FBI investigating itself for tweets seemingly intended to damage Clinton, boost Trump

[Coyotl]

Oh yeah, investigate yourself, that should go real well.

FBI investigating itself for tweets seemingly intended to damage Clinton, boost Trump
dKos by Hunter Thursday Nov 03, 2016 · 2:30 PM PDT

As Election Day nears, anonymous "sources" in the FBI has been steadily supplying reporters with claims that this or that Clinton-related investigation is a very big deal while investigations into Trump are, by golly, just not turning anything interesting up.

But when an FBI Twitter account suddenly sprung to life to reinforce that same narrative directly under the auspices of the bureau, that was too much. And now the FBI is investigating itself.

The account at issue, @FBIRecordsVault, had been dormant for more than a year. Then on October 30 at 4 a.m., the account released a flood of documents, including one describing Donald Trump’s father Fred Trump as a “philanthropist.”

But it wasn’t until two days later, when the account tweeted documents regarding President Bill Clinton’s controversial pardon of Marc Rich, that the account began to attract significant attention.

The account has not been active since that tweet.

The FBI had previously claimed the three days of tweets after a year of bupkis was just following "standard procedure" ........

[LisaL]

1. Investigating oneself always turns out well.

[Doodley]

2. FBI was "following standard procedure!" This is more hilarious than the Onion!

[HassleCat]

3. Good

They should give themselves a stinging slap on the wrist.

[Cha]

4. That's like the fox investigating the hen house

[TrekLuver]

5. That's like the fox offering to protect the hen house!!

Judas Priest said it best:

[Blue Idaho]

6. What a fucking joke...

Give the job to the DOJ.

[Coyotl]

7. Has the F.B.I. Gone Full Breitbart? ... agents see Clinton as “the antichrist personified.”

Has the F.B.I. Gone Full Breitbart?
New reports reveal how the F.B.I. relied on an infamous Breitbart source as the basis for its investigation into the Clinton Foundation—and that agents see Clinton as “the antichrist personified.”
Vanity Fair by Abigail Tracy November 3, 2016 12:48 pm

Throughout her campaign, Hillary Clinton has battled accusations of fostering a “pay for play” culture at the State Department, giving undue access to major Clinton Foundation donors. So far, Republicans have failed to find a smoking gun, but the narrative has served its purpose: tarnishing the public perception of the Democratic nominee and her family’s namesake charity. For this, no one deserves more credit than Peter Schweizer, Breitbart editor-at-large and the author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. The controversial, mostly discredited book has been held up by many as irrefutable proof of wrongdoing, or at least common venality, by the Clintons. It also found plenty of eager readers within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Wall Street Journal and New York Times report, galvanizing a number of F.B.I. agents to launch an investigation into the Clinton Foundation, based mostly on assertions made by Schweizer in the book.

On Thursday, the Journal reported that last summer, shortly after Clinton Cash was published, a number of F.B.I. agents began investigating claims made against the Clinton Foundation in the book, ultimately prompting an internal battle between the agents and F.B.I. and Justice Department officials. The agents secretly recorded conversations with two informants—both of whom were involved in separate public-corruption investigations—about the Clinton Foundation, and believed that they had enough evidence to build a case. Senior officials in the F.B.I. and the Justice Department, however, were skeptical of the evidence and the primary source, Schweizer’s book. Public-integrity prosecutors reportedly “weren’t impressed” and “thought the talk was hearsay and a weak basis to warrant aggressive tactics, like presenting evidence to a grand jury, because the person who was secretly recorded wasn’t inside the Clinton Foundation,” according to the Journal’s report.

The argument is certainly a compelling one. Even Schweizer—whom the Journal reports was interviewed on several occasions by the F.B.I. agents ..........

[ColemanMaskell]

8. Like the Bob Dylan song

Bob Dylan
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
lyrics from http://genius.com/Bob-dylan-talkin-john-birch-paranoid-blues-lyrics
. . .
Well, I finally started thinking straight
When I run out of things to investigate
Couldn’t imagine doing anything else
So now I’m sitting home investigating myself!

[LAS14]

9. Thanks for including that interview of Obama...

... by NowThis. One of the best things of the election season.

[anneboleyn]

10. Put Gowdy and Chaffetz on it! They will get right to it!