Very thoughtful of the IG to give these people so much time to get ahead of the story and proactively managed the P.R. fallout.
The report itself will be a lot of bluster with no significant criminal referrals beyond Clinesmith. It's a whitewash.
"Personnel is policy." There was no reason to leave an Obama appointee in such a critical role as DOJ IG, especially after seeing his last whitewash of the Page/Strzok texts. No bias... Riiiiiight.
Unless they've been leaked bullshit. One week will tell and I'll admit I'm concerned. Clinesmith facing serious prison time may get him singing. We all know a 'low level' lawyer didn't make this decision on his own.
That's always a possibility. The other thing is that Barr is free to draw his own conclusions, i.e. he could order prosecutions regardless of Horowitz's recommendations.
Very thoughtful of the IG to give these people so much time to get ahead of the story and proactively managed the P.R. fallout.
The report itself will be a lot of bluster with no significant criminal referrals beyond Clinesmith. It's a whitewash.
"Personnel is policy." There was no reason to leave an Obama appointee in such a critical role as DOJ IG, especially after seeing his last whitewash of the Page/Strzok texts. No bias... Riiiiiight.
Unless they've been leaked bullshit. One week will tell and I'll admit I'm concerned. Clinesmith facing serious prison time may get him singing. We all know a 'low level' lawyer didn't make this decision on his own.
That's always a possibility. The other thing is that Barr is free to draw his own conclusions, i.e. he could order prosecutions regardless of Horowitz's recommendations.
It's obvious he's not happy with what he's finding.