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by maps 2383 days ago
>Why do you bring in the left/right partisan divide into this?

Because the right has been complaining about these specific FBI agents biased conduct in this investigation for years now and trying to turn this into a 'we all know fisa is bad' comes off as epic gaslighting.

>The IG report did not find any evidence of political partisan spying, it only faulted the process of getting the warrant.

This is beyond a white washing. He absolutely found evidence that line agents were biased. He did not find clear 'evidence' that the outcome and leadership was biased. The key part is that confessions and a paper trail were not found to lead him to make that conclusion. He stated he made numerous referrals to the doj/fbi about misconduct. If you actually listen to his hearing statements on the 'evidence' for bias he is walking a fine line.

'we did not have documentary or testimonial evidence that (the mistakes) were intentional, but also make note the lack of satisfactory explanations (for the mistakes), from there i cannot draw any further conclusions' - this is during a line of questions from senator whitehouse, but there are many others like it.

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James Comey did a victory lap, claiming he was "vindicated" by the report.

Horowitz was asked in the hearing if his report vindicated Comey. He was adamant that his report vindicated no one.

There is definitely a concerted effort to completely mischaracterize the report's contents, mainly because it has proven that the complaining from the Republicans has actually been correct all along.

Check out "Devin Nunes memo" and how media reacted to it last year. They called it a conspiracy theory. The IG report proved everything in his memo was spot on. Wikipedia still has the false info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunes_memo