President Obama’s FBI, ran by disgraced former director James Comey, knew about – but purposefully ignored – “highly classified” evidence in the Hillary Clinton email investigation before they downgraded their initial assessment of her crime from a felony to a “grossly negligent” mistake.
As The Hill‘s John Solomon reports, a Senate staff memo updating an ongoing inquiry by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) reveals that the FBI decided to back off their pursuit of this damning evidence “even though the agents believed access to the sensitive evidence was “necessary” to complete the investigation,” writes Solomon.
What’s worse, Trump’s DOJ has known about this egregious failure of justice since at least 2018 thanks to a classified report by the agency’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who explained what happened in a briefing.
But Johnson and Grassley have been unable to get answers for a year, even from Attorney General William Barr, about whether the FBI intends to look at the critical evidence it skipped back in 2016.
The Senate staff memo succinctly lays out just how egregious the FBI’s decision was in 2016.
The inspector general’s “appendix raised a number of serious questions because, as explained on page 154 of the unclassified DOJ IG report, the FBI decided not to seek access to certain highly classified information potentially relevant to the investigation despite members of the FBI case team referring to the review as a ‘necessary’ part of the investigation,” the Senate staff wrote. –The Hill
“As a result of the findings in that appendix, Senator Grassley wrote a classified letter to DOJ on October 17, 2018, which remains unanswered. On January 15, 2019, at Mr. Barr’s nomination hearing, Senator Grassley asked Mr. Barr if he would answer the letter, if confirmed, to which he attested, ‘Yes, Senator.’ On April 16, 2019, Senators Grassley, Johnson, and Graham sent a letter to Attorney General Barr reiterating the need for a written response to that letter,” reads the note.
Now-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok (who is now suing the DOJ over his ouster) was responsible for downgrading the language regarding Clinton’s conduct from the criminal charge of “gross negligence” to “extremely careless.”
“Gross negligence” is a legal term of art in criminal law often associated with recklessness. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, gross negligence is “A severe degree of negligence taken as reckless disregard,” and “Blatant indifference to one’s legal duty, other’s safety, or their rights.” “Extremely careless,” on the other hand, is not a legal term of art – and is why Clinton got off scot-free.
18 U.S. Code § 793 “Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information” specifically uses the phrase “gross negligence.” Had Obama’s FBI used the phrase, they would have essentially declared that Hillary had broken the law.
Perhaps the FBI decided not to pursue Hillary’s “highly classified” evidence in order to avoid having to stick with “gross negligence.”
Notably, FBI General Counsel James Baker thought Clinton should face criminal prosecution, but was talked out of it at the last minute.
Meanwhile, there’s no doubt that the FBI’s anti-Trump / pro-Clinton bias played a role in their decisions.
And in a passage that often gets overlooked by reporters and pundits alike, IG Horowitz concluded in his final report about the Clinton email caper that the anti-Trump biases that FBI agent Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page expressed in text messages may have affected their decision-making to focus more urgently on the now disproven Trump-Russia collusion allegations rather than to finish work on the former secretary of state’s email problems, an investigation code-named Midyear.
“In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead … we were particularly concerned about text messages sent by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made were impacted by bias or improper considerations,” the Justice’s watchdog wrote.
So the FBI’s chief lawyer originally thought Clinton should be indicted, and the bureau wrote a draft supporting the felony standard, but then walked back its decision. And agents focused more on unsubstantiated Trump collusion than Clinton emails in what the IG feared might be a sign of bias. –The Hill
And now Attorney General Bill Barr seems to be taking his sweet time formulating an answer as to what happened, and more importantly – what will come of this. We’re not holding our breath.
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“Gross negligence” is a legal term of art in criminal law often associated with recklessness. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, gross negligence is “A severe degree of negligence taken as reckless disregard,” and “Blatant indifference to one’s legal duty, other’s safety, or their rights.” “Extremely careless,” on the other hand, is not a legal term of art – and is why Clinton got off scot-free.”
Serfs serve the king………any questions should be directed to the Ministry of Truth
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<<—
Come on man! Clinton got off because “They” covered her ample ass. They continue to cover her ass and Barr will kiss her ass. The criminals have captured the justice system . Laws are only to be enforced on the little people as long as it suits the criminals purposes. Trump is a pretty good athlete but clearly is a minor league player in a major league game. They let him play because he is easy to beat.
Hahaha, OTC…
“Come on man!”……….not sure where you wanta go, but I’ve got my boots on and just need to grab a hat…..
“They” covered her ample spread as “they” covered the rest.
Is this the same “they”?
Dan 2:43
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.” – Robert LeFevre
How is this news? We’ve known this for at least two years.
