The memorandum found by Patel proves that, no matter where the agents turned to investigate Clinton's corruption, they were blocked. In early 2016, for example, the FBI offices in New York and Little Rock launched preliminary investigations based on financial intelligence collected about the Clinton Foundation's balances.
When this investigation reached the ears of FBI headquarters in the U.S. capital, then Deputy Director of the agency, Andrew McCabe, issued a directive: recruiting new informants on the case was prohibited and no action was to be taken without his approval.
An intelligence document dating back to 2017 and recently declassified details that senior officials from the FBI and Obama's Department of Justice did everything possible to block an investigation into acts of corruption surrounding former First Lady Hillary Clinton.
The investigation, which was being led by three veteran FBI agents, was shut down by order of Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates during the 2016 election period. It focused on investigating the activities of the Clinton clan in three different cities: New York, Little Rock (in the state of Arkansas, where the Clintons began their political career), and Washington D.C.
The agents were trying to obtain support from federal prosecutors to determine what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State. This was because, at that time, her family foundation amassed hundreds of millions of dollars from domestic and foreign actors believed to have been raised in exchange for government favors.
El actual director del FBI Kash Patel.
The Department of Justice did not support the investigation from the beginning.
The information declassified by current FBI Director Kash Patel reveals that, as early as February 2016, the Department of Justice "indicated it would not support an FBI investigation" with anything related to the Clinton Foundation case.
In fact, Yates ordered one of her prosecutors to "shut down the case" involving the former Secretary of State in March 2016. Overnight, prosecutors in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York informed the FBI that "they would not support the investigation" into the Clinton Foundation, without offering any explanation.
In July or August 2015, according to the intelligence memorandum, an FBI agent had a conversation with a judicial official about the allegations found in the book "Clinton Cash" by author Peter Schweizer. For the agent, the accusations put forward by the book were sufficient to initiate a preliminary investigation, but access to information was limited.
Hillary Clinton junto con Obama.
The report by former prosecutor John Durham confirms that McCabe attempted to shut down these investigations, but later changed his stance, demanding his personal approval for any significant step. According to Paul Abbate, then head of the FBI in Washington, McCabe appeared "upset" and "angry" about the investigations, continually citing what the Attorney General's office had conveyed to him.
La exfiscal general Loretta Lynch.
Obama's Attorney General met with Bill Clinton in secret.
Coincidentally, on June 27, 2016, Obama's Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, met secretly with former President Bill Clinton on her plane. Both denied having discussed judicial matters that were on the agenda and, despite ethical concerns, Lynch did not resign. Days later, the Attorney General's office announced it would close its investigation into the former First Lady's emails.
On July 5, 2016, the FBI exonerated Hillary Clinton, declaring that she was "extremely careless" with classified information, but that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges." Immediately after, in July of that same year, the intelligence operation against Trump known as "Crossfire Hurricane" was launched.
The intelligence finding comes at a delicate moment for the former presidential family, as Attorney General Pam Bondi has recently convened a grand jury to investigate whether the abuses committed by intelligence and justice agencies over the past decade constituted a criminal conspiracy to protect Democratic figures such as Clinton and Obama and harm Republican ones such as Trump.
