us some time.
Trump has bought the West some time.
Trump may inspire other politicians to buy a little bit of time.
