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just saw somebody on Twitter who said that, and they
were quoting somebody else, and I apologize that I saw
the tweet and then I didn't pull it, so I
cannot quote the person. But that history must be or yeah,
history must be lived looking forward, but it can only
be understood by looking backwards. And that's what we are doing.
That's what I have been doing and why I keep
bringing these stories to light because to understand and where
we are right now, we have to go back and
piece together the information as it becomes available and fill
in the timeline, fill in the empty spots in our
knowledge are blind spots, the gaps, and figure out what
exactly occurred, who did what, so we can yes, hold
people accountable but also understand where we are as we
continue moving forward through history. Yesterday and the day before,
I believe I covered pieces out of a website called
justthnews dot com, pieces written by John Solomon, Solomon and
Jerry Dunleavy, and the first one talked about the Democrat
whistleblower on the House Intelligence Committee who work for Democrats.
He was an intelligence officer and he was blowing the
whistle back in twenty seventeen about the leaking to the
media of classified information by Adam Schiff Eric Swollwell, Democrat
staffers on the committee, and how this was intentional. It
was in fact directed by Adam Schiff, who was the
ranking member on the Intelligence Committee and soon became the chairman.
After yesterday, we covered Jim Comey, the former FBI Director,
and the use of a friend of his as a
mole or as a cutout in order to leak classified
information to the media. Today, just thenews dot Com, John
Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy have another story based on newly
declassified information from the FBI Director Cash Battel, a memo
written in twenty seventeen. Okay, so keep in mind again
what we were going through at the time, Donald Trump
had just shocked the world he had beaten Hillary Clinton.
But the memo, written in twenty seventeen, actually covers the
year prior, starting in like January of twenty sixteen. But
the memo was written in order to chronicle the extensive
political obstruction that agents in three different cities faced from
their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the
twenty sixteen election. They were trying to do an investigation
that was predicated a predicated crime, and so this is
one of those terms that the FBI uses that you
have to have a predicate. In other words, there has
to be a good reason for this investigation to be launched.
And so if there is a predicate, then they call
it a PC predicated crimes predicated case. So the FBI
agents began looking into a bunch of different aspects of
the Clinton Foundation in twenty sixteen, and as they attempted
to prove that there was a predicate for the investigation,
they kept getting stonewalled by their bosses in particular, and
d McCabe from the FBI later rose to the ranks
of the deputy director under Jim Comey right, and then
he took over for a brief period of time after
Comy got fired by Donald Trump. He's now I think
working at George Mason University. Because that's what happens if
you're a Democrat and you are forced to resign, or
you get fired in disgrace, or you lose elections. They
find soft, cushy landing pads for you at Ivy League
schools and pay you, you know, six figures. He also
is a talking head for CNN. He's a pundit, so
they're paying him as well. Then Deputy Attorney General Sally
Yates also intervened. She was working for Loretta Lynch at
the time, and she was quoted in the memo as saying,
shut it down, stop investigating the Clinton foundation. In demanding
that the detail of this is outlined in the detailed
timeline of political impediments that FBI agents in New York City,
Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington, d c.
Speaker 1: Faced.
Speaker 2: The agents tried to get the help of federal prosecutors
in the US Attorney's Office to try to determine whether
or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as the
Secretary of State, most notably because at that time, her
family foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign
and US interests with business before her department. This has
if you are a listener to this station, if you
are on the right, you have heard these stories about
the Clinton Foundation for a long time.
Speaker 1: Books have been written about it. All this time.
Speaker 2: It's always been a bit of a head scratcher as
to why nobody has ever investigated this, And now we
find out that actually some FBI agents did investigate. They tried,
but every time they tried they got shut down. The
timeline was written by a Department of Justice lawyer who
was assigned to the FBI under Comy, and this memo
that this DOJ lawyer compiled was recently secured by top
aids to Cash Patel, now the director of the FBI,
along with corroborating internal emails, and then it 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 of twenty sixteen
that the Justice Department indicated that they would not be
supportive of an FBI investigation. The timeline excuse me also
shows that couple weeks later, still February twenty sixteen, McCabe
ordered quote no covert investigative steps were allowed to be
taken in the Clinton Foundation investigation without his approval. Those
are direct quotes he apparently, according to the timeline which
I have read, it's linked up at the website justinnews
dot com. He repeated this command numerous times over the
coming months. The roadblocks just kept coming. The timeline shows
to the great frustration of the agents and the US
Attorney's office down in Little Rock, Arkansas, which had moved
to a fully predicated criminal investigation. So the US Attorney's
Office in Arkansas, down in Little Rock, probably with a
little bit of knowledge about how the Clintons operate down there, right,
they were like, yeah, we're moving forward with this, but
the DOJ said no, and you can't do any overt investigation,
So no interviewing people. Right, If you want to look
through some databases, maybe run some Google searches, it's all
got to be in the background, because you know, there's
an election and we don't want to be accused of
interfering in the election. Officials just told just the News
that the DOJ also has secured potential cooperation from current
and former prosecutors and agents who are willing to assist
any investigation in possible obstruction of the Clinton probes. So
they've got people, They've got people in the field offices
and in the US attorney's offices who are willing and
maybe even excited to play ball to tell people what
they know. Because you look at the timeline, a lot
of that stuff is redacted. They know what happened. In fact,
we did too from the Durham Report and the Horowitz Report,
they talked about McCabe's efforts to obstruct normal investigations. Federal
prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and the
Eastern District of New York purportedly said in August of
twenty sixteen that quote, they would not support the investigation
into the Clinton Foundation. Why you ask, No explanation was given.
