DOJ IG: No Political Bias In Origins Of Trump-Russia Investigation

Before Attorney General William "Low" Barr, Trump's Roy Cohn, has a chance to alter its findings, here's what the forthcoming Department of Justice Inspector General report has to say about the origins of the FBI's investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign:

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is expected to find in a forthcoming report that political bias did not taint top officials running the FBI investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016, while at the same time criticizing the bureau for systemic failures in its handling of surveillance applications, according to two U.S. officials.

The much-anticipated report due out Dec. 9 from Inspector General Michael Horowitz will allege that a low-level FBI lawyer inappropriately altered a document that was used during the process to renew a controversial warrant for electronic surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, the officials said. The inspector general referred that finding to U.S. Attorney John Durham, and the lawyer involved is being investigated criminally for possibly making a false statement, they said.

But Horowitz will conclude that the application still had a proper legal and factual basis, and, more broadly, that FBI officials did not act improperly in opening the Russia investigation, according to the officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive report.

The report generally rebuts accusations of a political conspiracy among senior law enforcement officials against the Trump campaign to favor Democrat Hillary Clinton while also knocking the bureau for procedural shortcomings in the FBI, the officials said. On balance, they said, it provides a mixed assessment of the FBI and Justice Department’s undertaking of a probe that became highly politicized and divided the nation. (our emphasis)

Clearly, there are people in the DOJ who anticipated what Barr would do prior to the report's public release and wanted to make sure the main findings weren't tainted by his fat little fingers.  Bravo.  Nevertheless, the Orange Buffoon and his flying media monkeys will be cherry- picking and distorting the fact that it was a low- level FBI attorney who altered an email used to renew a surveillance warrant for Trump nut and Russian useful idiot Carter Page.  That's it.  That's all they got.

This is one of two investigations of the origins of the investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, the other being the criminal one being run by Durham, who appears to be more willing to take direction from the corrupt Barr.  But the findings of the IG, a Trump appointee, will be hard to ignore, unless the "mainstream media" decides it covers old ground and lacks "pizzazz."  Lay your bets down.