The Justice Department’s Inspector General declined to say on Monday what his office had turned up on alleged anti-Hillary Clinton leaks from the FBI to Rudy Giuliani or whether any DOJ employees had been sanctioned for the leaks.
“I’m not going to speak to any of the investigative steps we may or may not have taken, for the very reasons we describe in here, about what’s appropriate to do in terms of policy,” DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz told the Senate Judiciary committee, referring to his office’s freshly released report knocking ex-FBI Director James Comey for going public with details about the Clinton investigation.
He was responding to questioning from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who raised claims by Giuliani — who was a Manhattan U.S. attorney from 1983 to 1989 and now serves as President Trump’s personal lawyer — that he had heard that the FBI was reopening the Clinton email probe weeks before Comey informed Congress.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) also asked Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray, also on hand for the Senate Judiciary hearing, about whether there was an investigation into the alleged leaks to Giuliani.
Both declined to confirm or deny the existence of such an investigation.
The Inspector General’s report released on Thursday vaguely alludes to a seperate report underway about FBI leaks to the media in general.
“As we note in our report, our investigative work is ongoing,” Horowitz said. “We put this in here so the readers, leaders and the public can see our concerns about the number of contacts with the media and what was going on systematically. But, I’m not in a position to speak to any investigative outcomes.”
Later in the hearing, Wray also said he was “unaware” of an ongoing leaks from the FBI to Giuliani or to members of Congress and the media.
““I’m not going to speak to any of the investigative steps we may or may not have taken, for the very reasons we describe in here, about what’s appropriate to do in terms of policy,””
Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “I’m more interested in keeping my job than doing it.”
Even if nothing happens (high probability), it’s just one more thing Dotard has to worry about, adding to his steadily building aneurysm potential.
Dear Liberals, Democrats, Progressives and all Lovers of Freedom and Democracy,
The FBI is not your friend. It is not your ally. It never has been and it never will be. It is the police apparatus of Empire and Oligarchy. It always has been, and it is today. Same goes for James Comey. That is all.
Love,
Ken in MN.
DoJ Inspector General: “It was important for us to release our report of anti-Trump bias within the FBI before November’s mid-term elections. For similar reasons, it is important for us to wait until after the mid-term elections to release our report of anti-Clinton bias within the FBI.”
having fun of my own today…I wonder how long that sentence will last? hehe
Added: “The report is widely criticized as incomplete and evidencing bias of its own for a failure to follow up on widespread reports of leaks from the FBI’s New York field office to former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, several ex-FBI agents running the True Pundit website, Rep. Devin Nunes and others, which leaks appear to have been designed to assist the Trump presidential campaign by pushing the Clinton investigation to be reopened and forcing a public announcement of the same.”