Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that federal investigators aimed to obstruct the probe into the Clinton Foundation during the Obama administration.
“According to the records obtained by my office, during the Clinton Foundation investigation, FBI Headquarters (HQ) leadership, including former-Deputy Director (DD) McCabe, obstructed investigative activities,” Grassley wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. Emails obtained by his office found that FBI agents were prohibited from “subpoena[ing] additional records related to the Foundation, the Clintons” in 2016, 111 days before the election. Emails indicate that the FBI “[did] not want to create any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons.”
Other documents suggest that prosecutors at the United States
Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas “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.'”
“The mainstream media smeared any investigation into Hillary Clinton as unfounded nonsense, but in reality, line agents and federal prosecutors seeking to follow up on legitimate leads were sidelined by partisan leadership looking to save Clinton’s reputation. That’s a night-and-day departure from how the Biden Justice Department handled the Arctic Frost investigation against President Trump,” Grassley said in a statement. “For too long, our Justice Department has chosen winners and losers instead of enforcing the law without regard to power, party or privilege. That must never happen again. I thank Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel for turning over these records, so the American people finally know how their Justice Department failed in the Clinton investigations.”
Some reports indicate that a prosecutor on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team discouraged the FBI from investigating the Clinton Foundation in 2016.
Separately, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary released a report in July exposing the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) findings that the FBI did not “fully investigate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and mishandling of highly classified information during her time as Secretary of State.”
