John R. Houk, Blog
Editor
Posted 6/4/19
Sara Carter reports on a Judicial Watch FOIA disclosure on
FBI corruption in giving Crooked Hillary a pass on her felonious actions with
her unsecured email server and her coverup. Then I have a Kelleigh Nelson
article that chronicles Mueller-FBI-American Intelligence corruption.
JRH 6/4/19
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FBI
Failed to Document Four Clinton Witness Interviews. Barr Should Reopen Clinton
Probe
By Sara Carter
June 3, 2019
The FBI failed to document at least four interviews of
witnesses in the bureau’s investigation into former presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server to send classified emails, according
to documents obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch.
Judicial Watch also discovered among the 218 pages of emails between
former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his paramour former FBI Attorney Lisa
Page that then FBI General Counsel James Baker had instructed “FBI
officials to expedite the release of FBI investigative material to Hillary
Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall in August 2016. Kendall and the FBI’s top
lawyer discussed specifically quickly obtaining the “302” report of the FBI/DOJ
interview of Mrs. Clinton.”
These findings are significant, as they come at a crucial
time when the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr is
investigating the bureau’s handling of both the Clinton probe and the
investigation into the origination of the bureau’s investigation into President
Donald Trump’s campaign alleged – now debunked – ties to
Russia.
“These incredible documents show the leadership of the FBI
rushed to give Hillary Clinton her FBI interview report shortly before the
election,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And the documents also
show the FBI failed to timely document interviews in the Clinton email ‘matter’
– further confirming the whole investigation was a joke. AG Barr can’t reopen
the Clinton email investigation soon enough.”
The information obtained by Judicial Watch coincides with
documents obtained by Congressional investigations. For example, Rep. John Ratcliffe,
a former federal prosecutor who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox
New’s Maria Bartiromo Sunday that Strzok’s involvement in the Trump campaign’s
defensive briefing mired in conflict.
First, Ratcliffe noted that it was Strzok who opened the
official investigation into Trump’s campaign on July 31, 2016 dubbed “Crossfire
Hurricane.” Ratcliffe warned that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been
appointed by Barr to investigate the bureau, was essentially acting as a ‘special
counsel’ in the DOJ’s investigation.
“It’s interesting that 18 days later on August 17, of 2016
that the FBI and CIA conducted a counterintelligence briefing for the purpose
of protecting and warning Donald Trump would put in charge for coordinating
that briefing Peter Strzok – the same agent who was already investigating the
Trump campaign,” Ratcliffe told Bartiromo. “The same agent who eight days
before that defensive briefing to protect and warn Donald Trump sent a text
message saying he was going to ‘stop him.’ Then two days before that defensive
briefing sent a text message saying ‘we need an insurance policy’ against the
Trump presidency.”
“So little wonder on that day of August 17, 2016 Donald
Trump isn’t warned about Russian interference in his campaign and he wasn’t
briefed about the Steele Dossier, wasn’t briefed about Carter Page,” Ratcliffe
added.
Currently, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is
putting together his report on the FBI’s handling of the FBI’s probe into the
Trump campaign. According to numerous congressional sources the investigation
is expected to include the FBI’s defensive briefing
to Trump and the lack of information provided to the Trump campaign. Strzok,
who was vehemently anti-Trump in his text messages to Page, is also expected to
be a significant part of the Horowitz investigation.
[Posted by james hoft
Published on Jun 2, 2019
Rep. John Ratcliffe Reveals Peter
Strzok's Role in Spying on Trump Campaign]
Judicial Watch FOIA:
The documents were obtained in a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the
Justice Department failed to respond to a December 4, 2017, FOIA request (Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)) for:
·
All records of communications, including but not
limited to, emails, text messages and instant chats, between FBI official Peter
Strozk and FBI attorney Lisa Page;
·
All travel requests, travel authorizations,
travel vouchers and expense reports of Peter Strozk;
·
All travel requests, travel authorizations,
travel vouchers and expense reports of Lisa Page.
