Okay, I know it’s not over yet but what’s happening is pretty clear. And before I get into specifics, in case you missed it, CNN didn’t cover Lindsey Graham’s opening 45 minute statement. They waited until Feinstein started speaking. Yeah they are an unbiased news source.
Now here’s all you need to know is what you probably expected. The Republicans spent all day pointing out the obvious political bias in the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign and the Dems spent all day pointing out that the IG didn’t find political bias. However you need to understand why the IG didn’t find political bias. The reason is that under his position he could only find it if someone who was interviewed said yes I was biased against Trump and that’s why I did what I did or that he found a document that said that. All the evidence of the bias by Strzok and Page and others didn’t count because while expressing obvious bias they didn’t say that they were actually using their bias in the investigation.
Now as you may know, in a real litigation bias is inferred from a person’s statements or affiliations. People seldom admit that they are biased.
The other thing that’s going on is the Dems are trying to claim Barr and Durham are engaged in a political witch-hunt because they know the defecation will meet the impeller when Durham’s report and indictments drop. They are focusing on the fact that Horowitz said that the extremely low bar was met to initiate Crossfire Hurricane. The fact that Barr and Durham disagree is evidence of obvious bias on their part. In fact in a few exchanges, the Dems kept asking Horowitz what could Durham have that could change his position. He said nothing that he could think of.
That’s ridiculous. Horowitz based his conclusion on the information that Papadopoulos had said he heard that Russia had Hillary’s emails or something to that effect. Guess what, it has been previously and credibly reported that CIA assets set Papadopoulos up by telling him that and then getting another asset to ask him about it. So if the supposed predicate for the investigation was really a CIA scam, and Durham and Barr have been investigating overseas where Horowitz couldn’t go, that would destroy the predicate.