Judicial Watch has just dumped a new treasure trove of FBI emails regarding Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s conflict check relative to the Clinton email investigation (for those who missed it, we reviewed all of McCabe’s many scandals here: “FBI Director McCabe Subject Of Three Separate Federal Inquiries Into Alleged Misconduct: Report“). Ironically, this particular FOIA request was filed in October 2016 under the Obama administration but they apparently just “didn’t have time” to get to it.
Judicial Watch today released 79 pages of Justice Department documents concerning ethics issues related to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s involvement with his wife’s political campaign. The documents include an email showing Mrs. McCabe was recruited for a Virginia state senate race in February 2015 by then-Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam’s office.
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Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)The news that Clinton used a private email server broke five days later, on March 2, 2015. Five days after that, former Clinton Foundation board member and Democrat party fundraiser, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, met with the McCabes. She announced her candidacy on March 12. Soon afterward, Clinton/McAuliffe-aligned political groups donated nearly $700,000 (40% of the campaign’s total funds) to McCabe’s wife for her campaign.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a July 24, 2017, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to an October 24, 2016, FOIA request
Among other things, the new FOIA dump reveals a panicked FBI’s efforts to enlist the support of an army of lawyers and public relations personnel to deal with the original Wall Street Journal article (see: “Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife“) that first revealed McCabe’s ties to the Clintons and his simultaneous oversight of the Clinton email investigation.
But perhaps none of the newly revealed emails from Judicial Watch today are more important than the following one in which McCabe describes how FBI Director Comey was breifed on his ties to the Clintons just days before his wife announced her Senate bid (and subsequently received roughly $700,000 in political donations for Clinton-friendly PACs) and then confirmed that he “has no issue with it.”
An October 23, 2016, email shows McCabe running the response effort to a Wall Street Journal article that was published that day, titled “Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife.” McCabe provides Michael Kortan, the assistant director of Public Affairs, his version of a timeline of events surrounding the Clinton investigation and his wife’s campaign. McCabe said he contacted then-FBI Chief of Staff Chuck Roseburg about Jill McCabe’s candidacy and was told that “the D [Comey] has no issue with it.” (Judicial Watch earlier this month released documents showing that McCabe finally did recuse himself from the Clinton investigation only a week before last year’s presidential election.)
Internally, the Wall Street Journal article started a flurry of emails among Mrs. McCabe’s campaign, Kortan, Director McCabe, and the FBI’s General Counsel. Part of that exchange is an email from McCabe to someone in the General Counsel’s Office: “Sucks pretty much. Buckle in. It’s going to get rough.” The colleague responds, “I know. It’s awful. I shouldn’t be shocked by now, but I really am appalled.” McCabe also forwarded the article to Comey who responded, “Copy.”
On October 24, 2016, a memo was sent to all Special Agents in Charge, Assistant Directors, Executive Directors and the General Counsel’s Office regarding the Wall Street Journal article discussing campaign activities concerning Mrs. McCabe. Kortan suggested that questions could be referred to his office and he attached an “Overview of Deputy Director McCabe’s Recusal Related To Dr. McCabe’s Campaign for Political Office.” The Overview itself was previously reported by Judicial Watch.
Meanwhile, the documents also show repeated use of the official FBI email system in connection with Mrs. McCabe’s political campaign.
On March 13, 2015, Mrs. McCabe emails to her husband’s official FBI email account a draft press release announcing her run for state Senate.
In August 2015, McCabe uses his official FBI email account to advise a redacted recipient to visit his wife’s campaign website: “Jill has been busy as hell since she decided to run for VA state senate (long story). Check her out on Facebook as Dr. Jill McCabe for Senate.”
On November 2, 2015, Mrs. McCabe forwards an email to her husband – then the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Office – that accuses her opponent of extorting local businessmen. The email was sent to her husband’s official FBI account.
In summarizing these latest revelations, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said “these new documents show that the FBI leadership was politicized and compromised in its handling of the Clinton email investigation…it’s well past time for a do-over on the Clinton emails that requires a new, honest criminal investigation of her misconduct.”
The govt pigs colluding always delay as time allows for things like evidence to go missing and whistle blowers to get suicided. This is literally Atlas Shrugged today and it’s time we all say take it you can have it as we laugh and watch it all crumble…..
How About…….
It’s well past time for a do-over on the FBI
The current and prior FBI leadership are corrupt. They fail the working field agents. I wish President Trump would fire all the senior FBI leaders and start over. Yes I know some are good, but there is a cancer called corruption in the FBI, this includes ‘choir boys’ Mueller and Comey
The FBI never had problems prior to J. Edgar Hoover.
Been getting progressively worse ever since.
Pretty convenient that Rosenstein chose Mueller. Swamp, meet swamp. What a farce.
I like Jeff Sessions. A fine Southern gentleman but with too much emphasis on the gentle part. We need a Nathan Bedford Forrest to go through DOJ with a flamethrower. McCabe belongs in an orange jumpsuit.
I would turn Chis Christie loose as AG, payback would be a b*tch to both the Socialist and RINOs
Nothing will happen. Check this prediction in October 2020. I’m right and most of you know it is true.
By now most of you figured out that Trump wanted Rudy Gulliani and was brow beaten by the establishment to pick that Hee Haw from Alabama.
And that’s the problem.
And you know that “timeline” was pure fabrication, too. They were getting the story ready after the WSJ article broke.
Of course, the timing is everything here. I think what happened is pretty obvious- the Clinton Campaign knew a few weeks before that the NYTimes was going to reveal the server (it is likely that the Clinton Campaign was the NYTimes primary source for the story since other media were clearly already onto it, too, since they quickly followed up with their own work). However, the week before the story broke, the Clinton Campaign was already working out how to compromise the coming investigation, and settled on the strategy of basically bribing McCabe by running his wife for political office and funding her “campaign”, but this had to be in place prior to the story being broke publicly- it why she was “asked” to run in late February of 2015. With the groundwork laid, all that was needed was for Lynch and Comey to put McCabe in charge of the investigation.
On the back end of the story, another interesting artifact appeared- after the WSJ broke the story about McCabe, his wite, and Terry McCauliffe, do you think it is an accident of timing that just two days later Comey reopens the Clinton e-mail scandal on October 26th, 2016? A cynic might note that Comey was desperately looking for a way to not have seemed to have tanked the investigation because his primary investigator’s family was on the Clinton payroll.