346 Has the IG Report on Emailgate Been Compromised?

🕵️‍♂️ Has the IG Report on Emailgate Been Compromised?

This chapter was originally written in 2018, before the release of the Inspector General’s report on the Clinton email investigation. At the time, the question was still open.

Now, years later, the answer is clear:

Yes—it was compromised.

This chapter can be read as a companion piece to Chapter Horowitz, where the question posed here is finally answered. But even in 2018, the signs were already there.

🔍 Why I Suspected It Then

1. Trump is a micromanager. As documented in Chapter X, his meddling with the GSA over the FBI’s new headquarters shows his obsession with controlling bureaucratic outcomes.
2. He misunderstands the machinery of government. Trump sees agencies as personal instruments of loyalty—not as institutions serving the public. The idea that officials might feel allegiance to their agency or the Constitution rather than to him is alien to the Manchurian ‘President.’
3. The FBI is structurally Republican. As noted in Chapter Y, the Bureau—especially the NY field office—was known as Trumpland during the 2016 election.

With 1 and 2 in mind, 3 becomes even more dangerous. Rogue agents who meddled in 2016 were likely emboldened in 2018. Those who resisted Trump—like Strzok and Page—paid with their careers.

✴️ CODA

Cᴏᴅᴀ: When sabotage is rewarded and integrity punished, the machinery doesn’t just malfunction—it mutates.

🧩 UPDATE Inserts (Stylized)

UPDATE: In Chapter Trumpland, we now confirm that the rogue agents did become more emboldened—and more Trumpified.

UPDATE: Since the “Ukraine if you’re listening” scandal broke, the depth of Trump’s politicization of executive agencies—State, Justice, DHS—has come into full view.

🧠 Philosophical Reflection

What’s hard to understand is Comey’s apparent lack of concern.

Maybe Randol Schoenberg was right:

• Comey did believe the “golden emails” might be on Weiner’s laptop.
• Maybe he even hoped they were.

After all, Comey was a lifelong partisan Republican.

🔄 UPDATE 2: The IG’s Vanishing Act

Further irony: Despite all the efforts to paint Page and Strzok as anti-Trump partisans, it was Lisa Page herself who fed McCabe’s story to the Wall Street Journal.

This didn’t help Clinton—it hurt her. The leak landed three days after the Comey letter, kicking her while she was already down.

🧭 Timeline of Delay and Deflection

• The IG slow-walked its investigation into Emailgate.
• Yet it managed to release the McCabe report just months after GOP demands began.
• The full IG report came out in June 2018—a full 18 months after the probe began.
• Its opening pages? Not Clinton. Not Comey. Strzok and Page’s texts. As if that was the top priority.

Cᴏᴅᴀ: When the first pages of a report are about lovers’ texts, not institutional sabotage, you know the narrative has been hijacked.

🔍 What We Still Don’t Know

• We’ve seen Strzok’s and Page’s texts. But what about the rogue Trump agents? As noted in Chapter F, Trump even tried to leak the texts of Russia investigators.
• In Strozk’s subsequent book he related how anti Clinton agents often urged him to “Indict the b*tch.” In later IG reports that were meant to validate Trump’s “Russiagate” fallacies it emerged that Horowitz did have man such texts from the anti Clinton agents-but as we’ll see in the next chapter Horowitz would choose to bury them
• The IG censured Comey for the presser and the letter—calling him “insubordinate.” But it pulled punches on the deeper failures.
• No mention of the fake Russian document Comey used—whether knowingly or not. Either possibility is damning.

Cᴏᴅᴀ: Incompetence or dishonesty? When both options are catastrophic, the system needs a third choice: accountability.

🧨 The Missing Report

Supposedly, a separate IG report on rogue agents was coming.

UPDATE: As of February 23, 2019, it hadn’t arrived.

UPDATE 2.0: As of November 7, 2019, still nothing.

Meanwhile, the impeachment inquiry begins—but this strand is ignored.

UPDATE 3.0 As we’ll see in the next chapter it would Horowitz would table it permanently

🧠 Philosophical Insert

Who made the decision to prioritize Strzok–Page’s texts? Who “just happened” to find them? Was it as “coincidental” as the NYPD’s discovery of Huma’s emails?

Why was McCabe’s leak about the Clinton Foundation—an investigation that was itself illegitimate and unpredicated—moved to the front of the line?

🧾 FN Insert

FN: In McCabe’s lawsuit, he states that only after Trump disliked his answers post-Comey firing did he suddenly get grilled about the Clinton Foundation leak.

UPDATE: McCabe wins the lawsuit—though narrowly. See CREW’s summary.

🧨 CREW Lawsuit and Giuliani’s Role

While the IG dithers, the NY FBI office is sued for leaking to Giuliani—who played a starring role in the Ukraine extortion scandal.

CREW requested records on Giuliani’s advance knowledge of Comey’s letter. The FBI refused. CREW sued.

“The FBI legally has to give us these records or explain why they cannot,” said CREW’s Noah Bookbinder.

🧠 CODA: The Starburst of Sabotage

Vanity Fair reports that Horowitz’s office is still investigating who leaked to Giuliani and the press.

The final pages of the June 2018 IG report show starburst diagrams—with “reporter” at the center and hundreds of unauthorized contacts radiating outward.

Comey’s concern about NY leaks was so deep, he opened an investigation. In his House testimony, he named Giuliani directly.