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the liberal attackdogs have been out this morning on Facebook calling
'bullshit' on these stories, attacking me for covering it and one
even claiming the FBI (full only of crooks)based its investigation on
a conspiracy theory book!!
By
the way I am not a Trump 'supporter'. I am watching this from afar
as the USA tears itself to pieces and am well through my packets of
popcorn.
FBI
Sources Believe CLINTON FOUNDATION "INDICTMENT is LIKELY" -
Bret Baier
While
You Were Watching the World Series Some Very, Very Big News Broke
Michael
Krieger
3
November, 2016
While
most Americans were captivated by last night’s World Series Game 7,
some very, very big news broke. Normally, I’d summarize the news
and provide my perspective before highlighting source text, but in
this case I want to provide the information first.
The
real blockbuster came from Fox News’ Bret Baier, who released
some serious information courtesy of two sources at the
FBI. Real
Clear Politics summarized
Bret’s primary conclusions based on his conversations:
1. The Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported so far and has been going on for more than a year.
2. The laptops of Clinton aides Cherryl Mills and Heather Samuelson have not been destroyed, and agents are currently combing through them. The investigation has interviewed several people twice, and plans to interview some for a third time.
3. Agents have found emails believed to have originated on Hillary Clinton’s secret server on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. They say the emails are not duplicates and could potentially be classified in nature.
4. Sources within the FBI have told him that an indictment is “likely” in the case of pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, “barring some obstruction in some way” from the Justice Department.
5. FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton’s server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it.
Here’s Bret Baier saying it in his own words:
While
Friday’s bombshell alerted the American public to the
reopening of Hillary Clinton’s private email server probe, the
Clinton Foundation investigation is a totally separate beast. It’s
now clear that Hillary Clinton, and much of her close circle,
are subject to two very serious ongoing investigations. As I
explained in the post, Another
Black Swan Hits the U.S. Presidential Election, this
is very material to the Presidential election for the following
reason:
The problems with Hillary Clinton will never go away. They will always resurface or new problems will emerge, and it has nothing to do with a “vast rightwing conspiracy” (or Putin). It has to do with her. It has to do with the fact that her and her husband are career crooks, warmongers, and shameless looters of the American public. This re-opening of the FBI investigation just hammers all of that home for everyone. We know what 4 years of Hillary will look like. It’ll be Obama cronyism on steroids, plus endless investigations with a side of World War 3. I don’t think people want that, and so more Americans than the pundits realize will take a gamble on Trump.
The
latest revelations about the Clinton Foundation investigation just
further hammers home the above point.
Moreover,
it’s becoming increasingly clear that political appointees at the
Injustice Department like Loretta Lynch and Peter Kadzik (John
Podesta’s close friend since the 1970s) have been trying to thwart
probes into the dirtiness of the Clinton Foundation. I covered this
earlier in the week in the post, The
Story of How the DOJ Tried to Thwart an FBI Investigation Into the
Clinton Foundation,
but additional details have started to emerge.
Behind the scenes over the past 15 months, infighting among some agents and officials has exposed some parts of the storied bureau to be buffeted by some of the same bitter divisions as the rest of American society.
This account is based on interviews with more than a dozen officials close to the matter who spoke anonymously because they’ve been ordered not to speak to the news media.
Tensions have built in particular over the handling of matters related to Hillary Clinton. Some of the sharpest divides have emerged between some agents in the FBI’s New York field office, the bureau’s largest and highest-profile, and officials at FBI headquarters in Washington and at the Justice Department.
Some rank-and-file agents interpreted cautious steps taken by the Justice Department and FBI headquarters as being done for political reasons or to protect a powerful political figure. At headquarters, some have viewed the actions and complaints of some agents in the field as driven by the common desire of investigators to get a big case or, perhaps worst, because of partisan views.
Much of the turmoil centers not only on the handling of the probe into Clinton’s use of a private server while secretary of state, but also another case some FBI agents wanted to pursue into the Clinton Foundation and whether there was any impropriety in dealings with donors.
In both cases, some FBI investigators felt stymied by headquarters and Justice Department officials and they interpreted roadblocks as politically partisan.
