{"id":11237,"date":"2018-06-21T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2018-06-21T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:47:37","slug":"scandals-sanitized-with-linguistic-trickery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scandals-sanitized-with-linguistic-trickery\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandals Sanitized with Linguistic Trickery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Obama becomes an unnamed \u2018government official,\u2019 \u2018investigation\u2019 becomes a \u2018matter,\u2019 and \u2018illegal\u2019 becomes \u2018improper.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>here are lots of strange things throughout Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz\u2019s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make up words and phrases to disguise reality.<\/p>\n<p>An early draft of the 2016 FBI report on the email scandal was reportedly subjected to linguistic surgery to exonerate the former secretary of state, who at the time was the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton was originally found to be \u201cgrossly negligent\u201d in using an illegal email server. That legalistic phrase is used by prosecutors to indict for violation of laws governing the wrongful transmission of confidential government documents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/06\/orwellian-euphemisms-sanitized-obama-administration-scandals\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Obama becomes an unnamed \u2018government official,\u2019 \u2018investigation\u2019 becomes a \u2018matter,\u2019 and \u2018illegal\u2019 becomes \u2018improper.\u2019 There are lots of strange things throughout Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz\u2019s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make [&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":[1156,1151,1150,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Vf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10921,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hillarys-sure-victory-explains-most-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":11237,"position":0},"title":"Hillary\u2019s \u2018Sure\u2019 Victory Explains Most Everything","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/\u00a0National Review \u00a0 What exactly were top officials in the FBI and DOJ doing during the election of 2016? 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There were a lot of losers in this election, well beyond Hillary Clinton and the smug, incompetent pollsters and know-it-all, groupthink pundits who embarrassed themselves. From hacked e-mail troves\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Clintons&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Clintons","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-clintons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11050,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/swamp-things-in-the-russia-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11237,"position":4},"title":"Swamp Things in the Russia Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness \"The Swamp\u201d usually refers to the vast federal bureaucratic machinery of mostly unelected top officials who exercise influence and power without worry about the appearance of conflicts of interest. They are often exempt from the consequences of the laws and regulations that affect others.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;James Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"James Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/james-comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11228,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ig-hall-of-mirrors\/","url_meta":{"origin":11237,"position":5},"title":"The IG Hall of Mirrors","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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