Horowitz: Probe Into 2016 Anti-Clinton FBI Leaks ‘Continues To This Day’

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz arrives to testify about the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during a Senate Judiciary Committee ... Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz arrives to testify about the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 11, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz revealed Wednesday that his office is still investigating Hillary Clinton-related leaks from the FBI field office in New York.

In testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Horowitz noted that his office’s report on the 2016 Clinton investigations included some information about the “contacts” officials in that office had.

Subsequent to that report, and this continues to this day, we are investigating those contacts,” Horowitz said. He was answering a question from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who had brought up Rudy Giuliani’s public bragging in 2016 about what he was hearing from the FBI field office.

Horowitz noted that there was a challenge in proving the substance of the conversations those officials had with reporters or “the individual,” an apparent reference to Giuliani. Regardless, FBI policy requires that such contacts and disclosures be authorized, Horowitz said.

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  1. Avatar for spin spin says:

    When we look at someone like Horowitz, we see the insidious impact of Trump’s evil. Horowitz is a “pick your battle” guy, who thinks his job is to look independent. Same mind set as James Comey or the NYT. So when Obama was there, he tossed some red meat at the right wing congress critters.

    But under Trump he is just not going after things that are explosive. Why? well he does not expect the democrats to come to his defense, and he is a careerist. No way he turns himself into a punching bag for Trump. So he lets himself get pushed around. The republicans have been doing this for years with the press, now doing it with the government. Given a task like the current investigation, he is not going to make anything up, he is not going to trash his reputation, but he will look for some “both sides” issues - here “process errors”; but no way he is going to push an investigation showing things that helped Trump out (i.e. showing that Trump’s victory was fraudulent, gained by FBI manipulation egged on by Guilliani).

  2. Folks, I have tried primal screams to deal with this miasma of bullshit…save your breath, they don’t work.

  3. There is a scandal but it was the FBI’s phony investigation of Hillary Clinton, the investigation that Comey used to torpedo her election.

  4. Horowitz noted that there was a challenge in proving the substance of the conversations those officials had with reporters or “the individual,” an apparent reference to Giuliani.

    “Because all the people involved are obviously lying about it, and even though it’s a federal crime to lie to federal investigators, I’m not going to do a damned thing about it or exert any energy in trying to report the truth of what happened (that we all pretty much know anyway).”

  5. When Dems get back in charge they need to do a actual investigation on political bias and root out all these hacks.

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