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Report: Justice Department Blocked FBI Probe of Clinton Foundation
Mediaite ^ | 31 Oct 2016 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 10/31/2016 7:30:48 AM PDT by mandaladon

According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, the Clinton Foundation was under investigation earlier this year by the FBI, but that investigation was stymied and may have been shut down completely by the Justice Department.

“Early this year, four FBI field offices—New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Little Rock, Ark.—were collecting information about the Clinton Foundation to see if there was evidence of financial crimes or influence-peddling, according to people familiar with the matter,” reports The Wall Street Journal. In addition, the FBI was actively probing former Clinton Foundation board member and current Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe, but that matter was spun off into a separate investigation.

But in February, FBI officials met with the Justice Department to brief them on the investigation. Per WSJ‘s source, “the meeting didn’t go well.” While the FBI sought more sweeping methods of investigation, those siding with the FBI’s position say the Justice Department was “stern, icy and dismissive of the case.”

In the end, “anticorruption prosecutors at the Justice Department told the FBI at the meeting they wouldn’t authorize more aggressive investigative techniques, such as subpoenas, formal witness interviews, or grand-jury activity.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Later in August, a senior Justice Department official angrily called deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe to demand to know why the Clinton Foundation was still being investigated. “Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?” Mr. McCabe asked.--------------The Clintons...rotten to the core...
1 posted on 10/31/2016 7:30:48 AM PDT by mandaladon
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2 posted on 10/31/2016 7:32:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mandaladon
FBI investigators tell WSJ off-the-record that around time, they were told to stand down from their investigations. When they asked who order the stand-down, they were told it was McCabe.-----------------Hillary and a whole bunch of other officials need to be in jail!
3 posted on 10/31/2016 7:33:02 AM PDT by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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...but that investigation was stymied and may have been shut down completely by the Justice Department.

Hmmm...maybe that little impromptu chat that BillyBob and the AG had wasn't to ask a favor but to say thanks for past favors.

4 posted on 10/31/2016 7:33:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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5 posted on 10/31/2016 7:33:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mandaladon

Guiliani has said a lot about this....RICO applies. I believe him against everyone else.


6 posted on 10/31/2016 7:34:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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7 posted on 10/31/2016 7:35:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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8 posted on 10/31/2016 7:36:28 AM PDT by moovova
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To: mandaladon

The Just Us dept rolls along.


9 posted on 10/31/2016 7:37:12 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: mandaladon

Hillary’s bringing out Harry Reid and Hold to say the FBI is braking the Law , LOL


10 posted on 10/31/2016 7:40:57 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: mandaladon

Let’s get one thing clear. The foundation is actually a government in exile waiting to come to power


11 posted on 10/31/2016 7:55:09 AM PDT by ncfool ( We are in the United Socialist State of aMeriKa. The USSA. Sheeple of aMeriKa)
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To: butlerweave

You’re right. The DOJ is “BRAKING” the law. Brought it to a screeching halt!


12 posted on 10/31/2016 7:58:46 AM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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Many, or most of the big wigs at State are CONTRIBUTORS to the Clinton Slushfund, so naturally, they’d want to cover up the corrupt machinations happening there.


13 posted on 10/31/2016 8:01:16 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/02/exclusive-hillary-paid-to-hide-identity-of-the-people-running-her-email-server/

from link

Clinton’s private email domain clintonemail.com was initially purchased by Clinton aide Eric Hoteham, who listed the Clintons’ Chappaqua, New York home as the contact address for his purchase. But the domain is actually registered to an Internet company designed to hide the true identity of the people running it.

Clintonemail.com is currently registered to a company called Perfect Privacy, LLC.

The company has a listed address of 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West in Jacksonville, Florida. But don’t try to get someone from “Perfect Privacy” on the phone. The company merely serves to mask its clients’ personal information by providing its own meaningless contact information on official databases.

“Did you know that every time you register a domain name, the law requires that your personal information is added to the public “WHOIS” database, where it becomes instantly available to anyone, anywhere, anytime?,” according to the Perfect Privacy website. “Perfect Privacy eliminates these risks by ensuring that your personal information stays private. By signing up for Perfect Privacy when you register your domain, our information is published in the WHOIS database, instead of yours.”

“We won’t reveal your identity unless required by law or if you breach our Perfect Privacy Service Agreement,” the company explains.


14 posted on 10/31/2016 8:06:49 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics" - - President Harry S. Truman)
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President Trump will fire most of the criminal Ivy League lawyers in the DOJ on his first day.

Later, his new FBI can investigate the fired Ivy League former DOJ lawyers for criminal actions. Maybe the FBI guys and gals attacked by the DOJ criminals will do the investigating of the former DOJ criminals.


15 posted on 10/31/2016 8:06:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!are)
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To: Travis McGee
BOL! Great! Hopefully Illiarily will see this and start drinking even more this morning.


16 posted on 10/31/2016 8:09:29 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!are)
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To: mandaladon
What else would anyone expect in a now lawless nation?

The populace approves. That's why we're dead.

17 posted on 10/31/2016 9:05:07 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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