MUST READ: Secret Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton Probe

[misterhighwasted]

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Secret Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton Probe

Agents thought they had enough material to merit aggressively pursuing investigation into Clinton Foundation

Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption prosecutors who viewed the statements as worthless hearsay, people familiar with the matter said.
Agents, using informants and recordings from unrelated corruption investigations, thought they had found enough material to merit aggressively pursuing the investigation into the foundation that started in summer 2015 based on claims made in a book by a conservative author called “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” these people said.

The account of the case and resulting dispute comes from interviews with officials at multiple agencies.


Starting in February and continuing today, investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and public-corruption prosecutors became increasingly frustrated with each other, as often happens within and between departments. At the center of the tension stood the U.S. attorney for Brooklyn, Robert Capers, who some at the FBI came to view as exacerbating the problems by telling each side what it wanted to hear, these people said. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Capers declined to comment.
The roots of the dispute lie in a disagreement over the strength of the case, these people said, which broadly centered on whether Clinton Foundation contributors received favorable treatment from the State Department under Hillary Clinton.
Senior officials in the Justice Department and the FBI didn’t think much of the evidence, while investigators believed they had promising leads their bosses wouldn’t let them pursue, they said.

These details on the probe are emerging amid the continuing furor surrounding FBI Director James Comey’s disclosure to Congress that new emails had emerged that could be relevant to a separate, previously closed FBI investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s email arrangement while she was secretary of state.
Amid the internal finger-pointing on the Clinton Foundation matter, some have blamed the FBI’s No. 2 official, deputy director Andrew McCabe, claiming he sought to stop agents from pursuing the case this summer. His defenders deny that, and say it was the Justice Department that kept pushing back on the investigation.


As a result of those complaints, these people said, a senior Justice Department official called the FBI deputy director, Mr. McCabe, on Aug. 12 to say the agents in New York seemed to be disregarding or disobeying their instructions, these people said.
The conversation was a tense one, they said, and at one point Mr. McCabe asked, “Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?’’ The senior Justice Department official replied: ”Of course not.”

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EDIT TO ADD A TWEET THAT SUMMARIZES THIS THING

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Matthew Miller @matthewamiller
So FBI agents:
1. Started probe based on laughable "Clinton Cash" book.
2. Found nothing.
3. Were told to move on by FBI & DOJ.
4. Leaked!

[MattP]

1. You have to clip it down to 2 or 3 paragraphs because of copyright

[misterhighwasted]

2. I see. Understood.

[Foggyhill]

3. Someone talking shit about the Clinton foundation

And being recorded during another investigation is not enough Togo after the foundation.
Especially since the source of the "info" was itself a right wing conspiracy (so, circular in logic)

Otherwise you'd just need to record anyone talking shit about anything to go after anyone. Basically fabricating a warrant

The alt right cesspool inside the FBI mean Comey is no longer in control

They're no longer just leaking investigations they're fabricating fishing expeditions and then complaining they weren't able to hunt the big white shark.., sad

[misterhighwasted]

7. FBI on down the line to Chaffetz, Gowdy et al. They all are complicit.

There must be a way to clean out the corruption

[still_one]

4. Google news is pushing a fox news story from Bret Baier who is spew garbage that

they have anonymous FBI sources leaking this, as though it "must be factual".

This is the FBI as the gestapo arm of the right wing in this country

The FBI really need to be taken to task on this, and agents need to lose their fucking jobs

[misterhighwasted]

5. Who would that task be given to? What a mess

Who investigates the entire FBI, top to bottom, when this degree of corruption is so embedded.
The FBI certainly can't be trusted to do it, although they apparently have their own internal system to self regulate for ethics. But now it seems compromised.
So with whom does this begin and end?

Wow!

[still_one]

6. It would be the Justice Department

[misterhighwasted]

8. Under Pres Obama or Pres Clinton.

Good lord.

Explains the depth of why Repubs say that HRC must not be elected.
SHE KNOWS THEM ALL BY NAME.

Every one of them. For the past 30 years.

[still_one]

9. If they do it now it is President Obama, and under the next President, the Justice Department

would continue that task.

It is definitely under the Department of Justice jurisdiction

[misterhighwasted]

12. Thanks. They have ruined so many good people.

They should be afraid of a Hillary Clinton Presidency.
She has taken their crap for 30 + years. Her husband, her friends, her entire political life.

The vast RW of our government

[still_one]

13. They sure have. We are going to win this election

[Historic NY]

10. Clinton Cash Author Peter Schweizer's Long History Of Errors, Retractions, And Questionable Sourcing

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/04/20/clinton-cash-author-peter-schweizers-long-histo/203209

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/04/30/twenty-plus-errors-fabrications-and-distortions/203480

[PSPS]

11. This plus other accounts I've read indicate the NY FBI office still has some Clenis freaks.

[misterhighwasted]

14. The Mob made its way into the US Federal Bureau of Investigation

As dirty as Trump is, this is his sole agenda in this campaign. Protecting those who will protect his own corruption.

This is like watching a trailer for the greatest movie of our lifetime.

[SunSeeker]

15. All the leakers should be fired. nt

[world wide wally]

16. Comedy should be fired tomorrow... Then go right down the chain of command

In other words,....drain that swamp

[SunSeeker]

17. Indeed. And it is a swamp of right wing nuttery.

About 10 years ago I was in DC and met a young FBI agent socially, friend of a friend. Man, what a nut and a right winger he was. The way he talked about his fellow FBI agents, sounds like they were just like him. I think during the Bush administration all the good investigators left or were pushed out and were replaced by hacks, much like what Alberto Gonzales did to the Attorney General’s office. And all those people in the FBI stayed on when Obama came in.