“Hi, just in case you didn’t think things could get weirder, the former CEO of Overstock is on Fox saying that the feds told him he should sleep with Maria Butina.”
This is probably not really worth it’s own thread, but I couldn’t figure out which other one to throw it into.
Anybody buying this story?
Overstock didn’t buy it either, since the moron is out on his ass.
I’m sure that the FBI also said it was okay for him to mention all of this to the media…:smack:
A new Horowitz Report is about to be released, which reviews the actions of the FBI in regards to opening and conducting the investigation of the Trump campaign.
If the Overwatch accusation was true, then either it will appear in the report or Horowitz would go back into investigation mode and delay release again. The latter isn’t happening, so either it’s already in the report (if true) or it’s BS dreamed up by a dude who fantasized about having sex with Maria Butina.
Barr is working with Lindsey Graham to decide “how to best present the Horowitz report to maximize its political power”. Conceivably, we’ll end up with a heavily redacted and misleading report. But redaction only removes it doesn’t add. If the Overwatch guy is telling the truth, and we don’t see it in the report, then either it’s in the redacted material - which would make no sense given that the guy just released the information to the general public - or it didn’t happen.
My assumption is that we’ll find out in about a month. It won’t be there in the non-redacted materials and it’s very unlikely to be in the redacted.
The greater concern is that a non-partisan report is actively being molested by Barr and Lindsey Graham prior to release.
The left-wing press really should be on the watch for that and prepping people for it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did; if there’s one thing I know now about the FBI and CIA, among other agencies, it’s that they;re dedicated, hardworking and intelligent people who sometimes do dirty tricks, skirt or openly break laws and in general feel they can act w/o consequence if they’re told it’s in the best interest of the US. To pretend they don’t is naive. Law enforcement at every level has more leeway than the people outside that organization will ever know or understand.
However, no one forced this guy to do a thing w/ the spy Butina. No one forced him to say anything to her. He did those things b/c he wanted to and he believed they benefited him at the time. I’m sure he’ll be fine, never miss a meal and always have a roof over his head. It’s not even likely that he’ll commit suicide in 3 different ways at once like other people who’ve crossed the New Stalin and his orange, fluffy old lapdog.
She seemed pretty dead-set against the idea that she was sleeping with people in order to gain their cooperation and the FBI took back that accusation after further interviews with her.
And while the CIA certainly does do this sort of thing, I don’t get the impression that the FBI does.
Between that, the fact that the dude is pretty wacky, and I expect the Horowitz report to be as bland and uninteresting as the previous one, I’m leaning against. If you read the previous report, Strzok is a Republican, supported Kasich, and was one of the people pushing the hardest to get the most information that they could out of Clinton, her people, and their devices.
The FBI is a principally Republican operation and the FISA judges who signed off on most if not all of the warrants were Republican appointees. Expecting any sort of non-justified investigatory decisions to come out of a review is pretty unlikely. Unfortunately, almost all of the underlying evidence is going to be secret. We won’t be able to review the actual evidence to make any reasonable judgement of whether the decisions made were justified. We’ll have to accept Horowitz’s pronouncement in the summary. Obviously, Barr and Graham will say that the evidence (which they’ll cherry pick from) doesn’t support the decisions, ignoring that the evidence that they’re pointing to was just one ingredient in the pie.