IG report proves whole investigation was as corrupt as Comey: Goodwin IG report proves whole investigation was as corrupt as Comey: Goodwin  It’s now official:  Russia really was fake news from the start. There was no factual basis for the FBI to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign. That means there was no need for the appointment of a special counsel and that Robert Mueller should have stayed in retirement. It means the two years of rumors and accusations and the giant cloud of suspicions over the White House produced by Mueller’s headhunters  were unfair and unjustified. J. Edgar Hoover can finally rest in peace. James Comey is now revealed to be the dirtiest cop ever to run the FBI. Those are the most important takeaways from Monday’s remarkable events.  we now can say for certain that the search for collusion itself was corrupted from the start and that the numerous examples of misconduct  were not honest mistakes. It was more than a small coincidence that the day started with House Democrats droning on another impeachment hearing. Their determination to drive Trump from office by hook and crook has continued uninterrupted since his ­inauguration. But now comes the counter narrative. First came the Justice Department’s inspector general report, which laid bare a damning series of mistakes, omissions and failures by Comey’s top associates in conducting the Trump campaign probe. The IG, Michael Horowitz, found seven instances alone in which  agents gave judges inaccurate or incomplete information when seeking a spying warrant on Carter Page, and said 10 more mistakes were added in three following applications. Trump says Russia probe was 'far worse than I ever thought possible' Horowitz confirmed that the Christopher Steele dossier financed by Hillary Clinton was essential to getting the warrants, even  though many in the FBI knew Steele’s information was disputed by someone he identified as a source. If the secret FISA court judges had had the information, it’s probable Page never would have been spied on. Horowitz also demonstrated that an FBI agent investigating Gen. Michael Flynn took part in an unrelated meeting with Trump in August  2016 as part of the probe. In other words, the agent was in the same room with his prey and the presidential candidate of the  opposition party under false pretenses. Horowitz made two crucial findings that gave Democrats and their media handmaidens some comfort. First, he found that the opening of the investigation met the department’s very low threshold requirements. Second, he found no evidence that the documented bias against  Trump played a role in the agency’s ­decision-making or actions. Its more than suspicious when agents who are revealed to have said in texts and emails that they will stop Trump then conduct an investigation where all the information that doesn’t fit with guilt is somehow misplaced or ­ignored. Attorney General Bill Barr and John Durham, the US attorney investigating the investigators, both issued extraordinary statements disagreeing with him on key points. Barr was especially direct, saying that “the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of  suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.” He also charged that “FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source.” Durham, suggested he has far more information than Horowitz because he is not limited to Justice Depart personnel and documents. “Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S.,” Durham added. It is hard to overstate the combined effect of those two statements. They build on the bare facts Horowitz produces to  warn that far more damaging information is coming and that the misconduct will not get a pass. . The damage done to the FBI’s credibility by the abuse of power under Comey will take years to repair, but it can begin only when there is a full accounting of what happened in 2016. In addition to the rogue officials who corrupted their offices, the raw hatred for Trump is leading millions of Americans to adopt the  dangerous view that anything goes as long as Trump is the target. If that view prevails, America is finished as a nation of laws. Then it’s only a matter of time until elections no longer matter. And then what? https://www.lucianne.com/2019/12/10/ig_report_proves_whole_investigationbrwas_as_corrupt_as_comey_22438.html https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/ig-report-proves-whole-investigation-was-as-corrupt-as-comey-goodwin/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app&fbclid=IwAR0jAey3DjaQ7jU-c8wZC2iEuWhvyGgOpQFi5FBP7pXYfjB-5_hRzZWJGlo