{"id":11226,"date":"2018-06-14T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11226"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:39:05","slug":"the-silencing-of-the-inspectors-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-silencing-of-the-inspectors-general\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silencing of the Inspectors General"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Impartial watchdogs are useless if the government stonewalls them and ignores their findings of wrongdoing.<\/span>D<\/span>epartment of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz, an Obama administration appointee, is scheduled to deliver a report this week on DOJ and FBI abuses during the 2016 campaign cycle. Remember: His last investigation of FBI misconduct advised a criminal referral for fired former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who allegedly lied to federal investigators.<\/p>\n

McCabe and at least a half-dozen other FBI employees quit, retired, were fired, or were reassigned as a result of fallout from the politicization of the FBI. Yet, as Barack Obama left office, his chief of staff, Denis McDonough, strangely boasted that the Obama administration \u201chas been historically free of scandal.\u201d Obama himself recently concluded of his eight-year tenure, \u201cI didn\u2019t have scandals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read the\u00a0full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impartial watchdogs are useless if the government stonewalls them and ignores their findings of wrongdoing.Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz, an Obama administration appointee, is scheduled to deliver a report this week on DOJ and FBI abuses during the 2016 campaign cycle. Remember: His last investigation of FBI misconduct advised a criminal referral for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1156,46,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2V4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1536,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mcchrystal-mess\/","url_meta":{"origin":11226,"position":0},"title":"The McChrystal Mess","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner Many have commented on the unfairness of it all, and made good points: a) Obama, having demagogued the Iraq war, and campaigned on a \u201clet me at \u2019em\u201d in the \u201cgood\u201d war in Afghanistan, has done his best to renege on his 2008 chest-thumping\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "June 2010"","block_context":{"text":"June 2010","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2010\/june-2010\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7910,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/making-harding-look-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":11226,"position":1},"title":"Making Harding Look Good","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Obama administration has tarnished nearly every major federal agency. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online\u00a0 Many have described the Obama departure from the 70-year-old bipartisan postwar foreign policy of the United States as reminiscent of Jimmy Carter\u2019s failed 1977\u201381 tenure. 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