The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Inspector General Report

Great news! The FBI wasn’t corrupt; it was incompetent.

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It’s now a fact of online life that wild charges and counter-charges make it truly difficult not just to discern the truth, but also to discern the proportionate response to the truth. We stampede to the extremes and tend to ignore news that doesn’t advance or refute those extremes. Or, to put it another way, is there room to say, “This is bad, but it’s not as bad as it could have been”? I’m talking, of course, about the Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz’s report on the inception of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the Trump campaign and on the FISA warrants obtained against former Trump campaign official Carter Page. 

We’ll talk today about the good, bad, and ugly of the report—along with some lessons learned. And I’ll also address a question that burst across right-wing Twitter this weekend: Should we ban porn? Today’s French Press:

  1. The FBI cleared the lowest possible bar.

  1. The great porn debate of 2019.

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    Kevin Durant?

    PS I really enjoyed the first episode of ‘Advisory Opinions’ with David French and Sarah Isgur despite the fact that David was recording from what I believe was the interior of a cave with bad acoustics
    (It might have been the hull of a super tanker that is under construction)

    The content easily overcame all production deficiencies and I am looking forward to the next episode

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      Merrijane

      Same here. I thought Sarah Isgur was particularly delightful. It was fun to listen to as well as informative.

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        David French

        She’s fantastic.

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      David French

      Thanks KD :) The next episode will be even better. I'll fix my audio problem!

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    Kevin Durant?

    “and he also did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the decision to open either Crossfire Hurricane or the FBI’s four individual investigations”
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    So there weren’t any documents that said:

    “We need to sabotage Trump because he is a Republican and we are Democrats”

    I am really really really surprised that they didn’t find any documents that said that
    Stunning that they didn’t find documents like that
    Wowzers!!
    I guess, absent such documents, it must have just been shocking and random corruption then.......CASE CLOSED haha

    I honestly do not know how people can live with themselves when they do this type of work for a living and their clear objective is feigned imbecility

    Every single person on earth knows beyond a reasonable doubt what this was

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