Whether POTUS is pleased or angered by the findings presented to him today in his private briefing on the DOJ IG report, it will be interesting to see whether he is disciplined enough to hold his fire, or if he scoops the IG’s public release by impulsively tweeting his reactions.
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) June 14, 2018
1/ Gird your loins. There's a buzz growing in the Nunes Treason Caucus circles (and in their pet media outlet) in an attempt to blow the IG report sky high.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 14, 2018
3/ It won't matter what the IG report says; like the original Midnight Run play, the unmasking play, the FISA play, the House Intel report play, and the rest of the Nunes/Harvey plays, it'll be fodder for the Trump media and one more line of defense that will fall apart quickly.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 14, 2018
The OIG report is coming out today. It will yield a media frenzy, frantic digging out of small pieces of new information, certain presidential gaslighting and use of the matter to attack the unrelated Russia probe, and equally certain howls of vindication from Team Hillary. /1/
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 14, 2018
Does the IG offer any reason to believe that the investigation’s judgements were influenced in any direction by politics? /4/
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 14, 2018
Does the IG offer any reason to believe that any senior official in the FBI engaged in any misconduct or abuse? /6/
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 14, 2018
Does he find any misconduct by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page? Or have the names of these two career officials been dragged through the fever swamp mud for months for nothing more than bad judgment in expressing private views to one another? /8/
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 14, 2018
Please do not be Hoodwinked.
If Trump's Inspector General adds anything to the Clinton email story it was created / added later.
There is NOTHING that the Benghazi Committee, led by people who wanted to take Clinton down more than feed their own children, wouldn't have found.
— Robert #Resist Sandy (@frodofied) June 14, 2018
Russiagate Open Thread: Waiting for the OIG Report to DropPost + Comments (167)