{"id":11228,"date":"2018-06-19T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:11:05","slug":"the-ig-hall-of-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ig-hall-of-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"The IG Hall of Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>The professionally written and admirably researched IG report is in some sense a hall of mirrors, with all sorts of reflections that are contorted and warped, and into which all parties claim to see reality.<\/p>\n<p>Often the euphemistic conclusions are not supported by the data produced. The only constant to Obama-era FBI and DOJ behavior is the universal assumption that Hillary Clinton would be president, and what might be assumed as improper or illegal conduct in the present, would likely in the future be excused or rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>On the question of \u201cbias,\u201d the report exhaustively catalogues communications in which government investigators and attorneys systematically deprecate Trump, and the Trump voter, and in explicit terms boast about stopping him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/inspector-general-report-hall-of-mirrors\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The professionally written and admirably researched IG report is in some sense a hall of mirrors, with all sorts of reflections that are contorted and warped, and into which all parties claim to see reality. Often the euphemistic conclusions are not supported by the data produced. The only constant [&hellip;]<\/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":[1150,1092,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2V6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11654,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-bearing-gifts\/","url_meta":{"origin":11228,"position":0},"title":"Progressives Bearing Gifts","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump in 2016 did not only run against the planted rumors of the fake Steele dossier, 90 percent negative media coverage, his own boisterous past, and the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape. 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