Horowitz, Blind Men and the Elephant

Guest Post by Bryce Buchanan

In John Saxe’s 19th century poem, 6 blind men “of Indostan, to learning much inclined, went to see the Elephant, that each by observation, might satisfy his mind.”  Each blind man felt just one part of the elephant and therefor had an entirely erroneous image of what an elephant was.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz is examining one tiny part of the huge elephant that is Spygate.  He is examining the fraudulent FISA applications that were part of the carefully planned and executed attempt to destroy Donald Trump’s candidacy for President, and, if the plotters failed at that, to provide an “insurance policy” to destroy him as President.

Imagine the following crime.  A group of men plan to break into a home and kill the occupant and steal what belongs to him.  They pick the lock on the entry gate.  They relentlessly beat the occupant, but fail to kill him.  They take some of his rightful possessions.

Imagine that law enforcement investigates this crime and they look only at the crime of picking the lock on the entry gate, ignoring everything else. Then imagine that a crime report is issued saying that even though picking locks is wrong, there was no clear evidence of criminal intent.  But, to be sure this doesn’t happen again, the organization that planned the illegal entry will be having a training session in the near future about when lock picking is appropriate.  So, case closed.

This is what I expect from the upcoming Horowitz report.  Horowitz clearly demonstrated that he was a blind man when he delivered his report on the Hillary Clinton investigation.

For anyone who can see, the FBI’s Clinton investigation was a sham.  The exoneration was written in advance.  Key witnesses were given immunity, and not required to provide anything in return.   They were allowed to attend each other’s depostions.  No Grand Jury was empaneled to hear about the key crimes. Paul Combetta was instructed by Cheryl Mills to destroy evidence after it was subpoenaed.  He did so. He lied to the FBI about it.  He and Mills were given immunity.  Text messages from key FBI figures showed virulent hatred of Trump and support for Hillary.  They openly discussed their plans to use their positions to destroy Trump.  With illegal leaks to their media allies, the FBI shaped the news to effect the election in the direction they wanted.  When 340,000 of Hillary’s emails were found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, that evidence was successfully hidden.

Real investigations are done to serve justice.  The FBI’s sham investigation of Clinton was actually obstruction of justice.

IG Horowitz looked at this obstruction of justice and then whitewashed it all.  He wrote, “we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed”.  Horowitz said, “Although FBI policy strictly limits the employees who are authorized to speak to the media, we found that this policy appeared to be widely ignored during the period we reviewed. We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters.”  But nothing was done.

Clinton’s senior aids, Cheryl Mill and Heather Samuelson, were part of the criminal conspiracy to hide evidence.  Instead of seizing their laptops as evidence, the FBI decided to not even ask for the laptops. Regarding this decision Horowitz excused it all, saying, “these decisions were occurring at a time when Comey and the Midyear team had already concluded that there was likely no prosecutable case and believed it was unlikely the laptops would change the outcome of the investigation.”  Of course… the last thing the dirty cops would want is evidence that might change the pre-determined outcome of their ‘investigation’.  That’s exactly why Weiner’s laptop was deep-sixed.

Because everything about the fake Clinton investigation was suspicious, Horowitz defended his role with these words:  “our role as an OIG is not to second-guess valid discretionary judgments made during the course of an investigation, and this approach is consistent with the OIG’s handling of such questions in past reviews.”  Yes, I am sure that it is consistent. Horowitz’s role is to justify and excuse the Deep State’s actions. He works for the government.  He is part of the government.

FBI director, Wray, who helped Horowitz with the Clinton cover-up, is still hiding evidence from the public.  He is fighting requests from Congress, from Citizens United and from Judicial Watch to release relevant documents.  It could not be more clear that he is protecting bad actors in government rather than the public.

