John R. Houk
© September 1, 2017
Without the Obama Administration to protect Crooked Hillary or
Crooked Comey to bury investigative information some swamp data is beginning to
come to the surface.
Is it possible that Obama inspired corruption is finally
beginning to unravel to show everyday Americans that nefarious goings-on was
perpetrated in front of our very eyes?
I am guessing if Crooked Hillary is exposed enough that she
won’t go down alone.
JRH 9/1/17
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Grassley:
Comey Wrote Clinton Exoneration Statement Before Email Investigation Ended
August 31, 2017 7:07pm
“…in early April or early May 2016, Mr. Comey had
already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton.”
Senator Chuck Grassley
(R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI
Director Christopher Wray to inform him that the committee found in unredacted
parts in transcripts that former FBI Director James Comey decided to write a
statement to exonerate then-presumptive Democrat presidential candidate before
the FBI finished its investigation into her emails.
According
to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in early April
or early May 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement
exonerating Secretary Clinton. This was long before FBI agents finished their
work. Mr. Coney even circulated an early draft statement to select members of
senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged
while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts.
OSC
[Office of Special Counsel] attorneys questioned two witnesses, presumably Mr.
[Jim] Rybicki [Comey’s Chief of Staff] and Ms. Trisha] Anderson [Principal
Deputy General Counsel of National Security and Cyberlaw], about Mr. Comey’s
July 5, 2016, statement exonerating Secretary Clinton. The transcript of what
appears to be Mr. Rybicki’s interview contains the following exchange:
This is the portion of the
transcript that Grassley provided:
Here is a portion from what
may be Anderson’s interview:
Grassley and the other
senators have asked Wray to provide the committee all drafts of Comey’s
statement that closed the investigation, including the one from April or May,
along with all of the records “related to communications between or among FBI
officials regarding Comey’s draft statement closing the Clinton investigation.
These documents include “all memoranda or analyses of the factual or legal
justification for the announcement.”
The committee also wants the
records “provided to the Office of Special Counsel in the course of its now
closed Hatch Act investigation of Mr. Comey.”
Does this add new credence to
those who suspected the fix was already in for Hillary to get off? It’s possible.
After all, a week before Comey’s press conference, a local news crew discovered
that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with Hillary’s husband Bill on a
tarmac at an Arizona airport. As Professor Jacobson noted at the time:
Neither
Lynch nor Bill Clinton are dummies. They both know that such a private meeting
creates the appearance of impropriety regardless of what was discussed. Bill
Clinton’s wife is being investigated by the FBI — why do you think he dropped
in for a chat with Lynch?
Of
course they didn’t discuss the case. They didn’t need to.
If
there was no appearance of impropriety, why did Lynch wait until a local news
crew, apparently tipped off, asked her about it?
It
feeds a narrative of the Clintons acting like the fix is in, with Hillary repeatedly bragging that
there is no way she’s going to be indicted.
On July 5, 2016, Comey gave a detailed press
conference to exonerate Hillary even though the found found serious problems
and mishandling of classified information. He said he could not recommend
charges because “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case because no
bad intent.”
Earlier this month, the American
Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) published 413 pages of
memos from the DOJ that showed the tarmac meeting was planned. The ACLJ wrote:
We
have just obtained hundreds of pages in our ongoing investigation and federal
lawsuit on former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s tarmac meeting with former
President Bill Clinton while the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI had an
ongoing criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. The results are
shocking.
First,
the Comey FBI lied to us. Last July, we sent FOIA requests to both the Comey
FBI and the Lynch DOJ asking for any documents related to the Clinton Lynch
plane meeting. The FBI, under the then directorship of James Comey, replied
that “No records responsive to your request were located.”
The
documents we received today from the Department of Justice include several
emails from the FBI to DOJ officials concerning the meeting. One with the
subject line “FLAG” was correspondence between FBI officials (Richard Quinn,
FBI Media/Investigative Publicity, and Michael Kortan) and DOJ officials
concerning “flag[ing] a story . . . about a casual, unscheduled meeting between
former president Bill Clinton and the AG.” The DOJ official instructs the FBI
to “let me know if you get any questions about this” and provides “[o]ur
talkers [DOJ talking points] on this”. The talking points, however are
redacted.
In January, the Justice Department inspector general announced “he will investigate the
actions of the Justice Department and FBI in the months leading up to the 2016
election.” The investigation includes if Comey followed department policies.
Comey, who was still FBI director at the time, promised cooperation. CBS News
reported at the time:
The
review will examine Comey’s news conference in July 2016 in which he said that
the FBI would not recommend charges. During his announcement, Comey delivered
an unusual public statement for an FBI chief by chastising Clinton and her aides
as “extremely careless.”
It
will also review the two letters he sent to Congress about the case in the
final days before the 2016 election. Clinton and her aides said the disclosure
of “new” emails – found on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the estranged
husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin – less than two weeks before Election Day
hurt her in several battleground states.
