Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, has maintained a reputation for being above the partisan fray.CreditCreditTom Brenner/The New York Times
New York Times: Justice Dept. Watchdog Is Preparing to Deliver Verdict on the Russia Investigation
WASHINGTON — Inside a London office building in early June, three investigators for the Justice Department’s inspector general took a crucial step toward clearing the political fallout from the Russia investigation: They spent two days interviewing Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose now-infamous dossier of purported links between Trump associates and Russia ended up in the hands of the F.B.I. ahead of the 2016 election.
The investigators pored over Mr. Steele’s old memos and his contemporaneous notes from meetings with F.B.I. agents in the fall of 2016, according to a person familiar with the investigation. They asked Mr. Steele to explain in detail how he had validated his sources inside Russia, how he communicated with them, and how he decided which of their claims to include in his reports. They spoke at length about Mr. Steele’s work with the F.B.I. on other Russia-related investigations and his contacts with a senior Justice Department official.
The interview was a key step in the investigation by the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, into the facts underlying a bitter partisan feud: Did F.B.I. officials do anything wrong in 2016 when they sought to understand the Trump campaign’s links to Russia — including how they used information from Mr. Steele?
That question has hovered over the Russia inquiry for two years as President Trump and his allies repeatedly assailed the investigators who scrutinized him and his advisers. Attorney General William P. Barr, who has accused the F.B.I. of “spying” on the Trump campaign, has begun his own review that will include intelligence agencies as well.
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WNU Editor: The media is focused on this part of the Inspector General's investigation .... Trump 'dossier' author grilled by Justice Department watchdogs: sources (Reuters). More here .... Trump dossier author Steele gets 16-hour DOJ grilling (Politico). But it is more than that, and I suspect we will learn more in the coming weeks/months when this final report is released.
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My biggest worry is burnout by the public; exactly what the prior administration planned when they betrayed our trust in their honesty and should they be exposed. They'll grow weary and we'll skate. Not that they were going to lose the election. It's Hill's. That was a given. The best laid plans of mice and dim-oh-kratz....
Thank goodness for Judicial Watch, AG Barr, Horowitz, and other non dim-oh-cratz who are involved in an actual investigation.
I can't wait to see the reactions of some of the prior admin when the results of years of investigating are brought to light. There sure seems to be some quiet on the part of brennan, obama, etc., these days. And now Epstein enters the scene after months of rumors.
I am not going to grow weary - I am f'ing pissed as a citizen and this is not why my Dad served in WWII and why I served in the 80's. I am ready for people to go to jail.
Epstein is going to help solve this mess.
He is going to name people, who will be nuked legally.
They in turn will lose resources to play the cover up game or will roll to get lighter sentences.
Many Democrats are going to prison.
Democrats play dirty like the Soviets or the Mafia.
It will be hard to get to the truth.
The Fort Marcy Park unit will clean up for the Clintons.
"Acosta also described what he called a “year-long assault’’ on prosecutors by Epstein’s “army of legal superstars’’ who, he said, investigated individual prosecutors and their families, looking for “personal peccadilloes’’ to disqualify them from Epstein’s case."
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