Revelation: Below Is an ‘Exact Excerpt’ From Judicial
Watch’s Findings
On August 16, 2016, at 10:02
p.m. Baker emails
then-Associate Deputy Director David Bowdich; Michael Steinbach, former
executive assistant director for national security; former Acting Assistant
Director Jason V. Herring; former FBI lawyer Lisa Page; former Principal Deputy
General Counsel Trisha Anderson; Michael Kortan, FBI assistant director for
public affairs, now retired; James Rybicki, former chief of staff to Comey; and
others to inform them that he “just spoke” with Clinton’s lawyer Kendall, who
requested documents from the FBI. Baker says he told Kendall he would “need to
submit a request.” Baker tells them, “I said we would process it
expeditiously.”
I just spoke with David Kendall … I conveyed our view
that in order to obtain the documents [FBI investigative material] they are
seeking they need to submit a request pursuant to the Privacy Act and FOIA. I
said they could submit a letter to me covering both statutes. They will send it
in the morning. I said that we would process it expeditiously. David asked us
to focus first on the Secretary’s 302 [FBI interview report]. I said OK.
[Redacted] We will have to focus on this issue tomorrow and get the 302 out the
door as soon as possible and then focus on the rest of the stuff.
The following day, August 17, 2016, Kendall sent a FOIA/Privacy Act request on
“behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton” to the FBI’s top
lawyer with a request for “expeditious processing.” Baker passes this request
to Bowdich, Steinbach, Herring, Page, Anderson:
“In my view, we need to move
as quickly as possible on this, but pursuant to David’s oral request last
night, we should focus first on Secretary Clinton’s 302…. Is the end of this
week out of the question for her 302?”
In a follow-up email exchange, the same day, Anderson
arranged for Herring, Page, former FBI Assistant Director and head of the
Office of Congressional Affairs Gregory Brower, Strzok and others to
“coordinate a plan for processing and releasing” Clinton’s 302, though one
official reminds others that they should process the request “consistent” with
other requests.
Then, in an August 21, 2016, email exchange Baker tells
his people that he would “alert” Kendall shortly before Clinton’s 302 was to be
posted on the FBI’s FOIA Vault webpage. On September 2, 2016, the FBI
announced the release of Clinton’s
interview documents.
Finally, on August 24, 2016, the acting FBI FOIA unit
chief said he sees “no problem”
with giving Hillary’s attorney a heads up before her records were posted to the
Vault.
Other documents show that on August 5, 2016, Page, Strzok
and FBI intelligence analyst Jonathan Moffa are notified by a FBI assistant
general counsel from the national security law branch that additional 302’s
were in need of processing:
Today [Redacted] brought over
additional 302s from the WFO [Washington Field Office]. Are those supposed to
go through the redaction process for production to DOJ on Monday? We’re trying
to figure out what needs to be completed this weekend.
Page responds by writing to Strzok, Moffa
and others that four FBI 302 report of interviews related to the Clinton “Midyear Exam” investigation had
never even been written:
[Redacted] to the best of my
knowledge, yes they will when Pete identified for [redacted] the DOJ edits that
needed to be made to the 302s [redacted] discovered that there were four (I
think) 302s that had never been written. What I don’t know is whose 302s they
are but unless Pete or Jon are able to respond in short order, I would throw
them on the pile for redactions. Thanks so much.
On August 24, 2016, Daily Beast reporter Shane Harris
sent an inquiry to the FBI
asking if Comey’s admission to Congress was accurate that Hillary’s lawyers at
William & Connolly did not possess the security clearances needed to see
and possess highly classified Hillary emails being stored at their law offices.
Harris’s question set off a scramble at the top of the FBI all the way up to
Comey over the next 28 hours, producing a seven-page (mostly redacted) email
discussion, with Lisa Page concluding, “Could we say something more equivocal?”
In a September 1, 2016, email exchange, Page, Strzok,
Office of Public Affairs official Michael Kortan and Special Agent Richard
Quinn discuss an email from The Hill’s John Solomon, wherein Solomon forwarded
them his draft article for Circa.com citing “government sources” detailing
extensive evidence the FBI had collected, which showed Hillary Clinton
“violated federal record-keeping laws” through her use of a private BlackBerry
and server, despite the security and legal risks she was told they posed.
Solomon asked for any final “guidance” from the FBI before publishing. Page
writes to Moffa, Strzok and a redacted FBI official, it was “pretty inaccurate,”
but provided nothing to support her charge of its inaccuracy. Judicial Watch’s
work on the Hillary Clinton email scandal is cited extensively in the column, and former U.S.
Attorney Matt Whitaker was quoted as well, saying a special prosecutor was
needed to look into Hillary’s use of the personal server.
