Why bother passing any law or amendment then openly state it doesn't work and call for yet another investigation?
January 2, 2017
By Beth Breeding
The House Republican Conference (click here) adopted an amendment to the House Rules package offered by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) this evening that would strengthen the mission of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), improve due process rights for those subject to an investigation, and ensure that complaints made by the public have a strong venue for review. A background and summary of the amendment is included below.
Goodlatte: “The amendment builds upon and strengthens the existing Office of Congressional Ethics by maintaining its primary area of focus of accepting and reviewing complaints from the public and referring them, if appropriate, to the Committee on Ethics. It also improves upon due process rights for individuals under investigation, as well as witnesses called to testify. The OCE has a serious and important role in the House, and this amendment does nothing to impede their work.”
Goodlatte Amendment to H. Res. 5
Concerning the Office of Congressional Ethics...
The Clinton email nonsense has been going on for three years. Every time the Republicans feel threatened as if the country is really unhappy with them, they pull out some sort of Clinton this or that and begin their WITCH HUNT. This is pure and unadulterated misogyny.
June 14, 2018
By Laura Jarrett
The Justice Department's inspector general (click here) will issue a report on how top federal officials handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state.
Here are the key dates of the investigation from 2015 and 2016:
July 10, 2015 -- The FBI opened a criminal investigation, code-named "Midyear Exam," into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information while secretary of state.
Late September 2015 -- As then-FBI Director James Comey prepared for his first public questions about the case at congressional hearings and meetings with reporters, he met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Justice Department. Lynch asked him to refer to the investigation as a "matter," Comey said in his book, "A Higher Loyalty."
In a statement to CNN after Comey's book was released, Lynch defended her language and said no concerns were raised. "If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did," Lynch said....
Now that Republicans have wrongfully attack Peter Strzok, they want to portray the need for a new investigation. I suppose FBI Director Christopher Wray is part of the "Deep State" now, too.
THIS IS A TRUMP PATTERN.
First, Trump decides how best to build A STORY LINE that will serve his purpose. In the case of the Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Peter Strzok was offered as a sacrificial lamb to an already pre-determined outcome. When Strzok was fried enough, Trump then put into motion the demands for a new investigation because of the IDEA Peter Strzok was unwilling to come to any conclusion that was unfavorable to a Trump outcome. THEREFORE, the corruption lie completely with Strzok and ALL work by the FBI was tainted beyond recognition.
LIE AND TEMPER TANTRUM.
Mr. Goodlatte needs to stop being Trump's puppet and instead respect the opinion of the US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL and the current FBI Director Christopher Wray as THE TRUTH. There is to be no more political gamesmanship with taxpayer monies. If they continues I fully expect Goodlatte to be brought before an ethics review.
June 14, 2018
By Andrew Prokop
...The report contradicts President Trump’s (click here) often-expressed belief that the investigation was rigged to get Clinton off the hook. Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz found little affirmative evidence on the whole that political bias affected officials’ handling of the probe itself.
Indeed, FBI director Christopher Wray — appointed by Trump to replace Comey last year — said at a Thursday afternoon press conference that “this report did not find any evidence of political bias or improper considerations actually impacting the investigation under review.”
However, Horowitz was far more critical on two specific fronts.
First, Horowitz writes, FBI officials involved in the case sent each other messages on their FBI devices “that created the appearance” of political bias. Here he particularly criticizes FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok for texting his co-worker and lover, Lisa Page, that “we’ll stop” Trump from winning the election.
Horowitz says he found no affirmative evidence that Strzok skewed his decision-making for political reasons. But he says he “did not have confidence” that Strzok’s decision in the campaign’s final month to prioritize the Trump campaign/Russia probe over new Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop “was free from bias.” He writes that Strzok and other FBI employees “brought discredit to themselves” and hurt the bureau’s reputation.
Second, Horowitz sharply criticizes then-FBI director James Comey for his public statements about the Clinton email case — specifically, his July 2016 decision to publicly announce that he wouldn’t recommend any charges, and then his October 2016 decision to tell Congress about that new emails had been found....
