A few points on the Horowitz IG report. 1) Horowitz is a lawyer and writes like one in a legal investigatory document. 2) As a result, his statements need to be parsed in the context of scope of the report, which was limited to the FBI'S handling of the email scandal.
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3) So why didn't he comment on Russia or bias and indications of bias against Trump? Because most of those weren't relevant to Hillary's emails. They are outside the scope of this report.
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4) and despite what some people conclude, IG never said there was no bias. What he said was that there was no EVIDENCE that (anti-Trump) bias caused the mishandling of the email scandal. But as we know, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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(Especially when BleachBit was used to destroy over 30K emails, 5 BlackBerrys were smashed with a hammer, and Strzok refused the "request" to turn over his personal emails.)
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So we can certainly reasonably infer causation from the bias and the enormous and numerous deviations from procedure (and plenty of legal precedent supports that). But that does not mean that there is actual evidence of that happening.
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Even these clowns were not dumb enough to put in writing that they were acting differently with Hillary BECAUSE they hated Trump. That's all that Horowitz is actually saying with the statements about "no evidence that bias caused" the mishandling.
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Horowitz was careful not to get out over his skis. He didn't stretch the evidence. He didn't go outside the scope (unlike Mueller). He didn't make political conclusions in a legal document. But make no mistake, the report is absolutely damning.
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v. good analysis; thx
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