Post 34
I bet you are wondering what I'm talking about. Well it's that Inspector General's report that came out on 6-14-18 detailing the misconduct of the FBI and DOJ during the Clinton email investigation. The IG's report backs up the claims I made in my post on 12-6-17 that there is corruption and dysfunction in the FBI and DOJ. The IG concluded that there was bias on the part of a few FBI agents during the Clinton email investigation and that James Comey, the FBI director at that time, was "insubordinate" because he did not follow proper procedures. He made the decision that there was not a prosecutable case against Mrs. Clinton. The decision to prosecute or not to prosecute is the responsibility of the Attorney General's Office. The most significant findings of the IG were that Mr. Comey's decision was not motivated by political bias; and that bias on the part of the FBI agents identified did not influence the outcome of the investigation. I don't agree with that finding at all. The IG also found that several FBI officials had received gifts from reporters presumably as payment for leaking information to the press. That is disturbing and disgusting.
The release of the IG's report was followed up by testimony from the Inspector General himself, Michael Horowitz, and FBI Director Christopher Wray in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on 6-18-18 and again in a combined House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee hearing on 6-19-18. A great deal of both hearings was spent discussing several text messages by FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok that expressed bias and hatred for then candidate Donald Trump. It is clear Strzok and Page did not want Trump to be elected president. It is implied from their text messages that there were illicit plans implemented in order to ensure that Trump was not elected. The hearing also revealed that other officials in the FBI and DOJ expressed bias against Trump and rooted against him. The FBI director and IG were put in the difficult position of trying to minimize the harm that has been done to the FBI and DOJ by this scandal. FBI Director Wray defended the FBI as a whole saying that most agents do their job independently and objectively. The IG emphasized what he said in his report that bias did not influence the decision by the FBI that Clinton should not be prosecuted; and bias against Trump was not the basis for opening the investigation into possible collusion between Trump and the Russian government.
The Clinton email investigation is by no means the only case in which the FBI has shown politically motivated bias in favor of a prominent government official. As I noted in my post on 12-6-17, I filed several public corruption complaints with the FBI alleging that several San Jose city officials, including Mayor Sam Liccardo, had colluded with the US District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to obstruct justice during the litigation of two lawsuits I filed against the City of San Jose for racial and disability discrimination. The FBI and DOJ are involved in a major cover-up of that scandal, even though, San Jose city officials and court officials committed several felonies relating to public corruption. FBI Director Christopher Wray's claim during the hearings that FBI agents do their jobs independently and objectively and that they take obstruction of justice seriously is simply not true. The lackluster manner in which the FBI investigated Clinton and its failure to conduct an investigation into my complaints compared to the aggressive manner in which possible Trump-Russia collusion is being investigated demonstrates politics drive the manner in which investigations by the FBI and DOJ are initiated and handled.
While corruption in the FBI and DOJ has gotten a lot of attention from Congress and conservative media, corruption in our federal courts has gotten no attention at all. It's hard not to see that the attention given to corruption in the FBI and DOJ is motivated more by politics than the desire to protect our institutions of government. If you watched the hearings, it should have been easy to see that Republicans were critical of the conduct of the FBI and DOJ because it benefited the President, whereas, Democrats were supportive of the FBI and DOJ because it benefited Hillary Clinton. As reprehensible as the conduct of FBI and DOJ officials have been, the conduct of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the US District Court during two lawsuits I filed against the City of San Jose for racial and disability discrimination has been far worse. So far, no condemnation from either political party. Details of the abhorrent conduct by the courts is detailed in my prior posts and on my group facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/624131267713226/
The scandal with the FBI and DOJ is proof of what I have been saying all along in this blog. And that is the greatest threat to our institutions of government is not the Russians. The greatest threat to our institutions of government is public corruption. I hate to say it. But I told you so.
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