On August 16, 2016, after Congress requested that
the FBI supply additional copies of the binders of Clinton server-investigation
materials, an unidentified FBI official complained to his
colleagues of being understaffed and under supplied:
We literally do not have the
office supplies to do this. Nor do I have the IAs [Investigative
Assistants/Analysts] for assistance…. These binders are huge and each one took
hours to compile.
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I am not trying to throw
shade…. I just wish decisions could get made by considering resources.
I need people in [room] 7947
ready to go in the early AM and a charge card for Staples.”
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Judicial Watch: New
Strzok-Page Emails Reveal FBI Gave Special Treatment to Hillary Clinton’s Demands
for Email Investigation Information Just Before Election
JUNE 03, 2019
[Sara Carter (above)
placed this Judicial Watch press release in her post less this last paragraph
from the end:]
“These incredible documents show the leadership of the FBI
rushed to give Hillary Clinton her FBI interview report shortly before the
election,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And the documents also
show the FBI failed to timely document interviews in the Clinton email ‘matter’
– further confirming the whole investigation was a joke. AG Barr can’t reopen
the Clinton email investigation soon enough.”
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Robert
Mueller, The FBI And Obama’s Culture Of Corruption
June 4th, 2019
Sometimes duplicity and treason
are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful
ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they
become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into
your flesh. —Addison Webster Moore
Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not
love their country. But the left’s anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their
entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same
reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists,
criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization.
The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason. —Ann Coulter
And can the liberties of a
nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction
in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they
are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country
when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep
forever. —Thomas Jefferson
Incrimination through innuendo is the rule today as I
listened to the liar of truth, Robert Mueller. Truth is treason in the
empire of lies and truth has now become the new hate speech. Mueller’s
final words stood the “rule of law” and presumption of innocence on their
heads.
Apparently, Mueller wanted President Trump to appoint him
FBI director again and he was rejected. The very next day, Rod Rosenstein
appointed Mueller to investigate the bogus Russian collusion.
Undoubtedly, President Trump knew that after 9/11, FBI Director Mueller purged the FBI training documents
on Islamist terrorists and he acquiesced to the Muslim
Brotherhood front group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Robert Mueller had joined Trump’s National Golf Club in
Virginia and seventeen years later, Mueller claimed the family was not making
full use of the membership, and he wanted a portion of his $15K back. The Club
justifiably refused. Unbelievably, this is included in footnote 529 on page 80-81 of the Mueller
report. No doubt Mueller had negative feelings for Donald
Trump.
Deep State Revenge
After Attorney General (AG) Jeff Sessions recused himself
from overseeing the Russian collusion debacle, Rod Rosenstein became the AG in
charge of the investigation. He disregarded the criminal conduct
requirement and authorized a broad and vague counterintelligence probe,
directing the special counsel to investigate “any links” between the Russian
government and the Trump campaign.
Mueller passes Witch Hunt Torch to Nadler. Branco
toon
This was unprecedented and gave a blank check to
Mueller and his gang of Hillary supporting democrat attorneys the
right to go after anyone or anything related to President Trump.
After the nearly two-year investigation, Special Counsel
Robert Mueller, the Republican Deep State insider and hardcore Never Trumper,
again put a knife in our President’s back.
Mueller’s actions made it clear he wanted
to nail President Trump, he wanted him out of office, but there was
no damning evidence.
Mueller’s eight-minute speech regarding
the 448 page Two-Volume Special Counsel report contained
these incriminating words, “And as set forth in the report after that
investigation, if we had had confidence that the President clearly did not
commit a crime, we would have said so.” (Volume II of the Mueller report was
the obstruction-of-justice investigation regarding President Trump’s actions
and conduct during the entire spurious Russian collusion inquiry.)
AG Barr had specifically asked Mueller, “Is your reason for
not charging Trump anything to do with the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines?”
Barr said that Mueller told him three times, “No, that has nothing to do with
it.” Barr is on record on two occasions saying that Mueller told him three
times the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines have nothing to do with his
decision not to indict the president or not to link the president to crimes.
Democrat Alan Dershowitz spelled it out in his recent Hill article. “Mueller
went beyond the conclusion of his report and gave a political gift to
Congressional democrats who are seeking to institute impeachment proceedings
against President Trump. By implying that President Trump might have committed
obstruction of justice, Mueller effectively invited Democrats to institute
impeachment proceedings.”
