The FBI and Justice Department of President Barack Obama didn’t just help 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stage the Russia Collusion Hoax. Top officials in the two pro-Clinton agencies, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley revealed yesterday, also blocked an investigation into the Clinton Foundation’s corruption. It involved foreign governments and others who donated to the foundation to obtain access to Clinton when she was secretary of state.
Based on documents requested after whistleblowers went to the committee, Grassley also alleges that the FBI blocked a probe into the laptop of disgraced New York Mayor Anthony Weiner. Weiner was then the husband of Clinton political aide Huma Abedin. His laptop contained classified emails.
The Grassley letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel elaborates on allegations about DOJ-FBI interference with Clinton Foundation investigation. Just The News disclosed documents in August that revealed the interference.
Clinton Foundation Probe
As The New American reported in August, trouble began for the foundation with the publication of Peter Schweizer’s book Clinton Cash in 2015.
Schweizer revealed payments to the foundation when Clinton was the nation’s top diplomat. Those payments, apparently, violated an ethics pact she and henpecked husband Bill signed before she took the job. The New York Times pursued Schweizer’s claims. One of the foundation’s most suspicious dealings involved a Russian company called Uranium One. Formerly a Canadian outfit, it had holdings in the American West.
“As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation,” the Times reported:
Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
The deal gave Russia control of 20 percent of American uranium production.
But that wasn’t all.
“More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation,” The Associated Press reported in August 2016:
It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs.… Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem; and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.
AP claimed the meetings between Clinton and donors did not violate the ethics agreement, but did suggest that a fat check to the foundation would buy a meeting with her.
Or it might buy something else. As ABC News reported that June, emails revealed that a fellow called Rajiv K. Fernando, a big-time donor to the foundation, landed a spot on the International Security Advisory Board, an intelligence panel, “even though he had no obvious experience in the field.”
Continued ABC:
The emails further reveal how, after inquiries from ABC News, the Clinton staff sought to “protect the name” of the Secretary, “stall” the ABC News reporter and ultimately accept the resignation of the donor just two days later.
Grassley Letter
None of this, of course dampened the enthusiasm of the far-left mainstream media, notably its feminine contingent, for Clinton’s presidential campaign. But it did pique the interest of the FBI and DOJ, which, as Just The News reported in August, blocked the probe.
Yesterday, Grassley told Bondi and Patel about the documents his committee disinterred.
“In November 2015, [former FBI Deputy Director Andrew] McCabe’s wife, Dr. Jill McCabe, received over $675,000 from political entities connected to former Virginia Governor and Clinton Foundation Board Member, Terry McAuliffe,” Grassley wrote in the four-page letter, which included 87 pages of attachments:
According to reports and records, $467,500 came in “monetary contributions” from McAuliffe’s PAC, and $207,788 came from the Virginia Democratic Party as “in-kind contributions,” when McAuliffe was governor of the state. Ultimately, McCabe had to recuse himself from the investigation on November 1, 2016.
McCabe, famously, was a key player in the Russia Collusion Hoax and the effort to remove President Trump from office during his first term. And as Just The News revealed in its report, McCabe ordered “no overt investigative steps” regarding the foundation “without his approval.”
According to emails obtained by my office, on July 20, 2016 —111 days before the 2016 election — an agent with the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division (CID) stated that, “based on the sensitivities surrounding the Clinton Foundation,” agents were prohibited from “subpoena[ing] additional records related to the Foundation, Clintons”; “conduct[ing] any interviews related to the Foundation or the Clintons”; and “shar[ing] any of the Foundation bank account info with any other offices. Emails also show that the FBI “[did] not want to create any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons.” Internal FBI emails from January 12, 2017, show that the direction came from “higher, i.e., the DD (McCabe).”
As for the Weiner laptop, the FBI’s New York field office “requested that the Clinton Foundation investigative team be allowed to either review the Weiner laptop or be provided a briefing by the Weiner review team, which allegedly FBI HQ initially refused,” Grassley wrote. Clinton’s classified emails were found on the laptop during the investigation into Weiner’s sexting a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Weiner went to federal prison. The scandal ended his political career.
Grassley included allegations about DOJ-FBI’s interference in the foundation investigation begun by the U.S. attorney in the eastern district of Arkansas:
According to documents provided to my office, prosecutors at the EDAR recommended in July 2019 that a referral be made to the DOJ OIG regarding the “manner in which the investigation had been conducted,” and that they did what they could do “about the interference by DOJ and FBI leadership at the time with the FBI’s [Clinton Foundation] investigation.”
“Shut It Down”
McCabe wasn’t the only top official involved in blocking the foundation investigation.
As Just The News revealed in its report, the Obama administration’s deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, was a key player. In March 2016, a timeline about the foundation probe shows, Yates ordered the U.S. attorney in the eastern district of Arkansas to “shut it down.”
Grassley’s letter demands myriad documents from DOJ.
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