IG Michael Horowitz testified before the Senate today that he discovered text messages that showed political bias by the same people who abused the FISA process but he did not adequately explain why he did not refer them for criminal charges.
That removes mistakes and errors and replaces it with criminal intent.
Sen Ron Johnson of Wisconsin opened the questioning.
He noted that Horowitz did not find political bias with Bill Priestap but asked him if he found political bias in others.
Horowitz admitted that he did find bias among those who abused the FISA process.
That changes the complexion of things a lot different and any reasonable jury could easily tie their bias to their illegal actions.
Sen Josh Hawley continued the questioning:
“I think the scope here is what really alarms me. he number of people involved directly involved at the FBI, the repeated decisions to mislead, outright lie to the FISA court, and the total implausibility that the explanations these people offered you, again, maybe they’re incompetent or maybe they had an agenda here.”
“Was it your conclusion that political bias did not affect any part of the Page investigation, any part of Crossfire Hurricane?”
Horowitz answered:
“We did not reach that conclusion,” Horowitz responded. “We have been very careful in connection with the FISA for the reasons you mentioned to not reach that conclusion, in part, as we’ve talked about earlier: the alteration of the email, the text messages associated with the individual who did that, and then our inability to explain or understand or get good explanations so we could understand why this all happened.”
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…. it’s a duck, IG Horowitz.
