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Report: DOJ Tried Repeatedly To Kill FBI’s Clinton Foundation Investigation
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/30/16 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 10/30/2016 9:04:06 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Senior-level Justice Department officials pushed back heavily on an ongoing FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper laid out numerous examples, based on law enforcement sources, of senior DOJ officials intervening to quash the probe.

Prosecutors with the U.S. attorneys office in the Eastern District of New York — which Loretta Lynch led before taking over as attorney general last year — refused to allow FBI investigators probing the Clinton family charity to review emails found on devices turned over this year by two of Clinton’s lawyers during the separate investigation into the mishandling of classified information on Clinton’s private email system.

The rationale, according to The Journal, was that the devices were covered by partial immunity and limited-use agreements that the Clinton lawyers — Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — agreed to with the DOJ. Information recovered from the laptops could only be used in the email investigation and not in others.

As part of the immunity agreement, the FBI and Justice Department agreed to destroy Mills’ and Samuelson’s devices, a revelation that sparked outrage from congressional Republicans when it was announced earlier this month.

The Journal’s report largely confirms reporting in August from The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Richard Pollock that the FBI and several U.S. attorneys offices were conducting an unorthodox, joint investigation into the Clinton Foundation. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: FBI-US Attorneys Conducting Joint Probe Of Clinton Foundation)

CNN reported at around the same time that a Clinton Foundation probe was tabled by the Justice Department. Pollock’s report and the new piece from The Journal undermine CNN’s reporting.

While the investigation has gone forward, the Justice Department has stymied the investigation at several turns, according to The Journal.

The DOJ refused to grant the FBI the power to issue subpoenas or conduct formal interviews. It also refused to convene a grand jury to weigh evidence in the case.

More pushback occurred in August, when a senior DOJ official contacted the FBI’s deputy director, Andrew McCabe, to voice his displeasure that New York field office agents were continuing the investigation even though the DOJ had declined to provide investigative support.

The official was “very pissed off” that the FBI was continuing its efforts, according to The Journal.

The call occurred on Aug. 12, a day after CNN reported details of FBI-DOJ discord over whether to investigate the Clinton Foundation. It was also a day after Pollock reported that an investigation was underway.

McCabe figures prominently in The Journal’s reporting and in the overlapping Clintonworld investigations.

It was revealed last week that McCabe’s wife, Jill, received nearly $470,000 in contributions to a Virginia state senate campaign last year from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s super PAC.

McAuliffe is a close Clinton ally and is the subject of a separate FBI investigation.

According to The Journal, McCabe refocused the Clinton Foundation investigation a week after FBI director James Comey announced in early July that he would recommend to the Justice Department that charges not be filed against Clinton for mishandling classified information in her emails.

The charity probe would be led by the FBI’s New York office with help from the Little Rock office, according to The Journal. FBI field offices in Los Angeles and Washington were also involved in the Clinton Foundation investigation.

The Los Angeles office subpoenaed bank records related to the Clinton Foundation after obtaining information during a separate public corruption case. The office in Washington was investigating McAuliffe’s financial relationships from before he joined the Clinton Foundation as a board member.

After Comey’s announcement on the Clinton email investigation in July, McCabe decided that the Washington FBI office would focus on the separate McAuliffe matter. He recused himself from that investigation because of the donations his wife received from McAuliffe’s super PAC in 2015.

While the FBI has insisted that McCabe is not compromised in any of the investigations — the email probe, the Clinton Foundation, or the McAuliffe matter — The Journal reports that some agents believe he has issued “stand down” orders in the Clinton Foundation inquiry.

That claim came from FBI agents lower on the chain of command from senior-level officials. Still other sources denied that McCabe issued a “stand down” order. They asserted that McCabe ordered investigators to continue on their investigative path.

McCabe’s Aug. 12 phone conversation with the senior DOJ official would seem to suggest that he supported the investigation.

“Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?” McCabe asked the DOJ official, according to a Journal source who was familiar with the conversation.

“Of course not,” the official reportedly said, after a brief pause.

The new report also details a presentation that FBI officials made to the Justice Department in February to lay out the case against the Clinton Foundation.

Some of the Journal’s sources said that the DOJ’s career public integrity prosecutors did not believe that the case was strong.

