Posted on 01/22/2021 8:38:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Declassified memos revel that FBI field agents became frustrated with being stonewalled from securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to the point they escalated their request outside the chain of command to then-FBI Director James Comey.
“The FISA application has remained in limbo for the last four months, even though subsequent investigative activity by [redacted] provided additional probable cause for the FISA application,” one FBI operative wrote to Comey in April of 2015.
That communication stated the FBI field office leading the probe and requesting the FISA warrant was “still uncertain as to why the application has not been sent to DOJ for final approval although several reasons have been put forth by CD [Criminal Division], most recently that the decision to put the application on hold originated ‘on the seventh floor.’”
Double standard? FBI feared foreign power was targeting money to Hillary Clinton before 2016 campaign, declassified memos show. But bureau delayed FISA warrant and instead gave defensive briefing to her, in stark contrast to Trump case. | Just The News https://t.co/5gBrjFfwEV
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 21, 2021
The seventh floor of the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, is where the FBI director and his staff have their offices.
Comey’s response to the communication was a non-committal, “Don’t know anything about this but will get smarter.”
Instead of examining the FISA request or the reasons the FBI field agents requested the warrant, FBI leadership decided to provide Clinton’s team with a “defensive briefing” in October of 2015, just as her presidential campaign was gearing up.
According to the declassified memos, the briefing was delivered to Clinton’s legal team led by David Kendall and Katherine Turner.
“Kendall and Turner were advised the FBI was providing them with this briefing for awareness and so Ms. Clinton could take appropriate action to protect herself,” a summary memo stated. “They were also told the FBI was seeking their assistance to identify other appropriate recipients of the brief, if any.”
Clinton’s lawyers were told, “the campaign should increase its vigilance of contributions related to any of the matters discussed above.”
FBI feared foreign power was targeting money to Clinton before 2016 campaign, memos show https://t.co/r4DbfAVZBa via @JustTheNews
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) January 21, 2021
The now declassified memos redact the name of the foreign country in question as well as the FBI field office that requested the FISA warrant. But they do make clear the plot involved “foreign aid money that might be contributed to her campaign should/when she announce(s) her run for POTUS.”
The memos offer no evidence Clinton herself was aware of the plot.
It is unclear whether the FIA warrant application was ever truly entertained by FBI leadership, or ever advanced to the FISA court for consideration.
The memos were declassified in an 11th-hour order by outgoing-President Trump. They serve to illustrate the inequitable contrast in the way the FBI treated Clinton and Trump, respectively.
Proving that The Federal Bureau of Incrimination And Sedition (FBIAS) are corrupt to the core and should be disbanded.
They are now just the enforcers for the Democrat mafia.
Is this news?
Always accuse your enemy of what you are doing.
always said Putin is a dedicated hard core communist. So is Hillary
Putin is more a Russian Nationalist than a Communist. He would have served the Czar if he were still in power.
The FBI is a key formation in the Bolshevik revolution which has seized DC and is securing beachheads across our sovereign states.
DC surely has become everything that our fathers fought against.
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“Putin is more a Russian Nationalist than a Communist. He would have served the Czar if he were still in power.”
Exactly..that’s why the democrats have been so hostile to Putin and Russia and using Putin as a whipping boy and weapon against Trump. If Putin were a communist they would have their tongue down his ear. We should be allies with Russia.
Communism is Dead in Russia but Autocracy is alive and well. FBI today is KGB of The Democrat Party—Watch as they “Take Down” Trump, his family and follower. It aint just the top 4% thats rotten, corrupted—its the whole lot of them. Any decent FBI agents would have turned whistleblower years ago—silence is complicity.
Yeah, the secretary of state with her own personal charity funded by billions in foreign contributions that mysteriously dried up for no apparent reason overnight when she lost the election.
“DC surely has become everything that our fathers fought against.”
And the Confederacy too...they tried to warn us.
Thank God for all those Incorruptible, Patriotic FBI Agents that got the word out to the American Public, ...
It was always ludicrous to think the Russians would prefer Trump to Clinton.
On the one hand, you had a guy with a reputation of being a tough negotiator.
On the other hand, you had a woman who the Russians knew, with absolute certainty, was not careful with Secret and even Top Secret documents. They knew because they had all of the documents on Clinton’s UNSECURE server. Only a FOOL believes they don’t have those documents.
The only argument that could be made that the Russian preferred Trump over Hellary was that Hellary was dangerous with power.
The Russians didn’t want a shooting military confrontation with the United States and Hellary’s actions in the Middle East pushed that threshold. Russians actually like predictability even if the competitor is strong (tough negotiator). You know how he will react, you know the thresholds & you can plan accordingly. Hellary’s blithering incompetence on the international stage made the world more dangerous for them.
Though I think all in all they preferred Hellary aside from the dangers of her international activities. They made a clear-eyed risk assessment calculation and decided her managerial incompetence over security, policy etc. offered up too many gifts and was worth the confrontation risk. So she was their preferred candidate back in 2016.
Well there ya go...FBI, Hillary and Putin....lol
A number of things were hide. Away from the public, and probably Trump also.
This is not how things are supposed to go.
The FBI likes corrupt politicians because it can blackmail them, control them for their own benefit.
Oh, those honest and hard-working rank-and-file guardians of federal justice...
So maybe they will acknowledge the election of 2020 was stolen in 2025.
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