The Justice Department and Hillary Clinton’s legal team “negotiated” an agreement that blocked the FBI from accessing emails on Clinton’s homebrew server related to the Clinton Foundation, according to a transcript of recently released testimony from last summer by former FBI special agent Peter Strzok.
Under questioning from Judiciary Committee General Counsel Zachary Somers, Strzok acknowledged that Clinton’s private personal email servers contained a mixture of emails related to the Clinton Foundation, her work as secretary of state and other matters.
“Were you given access to [Clinton Foundation-related] emails as part of the investigation?” Somers asked
“We were not. We did not have access,” Strzok responded. “My recollection is that the access to those emails were based on consent that was negotiated between the Department of Justice attorneys and counsel for Clinton.” –Fox News
Strzok added that “a significant filter team” was employed at the FBI to “work through the various terms of the various consent agreements.”
“According to the attorneys, we lacked probable cause to get a search warrant for those servers and projected that either it would take a very long time and/or it would be impossible to get to the point where we could obtain probable cause to get a warrant,” said Strzok.
The foundation has long been accused of “pay-to-play” transactions, fueled by a report in the IBTimes that the Clinton-led State Department authorized $151 billion in Pentagon-brokered deals to 16 countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation – a 145% increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration.
Adding to speculation of malfeasance is the fact that donor contributions to the Clinton Foundation dried up by approximately 90% over a three-year period between 2014 and 2017, according to financial statements.
What’s more, Bill Clinton reportedly received a $1 million check from Qatar – one of the countries which gained State Department clearance to buy US weapons while Clinton was Secretary of State, even as the department signaled them out for a range of alleged ills,” according to IBTimes. The Clinton Foundation confirmed it accepted the money.
Then there was the surely unrelated $145 million donated to the Foundation from parties linked to the Uranium One deal prior to its approval through a rubber-stamp committee.
“The committee almost never met, and when it deliberated it was usually at a fairly low bureaucratic level,” Richard Perle said. Perle, who has worked for the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations added, “I think it’s a bit of a joke.” –CBS
Later in his testimony last summer, Strzok said that agents were able to access “the entire universe” of information on the servers by using search terms to probe their contents – saying “we had it voluntarily.”
“What’s bizarre about this, is in any other situation, there’s no possible way they would allow the potential perpetrator to self-select what the FBI gets to see,” said former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz – former chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee until 2017 and current contributor to Fox News. “The FBI should be the one to sort through those emails — not the Clinton attorneys.“
Chaffetz suggested that the goal of the DOJ was to “make sure they hear no evil, see no evil — they had no interest in pursuing the truth.”
“The Clinton Foundation isn’t supposed to be communicating with the State Department anyway,” said Chaffetz. “The foundation — with her name on it — is not supposed to be communicating with the senior officials at the State Department.”
Republican-led concerns that the DOJ, under the Obama administration, was too cozy with the Clinton team during the 2016 presidential campaign have grown louder in recent days. Earlier this week, Fox News exclusively reviewed an internal chart prepared by federal investigators working on the so-called “Midyear Exam” probe into Clinton’s emails. The chart contained the words “NOTE: DOJ not willing to charge this” next to a key statute on the mishandling of classified information.
The notation appeared to contradict former FBI Director James Comey’s repeated claims that his team made its decision that Clinton should not face criminal charges independently.
But Strzok, in his closed-door interview, denied that the DOJ exercised undue influence over the FBI, and insisted that lawyers at the DOJ were involved in an advisory capacity working with agents. –Fox News
Strzok was fired from the FBI after months of intense scrutiny over anti-Trump text messages he exchanged with his mistress – FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Both Strzok and Page were involved at the highest levels of both the Clinton email investigation and the counterintelligence investigation on President Trump and his 2016 campaign.
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Lets cut the chase here. When will the prosecutions begin? When do we put these individuals in prison or in front of a wall should they be found guilty of high treason? So far the only thing that has happened is, NOTHING!
There is a saying out there: Don’t piss down our backs and tell us it is raining outside.
Enough of the moderation and dog and pony show we call a congress & justice system. We need to hold these criminals accountable, period!
Only in America can people like the clintons get away with decades of unlawful behavior and outright criminal activity. We are not talking about one single “oopsie, I guess I messed up”. I remember when RICO was often used; it would be interesting to see data on RICO prosecutions for non-political players versus political players. The deep state has sold us out-again and again.
I think a correction is in order. I don’t believe Strzok was fired for his anti-Trump texts. He seems to have been removed from Mueller’s team related to that, but was put in FBI HR for over a year after that. The OIG report evidence indicates he was fired for repeatedly lying to FBI internal investigators.
The same crime Flynn and others are being charged with, but they ‘declined prosecution’ for one of their own.
No shit? The deep state crime syndicate protected Felonia from prosecution to ensure that she had access to the launch codes as president? Fuck! Who knew? So much for honesty in the the politcal arenas. I am devastated. Haha.
We can all have confidence this will be corrected. Trump now has a real Bushie AG who will apply the law evenly. I have some beach front property near Dodge City, KS for sale.
The simple fact that the Hillary drama continues its slow roll is to give the appearance that justice will be served soon, ‘the house of cards in crumbling’, ‘the deep state is running for cover’, the swamp is about to be drained’. Don’t hold your breath, the population grows number each day this charade of justice drags on to the point most people could care less.
We are finally hearing about testimony that was given 8-9 months ago, all the congress members that were in the hearing room have had this knowledge all this time, yet to listen to them drone on about Ohr, Strock and Page on TV, it is like it is all a new revelation.
Hannity has been breathlessly babbling about this injustice for the past two years and it will continue to be the nightly theme of his show for the next two years. Yawn.
The Golden Rule: The ones with the gold make the rules.
Gatsby, sounds like a line from that Oncken dude who used to peddle his time management seminars to big companies. Remember his most famous (and irritatingly frequent) like about the monkey sliding off your back?
Checks and balances? Clearly no one is checking and everything is out of balance. Shawn Hannity’s clock is tick tocking, but strangely the alarm never goes off. There is another clock that is tick tocking.
No justice = No Civility.
Face it ! Short of a miracle the Clintons will never be held to account for shit !
The swamp dwellers of both sides of the one political party slither about in the scum left behind the political wake of the Clintons and they lap it up
It would be a miracle if anyone is ever held accountable for anything.