Hi honor,
I can't map out where I came to my understanding of the content of the Horowitz report, what I read on CNN compared to NPR, Reason, or any other source. I can say my understanding of it without spending time reading it into the middle of the night was that it disputed the claim by Barr and others that the initial investigation was motivated out of politics and was based on valid investigative grounds, but the execution was so flawed and sloppy it likely led to FISA courts making decisions they might not have had the evidence been presented fully or correctly.
My position is both sides of the mainstream media are incorrigibly dishonest. For the mainstream media to present the IG report in the benign way as you understand it (just human errors) is inexplicable in trying to understand that as anything other than dishonest. There is a kernel of truth in the reporting that Horowitz did not make a final conclusion of political bias but that conclusion also did not fall within the methods, the narrow scope, burden and the ability of his sort of "audit" to conclude. And that doesn't get pointed out which is dishonest. The abuses found in his report should shock any thinking American, left or right. It is the media framing narratives on these things that is the greatest abuse. To leave actual exculpatory evidence from the Court, to alter 180 degrees documents and then present that to the Court, to continue to use unverified and even proven untrustworthy evidence with the Court, just lying to the Court are abuses transcendent of ones politics. That 51 "human errors" ALL go against the President when exculpatory evidence existed and not presented is not just sloppiness.
The report also clearly demonstrates the mainstream media's continual lie that the Steele dossier was not the central, in fact THE source, for obtaining continued FISA warrants. That has nothing to do with ideological bent. That information was known for the past couple of years yet it was continually pressed by the press in a deceitful manner. The initial investigation is such a low bar it is nearly irrelevant, we are talking about jokes and drinks at a bar for heaven's sake. But to fail to report that the basis past that opening of an investigation were anything but unwarranted is just not factual in the least.
None of that is defending Donald Trump or putting on a MAGA hat. It demonstrates what I am saying. A failure of the mainstream media to properly hold intelligence agencies to the fire, which is what we would expect our press to do, to speak truth to all power not just Donald Trump, allows for the FoxNews' of the world to gain credibility because the balanced narrative was lost and the WWE hero and villian narrative is all that is left.
mikwut
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