Exactly.
The facts regarding Killary are so obvious only an imbecile would have difficulty following the corruption.
The corruption is off the charts. Our govt is not legitimate. There is no justice for any except those in the inner circle who can violate the law with impunity. It’s digusting.
I said from the getgo that none of these fuckers would ever see the inside of a jail cell. Exactly correct:we don’t have a legitimate government anymore. Maybe we’re approaching another “When in the Course of Human Events “ moment?
Yeah, right. We’ve all (most people I know and read anyway) have been holding our breath. Just one more direct hit from the old tired BB gun oughta do it… okay, maybe thee hits., but the Swamp never recedes one inch. As a matter of fact, it just seems to grow wider and deeper. I’m starting to wonder if anything short of a nuke could dry up the denizen of vipers,leeches,crocks n’ gators, skeeters and snapping turtles.
Never happens, ain’t gonna happen.
Those behind the curtain must be screaming with laughter and derision at the dupe-plorables like me. Hell, we don’t even know who all the players are.
I’ve got your legal term of art right here.
Kritarchy
No Justice No Peace…..
These crimes are so obvious and such slam dunks that we really have no option left but to understand that Barr and everyone else in high level ‘just us’ are only a further part of the deep state network. Even Barney Fife would have arrested and held these traitors without bail before military courts by now. Several would have already been executed.
So far it looks like Barr is just the next Jeff Sessions.
Perfect world, Barr and/or his boss hit a Grand Slam at just the right time; sadly, I don’t think it’s in the cards.
I keep digging for the pony too.
On Trump’s surveys, not that anyone reads them, my biggest concern with the administration is to shit can Wray, followed by shit canning Barr unless their is something he truly knows that I don’t and real justice is finally served to all of them…..
Wray is a little, arrogant, wimp, NWO commie bastard as well in my opinion, probably every bit as bad as Comey ….
I am in no way defending her. I could smell her asspirations when she was flotus. And my opinion of her is worse now. Someone claimed her private server was connected to a foreign country(China?). Perhaps the lost emails were intentionally made for disinformation to mislead foreign agencies. If so it would explain the coverup rather than exposing a covert op of obfuscation for subterfuge, targeting the usual foreign subjects. ?
they are sneaky like that, in fact it’s all probably part of a script, we live in a soap opera, phony wrestling match or circus if you will, in the end they are all cut from the same clothe up there, as the Joker once said “Schemers trying to control their worlds.”
our entire human intel asset base,aka spies,was rolled up in about a 24 mo period after the chicoms got hold of her emails–
people died b/c of her,she should be executed but will probably never even be questioned about it again on an official basis–
I heard once that one of their associates explained that soldiers, spies, “little people” getting killed was just considered the cost of doing business for them. FWIW her ample ass, bags, tubes, wires and all is hanging waaaaaay out in the breeze. She has never been indicted or tried so there is no bar to indicting her in the future and no statute of limitation if in furtherance of a criminal activity resulting in deaths.
Look on the bright side folks. If she had been elected there would be a shooting war in the streets right now. Started by her.
Barr is a swamp rat through and through. He worked for the CIA. He’s not going to do shit. That’s why he was put there. If Trump really wanted to get it done, he would have put someone from outside the beltway in charge of the JD.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
http://www.unz.com/gatzmon/living-amongst-others/
I’m beyond shocked (sarc)
Nitenyaahoo tried to blackmail slick (billy clinton) with monica tele tapes: (which of course brings up the obvious question as to what he has on trump):
And author Daniel Halper claims that Israel and its operators within American politics have not refrained from blackmailing even an American president.
According to Halper, Israel attempted to use tapes of former US president Bill Clinton’s steamy sex chats with intern Monica Lewinsky to leverage the release of Jonathan Pollard. Halper claims that during the Wye Plantation talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, held in Maryland in 1998, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled Bill Clinton aside to press for Pollard’s release. “The Israelis present at Wye River had a new tactic for their negotiations–they’d overheard Clinton and Monica and had it on tape. Not wanting to directly threaten the powerful American president, a crucial Israeli ally, Clinton was told that the Israeli government had thrown the tapes away. But the very mention of them was enough to constitute a form of blackmail,” Halper wrote, “according to information provided by a CIA source, a stricken Clinton appeared to buckle.”
This horrific narrative of how Israel allegedly blackmailed an American president initially surfaced in 1999. In his book Gideon’s Spies, author Gordon Thomas claimed that the Mossad had collected some 30 hours’ worth of phone sex conversations between Lewinsky and Clinton and was using them to blackmail the US or to protect a deeply-embedded mole in the White House.