The Coming Mushroom Cloud Over Washington
The View from the Middle

Many of you may soon be asking, “Who is Michael Horowitz, and what has he been doing for the last year?” Well, Michael Horowitz is the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, who has been investigating the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe for the last year or so. He was the guy who discovered the mile long texting trail of FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that exposed their anti-Trump bias and plans to prevent him from becoming President or destroying his Presidency if he won. As a result of his revelation, Peter Strzok was removed from the Mueller Special Counsel team and Lisa Page has recently resigned from the FBI. And Michael Horowitz hasn’t even delivered his long-anticipated report.

Horowitz also revealed that Andrew McCabe, Jim Comey’s #2 at the FBI, committed perjury by lying to the FBI at least four times resulting in his removal from his office. Yet all of this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of questionable behavior committed by FBI leadership in their investigation into the Hillary Clinton email “matter”. And the revelations should go to the very top of the Dept. of Justice.

The Inspector General’s report will have to make a judgement of at least two controversial actions taken by then Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Why did she, for example, insist that James Comey, then FBI Director, call the Hillary Clinton email investigation “a matter”. It was, in fact, an investigation, but “a matter” sounds much less ominous. Then, Ms. Lynch met with Bill Clinton just days before his wife was to be interrogated by the FBI. What was she thinking? I can tell you what most Americans were thinking! This meeting was at best ill-advised and at worst illegal, depending on what was discussed, and the real problem is…we’ll never know.

Another bombshell Horowitz will have to defuse is Hillary’s destruction through a program called “bleach bit” of over 30,000 emails THAT WERE UNDER SUBPEONA. Let me be perfectly clear. If you or I had destroyed even one email under subpoena, we would be going to jail.

Also, after testifying that she didn’t send any confidential information over her private server, it was discovered that Hillary sent dozens of messages that were not only confidential, but in some cases, actually top secret. Is Michael Horowitz expected to believe that Hillary Clinton, who positioned herself as the most qualified candidate ever to run for President, didn’t understand that the “C” inserted into the emails she received stood for “Classified”? Is he to believe her story that she thought this was an alphabetical order notation? If that was so, didn’t she at least wonder where “A” and “B” were?

Finally, Mr. Horowitz will have to decide if the handling of Hillary’s case and in particular her final interview was legitimate. Was it reasonable, for example, to give immunity deals to six members of Hillary’s support staff. Here’s a list of the people who received immunity: Huma Abedin (Hillary’s wing woman), Cheryl Mills (Hillary’s chief of staff and attorney), Heather Samuelson (Clinton aid and lawyer), John Bentel (Info. Manager), Paul Combetta (actually deleted the emails) and Bryan Pagliano (built and installed Clinton home server). Why? Was the same practice used in the investigation of the Trump campaign? I can’t remember ANY immunity deals for Trump associates.

Also, what was up with Hillary’s final interview with the FBI? The FBI did not put Hillary under oath and didn’t record her interview. Really? Cheryl Mills, an FBI witness in this investigation if not a “subject” of the investigation, was allowed to be with Hillary throughout the interview, which is unusual if not improper. In addition, Hillary was allowed to say “I don’t remember” or “I don’t recall” 39 times during this interview claiming some sort of memory loss as a result of a head injury. I don’t remember this memory issue being a subject of any news reports despite the fact that she was running for President of The United States. Shouldn’t the public know about something like this?

With all of this questionable, improper and probably illegal activity going on during Hillary’s email investigation (or was it a matter?) I expect Michael Horowitz’s report to be a real bombshell. I predict that the big losers will be James Comey, Peter Strzok and Robert Mueller (some of his key witnesses may be in jail). Big winners will be Donald Trump and the American people. Any time we can expose hypocrisy and falsehood, the American people win.