House Republicans held the line on impeachment, doing a credible job of exposing each bureaucrat’s evidence as subjective deep state opinion. The resistance fired its dueling pistol and must now withstand the withering return fire of Senate Republicans and Attorney General Barr, who believe Trump-Ukraine proved a change president did ignore “expert” talking points and did “risk” good will to expose the sins of the Obama era. So what?
On December 9, the first shots will be fired by Inspector General Horowitz in his report on whether the Obama-era FBI and DOJ broke FISA laws or conducted partisan investigations. The IG report will provide insight into the “insurance policy” FBI Special Agent Strzok promised FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Already, the FBI resistance is being exposed.
On Monday, the DOJ entered evidence in court that fired FBI agent Peter Strzok was guilty of “gross lack of professionalism and exceptionally poor judgment” in addition to “misconduct [and] dereliction of supervisory duty” during the Clinton email investigation. On Thursday, CNN reported a fired FBI agent admitted he had made document changes that were “substantive enough to twist it’s meaning” in order to secure FISA warrants to surveil Carter Page.
On December 11, Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has promised to uncover the extent to which the Obama-era FBI and DOJ were weaponized for political purposes. Many sources report Horowitz will present damaging de-classified documents that reveal what/when James Comey knew about the Steele dossier and leaks to the media, as well as evidence the FBI gave preferential treatment to the Clinton campaign.
Graham is also preparing his committee to take up articles of impeachment; when Republicans will compel the whistleblower, Adam Schiff, and the Bidens to testify under oath. Last week, Graham requested Department of State records of Joe Biden’s phone call to Ukraine President Poroshenko and Devon Archer’s meeting with John Kerry. At minimum, Senate Republicans will score political points by exposing Democrat political shenanigans.
To this end, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday “an investment firm linked” to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Chris Heinz (John Kerry’s stepson) “received over $130 million in federal bailout loans” in 2009. Federal records show TALF loans were made to a subsidiary of Rosemont Capital and profits were routed through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands. Rosemont Seneca Partners and its subsidiaries just keep looking worse for the Bidens – and the truth must out.
Batting clean-up is the DOJ’s John Durham, who was tasked by the attorney general to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia hoax, and his work begins where Horowitz’s ends – because he’s pursuing indictable crimes. It is possible he will just embarrass the likes of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and Lynch, but it is probable he will convene grand juries and indict. If any of these four stand trial, they’ll wish their mothers had never met their fathers. At the very least, they will be found to have misused their power.