FBI: Truly the RED and Up to
Their Eyeballs in the Muck
MAJOR UPDATE WITH THIS HEADLINES from here:
From Huffington Post, in part from here.
FBI clears Clinton -- again
Highlight: (CNN) FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Sunday the agency hasn't changed its opinion that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges after a review of new emails. “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July, Comey wrote in the new letter to congressional committee chairmen.From Huffington Post, in part from here.
Three days before a historic election, a disturbing twist has emerged:
the possibility that agents in the country’s preeminent investigative service
are attempting to swing the outcome.
Reuters reported on Thursday that FBI Director James Comey wrote his
unprecedented letter to Congress last week in part because he feared his own
employees might leak word of the Hillary Clinton email investigation
to the press. Two sources told Reuters that investigators in the FBI’s New York
field office are “known
to be hostile” to Clinton. On Thursday, The Guardian reported its
sources described the FBI as a “Trumpland,” where agents have “deep antipathy”
toward Clinton.
Those reports follow a whirlwind week of leaks from the FBI that appear
intended to cast a shadow over Clinton.
On Sunday, The
Wall Street Journal reported that FBI investigators had looked
into the Clinton Foundation and were frustrated that senior law enforcement
officials and career anti-corruption prosecutors were not impressed by the
results. So frustrated, it seems, that details of their investigation ended up
in a news report less than 10 days before Election Day.
The leaks continued days later. A story in
the Journal on Wednesday revealed more information about the investigation.
Fox News reported on
Wednesday that FBI sources said that the Clinton Foundation case is moving
toward “likely an indictment.” The story was widely
refuted by other media organizations. (Fox anchor Bret Baier apologized for
the report on Friday, calling it a “mistake.”)
On Friday, Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani, who
claims deep connections to the FBI, admitted that
the Trump campaign knew about the FBI’s review of additional emails before
Comey’s letter. “I thought it was going to be about three or four weeks ago,”
he said of the FBI director’s announcement.
Hours later, Giuliani
backpedaled and said he knew nothing of FBI leaks.
The leaks would be alarming under any circumstances. The Department of
Justice typically does not comment on ongoing probes. “Except in exceptional
circumstances, the department will not even acknowledge the existence of an investigation,”
former Attorney General Eric Holder wrote
on Sunday.
For such leaks to occur so close to an election is a further breach of DOJ
guidance, which advises officials with questions “regarding the timing
of charges or overt investigative steps near the time of a primary or general
election” to contact the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division.
This whole story and now a huge mess, at least on the surface is
mind-boggling to say the least … it will not end with the election … the FBI
internal affairs must check out these things… and post haste.
Stay tuned. Thanks for coming by. Stay tuned.
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