There should be impeachment proceedings against Barack
Obama, Loretta Lynch and/or anyone in the Obama Administration involved in the
blatant corruption that has spread like a malignant cancer throughout the U.S.
government. Forget the lying Democrats and the Mainstream Media! It’s time for
Congress to utilize all nuclear options to tie the hands of Congress members
(THAT WOULD BE THE DEMS) who have joined the corruption class. If there is some
kind of unwritten protocol not in the Constitution to take no action during an
election – IGNORE IT!
JRH 11/3/16
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OBAMA DOJ: HANDMAIDEN OF CLINTON CORRUPTION
How the Clinton
machine is perverting U.S. federal law enforcement to shield Hillary.
By Joseph Klein
November 3, 2016
The Obama Department of Justice has been corruptly aiding
and abetting the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, to
escape legal accountability for her actions. From Attorney General Loretta
Lynch on down through the Justice Department’s political ranks, the Department
has blocked the FBI from searching for the truth and following the evidence of
potential criminality to its logical conclusion. Whether it is Hillary’s use of
a private e-mail server while serving as Secretary of State or her involvement
in the pay-for-play Clinton enterprise known as the Clinton Foundation, the
Obama administration is applying a banana republic-style double standard to
pervert justice and the rule of law in order to shield her.
Lynch and President Obama were reportedly furious with FBI
Director James Comey for sending a letter to Congress on October 28th indicating
that new evidence potentially pertinent to the e-mail case had come to light,
which required further investigation. This evidence consisted of a batch of
e-mails FBI investigators had found on one or more computers belonging to
Anthony Weiner, Clinton confidante Huma Abedin’s estranged husband, while they
were searching for evidence in an unrelated case involving Weiner’s alleged
sexting to an underage girl. Comey sent his letter after months of agonizing
over his previous decision to let Hillary off the hook in the e-mail case last
July. He was said by a source close to him to have been
particularly disturbed by the mounting number of resignation
letters from FBI agents who felt betrayed by that decision.
Department of Justice officials had leaned on Comey not to
send the letter to Congress, claiming that it would violate Department
protocols and procedures against taking any action that could be perceived as
interfering with the upcoming presidential election. To his credit, Comey
ignored the Department officials’ objections, claiming he had an obligation to
keep the Congress and the public informed of any potentially significant new
developments in the case.
Democrats, who had lavished praise on Comey for his
July decision, lashed out at Comey for sending his letter updating Congress.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid went so far as to make the baseless charge
that Comey may have violated the law by informing Congress, because, Reid
argued, he appeared to be taking sides in an election. The disgraced former
Attorney General Eric Holder, held in contempt of Congress for withholding
information relating to the Fast and Furious scandal, said about Comey’s
action, “I fear he has unintentionally and negatively affected public trust in
both the Justice Department and the FBI. It is up to the director to correct
his mistake — not for the sake of a political candidate or campaign but in
order to protect our system of justice and best serve the American people.”
Since when has Holder been genuinely concerned about
protecting our system of justice and best serving the American people? Holder
had already contributed to the erosion of public trust, with his blatant
politicization of the Obama Department of Justice. As evidenced by the
Obama Department of Justice’s handling of the multiple FBI investigations
involving Hillary Clinton, the Department has continued its slide into the muck
of corruption. It interfered with both the normal course of criminal investigations
and the election by stacking the deck in Hillary’s favor, ensuring that no
indictment would occur to derail her path to succeed Obama and preserve his
legacy.
First, the Department of Justice reportedly refused to
empanel a grand jury in either the e-mail case or in connection with the FBI’s
investigation of the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play allegations. “The problem
here is this investigation was never a real investigation,” former assistant FBI director James
Kallstrom said. “That’s the problem. They never had a grand jury empaneled
[sic], and the reason they never had a grand jury empanelled, I’m sure, is
Loretta Lynch would not go along with that.”
Kallstrom’s belief that Lynch acted to influence the results
of the FBI probes in Hillary’s favor is buttressed by Lynch’s 30 minute private
tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton shortly before FBI Director Comey faced the
cameras on July 5th with his exculpatory announcement.