“Others said that from the start, the Justice Department officials were stern, icy and dismissive of the case,” The Journal reported.

DOJ officials told the FBI at the meeting additional investigative tools — subpoenas, interviews or a grand jury — would not be authorized.


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To: Rebelbase

With all the magnets going to be used to destroy records in DC and at the crime family foundation all compasses will be pointing to DC.


21 posted on 10/30/2016 9:26:53 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Thanx for this important posting


22 posted on 10/30/2016 9:28:51 PM PDT by thinden
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To: rockinqsranch

Lynch was a Clinton DEFENSE attorney early in her career, on the Whitewater case. Then she owes her entire political rise as a public official to the Clintons, starting as a US Attorney appointed by WJC.

She is total political sleaze posing as a “professional” DOJ leader. She should be run out of town and into the Big House along with all the rest of the Clinton and Obama tools.


23 posted on 10/30/2016 9:36:25 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Enchante

Trump has to be elected, and must “Drain the Swamp”. The D.C. Swamp is full of disgusting pollution.


24 posted on 10/30/2016 9:47:05 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to shut them down.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Obstruction of justice. At a minimum she should have been impeached for this action alone ... much less the tarmac meeting.


25 posted on 10/30/2016 9:48:03 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Mr. Mojo

RICO!


26 posted on 10/30/2016 9:50:38 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Parley Baer
Loretta Lynch is obstructing justice. She should also be behind bars. Obama’s Pardon machine is going to be busy if Trump wins.

I don't see how it can be anything BUT a full scale pardon machine. Hasn't bathhouse Barry been implicated in the e mail scandal?

27 posted on 10/30/2016 9:53:32 PM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered. All it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage.)
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To: pocat

ping


28 posted on 10/30/2016 9:55:12 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Mr. Mojo
MSM. Investigation? Integrity? WSJ? This is not computing.

Who woke up an smelled some brewing aribica?

29 posted on 10/30/2016 10:00:56 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Mr. Mojo

I had no idea FBI was investigating that political slush fund, let alone that Lynch was hindering it.


30 posted on 10/30/2016 10:09:32 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Mr. Mojo

C’mon all you young, liberal reporters! There is a Pulitzer prize with your name on it - if you will just follow the breadcrumb trail of corruption and report on the story of a life-time...


31 posted on 10/30/2016 10:47:31 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The last line is worthy of a new congressional investigation by Congress, even if Trump is not elected president. It may show the DOJ leaders were guilty of “obstruction of justice” as in interfering with a law enforcement agency/investigation.

I smell a big DemocRAT RAT in all of this and goes from 900 Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House just up the street.

Hopefully some honest FBI agents will come forward and testify under oath as to what they know about the Holder/Lynch/Obama coverup of the Clinton investigations.


32 posted on 10/30/2016 11:11:21 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Mr. Mojo

There will be no justice in the Justice Department for Hillary with the Dims in charge.


33 posted on 10/30/2016 11:50:30 PM PDT by MEG33 (VOTE***TRUMP***Help Save Our Nation)
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To: umgud

yep


34 posted on 10/31/2016 12:34:45 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Terrible McCauliffe is under a SEPARATE FBI investigation??? They ALL need to be in PRISON!!


35 posted on 10/31/2016 1:21:45 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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36 posted on 10/31/2016 1:34:58 AM PDT by combat_boots (I no longer know what to say to put here. Pray for us.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Lynch probably felt bad for Bill Clinton after discussing golf and grand kids on the Tarmac in Phoenix.


37 posted on 10/31/2016 3:03:07 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Ann Archy

It seems half the Dem party is under investigation today.

The massive corruption in DC is disgusting, and this is why they fear Trump.


38 posted on 10/31/2016 3:13:42 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Like Mr. Trump says,”drain the swamp”.

The whole federal gum mint is tarnished and crappola.


39 posted on 10/31/2016 3:18:03 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (hey Bill, rape anyone, Lately?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Awesome news. Investigators have been ignoring the “stand down” and Wall Street Journal is covering obstruction of justice.
America is going to wake up and smell the coffee.


40 posted on 10/31/2016 4:15:28 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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