Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was questioned Wednesday on a GOP claim that the FBI was effectively meddling in the 2016 election in how it pursued the Russia probe.
The claim was raised by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who asked rhetorically what was worse: a foreign government meddling in U.S. elections or the U.S. government meddling in the U.S. election.
Hawley said that Horowitz report showed the latter, while railing against the FBI’s use of a dossier funded by the Democratic National Committee to obtain a surveillance warrant for a former Trump campaign adviser.
Horowitz didn’t challenge that interpretation of his report when Hawley asked whether he was aware that another presidential campaign was targeted by the FBI the way President Trump’s was.
However Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) returned to Hawley’s claim about FBI meddling when it was his turn to question the inspector general.
At first he deferred on the question by saying he was not going to go beyond what was said in his report. But Blumenthal continued to prod, asking Horowitz if the FBI meddled to affect the outcome of the 2016 election.
“We did not reach that conclusion,” Horowitz said.
Hawley’s a tool. He’s all over the Hong Kong protests for democracy but here he’s fine with another government using propaganda and money to influence our elections at home. But hey he and Grietens had a lot of dark money to get them elected.
OMG
Truly biuzzare.
To what lengths will they go?
Facts matter.
Ha, ha, that was a good one!! Sometimes I crack myself up!
MO replaced Claire McCaskill with Hawley…truly a deplorable trade.
The Republicans continue to try to claim that the Obama administration interfered in 2016 to help Clinton, when the facts clearly show they did not do so. If anything, the government helped Trump, by not announcing the investigation, not announcing evidence of Russian interference to help Trump, and the Comey letter at the end. It’s really obvious nonsense…and it’s not clear if the senators know it and are just trying to appease their voters or have swallowed the propaganda and really believe it.
They are setting the stage for interference in 2020 though…after all, Obama did it, so why can’t Trump and Barr do all kinds of things to help Trump win? I really expect to hear that sentence sometime late in the election season the way things are going.
Wherever they have to in order to destroy American democracy and freedom and replace place it with a lily-white oligarchy.