Posted on 06/26/2017 12:29:21 PM PDT by johnk
You wouldn't know it from the mainstream media, but President Donald Trump is not under FBI investigation (repeat: NOT).
But you know who is? Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders. Loretta Lynch.
In early June, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, launched a new probe of former Secretary of State Clinton’s attempts to deflect a Bangladesh government corruption investigation of Muhammad Yunus, a Clinton Foundation donor and friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton.
"While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made a personal call to pressure Bangladesh’s prime minister to aid a donor to her husband’s charitable foundation despite federal ethics laws that require government officials to recuse themselves from matters that could impact their spouse’s business," Circa reported.
“If the Secretary of State used her position to intervene in an independent investigation by a sovereign government simply because of a personal and financial relationship stemming from the Clinton Foundation rather than the legitimate foreign policy interests of the United States, then that would be unacceptable,” Grassley said in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
“Co-mingling her official position as Secretary of State with her family foundation would be similarly inappropriate. It is vital to determine whether the State Department had any role in the threat of an IRS audit against the son of the Prime Minister in retaliation for this investigation,” Grassley wrote.
Also, Sanders and his wife are both under investigation over a bank loan Jane Sanders got to expand Burlington College while she was its president, CBS News reported last week.
Politico Magazine first reported the Sanders had hired lawyers to defend them in the probe. Sanders' top adviser Jeff Weaver told CBS News the couple has sought legal protection over federal agents' allegations from a January 2016 complaint accusing then-President of Burlington College, Ms. Sanders, of distorting donor levels in a 2010 loan application for $10 million from People's United Bank to purchase 33 acres of land for the institution.
According to Politico, prosecutors might also be looking into allegations that Sen. Sanders' office inappropriately urged the bank to approve the loan.
And former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is now under investigation, too. The Senate Judiciary Committee last week opened a probe into Lynch’s efforts to control the FBI’s investigation into Clinton's email scandal.
Grassley, along with the committee’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, sent a letter to Lynch asking her to lay out exactly what she did during the Clinton probe. Former FBI Director James Comey testified this month that she tried to get the FBI to downplay that probe. “At one point, she directed me not to call it an ‘investigation’ but instead to call it a ‘matter,’ which confused me and concerned me,” Comey said in his June 8 testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “That was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we are to close this case credibly.”
Comey said Lynch’s request “gave the impression the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our investigation with the way a political campaign was describing the same activity.”
From the nonstop coverage of Trump's alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, you'd think he was under FBI investigation. But he isn't. Instead, three big Democratic players are.
But you wouldn't know that from the MSM coverage. In fact, Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s “Meet The Press,” didn't even ask Sanders about being the subject of an FBI investigation during a seven-minute interview on Sunday.
Par for the course.
He wins.
I am still not sick of it yet. In fact it's an acquired taste. ;-)
Let’s see how quickly the calls for Sessions to resign come in...
prepare the ropes
-PJ
Sessions was nor responsible for these investigations. He should be investigating Lynch, but he is too busy chasing down Marijuana smokers.
A PEEK INTO THE DEVIOUS MINDS OF THE CROOKED CLNTONS--Comey said Lynch's request to disguise the issue as a matter “tracked with how the [Clinton] campaign was talking publicly about how the FBI was doing its work.” Comey said this gave him the "impression" Lynch was trying to match the wording of the FBI with the Clinton campaign.
“I don’t know whether it was intentional or not,” Comey added. “But it gave the impression that AG Lynch was trying to align how the FBI describes its work with the way it was being described by the Clintons in a political campaign.”
“It was inaccurate. The FBI had (not a matter), it had an investigation open at the time of the Lynch request. That gave me a queasy feeling,” Comey continued.
I expect both Hillary and Loretta to sit in court wearing angry expressions and flat out refuse to divulge any useful information. Hillary will say she ‘can’t remember’, while Loretta will straight out take the 5th, or signal to her attorney to object to that line of questioning.
The GOP needs to have a game plan about what to do, if all three people refuse to cooperate. Will you warn them about being in contempt of court, fine them, afterwards, lock them up if noncompliance continues? What?
You have no better idea of what Sessions’ docket looks like than the Man in the Moon.
But you know who is? Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders. Loretta Lynch.
According to the article only Lynch is under FBI investigation.
Sessions was nor responsible for these investigations. He should be investigating Lynch, but he is too busy chasing down Marijuana smokers.
Maybe Sessions is not the man for the job. If the current evidence clearly shows criminality, a Special Counsel should be set up to indite them.
It is about time and more than way past due.
It had an investigation open... but not a serious one. There was no serious investigation of the Foundation, the motive for the private server; the e-mail investigation was not serious either, with immunity being tossed around like candy to witnesses who were then never questioned; and, finally, Hillary's "big" exit interview was so informal it wasn't even recorded.
Comey is a weasel, playing both sides so he can claim to be for the eventual winner, or at least so impartial that his reputation for honesty and his future earning power (book deal anyone?) stay unharmed.
I do not trust Sessions...I think he is weak minded. He should resign. We need a f’n conservative bulldog in that position.
The guilty three for the hanging tree............
Get back to me when even one of them is headed for prison.
I’ll be waiting right here.
Get back to me when even one of them is headed for prison.
I’ll be waiting right here.
I’ll be waiting with you.
What about the Benghazi perjury inquiry ?
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