During the Clinton email server investigation, investigators and prosecutors debated whether to issue subpoenas to Clinton’s aides, officials say. Leaders at the FBI and at the Justice Department thought it would be faster to come to voluntary agreements with aides.Subpoenas could cause delays, particularly if litigation is necessary, officials said. And the FBI and Justice Department wanted to try to complete the probe and get out of the way of the 2016 election.
Now
here’s where the Clinton Foundation probe comes into focus…
In the Clinton Foundation probe, at least one FBI field office also received notification of a possible suspicious bank transaction. The transaction involving a Clinton Foundation donor was flagged in what is known as a suspicious activity report, routine notices sent through the Treasury Department’s financial enforcement arm.
By early this year, FBI agents from four field offices — Los Angeles, Little Rock, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., and New York — had open files on the Clinton Foundation and were seeking to get permission to formally conduct investigations of the Clinton Foundation.
In February, as CNN first reported, FBI criminal division leaders and lawyers met with the lawyers from the Justice Department’s public integrity section to present what was known so far and to seek permission to conduct full-blown investigations, including the ability to subpoena records.
At that time, the Justice officials in the meeting advised FBI officials that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to move forward and declined to give the authorization for overt investigative techniques. Some officials described a contentious meeting with strong disagreement on both sides.
Officials leading the meeting told the FBI that investigators hadn’t turned up much more evidence beyond that contained in “Clinton Cash.”
FBI lawyers at headquarters concurred with the Justice Department’s view that agents be allowed to continue their work with the option to return if they found more evidence.
In July, Comey made his announcement to recommend no charges against Clinton.
At a Capitol Hill hearing days later, Comey told members of Congress that he was proud there had been no leaks of his decision.
But blowback from some current and former agents was immediate. As Comey made his rounds of visits to field offices around the country, he heard stinging criticism, particularly from retired agents.
At one meeting in Kansas City, Comey was confronted with stinging criticism of the probe. He pushed back, saying the career agents who knew the most of the case arrived at the conclusion that the case against Clinton wasn’t even a close call.
FBI agents again pressed to take more overt steps in the Clinton Foundation probe, including possibly issuing subpoenas.
Justice Department officials again opposed such moves. They cited, again, a lack of evidence to warrant more investigative steps. And they expressed concerns that with the election close, any overt actions shouldn’t be made until after Election Day.
“It’s just a (message of) ‘hold right now until after the elections —no subpoenas issued, no interviews,” one law enforcement official familiar with the July decision said.
So
what conclusions can we draw from the above? First, it seems
to confirm some of what Fox reported,
namely that there is an ongoing investigation into the Clinton
Foundation. That’s important in its own right for the reasons I
explained earlier. The second bit of information is new. We learned
that Justice Department officials “expressed
concerns that with the election close, any overt actions shouldn’t
be made until after Election Day.” The
pieces are finally coming together…
Specifically,
one of the more interesting aspects of last night’s news is the
increased willingness of FBI agents to break protocol and speak to
the media about ongoing investigations. Why would they do that? They
seem to be doing it due to continued concerns over political
interference from the Justice Department (and possibly FBI
headquarters) into various investigations into the workings of
an extremely powerful political-oligarch family. They
are rightly troubled by what a President Clinton could do
to any investigation if she’s elected. As such, they are trying to
get their concerns out to the public ahead of time.
I’ve
been watching all of this develop for some time, and I wrote two
prior articles on the topic. Here they are in case you missed them:
October
18, 2016: Internal
Anger at the FBI Over Clinton Investigation Continues to Grow
So
what’s going on is extremely serious, and many within the FBI
appear to be acutely concerned that the perception of the rule
of law will be permanently destroyed if Clinton gets into the White
House and shuts down all investigations into her and her inner
circle. Martin Armstrong summarized the situation perfectly in a
blog post earlier
today:
The Department of Justice is so compromised with Lynch at the head it is getting to be absurd. Peter J. Kadzik is the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice (DOJ). Clearly, there is an internal war going on as I reported. Now that the FBI has over the 650,000 emails uncovered in Anthony Weiner’s notebook, which Huma Abedin failed to turnover to Congress claiming she had no idea how they got there. The US Justice Department announced it is now also joining the probe to dedicate all necessary resources to quickly clear Hillary, up pops the conflict of interest. In the letter to Congress, the DOJ person to aid this investigation to clear Hillary by the election, is Assistant Attorney General Peter J. Kadzik who wrote to the House and Senate lawmakers.