Second, at least five immunity agreements were handed out in
the e-mail case, including to Hillary’s lawyer and confidante Cheryl Mills and
to Platte River Networks’ Paul Combetta. It appears that Combetta had
previously lied to government investigators – a crime in itself – while trying
to cover up the fact that he had evidently Bleachbited e-mails to delete them,
even though they had been subject to a previously issued Congressional
subpoena. The immunity agreements garnered nothing in return, but had the
effect of blocking access to the computer devices of the immunity beneficiaries
in the FBI’s separate Clinton Foundation investigation. Apparently, the
Department decided against the alternative option of subpoenaing the computer
devices or seeking a search warrant, rather than granting useless immunities,
in order to obtain any evidence relevant to the e-mail investigation that might
have been contained in those devices.
Third, the Department and FBI did not conduct their last
minute interview of Hillary Clinton under oath and allowed Cheryl Mills –
herself a material witness – to sit in during Hillary’s interview. They did not
ask pertinent follow-up questions. There was no verbatim transcript of the interview
to use in checking the veracity of Hillary’s statements during the interview
against her sworn Congressional testimony or her many public statements.
Fourth, the Department of Justice reportedly refused to
allow the FBI to issue subpoenas to gather more evidence in connection with its
investigation of the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play allegations. In fact,
senior Department officials reportedly would not authorize a more
thorough FBI investigation because they claimed there was not
sufficient evidence gathered thus far to justify going further. Such a circular
argument was a mere cover to prevent seasoned career investigators from
learning the full extent of foreign government donations while Hillary was
Secretary of State, their true motivations and any favors extended by the State
Department in return.
Finally, the cross-connections between the Clintons and some
high level Department of Justice and FBI officials cry out for recusal. But not
so in this administration. For example, the wife of the deputy FBI director who
was involved in the laggard Clinton Foundation investigation, Andrew McCabe,
just happened to have received a large donation from close Clinton ally
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to her 2015 run for the State Senate.
To make matters worse, the Obama Department of Justice
assigned Assistant Attorney General Peter J. Kadzik, a close friend of Hillary
Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta, to communicate with Congress about
what Kadzik promised would be a “thorough” review of the newly discovered
e-mails from Anthony Weiner’s online account.
Podesta praised Kadzik in an e-mail to an Obama campaign official back
in 2008 as a “Fantastic lawyer,” and said about his pal, “Kept me out of jail.” Their
history together goes further back than that. During the waning days of Bill
Clinton’s presidency, it was Kadzik, then representing the infamous billionaire
fugitive Marc Rich, who lobbied Podesta, then serving as Bill Clinton’s chief
of staff, for a presidential pardon on his client’s behalf. Kadzik’s lobbying
effort, no doubt helped along by contributions to Hillary Clinton’s Senate
campaign and to Bill Clinton’s presidential library, paid off. Bill Clinton
delivered the requested pardon on his last day in office.
Kadzik joined the Department of Justice in April 2013, first
as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, and then as the
Principal Deputy. With the Podesta connection intact, Kadzik has served as a
highly placed Clinton campaign mole in the Department. An e-mail dated May 19,
2015 from Kadzik to Podesta, released by WikiLeaks, proves
the point. Bearing the subject heading “Heads Up,” Kadzik advised Podesta
about upcoming Congressional testimony by the head of the Department’s Civil
Division, and about another filing in the Freedom of Information case that
would mean “it will be awhile (2016) before the State Department posts the
emails.” Podesta forwarded Kadzik’s heads up e-mail to several senior Hillary
Clinton campaign officials with the admonition: “Additional chances for
mischief.”
Exploiting his coordinating role in the re-opened e-mail
investigation and contacts with FBI investigators, Kadzik will now be in a
position to relay inside information to his pal Podesta and to provide inside
information to the Clinton campaign’s supporters in Congress as well.
The Clintons manage to turn virtually everything they touch
into a cesspool of corruption. The Obama Department of Justice is no exception.
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Joseph Klein is a
Harvard-trained lawyer and the author of Global
Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom and Lethal
Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, the United Nations & Radical Islam.
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