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The
fix was in! Memos show Comey exonerated Hillary before investigation concluded
– but, that’s not all…
September 1, 2017
If you’re going to conduct a
legitimate investigation, it’s probably a good idea to wait until all the facts
come in before actually coming to a conclusion, much less drafting a statement
about the decision you plan to make.
Of course, if the ‘fix is
in,’ why not go ahead and get your paperwork over with, right?
James Comey has yet again found himself in the national
spotlight, this time over
memos obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee in their role of investigating
Comey’s May 9 firing which show that the former FBI director had begun drafting
a statement exonerating Hillary Clinton before all witnesses had even been
interviewed.
Grassley: Comey decided as early as April 2016 to declare Hillary's innocence, long before she and her staffers were even interviewed. pic.twitter.com/qqRNhlHpmp— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 31, 2017
In fact, the exoneration
statement was so premature that the FBI hadn’t even interviewed Clinton herself
yet.
Either Comey and his cohorts
had a crystal ball, or the so-called ‘investigation’ into Clinton’s emails was
corrupt to the core.
The revelations come from
interview transcripts of Comey’s chief of staff, James Rybicki, and FBI counsel
Trisha Anderson, which were given last Fall as a part of an Office of Special
Counsel investigation into the FBI’s role in investigating Clinton’s emails.
Even though the transcripts
are heavily redacted, they still show that the former FBI director began work
on an exoneration announcement in either April or May of 2016, when the FBI had
yet to interview 17 witnesses, including Clinton herself.
When was Clinton eventually
interviewed? July 2, three days before Comey’s big reveal.
In
a letter to the FBI, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey
Graham also noted that Comey’s draft was prepared even before two Clinton
aides, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, had reached what the two Republicans
called a “highly unusual” immunity deal with the Justice Department.
The
limited immunity deal prohibited investigators and prosecutors from asking
about conversations between the two Clinton aides and Platte River Networks, a
Denver-based tech firm that maintained Clinton’s server after she left the
State Department.
Which begs the question:
Did Comey hand out insane immunity agreements as a way to cover up evidence contradicting his decision to exonerate? https://t.co/J58Ncq8PoK pic.twitter.com/N5N79UluDU— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 31, 2017
Grassley and Graham, like the
rest of us, wonder how Comey could have possibly performed an impartial
investigation if his mind seems to have already been made up.
“Conclusion first,
fact-gathering second — that’s no way to run an investigation,” the senators
wrote to the FBI. “The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that,
especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy. The
outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still
hard at work trying to gather the facts.”
@realDonaldTrump should order Sessions to arrest/indict and perp Wall Comey for obstruction. Send signal to Mueller he is next #power— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 31, 2017
Op-ed views and opinions
expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the views of BizPac Review.
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Despite
initial refusal, Judge orders FBI to make details of Clinton email probe public
By BPR Wire
Jack Crowe, DCNF
September 1, 2017
A federal judge ordered the
FBI Thursday to publicly release previously unseen documents related to the
investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
email server.
Worried Hillary (Photo by Melina
Mara/The Washington Post)
U.S. District Judge James E.
Boasberg ordered the FBI to produce uncensored court documents describing the
grand jury subpoenas issued to force Clinton’s internet service providers to
turn over information related to her private server use, according to a
statement released by Cause of Action Institute.
The ruling was made in
response to a motion filed
in June as part of a suit brought by Cause of Action Institute and Judicial
Watch. The organizations claim the Department of State violated the Federal
Records Act by failing to maintain records related to Clinton’s handling of
classified information.
Boasberg justified his ruling on
the basis that the set of documents in question “rehashes information already
made public, thus obviating any need for secrecy.”
Cause of Action President and
CEO John J. Vecchione praised the decision in a statement released Thursday
following the court’s ruling.
“I applaud the court’s
opinion. The government attempted to end a case with evidence no one could
review. This order makes public details submitted by the government about the
FBI’s efforts to recover then-Secretary Clinton’s unlawfully removed emails,”
he said. “Americans deserve to know the full scope of that investigation, and
we, as Plaintiffs, should have an opportunity to contest the relevance of the
government’s facts.”
Former FBI Director James
Comey called Clinton’s use of a private email address and server to handle
classified information “extremely careless” in his July Congressional testimony
but stopped short of filing charges.
The requested documents
relate specifically to subpoenas related to emails Clinton sent on two
Blackberry accounts during her first few weeks in office.
Boasberg’s order overrules
objections made by the Trump administration, who previously claimed that
publicly releasing the documents would violate grand jury secrecy rules.
The order comes days after
the FBI refused to
turn over documents related to their investigation into Clinton’s private email
server, citing a lack of public interest to justify denying the FOIA request.
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Is Crooked Hillary Finally Getting Exposed?
John R. Houk
© September 1, 2017
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Grassley: Comey
Wrote Clinton Exoneration Statement Before Email Investigation Ended
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The fix was in! Memos show Comey exonerated Hillary before
investigation concluded – but, that’s not all…
And
Despite initial refusal, Judge orders FBI to make details of
Clinton email probe public
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