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The FBI Is In A World Of Trouble As Democrats Demand Federal Investigation Into Leaks To Trump

By Jason Easley on Fri, Nov 4th, 2016 at 6:22 pm

The FBI has been leaking information to the Trump campaign, and top House Democrats are calling for a federal investigation. If Trump loses on Tuesday, the FBI could be facing a world of trouble.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Judiciary, sent a letter calling on the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice calling for an immediate investigation into the FBI leaks to the Trump campaign.

Here is the full text of the letter:
[ http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-and-conyers-request-investigation-of-fbi-leaks-to-trump-campaign ]

This morning, Rudy Giuliani—one of Donald Trump’s closest and most vocal campaign advisers—appeared on national television and confirmed that he had obtained leaked information about the FBI’s review of Clinton-related emails several days before FBI Director James Comey sent his letter to Congress last Friday about this matter.

In fact, Mr. Giuliani went even further and bragged about the information he had obtained, stating: “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it.”

Already, Director Comey’s letter from last Friday had broken with longstanding precedent by confirming publicly that the FBI was in the process of taking investigative steps relating to newly-discovered emails, despite the fact that Director Comey had not yet even seen these emails or determined whether they were “significant.”

It is absolutely unacceptable for the FBI to leak unsubstantiated—and in some cases false—information about one presidential candidate to benefit the other candidate. Leaking this information to former FBI officials as a conduit to the Trump campaign is equally intolerable.

For example, on Wednesday, Fox News anchor Bret Baier claimed on national television—based on multiple leaks—that the FBI was “actively and aggressively” investigating the Clinton Foundation and that an indictment was “likely.” This morning, however, Mr. Baier was forced to correct his report, admitting that it was “a mistake.”

These unauthorized and inaccurate leaks from within the FBI, particularly so close to a presidential election, are unprecedented. For these reasons, we are calling on your office to conduct a thorough investigation to identify the sources of these and other leaks from the FBI and to recommend appropriate action.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

If Trump loses on Tuesday, and Democrats take control of the Senate, the FBI is going to facing several congressional investigations. There is already plans to investigate, the bureau’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails. It is probable that members of Congress will want to investigate the leaking of information to a presidential campaign.

There is a faction within the FBI that is trying to help Donald Trump win the election. This has been made obvious over the past week.

If Trump goes down, he may set off a firestorm that will make the Congressional investigation into the FBI one of the top political stories of 2017.

A Democratic victory on election day will mean accountability for the FBI.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/04/fbi-world-trouble-democrats-demand-federal-investigation-leaks-trump.html

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How Rogue Agents at the FBI Influenced the Election

"Stunning Report Finds Anti-Clinton FBI Agents Are Trying To Get Trump Elected President"

by Nancy LeTourneau June 18, 2018 Political Animal


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The one word Trump and his enablers want everyone to take from the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the Clinton email investigation is “bias.” They are totally unconcerned about the major finding in the report, which was that the decision to not charge Clinton .. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/14/the-most-important-finding-in-the-ig-report-on-the-clinton-email-investigation/ .. was “based on the prosecutors’ assessment of the facts, the law, and past Department practice,” not bias.

Instead, what they want to focus on is the purported anti-Trump bias of FBI agent Peter Strzok.

Donald J. Trump?
@realDonaldTrump

“The highest level of bias I’ve ever witnessed in any law
enforcement officer.” Trey Gowdy on the FBI’s own, Peter Strzok.
Also remember that they all worked for Slippery James Comey and
that Comey is best friends with Robert Mueller. A really sick
deal, isn’t it?
11:03 AM - Jun 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1008515606751084544

Strzok has now agreed to testify before any committee in Congress and his lawyer said this about the claims that he was biased.

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He said there was “no question” that Strzok regrets sending anti-Trump messages, but added: “I think what he was doing is expressing his political opinions in what he thought was a private text conversation, and he regrets that this has been weaponized by people with political motivations to try to discredit the Mueller investigation.”…

“The kind of drumbeat — the repeated assertion of bias and the investigation was infected by anti-Trump bias — it’s completely illogical because the only thing that Pete and the FBI’s actions or inactions did throughout this period of time benefited Trump and hurt Hillary’s electoral chances,” Goelman said.
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What Strzok might not want you to know (due to loyalty to the FBI) is that there was, in fact, bias involved in the Clinton investigation. It’s just that it was anti-Clinton rather than anti-Trump bias. Josh Marshall .. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-something-fatally-wrong-in-the-ig-report-on-the-fbi-and-doj .. has been on this story for the last few days, even though it is getting very little national attention.

We’ve been hearing rumors about anti-Clinton bias in the FBI’s New York field office for months now. But in testimony to the IG, here is what former Attorney General Loretta Lynch .. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-evidence-of-the-critical-failure-of-the-ig-report .. reported about a conversation she had with Comey right after he sent a letter to Congress announcing that the email investigation had been re-opened when it was discovered that Anthony Weiner’s laptop contained Clinton emails.