This is Podesta’s friend for dinner who goes to his house. Plus, Peter Kadzik donated $250 to Hillary also noted in Podesta’s spreadsheet. Kadzik and Podesta were classmates at Georgetown Law School back in the 1970s and have been good friends ever since. In fact, Kadzik represented Podesta during the Monica Lewinsky investigation and Podesta wrote that Kadzik was a “fantastic lawyer” who “kept me out of jail.” It was also Kadzik who lobbied Podesta for Marc Rich to obtain a pardon for a fugitive when you have to show remorse to get a pardon. Never has a Pardon been granted to a fugitive in this manner. Then Kadzik’s wife, Amy Weiss of Weiss Public Affairs, worked on the 1992 Clinton/Gore Campaign as a Press Secretary. She was the Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee, and on top of that, she was White House Deputy Assistant to the President Bill Clinton. It gets better. Another email sent on May 5, 2015, Kadzik’s son asked Podesta for a job on the Clinton campaign. This is the independent person appointed by Lynch to clear Hillary? Come on! This is outright in your face corruption.
Why would the DOJ pick such a conflicted person? The answer is obvious. They want to CLEAR Hillary no matter what. Kadzik is there to now counteract anything Comey does because there is really an internal war waging in Washington. The screams from behind the curtain are getting deafening. It is so disgusting that we are witnessing the complete collapse of anything pretended to be the rule of law. The status quo, including George Bush Sr, are all backing Hillary so there is NOTHING that will change and they all live fat and happy off of our taxes and legal oppression. This is really becoming a battle to save the country from the privileged establishment. They milk us like cows and send our boys into battle with lies and propaganda to enrich themselves. I lost half my school friends to Vietnam when Lyndon Johnson even said in 1965 the Vietnamese never attacked us; “For all I know, our navy was shooting at whales out there.” (source)
I
also covered the disturbing crony relationships between the DOJ/FBI
and Clinton’s inner circle in recent weeks. For more on that, see:
In
Liberty,
Michael Krieger
Michael Krieger
HILLARY
CLINTON WILL BE INDICTED BY THE FBI
Luke
Rudkowski, We Are Change
Bret
Baier retracts claim of 'likely' Clinton indictment
FBI Sources: Agency Moving Towards 'Likely an Indictment' for Hillary Clinton
The
Wildfire is an opinion platform and any opinions or information put
forth by contributors are exclusive to them and do not represent the
views of IJR.
Fox
News's Bret Baier has a bombshell of a report: FBI sources say the
agency is moving towards “likely an indictment” for Hillary
Clinton.
Due
to the seriousness of the report, an extended transcript with
key information is attached below. Baier discussed the
developments with Brit Hume. Here are his seven huge takeaways:
- “One: The Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported so far... Several offices separately have been doing their own investigations.”
- “Two: The immunity deal that Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, two top aides to Hillary Clinton, got from the Justice Department in which it was believed that the laptops they had, after a narrow review for classified materials, were going to be destroyed. We have been told that those have not been destroyed — they are at the FBI field office here on Washington and are being exploited.”
- “Three: The Clinton Foundation investigation is so expansive, they have interviewed and re-interviewed many people. They described the evidence that they have as 'a lot of it' and said there is an 'avalanche coming in every day.' WikiLeaks and the new emails.”
- [Four] “They are 'actively and aggressively pursuing this case.' Remember the Foundation case is about accusations of pay-for-play... They are taking the new information and some of them are going back to interview people for the third time. As opposed to what has been written about the Clinton Foundation investigation, it is expansive.”
- [Five] “The classified email investigation is being run by the National Security division of the FBI. They are currently combing through Anthony Weiner's laptop. They are having some success — finding what they believe to be new emails, not duplicates, that have been transported through Hillary Clinton's server.”