Mueller failed to investigate the bogus dossier, FISA abuse,
Obama’s spying on the Trump campaign, or the players involved. The intelligence
community has proven themselves to be a venomous nest of traitorous vipers.
Spying and FISA Abuse
John Solomon reported over
a year ago that spying on the Trump campaign occurred earlier than the summer
of 2016. “It originated earlier, 1,700 miles away in London, when foreign
figures contacted Trump campaign advisers and provided the FBI with hearsay
allegations of Trump-Russia collusion, bureau documents and interviews of
government insiders. These contacts in spring 2016, some from trusted
intelligence sources, others from Hillary Clinton supporters, occurred well before FBI
headquarters authorized an official counterintelligence
investigation on July 31, 2016.”
Rep. Mark Meadows, (R-NC) said, “This new information begs
the questions: Who were the informants working for, who were they reporting to
and why has the DOJ and FBI gone to such great lengths to hide these contacts?”
Former Deputy Assistant AG Victoria Toensing and her
husband, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Joe diGenova, were
on Hannity on May 31st, along with a full panel of guests.
Toensing said that there is evidence the Obama administration FISA abuse
started as early as 2012, and the abuse goes all the way to the top.
Obama’s Illegal Surveillance
The Obama White House used the most sensitive intrusive
surveillance systems of the NSA to spy on Americans. A ruling by FISA
Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer finds
that 85 percent of NSA database requests under FISA section 702 authority at the DOJ were
illegal or noncompliant. Surveillance systems, including PRISM, were spying on thousands
of Americans, including Donald Trump and those around him. (United States Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court of Review Amicus Brief) Moreover, Collyer
finds that the DOJ showed an appalling “lack of institutional candor.”
In April 2017, Judge Collyer found that unwarranted and
illegal surveillance of American citizens was done by the highest reaches of
the Obama Administration for at least 4 years, starting in 2012. (Secret court rebukes NSA for 5-year illegal
surveillance of U.S. citizens – MAY 26, 2017). Moreover,
James Comey authorized and allowed for limitless, continuous, unlawful, and
warrantless access by three Federal contractors. (Institutional
Lack of Candor – FISA Violations January 24,
2018). Link
Judge Collyer found that its targets were American citizens
and prominent Republicans and the abuse was continuous, frequently entering the
same person’s name over a protracted period of time.
Collyer ruled that this information was shared and
disseminated unlawfully to John Brennan and James Clapper. Brennan admitted
that the CIA had hacked into the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers.
(Brennan, Clapper, and Comey were instrumental in infecting the DOJ and FBI
with the Steele Dossier.)
Furthermore, information was disseminated within the Obama
administration in violation of the 4th amendment, all under the authorization
of James Comey. He knew it was illegal and he should be indicted for these and
other crimes.
When they got caught, they fought back with treason by
continuing to usurp the Constitution. Undermining the incoming President with
the Russia hoax, trying to cover up their litany of crimes, and staging an
attempted coup against Donald Trump.
They didn’t get away with it.
Admiral Mike Rogers
In the spring of 2016, the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike
Rogers, discovered that the NSA’s comprehensive database collecting all
electronic communications in the United States was being searched by
unauthorized FBI “contractors” and he moved to “cut off that access.” Link
If Admiral Mike Rogers hadn’t put a stop to the misuse of
the NSA, none of this would have come to light. Former assistant Attorney
General, John Carlin, tried to have Rogers fired for fear that the
skullduggery would be exposed further, but he failed. Rogers visited candidate Trump shortly
after his discovery to warn him that Trump Tower was “wiretapped.”
Stonewalling Classified Documents
In a Memorial Day radio interview, Joe diGenova
told that FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and Director
of National Intelligence, Dan Coats have been stonewalling the release of
classified documents to AG Barr prior to the President’s declassification. Take
note that Dan Coats is a former Senator from Indiana and a close friend of VP
Mike Pence who was in charge of the Trump transition team and recommended
Coats.
AG Barr was fed up trying to get classified documents, so he
went to the President and told him he could not get the answers the President
requested. Twenty-four hours later, the President declassified the
documents. The White House also instructed several agencies to cooperate
with Barr’s inquiry, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense
Department, the State Department, and the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence.
