Posted on 12/01/2017 8:08:40 AM PST by blam
The revelation last year of an unorthodox tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch set off a frenzied scramble at the FBI to track down the source, newly released documents show.
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which on Thursday released 29 pages of FBI emails related to the 2016 meeting, said the messages show officials were more concerned about the leak than the substance of the report.
“These new FBI documents show the FBI was more concerned about a whistleblower who told the truth about the infamous Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting than the scandalous meeting itself,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
The FBI initially claimed it had no documents pertaining to the meeting, until uncovering the files later turned over to Judicial Watch.
The watchdog group, in releasing the files, said FBI officials sent a flurry of emails after the meeting was reported in New York's Observer.
One email sent from an unidentified FBI account on July 3, 2016 said, “We need to find that guy” and bring him or her before a supervisor. Another said the source should be banned from working security details.
Officials speculated that the source of the leak was a Phoenix police officer. One official said they contacted the Phoenix office and would try to “stem any further damage.”
One official, in a July 2 email, said the article represented a "breach in security protocol" and the Phoenix division would be pressured to "identify the source of the breach."
Judicial Watch said all names on the emails were redacted and there is no documentation showing concern over the meeting itself.
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The Clintons corrupt everything that they touch.
“The once proud FBI is now just a bunch of Democrat Hack Goons that seek to destroy this country, via mob tactics...................
Old school agents like James Kalstrom are visibly shaken and despondent over the downfall of their beloved Bureau.
Like the SS, the FBI is a mere political formation.
Like the SS, the FBI is a mere political formation.
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yes, like our own version of the stasi
Bears repeating.
I often feel the same. It is why I regard an Article COS as our last hope. Through Article V We the People can outflank, do an end-run around The Swamp.
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