Calling the report damning is quite the exaggeration. The IG concluded that Strzok and Page created the appearance of bias with their texts, but also says that he found no evidence that they acted on the apparent bias. He does think that their bias hurts the credibility of the FBI, though.

The only other issue the IG had was with Comey's public statements about the Clinton emails investigation. Even there he concludes that Comey wasn't acting out of political bias, and instead just somewhat mishandled an extremely unusual case.

I would hardly call those conclusions damning.

>Kids were being separated then

Incorrect; the story you linked describes unaccompanied minors. Separating families is solely the doing of the Trump Administration.

"Detaining child border crossers was a policy during the Obama administration, where Breitbart Texas exclusively reported on the conditions in which unaccompanied minors were being packed into crowded cells and holding facilities."

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/politics/new-us-effort...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/us-sets-up-crisis-shel...

>Were Microsoft employees sleeping when reports of these sorts of situations where being reported in 2014? Or was it more acceptable then because it was a different president?

The key issue here which is different from what you suggest is the same in 2014 is that the Trump administration separates children from their parents. The Obama administration, rightly or wrongly, detained unaccompanied minors. The Trump administration is detaining children who had their parents with them, and in cases deporting parents without their children. Surely you see this as a different situation??

I think the part people like OP are missing is if it was happening as they say then, it doesn't make it right now. They're just shifting blame for something they can be a part of stopping.

Sort of. More like if you are outraged now but not then, if it is only covered now and not then, if “reasonable” people only care now that it can be attributed to BadManTheyDontLike... that’s dishonest.