The way to bet is that after Horowitz has examined one tiny part of this elephant he will declare something like the following.  “We have examined the four FISA applications which allowed the government to spy on the Trump campaign.  It is true that the majority of the evidence submitted to the judge was not verified or even verifiable, but those who swore to the judge that it was all true had no way of knowing that it was false.  There is no reason to believe that the desire to spy on a polltical opponent played any role in these applications.  The massive unmasking of American citizens that followed from the surveillance is not the part of the elephant I was asked to examine.  There is one low-level employee who we are going to punish to make it look like this was a hard-nosed investigation.  The rest of the participants were just patriotic Americans trying to do the right thing to protect this country.”

I hope I am wrong about this, but those of us who have been waiting patiently for justice may be waiting a little longer.  We will be hoping that Barr and Durham will clearly expose what is surely the greatest political scandal of our lifetime.

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M G
M G

Bryce, that was a well-written piece and I suspect you are right about the Blind Men in the room. If they refuse to examine the elephant in more detail, willing to sacrifice any semblance of justice, then we definitely know the game is rigged.

We all know Epstein did not kill himself.

piearesquared
piearesquared

“[T]hose of us who have been waiting patiently for justice may be waiting a little longer. We will be hoping that Barr and Durham will clearly expose what is surely the greatest political scandal of our lifetime.”

Don’t hold your breath while you are waiting because it ain’t gonna happen. AG Barr, who is a Deep State fixer, will make sure nothing happens.

daddysteve
daddysteve

Horowitz. Another 2%er ?

Uncola

I hope you are wrong too. But, in the meantime, that was great. Thank you Bryce Buchanan. For me, personally, this was just another very stark reminder that Epstein didn’t kill himself.

Lars
Lars

((Horowitz)) is not blind. He sees the entire elephant and knows exactly what he’s doing, which is, essentially, what he believes is best for his people.

The author concludes an otherwise effective article with an expression of hope “that Barr and Durham will clearly expose what is surely the greatest political scandal of our lifetime.”

Won’t happen. False hope, yet again. Barr has already declined to prosecute Comey. He and Dunham are deep swamp creatures and will do whatever is necessary to preserve the image and power of the FBI and DOJ.

cap'n fast
cap'n fast

evidence requires provence to be admissible. deep state procedure is to leave evidence available but to destroy provence. destroying evidence is illegal, destroying provence is not in DOJ parlance.
whether Barr and Durham follow Horowitz’s lead down the garden path of protecting even the bad actors, remains to be seen by the people. But, the people are not blind. While the people cannot see the entire elephant, having seen the trunk and tail most people will recognize that there is an elephant in between. and the people will have that unseen elephant in mind the next time they vote. I hope.

splurge
splurge

provenance?

James the Wanderer

When the watchmen are corrupted, who watches the watchmen?
Military tribunals will be necessary to convict and punish the guilty. Trump gave them every opportunity to preserve the civil legal structure, but it was already corroded and corrupted away beyond redemption.
Having the military step in to rein in the corrupt civil government is typically what happens in South American countries when the corruption becomes unlivable. It looks like America will see it too, in my lifetime hopefully.
I don’t want my kids to grow up under a socialist – communist oligarchy full of corruption, deceit and criminality. If we have to reset the American Republic to make it return to its origins, let it happen now, on my watch. And let us teach our children that power, wealth and fame are nothing if you have no conscience.

22winmag - w/o tagline

Some of us believe the reset has been planned for the last 109 years.

Given the headlines and the position the Democrats are in, I’m still holding out hope for the Courts Martial legal hatchet method. Forget corruption, this is about Spying and Treason.

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Ghost

Winnie? I know we’ve had our disagreements and half the time I haven’t got a clue what you mean, but obviously you do mean to convey something with this image…

On the other hand, it reminds me I have some meat rabbits needing killing and the elephant in my home is a giant pair of white dogs I refer to as my polar bear scatter rugs.

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And, while the image serves no purpose, it does illustrate my point.

So, I’ve seen this newspaper page several times. Would you explain why?

BW
BW

well, stamp “chill” on my ass and call me a chillbilly if that ain’t the magpie from cowpie herself…

Reluctant Warrior
Reluctant Warrior

The Swamp is going to save its own. The question now is how wide and deep will the Durham probe be.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Spot on

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