The top brass of the Obama FBI went to great lengths to justify their decision not to recommend charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information, according to Judicial Watch, which obtained evidence that the agency created a ‘chart’ of Clinton’s offenses.
The newly obtained emails came in response to a court ordered Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that the DOJ had previously ignored.
Via Judicial Watch (emphasis ours):
- Three days after then-FBI Director James Comey’s press conference announcing that he would not recommend a prosecution of Mrs. Clinton, a July 8, 2016 email chain shows that, the Special Counsel to the FBI’s executive assistant director in charge of the National Security Branch, whose name is redacted, wrote to Strzok and others that he was producing a “chart of the statutory violations considered during the investigation [of Clinton’s server], and the reasons for the recommendation not to prosecute…”
[Redacted] writes: I am still working on an additional page for these TPs that consist of a chart of the statutory violations considered during the investigation, and the reasons for the recommendation not to prosecute, hopefully in non-lawyer friendly terms …
Strzok forwards to Page, Jonathan Moffa and others: I have redlined some points. Broadly, I have some concerns about asking some our [sic] senior field folks to get into the business of briefing this case, particularly when we have the D’s [Comey’s] statement as a kind of stand alone document. In my opinion, there’s too much nuance, detail, and potential for missteps. But I get they may likely be asked for comment.
[Redacted] writes to Strzok, Page and others: The DD [Andrew McCabe] will need to approve these before they are pushed out to anyone. At the end of last week, he wasn’t inclined to send them to anyone. But, it’s great to have them on the shelf in case they’re needed.
[Redacted] writes to Strzok and Page: I’m really not sure why they continued working on these [talking points]. In the morning, I’ll make sure Andy [McCabe] tells Mike [Kortan] to keep these in his pocket. I guess Andy just didn’t ever have a moment to turn these off with Mike like he said he would.
Page replies: Yes, agree that this is not a good idea.
Neither these talking points nor the chart of potential violations committed by Clinton and her associates have been released.
- On May 15, 2016, James Rybicki, former chief of staff to Comey, sends FBI General Counsel James Baker; Bill Priestap, former assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division; McCabe; Page; and others an email with the subject line “Request from the Director.”
Rybicki writes: By NLT [no later than] next Monday, the Director would like to see a list of all cases charged in the last 20 years where the gravamen of the charge was mishandling classified information.
It should be in chart form with: (1) case name, (2) a short summary for content (3) charges brought, and (4) charge of conviction.
If need be, we can get it from NSD [National Security Division] and let them know that the Director asked for this personally.
Please let me know who can take the lead on this.
Thanks!
Jim
Page forwards to Strzok: FYSA [For your situational awareness]
Strzok replies to Page: I’ll take the lead, of course – sounds like an espionage section question… Or do you think OGC [Office of the General Counsel] should?
And the more reason for us to get feedback to Rybicki, as we all identified this as an issue/question over a week ago.
Page replies: I was going to reply to Jim [Rybicki] and tell him I can talked [sic] to you about this already. Do you want me to?
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Recall that the FBI agents involved made extensive edits to former FBI Diretor James Comey’s statement exonerating Hillary Clinton – changing the language to effectively downgrade the crime of mishandling classified information so that they could recommend no charges.
According to a December, 2017 letter from Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) to FBI Director Christopher Wray, fired FBI agent Peter Strzok changed the language regarding Clinton’s conduct from the criminal charge of “gross negligence” to “extremely careless.”
“Gross negligence” is a legal term of art in criminal law often associated with recklessness. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, gross negligence is “A severe degree of negligence taken as reckless disregard,” and “Blatant indifference to one’s legal duty, other’s safety, or their rights.” “Extremely careless,” on the other hand, is not a legal term of art.
According to an Attorney briefed on the matter, “extremely careless” is in fact a defense to “gross negligence”: “What my client did was ‘careless’, maybe even ‘extremely careless,’ but it was not ‘gross negligence’ your honor.” The FBI would have no option but to recommend prosecution if the phrase “gross negligence” had been left in.
18 U.S. Code § 793 “Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information” specifically uses the phrase “gross negligence.” Had Comey used the phrase, he would have essentially declared that Hillary had broken the law.
And now, thanks to the Judicial Watch FOIA, we know that the FBI also went to great lengths to justify letting Clinton off the hook with a “chart” of her offenses.
via infowars
Blah, Blah, Blah, what are these Clowns going to do about it. The Republiturds and Dummiecraps are complicit in this and many need actual jail (GITMO) for this, better yet charges of sedition against the president. He being a showman, (pay per-view) for the EXECUTIONS! This needs all involved to be held accountable and before 2020.
the clintons are a bunch o crooks, look at the facts, she deleted 1000’s of emails, she was responsible for the deaths of Americans at BenGazhi, she sold uranium to the Russians, do you think they paid her and willy billy millions just to hear their speech’s , her and willybilly cried they were broke, the only job they ever had was in politics working for our Govt., they left the white house with millions,made their daughter worth millions and gave her a 3 million dollar wedding, 13 billion dollars was donated to their foundation for the relief to Hatti for the Earth Quake, they have not received one penny of it. and this witch had the nerve to call half of Americans Deplorable on national TV, this women belongs behinds bars
I agree, and Trump is going to win in 2020, Mueller is another idiot along with palosi face, and scumbag, imagine the demwits voting for a muslim in our govt. Go Trump 2020.
clinton needs to be locked up she is a crook and a traitor to the American people.
all clintons should get death penalty
Absolutely!
