I've been saying that
since Fall 2016
in this blog -- it was
a sham investigation
that was going to end
with no penalty
for Hillary Clinton.
Hillary's aides
were given immunity
and then nothing
was asked of them
in return.
Bill Clinton and
Attorney General
Loretta Lynch
talked privately
for 30 minutes
just before Hillary
was exonerated.
The "fix" was obvious.
The FBI's James Comey
started writing his Hillary
"exoneration speech"
in late April 2016, that was
later delivered on TV
in early July 2016.
Comey did something
unexpected, and also
unprecedented -- he gave
details of the laws Hillary
violated on TV, before
making the decision
to not prosecute her.
FBI investigations traditionally
remain private, unless the
Justice Dept. prosecutes.
And the Justice Dept.
traditionally makes the
decision to prosecute,
not the FBI.
Comey supported Hillary,
but probably helped her lose
the election, even without
any DOJ criminal prosecution
of her.
The Justice Department
and Hillary Clinton's legal team
"negotiated" an agreement
that blocked the FBI
from accessing emails,
on Clinton's home server ,
related to the Clinton Foundation,
according to a transcript
of recently released testimony,
from last summer, by former
FBI special agent Peter Strzok.
Strzok admitted Clinton's private
email servers contained
a mixture of emails related
to the Clinton Foundation,
her work as secretary of state
and other matters.
"Were you given access to
[Clinton Foundation-related]
emails as part of
the investigation?"
asked Judiciary Committee
General Counsel
Zachary Somers.
"We were not.
We did not have access,"
Strzok responded.
"My recollection is that the
access to those emails
were based on consent
that was negotiated between
the Department of Justice
attorneys and counsel
for Hillary Clinton."
Strzok added that
"a significant filter team"
was employed at the FBI
to "work through the
various terms of the
various consent
agreements."
The Clinton Foundation
has been accused of
"pay-to-play" transactions,
fueled by a report
in the IBTimes
that the Hillary Clinton-led
State Department
authorized $151 billion in
Pentagon-brokered deals
to 16 countries that donated
to the Clinton Foundation
- a 145% increase
in completed sales
to those nations
over the same time frame
of the Bush administration.
Donor contributions
to the Clinton Foundation
declined approximately 90%
over a three-year period
between 2014 and 2017,
according to their
financial statements.
"What's bizarre about this,
is in any other situation,
there's no possible way
they would allow
the potential perpetrator
to self-select what
the FBI gets to see,"
said former Utah Rep.
Jason Chaffetz
- former chair of the
House Oversight and
Government Reform
Committee until 2017.
"The FBI should be the one
to sort through those emails
-- not the Clinton attorneys."
Chaffetz suggested the goal of the DOJ
was to "make sure they hear no evil,
see no evil -- they had no interest
in pursuing the truth."
"The Clinton Foundation
isn't supposed to be
communicating with the
State Department anyway,"
said Chaffetz.
Strzok was fired from the FBI
after months of intense scrutiny
over anti-Trump text messages
he exchanged with his mistress
- FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Both Strzok and Page
were involved at the
highest levels of both
the Clinton email investigation
and the counterintelligence
investigation on President Trump
and his 2016 campaign.
