FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered a bombshell memo written in 2017 chronicling the extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation.
"Shut it down!" then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is quoted as demanding in the detailed timeline of political impediments that agents in New York City, Little Rock, Ark., and Washington D.C. reported.
The agents tried to get the help of federal prosecutors to determine whether or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, most notably, because at that time, her family foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and U.S. interests with business before her department.
The timeline -- written by a DOJ lawyer assigned to the FBI under former bureau Director James Comey -- was recently secured by top aides to Patel along with several corroborating internal emails and was obtained by Just the News. Together, they make clear that both the DOJ and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe placed significant impediments in front of agents who believed they had evidence to justify a public integrity criminal case.
The declassified timeline revealed that as early as February 2016, the Justice Department "indicated they would not be supportive of an FBI investigation." The timeline also shows that, in mid-February 2016, McCabe ordered that "no overt investigative steps" were allowed to be taken in the Clinton Foundation investigation "without his approval" -- a command he allegedly repeated numerous times over the coming months.
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Declassified Timeline on Clinton Foundation Investigation
The roadblocks just kept coming, the timeline shows, to the great frustration of the agents and the U.S. attorney's office in Little Rock, which had moved to a fully predicated criminal investigation.
Patel's discovery of the memo and related emails comes at a sensitive time as Attorney General Pam Bondi has approved the use of a strike force and a grand jury to investigate whether law enforcement and intelligence abuses over the last decade amounted to a criminal conspiracy to protect Democrats like Clinton and Joe Biden while inflicting harm on Trump and his followers.
Officials told Just the News that DOJ also has secured potential cooperation from current and former prosecutors and agents who were willing to assist any investigation in possible obstruction of the Clinton probes.
"Shut it down!" No explanation given
The timeline detailed how Yates ordered one of the federal prosecutors to "shut it down" likely in the March 2016 timeframe. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and Eastern District of New York (EDNY) purportedly said in August 2016 that they "would not support the investigation" into the Clinton Foundation, according to the timeline, and that "no explanation was given."
Once the investigation had essentially been delayed for a year and dragged past the November 2016 election, the timeline shows that DOJ officials under Trump then began to raise their "concerns regarding the statute of limitations" around the investigation, with one still unnamed official saying that they "wanted to close this chapter and move forward."
Yates did not immediately respond to a request sent to her via her law firm email, and McCabe did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to him through George Mason University. The Clinton Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent through its website.
McCabe was the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, but he soon ascended to Deputy Director of the FBI under Comey, where the Justice Department inspector general said he "had an active role in the supervision of the Midyear [Clinton emails] investigation, and oversight of the Clinton Foundation investigation, until he recused himself from these investigations on November 1, 2016" -- just days before the election. By that time, most political fallout against Hillary Clinton from the FBI's probes had been neutralized.
Inspector General Horowitz noted that his investigation "found that McCabe did not fully comply with this recusal in a few instances related to the Clinton Foundation investigation."
Fake recusals -- like when Loretta Lynch claimed she was recusing herself from the Clinton email investigation, but remained active and oversaw her subordinate James Comey who she put "in charge" of the case -- are a hallmark of this case.
It's the worst corruption. A recusal is necessary in cases where someone has a conflict of interest. It keeps investigations clean. But these people are so conflicted they are determined to remain in charge of these investigations to direct them to the outcome they desire. So they keep pretending to "recuse" themselves while maintaining all power over all people who are supposedly in charge of the investigation.
The Jussie Smollett "prosecutor," Kim Foxx, played the same game.
No matter where agents turned to get support to investigate Clinton's alleged corruption, they were thwarted, the memo located by Patel reveals.
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The Durham report previously said the FBI's Little Rock investigation [into the Clinton Foundation grift] was launched in part due to an intelligence product and corroborating financial reporting that a particular commercial "industry likely engaged a federal public official in a flow of benefits scheme, namely, large monetary contributions were made to a non-profit, under both direct and indirect control of the federal public official, in exchange for favorable government action and/or influence."
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Durham also said the FBI's Little Rock and New York investigations "included predication based on source reporting that identified foreign governments that had made, or offered to make, contributions to the Foundation in exchange for favorable or preferential treatment from Clinton."
Despite that evidence, the FBI timeline stated that DOJ "indicated they would not be supportive of an FBI investigation" on February 1, 2016.
The timeline said that personnel from the FBI's Little Rock office raised concerns that a redacted official "may not want to be a party to the briefing because of conflicts of interest" during an early February 2016 meeting. A redacted Little Rock official "expressed these concerns due to the possibility that" another redacted official "was believed to be a supporter of the Democratic Party and possibly the Clintons."
There was a meeting between officials from the New York and Washington field offices, and possibly the Little Rock field office, on February 17, 2016 according to the timeline. McCabe "led the meeting" and "was advised" by the New York field office about a confidential human source (CHS) "who possibly had information on the matter." During this meeting, McCabe "directed that no overt investigative steps were to be taken on the CF investigation without his approval."
Read the whole thing. The agents kept presenting evidence sufficient to begin an investigation, and DOJ and FBI officials -- who the agents themselves said were conflicted due to their strong political support of the Clintons -- kept shutting the investigations down. Or, in many cases, pretended the investigations were "open," but no investigatory steps could be taken without Andrew McCabe's permission-- which he refused to grant.