FOLLOWS CRITICISM FROM LAST YEAR
by Sharon Rondeau
(Feb. 28, 2018) — At approximately 9:35 AM on Wednesday, President Donald Trump tweeted contempt for his attorney general’s decision, made public on Tuesday, to have the U.S. Justice Department’s Inspector General investigate claims of “FISA abuse” as contended in a four-page memo issued on February 2 by the Republican members of the House Permanent Subcommittee on intelligence (HPSCI).
Former U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions was Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney General and was confirmed in February 2017. Trump has, however, expressed disappointment in Sessions’s performance, specifically regarding his failure to replace then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, for neglecting to investigate Hillary Clinton and the DNC, and for “watering down” his first executive order banning visitors from certain countries prone to terrorism.
Trump’s comments at that time were followed by media speculation that he intended to replace Sessions.
“Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc.,” Trump wrote, referring to the former FBI director who Trump fired last May. That observation was followed by, “Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers?”
The current Inspector General for the Justice Department is Michael Horowitz, who was chosen by Obama and sworn in on April 16, 2012. The Inspector General Act of 1978 authorized appointment of inspectors general by the president to “conduct and supervise audits and investigations relating to the programs and operations of the establishments listed in section 12(2).”
Confirmation by the U.S. Senate is required for inspectors general.
The law was amended in December 2016 with six provisions dealing with coordination of information among inspectors general, reports to Congress, and vacancies within the respective IG offices, among other items.
On February 20, 2018, Horowitz issued a report titled “Findings of Misconduct by an FBI Special Agent-in-Charge for Engaging in an Inappropriate Romantic Relationship with a Subordinate and Misuse of a Government Vehicle.” The report did not name the agents involved.
Trump punctuated his blunt comments with, “DISGRACEFUL!”
The tweet was Trump’s last one of Wednesday morning.
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Does anyone remember Jeff Sessions sitting in Congress in January of 2009 and saying/doing nothing, along with the rest of Congress, to stop Obama from being sworn in? At that moment Congress gave America’s government and her military to the enemy, and had no choice but to protect Obama and carry out a charade of his legitimacy……forever……in order to protect themselves from their part in a crime they knew then, and even more so as additional evidence of the Obama fraud became available…..must always by denied and covered-up. I keep repeating this because knowing Obama is an imposter, who should never have been allowed to be sworn in makes understanding what happened along the way, and is happening now to protect Obama and anyone who could lead to him…..easy to understand.
It’s getting something done that has, so far, been the impossible task……..but, it ain’t over yet.
None of this is complicated if you start with believing Obama was an imposter, illegally occupying the presidency. This is something almost no one in government wants to deal with………………..they just want it to be swept under the rug…..forever……and they are desperate to make it happen.