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And then I said, now, we’ve got to talk about the New York office in general. And he said yes. And I said we both work with them. We both know them. We both, you know, think highly of them. I said, but this has become a problem. And he said, and he said to me that it had become clear to him, he didn’t say over the course of what investigation or whatever, he said it’s clear to me that there is a cadre of senior people in New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton. And he said it is, it is deep. It’s, and he said, he said it was surprising to him or stunning to him.
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The IG report has an entire chapter devoted to the problem of FBI agents leaking to the press. As evidence of that, Rep. Devin Nunes admitted last week that he was the recipient of those leaks.

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm

In light of IG's failure to look at leaking/anti-Clinton bias among
agents in NYC field office, this seems quite relevant. Nunes says
"good FBI agents" told him about Weiner laptop in late September
2016.
6:24 AM - Jun 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1007720437692891137

As Marshall documents .. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-deep-and-visceral-hatred-the-timeline , an FBI agent in the New York office discovered the Clinton emails on Weiner’s laptop on September 26th or 27th. Nunes says that he was told about the find in “late September.” That means that the agents who told him weren’t whistle-blowers, but leakers. We also know that the same information was leaked to Rudy Giuliani .. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-comey-justice/justice-department-watchdog-to-report-on-clinton-related-fbi-leaks-idUSKBN1HQ2K2 , who was then an advisor to the Trump campaign, and that he discussed the information on Fox News.

In the end, the whole thing was a load of nonsense .. http://www.newsweek.com/what-fbi-found-emails-anthony-weiner-laptop-517652 .. because, “the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that almost every email discovered in a laptop used primarily by the husband of an aide to Hillary Clinton was a duplicate of previously produced documents or personal emails.”

Marshall makes the point that all of this goes beyond just bias.

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It further seems clear that fear of such leaks was a major or even the primary reason why James Comey sent his letter to Congress on October 28th, 2016. In other words, there was not just bias – Comey himself reportedly called it a “deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton”. That bias lead to specific and repeated actions which at least violated FBI regulations and possibly violated the law. Those violations triggered a chain of events which likely changed the outcome of the election. That is a very big deal.
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We know a fair amount about how this bias at the FBI’s New York office worked from reporting by Devlin Barrett and Christopher Matthews in the Wall Street Journal .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518 .. on November 2, 2016, less than a week before the election. Instead of emails, that story focused on the fact that this same FBI office was intent on investigating the Clinton Foundation after being spurred on by the insinuations published in Peter Schweizer’s book Clinton Cash.

When presented with the case, FBI officials, public integrity prosecutors and the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division weren’t impressed with the evidence and basically told the New York agents to “stand down.”

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Justice Department officials became increasingly frustrated that the agents seemed to be disregarding or disobeying their instructions…

As prosecutors rebuffed their requests to proceed more overtly, those Justice Department officials became more annoyed that the investigators didn’t seem to understand or care about the instructions issued by their own bosses and prosecutors to act discreetly.
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That aligns with what Lynch told the IG about her conversation with Comey in regards to the email investigation.

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…But he was saying [bias] did exist, and it was hard to manage because these were agents that were very, very senior, or had even had timed out and were staying on, and therefore did not really feel under pressure from headquarters or anything to that effect.
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The picture this paints is of a group of very senior FBI agents in the New York field office who went rogue with their “deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton” by leaking information to congressional Republicans and being insubordinate when told to “stand down” on investigations that had no merit. That is the story behind the decision by James Comey to go public with the fact that the email investigation had been re-opened, a move that might have given Donald Trump the presidency.

This story could get lost in light of the Mueller probe and the investigation of the business practices of Michael Cohen and his client Donald Trump that is being conducted by U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. That doesn’t make it any less important.

The problem is that Trump and his enablers have muddied the water about FBI bias in their battle against that institution as a means to undermine the Mueller probe. Career professionals like Comey and Strzok are on the defense to protect the FBI from these attacks and are unlikely to air this dirty laundry. But rather than fall back on their heels in defense, Democrats need to go on offense and get to the bottom of this story. It wasn’t just the Russians who influenced the election.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/18/how-rogue-agents-at-the-fbi-influenced-the-election/

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Who are the anti-Clinton FBI individuals? Names, please. Thanks.
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Do you need a Kleenex for your proclamation of victim status? Demanding responses
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The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign

"Stunning Report Finds Anti-Clinton FBI Agents Are Trying To Get Trump Elected President"

If you agree with her on policy, vote with a clear conscience about the server.

By Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias [e-mail] Updated Nov 4, 2016, 9:35am EDT

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13500018/clinton-email-scandal-bullshit

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Why are you so freakin' afraid of Hillary Clinton?????
Because the idiot in the White House is?
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