So, given this enlightening information, which we all knew already, what the hell is going to be done about it!? Still waiting for justice to be served.
mueller his next witch hunt since he came up with zero, probably go after Trumps young son, to see if he can catch him playing hooky at school.
All these people .. running our govt.. our agencies .. are just covering each others butts. Watching this Russia Trump faux creation.. these are the people that need jail time.. for a long time. Seems when the Dems create or are found out about their corruption it just an atta boy from their other buddies on how smart they are . And they got away with it. Now they do not even try to hide corruption. These Dems/Communists moto that their victims must find proof that these lies the Dems/Communists create are a LIE. Destroy is what these Dems/Communist want.
When is the Lynching for that crooked group. I hope they throw themselves on the mercy of the courts.
Then do the right thing.
It’s a shame that most of America doesn’t know the truth yet?
From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been em-paneled. Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”. Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Guess who took over this investigation in 2002? None other than James Comey. Guess who was transferred in to the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? Lois Lerner. This is all just a series of strange coincidences, right? Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005? None other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein. You Demoncrats are getting very quiet suddenly? Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame? Robert Mueller. What do all four casting characters have in common? They all were briefed and/or were front line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation. Fast forward to 2009. James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go to Lockheed Martin. Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, with her own personal email server. The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hillary. She decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no one other than, the Russians!! You would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, the American people got absolutely nothing out of it. However, prior to the sales approval, no one other than Arkansas Bill goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours. The FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme. Guess who was the FBI Director at this time? Robert Mueller. He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009. Guess who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland? Rod Rosenstein. Guess what happened soon after the sale was approved? ~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal. Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? None other than, Lois Lerner. Fast forward to 2015. Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server. He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email. Guess who became FBI Director in 2013? Guess who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer. No one other than James Comey. Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner matter at the Internal Revenue Service and exonerates her. Nope, couldn’t find any crimes there. Can you guess what happened next? In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy. They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury. Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true traitor he is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates Hillary from any wrongdoing. Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues. FISA Abuse, political espionage….. pick a crime, any crime, chances are…… this group and a few others did it. All the same players. All compromised and conflicted. All connected in one way or another to the Clinton’s.
As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
Enough of the talking, incriminate them, take them to trial, and watch them as they start sinking
in the deep swamp that they have created. Hopefully, the pressure will make them start singing a different tune, by including everyone elsle who was involved, and that would be most of the democratic party.
Mr. President:
Cc Americans
Mr. President, my offer of 02/2017 stands. Upon your request I will assist your staff in assembling a team of retired U.S. Army CID investigators to fully investigate the roles of the DOJ/FBI, US Intelligence Community, the Clinton Campaign, the Democrat Party, and others in their efforts to sabotage your campaign, your administration, and you personally. The CID team will be lead by the same supervisor and senior investigators who played key roles in:
1). Stopping in one weekend the acts of terrorism being committed by so-called Cuban terrorists (They were not Cubans!) in the Canal Zone designed to speed up the Carter Administration’s actions to negotiate/ratify a new Panama Canal Treaty. Yes, the same treaty that: a. Removed the U.S. Army from its role in governing/securing the Canal Zone/Panama Canal, b. Permitted both the Russians and Chinese to assume far more dominant roles in the operation of the Canal and in the economy of Panama, and c. Cleared all roadblocks previously existing in the path of making Panama a major player in the international drug trade and money laundering.
2). Completing an investigation that provided substantial evidence detailing the operational parameters/methods and many of the key players involved in the international drug trade and money laundering. The key players included many international bankers with operational units in Panama (two of those bankers were later convicted of related crimes in their home jurisdictions), several members of the Carter administration, and several individual State officials (i.e. W.J. & H.R. Clinton [see The Mena Connection, An Insider’s Documentary of the Real Mena, Arkansas Story… Guns, Drugs, Money, CIA, DEA, Contras… Clintons]).
Recommend you assign the CID team to work directly under a new special prosecutor and permit the team to take a hard look at “all of the leads” regarding to the so-called “Russian Collusion Case”. If nothing else suspect they will determine that most of the DOJ/FBI and Congressional investigators to date have very “unique feet”. Else, how could they have walked over so many hot coals (leads/evidence) without burning their feet completely off? Suggest that with a new special prosecutor employing a proven team of investigators will take the wind out of any of Ms. Pelosi’s investigators (which will be nothing more than a gaggle of two bit lawyers submitting hourly bills for everything including watching porn and picking their noses).
C.W. Lauderdale
Soldier/Cop/Grunt, Retired