Posted on 12/06/2018 3:51:17 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Whistleblower advocates across the political spectrum condemned an FBI raid on the home of a recognized whistleblower who reported potential wrongdoing surrounding the Clinton Foundation, the Uranium One deal and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Daily Caller News Foundation, in a bombshell report, detailed how 16 FBI agents raided the home of Dennis Cain, a former employee of an FBI contractor, on Nov. 19. They rummaged through his home for six hours even though he told them that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz awarded him whistleblower status, according to Cain’s lawyer, Michael Socarras.
Horowitz instructed a top aide to personally hand-carry the documents to the House and Senate intelligence committees over the summer after he received them from Cain, Socarras said. (EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says)
Everyone TheDCNF interviewed said the raid should never have occurred. They said it appeared Cain followed the rules in accordance to the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, which protects federal whistleblowers from retaliation.
“I really do question the need for this raid at all,” said Nick Schwellenbach, the investigations director for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group that frequently works with whistleblowers. “On its face it doesn’t seem like it was necessary.”
“This isn’t how we should be treating whistleblowers who are coming forward with information about high level wrongdoing,” he told TheDCNF. “It sends a very strong message that you will be treated as a criminal even though what you’re trying to do is expose crime or a potential crime.”
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They are going to investigate the Clinton Foundation and John Podesta so they can issue the final report: “Nothing to see here, folks, move on...”. They already have their conclusions written.
It would not surprise me one bit to find that the scary raid was ordered by none other than...Christopher Wray.
And I will personally apologize to Director Wray if I am wrong. As if he would care about my apology.
The white hats comment is an interesting take on this. Maybe the original documents were deleted by the black hats and the whistle blower has copies and the white hats wanted to get them before the black hats destroyed them and got rid of the whistle blower. We’ll have to see how this plays out.
Hard to get a read on this story. Did the guy steal government docs? Is the FBI establishing chain of custody? Is the FBI doing the bidding of the Clintons?
Part of me wonders that if the Clinton foundation investigation is really underway in a form that could result in a trial, then maybe this raid might not be to criminalize the whistle blower but to solidify evidence provenance and reliability. Such a trial would be bigger than WWIII, and any prosecutor would want to own all of the chips before starting it.
For that to be true, IG Horowitz would have to be part of a sting operation, pretending that Cain was a recognized whistleblower, to snare whoever is helping him. We live in a time in which the unprecedented is routine.
Different headline and source
Sounds like another plan hatched by Jeff Sessions.
I say decapitation! Cut off the whole head!
“This is an ongoing series of chilling violations of basic American rights by unelected faceless burearaucrats”
Unelected faceless judges, too.
Our government is now no better than a commie country’s den of thieves government.
Yep
And yep again.
Nick Schwellenbach, the investigations director for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group is the one who needs his office raided by the FBI. Does he have “For Official Use Only” material in his possession or how about classified, proprietary, bidding information. The man is a democrat operative from my past experience. How is it possible anyone outside of government is allowed to possess FOUO material. Do your job FBI.
Occam’s Razor would lead one to think that a raid (involuntary production of evidence) on a whistle-blower would only be done to discredit the person who voluntarily came forward, or punish the person for simply stepping forward.
There is no evidence of white hats inside the FBI and DOJ doing anything.
You're just repeating the latest unsupported story from the usually wrong, Twitter attention seekers.
On a similar FR thread a poster said that this raid could be a standard check to see if a whistleblower has submitted cherry picked evidence, discarding exonerating material. Seems to me that there would be a better way to investigate such concerns.
In order to execute the search, the FBI had to allege probable cause to believe evidence of a crime would be found. Since this person is a whistleblower, it is hard to figure out what that might be, unless it is of the often used “false statement” variety. But, I imagine the creative department of the FBI thought of something. What concerns me is whether in the course of the search the FBI comes across other evidence “in plain view” related to other crimes not specified in the Affidavit of Probable Cause. If so, this evidence can be used to protect those in DOJ/FBI implicated in Uranium One to undercut the credibility of the whistleblower.
Just expressing a hypothesis friend. I have no evidence of no white hats in the FBI/DOJ, as I suspect nor do you. Like yourself, I was just expressing an opinion. And, I don’t use Twitter or Facebook or any other social media than email and freerepublic. I’m hoping there are some good people in the FBI/DOJ, that’s all.
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