The intelligence community is in full resistance to
disclosing what they did during the campaign. There’s a full-scale war
between AG Barr and another FBI director who thinks he’s James Comey. DiGenova said that Christopher Wray is an
“unmitigated disaster,” and we are “watching the quintessential Washington power
battle.” Devvy Kidd’s latest article on Wray fully
agrees with diGenova.
DiGenova believes the Obama administration spying, exposed
by Judge Rosemary Collyer, is a bigger scandal than the FBI’s Russian collusion
coup. Shortly after the 2012 election, the Obama administration began
their illegal accessing of the National Security Agency (NSA) database
via 702 queries. And now, the
FBI and CIA fear that since these disclosures have become publicly known, their
powers may be cut back, FISA may be restricted and some additional people may
go to prison.
AG Barr’s Investigators
Talk about the foxes in the hen house! CIA Director
Gina Haspel, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and FBI Director
Chris Wray are all participating in the investigation, which Barr first
announced publicly during a congressional hearing last month.
Dan Coats is a long-time establishment creature having
served as an Indiana Congressman and Senator for a total of sixteen years.
FBI Director Chris Wray said that he does not consider
court-approved FBI surveillance to be “spying” and said he has no evidence the
FBI illegally monitored Trump’s campaign. This alone should worry AG
William Barr.
According to Sam Faddis, former CIA Ops officer, and author
of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,
Trump’s CIA director, Gina Haspel, is a protégée of John Brennan. She was at
his right hand during all the critical junctures. Haspel was the CIA’s London
Section Chief during the time the Deep State was working with former MI6 agent,
Christopher Steele, and couldn’t possibly have been in the dark about the
attempt to subvert the election/presidency of Donald Trump. Although
Trump called for the revocation of John Brennan’s secret security clearance,
the Deep State has made sure that this has NOT happened as yet. Most
likely, they’re waiting out his presidency to return to “business as
usual.” Link
Remember John Huber, the missing appointee by Jeff
Sessions? Fourteen months ago AG Sessions had asked Huber to look into issues related
to the sale of Uranium One and allegations that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton had been improperly involved in the process, as well as broader
claims of corruption at the Clinton Foundation. In a recent interview on CBS, Mr. Barr
seemed to suggest that what evidence Huber found, if any, may soon be revealed.
Barr also revealed that Inspector General Horowitz and John Durham have
taken over most of Huber’s responsibilities.
One wonders with this cast of characters if we’ll ever see
true justice.
Conclusion
As Gregg Jarrett stated on Fox News, Mueller’s actions were
not only noxious, but patently unfair to Trump. The special counsel
publicly besmirched the president with tales of suspicious behavior and turned
our justice system on its head.
Everyone is entitled to the presumption of
innocence. It is the bedrock on which justice is built. Throughout
his career, there is proof this has never registered with Robert Mueller. Link and Link
Lindsey Graham, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee
needs to subpoena Robert Mueller. He should have staff lawyers ready to
question him, just like the House committee wanted to do with Attorney General
William Barr.
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SEE ALSO:
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FBI Failed to Document Four Clinton Witness
Interviews. Barr Should Reopen Clinton Probe
Sara
A. Carter is a national and
international award winning investigative reporter whose stories have ranged
from national security, terrorism, immigration and front line coverage of the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Judicial Watch: New Strzok-Page Emails
Reveal FBI Gave Special Treatment to Hillary Clinton’s Demands for Email
Investigation Information Just Before Election
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Robert Mueller, The FBI And Obama’s Culture
Of Corruption
Kelleigh Nelson has been researching the Christian right
and their connections to the left, the new age, and cults since 1975. Formerly
an executive producer for three different national radio talk show hosts, she
was adept at finding and scheduling a variety of wonderful guests for her radio
hosts. She and her husband live in Knoxville, TN, and she has owned her own
wholesale commercial bakery since 1990. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Kelleigh
was marketing communications and advertising manager for a fortune 100 company
in Ohio. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she was a Goldwater girl with
high school classmate, Hillary Rodham, in Park Ridge, Illinois. Kelleigh is
well acquainted with Chicago politics and was working in downtown Chicago
during the 1968 Democratic convention riots. Kelleigh is presently the
secretary for Rocky Top Freedom Campaign, a strong freedom advocate
group. Email:Proverbs133@bellsouth.net Website: http://www.rockytopfreedom.com
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