FBI Based Potential Clinton Foundation Case On Debunked Right-Wing Book

[babylonsister]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/fbi-clinton-foundation/


FBI Based Potential Clinton Foundation Case On Debunked Right-Wing Book
November 3, 2016 6:00 am


The FBI was reportedly trying to build an investigation into the Clinton Foundation around claims made in a right-wing book riddled with errors written by a Republican activist with a history of bogus reporting. The author’s organization is headed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign chief executive and is funded by one of Trump’s top campaign supporters.

The FBI in August was considering whether to expand investigations into both Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s “secretive business dealings in Ukraine” and Democratic presidential nominee “Hillary Clinton’s relationships with donors to her family foundation,” but, following longstanding precedent, decided not to proceed for fear of impacting the election, according to The New York Times. The paper further reported that the Clinton Foundation inquiry “had not developed much evidence and was based mostly on information that had surfaced in news stories and the book ‘Clinton Cash,’ according to several law enforcement officials briefed on the case.”

Schweizer has a disreputable history of reporting marked by errors and retractions, with numerous reporters excoriating him for facts that “do not check out,” sources that “do not exist,” and a basic failure to practice “Journalism 101.” Clinton Cash is similarly a trainwreck of bogus research that included more than 20 errors, fabrications, and distortions, according to a Media Matters review. On the campaign trail, Trump has pushed conspiracy theories from the book, leading reporters to note that the book has been “discredited” and features “lies” and claims that “fell apart under scrutiny.”

Schweizer is also the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), a right-wing group that purports to investigate “government corruption.” Stephen Bannon, who is taking a leave of absence from his role as chief executive of Breitbart News to serve the same role with the Trump campaign, is also the executive chairman and co-founder of GAI. The group has been heavily funded by the Mercer Family Foundation, which is run by Rebekah Mercer.

Mercer’s father, the hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, is one of the nation’s largest Republican donors and amajor investor in Breitbart News, and the father and daughter were reportedly key to Bannon’s ascension to a leading role in the Trump campaign. Robert Mercer has also donated millions to a pro-Trump super PAC that Rebekah Mercer controls.

UPDATE: Schweizer disclosed during an August Fox News appearance that “earlier this year at {the FBI’s} request,” he had met with “two people from the bureau to talk about some things related to the Clinton Foundation, specifically things that were in Clinton Cash.” From the August 24 edition of The O’Reilly Factor (at link):

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Amazing how the big money owners of

our Media just simply does not give a lick about the Nation.

[workinclasszero]

2. That speaks volumes about the state of the FBI right now

I'm sure the news media will get right on that.

[emulatorloo]

12. A bunch of Breitbart fanatics

[Lucinda]

3. The FBI is overdue for some serious housekeeping.

[Hortensis]

4. Reportedly an anti-HRC faction of FBI agents

wanted to use this book to push inflammatory politically motivated investigations but the FBI's senior management dismissed its allegations as unsubstantiated garbage. It's possible that Director Comey's own interference in the election has been in part to placate this faction, and the dark-money conspirators behind them.

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[Cosmocat]

9. WHY THE FUCK

do people keep trying to come with these hair brained rationalization for Comey.

THIS POS CUT HIS TEETH AS A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR THE CONGRESSIONAL WHITEWATER WITCH HUNT!

He came out in July, well out of the norm, to have a press conference where he engaged in a completely subjective hit job on Hillary Clinton that dripped of complete animus toward her.

THEN DID IT AGAIN Friday with a letter about literally nothing remotely related to her worded ONCE AGAIN to give republicans free reign to slander the shit out of her.

But, sure, the DIRECTOR of the FBI is PLACATING his subordinates.

THAT happens, the Director of the FBI placating subordinates.

Has nothing to do with the director being a clinton hating POS partisan.

He just is some poor FBI director who is scared of congress, his subordinates, dark money.

WTF?

[Hortensis]

10. And "HOW TF" would this make his behavior anything but

a complete betrayal of duty and principle?

Pull it in, Cosmocat. There are undoubtedly reasons why Comey did what he did, and wondering what they are is not excusing any of them. My own speculation linking Comey's behavior to the manipulations of dark-money powers, for instance, would be completely damning if true.

[Cosmocat]

11. You support my point

How TF would this makes his behavior anything but a complete betrayal of duty and prinicple?

That supports my point. This is what Rs do. It is what they have done for the last 8 years in congress in doing nothing other than using their positions to destroy a POTUS simple because he is a democrat.

It is what senators are doing now refusing to have a vote on BHO SC nominee based on "letting the voters decide" at the same time full out saying they will do the same if the voters elect the democrat.

It is what congressman are doing openly saying they are going to impeach Hillary before she even takes office.

IT IS excusing his when his very clear reason exists. He is a Clinton hating partisan.

Clear as day and saying otherwise is allowing that he is some victim to stupidity or "dark money" or whatever.

Dude hates the clinton, and doing now what he did to them 20 years ago.

No one had a gun to his head then, no one has a gun to his head now.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. This, right here, is the crux of the biscuit.

There seems to be a reactionary far right element in the FBI pursuing a political agenda.

If i had to guess, they're pissed that they cant arrest women for having abortions.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. FBI is filled with White Nationalists

Breitbart is the #1 White Supremacist website on the internet and FBI agents are going there for leads on what and who to investigate. Chilling.

[workinclasszero]

8. You got that right!