- [Six] “Finally, we learned there is a confidence from these sources that her server had been hacked. And that it was a 99% accuracy that it had been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and they believe that things had been taken from that...”
- [Seven] “There has been some angst about Attorney General Loretta Lynch — what she has done or not done. She obviously did not impanel, or go to a grand jury at the beginning. They also have a problem, these sources do, with what President Obama said today and back in October of 2015...”
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Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
“I
pressed again and again on this very issue,” Baier said. “The
investigations will continue, there is a lot of evidence. And barring
some obstruction in some way, they believe they will continue to
likely an indictment.”
The
transcript from another segment reveals that the Clinton's
suspected corruption goes much further than the public has been
informed about. [The full, forty-minute segment can be viewed
here.]
BRET BAIER: Breaking news tonight — two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations into the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation tell Fox the following
The investigation looking into possible pay-for-play interaction between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Foundation has been going on for more than a year. Led by the white collar crime division, public corruption branch of the criminal investigative division of the FBI.
The Clinton Foundation investigation is a, quote, “very high priority.” Agents have interviewed and reinterviewed multiple people about the Foundation case, and even before the WikiLeaks dumps, agents say they have collected a great deal of evidence. Pressed on that, one sources said, quote, “a lot of it,” and “there is an avalanche of new information coming every day.”
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Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
It
turns out that WikiLeaks played a role:
Some of it from WikiLeaks, some of it from new emails. The agents are actively and aggressively pursuing this case. They will be going back to interview the same people again, some for the third time.
As a result of the limited immunity deals to top aides, including Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, the Justice Department had tentatively agreed that the FBI would destroy those laptops after a narrow review. We are told definitively that has not happened. Those devices are currently in the FBI field office here in Washington, D.C. and are being exploited.
The source points out that any immunity deal is null and void if any subject lied at any point in the investigation.
Meantime, the classified e-mail investigation is being run by the National Security division of the FBI. They are currently combing through former Democratic Congressman Anthony Wiener's laptop and have found e-mails that they believe came from Hillary Clinton's server that appear to be new, as in not duplicates.
Whether they contain classified material or not is not yet known. It will likely be known soon. All of this just as we move inside one week until election day
That's
right. While the entire media lulled the American people to sleep
with talk about emails, it's actually The Clinton Foundation that may
do Hillary Clinton in.
If
you're a liberal who only likes your news from 'authorised' sources
here is the one outlet reporting on this.
Hillary
FBI Indictment 'likely' claims Fox News
3
November, 2016
Fox
News claimed that an indictment is "likely" for Hillary
Clinton in the alleged "pay-for-play" scandal surrounding
the Clinton Foundation.
The
reports remain unverified, as Fox News has continued to call Ms
Clinton's credibility into question.
Anchor
Brett Baier claimed that "barring some obstruction in some way"
that the FBI will pursue an indictment for the Democratic
presidential nominee.
A
representative for the FBI was not immediately available to confirm
Fox News' report.
The
FBI came under fire last week for the timing of director James
Comey's announcement that investigators discovered a new trove of
possibly pertinent emails linked to a previous investigation into Ms
Clinton's use of a private server – only 11 days before the
presidential election.
But
agents in the New York field office wanted to keep a separate
investigation into alleged corruption within the Clinton Foundation
alive, according to the Wall Street Journal. The agents were
reportedly in preliminary stages of examining allegations of
conflicts of interest and corruption that surrounded the charitable
organisation during Ms Clinton's time as Secretary of State.
Still,
public integrity section investigators – who are not political
appointees – did not find that the FBI have strong evidence for a
case against Ms Clinton.
It
remains unclear if the anonymous agents in the WSJ report are the
same sources who spoke to Fox News.
The
news station has been a major proponent of Donald Trump's candidacy –
despite friction with anchor Megyn Kelly stemming from Mr Trump's
sexist remarks directed at her. The network's top pundit, Sean
Hannity, has actively supported the Republican candidate.
Former
chairman Roger Ailes – ousted from the network in July following
numerous allegations of sexual harassment – has worked as an
advisor to Mr Trump, who himself is the focus of more than a dozen
sexual misconduct claims.
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