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investigation into the Clinton Foundation had been delayed for a
year and dragged past the November twenty sixteen election, According
to this timeline written by a DOJ lawyer, 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 want you to close this chapter
and move forward. So I don't know who that person was.
I don't know if it was a Obama holdover. Right,
we don't know who it is because the name has
been redacted. But remember after Trump ran on the campaign
promise of lock her up. As soon as he got elected,
he told everybody, yeah, we're not going to go after anymore.
Speaker 1: She's a nice person. We're going to leave her alone.
Speaker 2: The Clinton Foundation. For people who are not aware of
what the Clinton Foundation was, it was set up ostensibly
to do charity work. Right the Global the Clinton Global
Fund or whatever it was, right, and Clinton Foundation was
part of the or the Clinton Initiative was part of that.
This was after Bill Clinton was out of office. They
launched this quote charity or maybe it's an NGO of
some sort, and it was a way for businesses and
other countries to funnel money to the Clintons and have
him go around and do speaking engagements at costs somewhere
in the neighborhood of you know, two hundred three hundred
four hundred thousand dollars. That infrastructure remained in place while
Hillary Clinton was a US Senator, while she was Secretary
of State, while she ran for president, and the questions
that were bubbling up throughout this time were who is
paying into this fund and is that being used to
curry favor or get things from the Department of State
when she was the Secretary of State and a guy
named Peter Schweitzer wrote a book.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, It was.
Speaker 2: Called Clinton Cash, and the allegations and the documentation that
he provided in that book set off alarms in the
Department of Justice in the FBI, and that's when they
started looking into it, apparently, and what they found, at
least down in Arkansas was enough for them to have
a predicate for an investigation, but they ca on getting
stonewalled by the DOJ, specifically by Andrew McCabe. He was
the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington Field office,
but he soon rose to the level of deputy director
under Jim Comey, where the Justice Department Inspector General said
he quote had an active role in the supervision of
what was called the Midyear investigation. The midyear investigation was
what they called the Clinton email server investigation, so he
had an active role in supervising Hillary's emails, which, again,
the smoking gun there is not the emails. The smoking
gun is the server. You do not create your own
home Brews server so you can run all of your
emails through a server that only you control. You don't
do that unless you want the control in order to
destroy emails. That's the point. There isn't any other reason
for you to have your own email server. The cost
of it, the maintenance on it. You got to hire
people to manage it and maintain it. There's no point
to doing that unless you want to destroy all of
the emails, which of course she did. And the theory
has always been that this is where she was engaging
in the Clinton Foundation efforts. All of that stuff that
she was doing off book, the stuff that she didn't
want people to see she was running.
Speaker 1: Through her personal.
Speaker 2: Email, which she then of course gave access to Uma Abdeen,
who was her chief of staff, I believe, and uma
Abdeen married to Anthony Wiener. And when they got Anthony
Wiener's laptop because of all of his scandals, and they
found all of these emails that were on his laptop
because apparently Uma Aberdeen had either forwarded it, forwarded him
these emails with classified information in them, or using his
laptop and was pulling them up and downloading them as well.
Uma Abadeen, by the way, divorced Anthony Weener after he
was caught in that, you know, sexting with an underage
girl who happened to be from Gaston County. As a
matter of fact, she divorced him, and she is now
married to Alex Soros, son of George Soros and the
guy who is now in charge of the Soros Empire.
That's who Huma Abadeen married recently at a very very
very exclusive and expensive ceremony. I believe it may have
been out on the East end of Long Island. All right,
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a Pete tweet, and he says, don't forget the tarmac
meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch right around the
same time.
Speaker 1: Indeed, you are correct.
Speaker 2: It is mentioned in this piece at Justinthnews dot com.
Uh real quick, let me go over and get Jeff on. Hey, Jeff,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, Pete. Always pleasure to listen to your show.
Speaker 1: Thanks sir.
Speaker 3: Why isn't the Inspector General for the h whether it
be for the d o J or the FBI. I
don't know if that Horowitz or who it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Why don't they fired? All this happened on their watch.
Why why are they not fired?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: A great sinstrom put a report saying that horror Witz
is part of the what they called the council you know, right,
you know, the heads of the deep state type of thing,
if you will. But why isn't Inspector General fired? That's
all I want to know.
Speaker 2: I don't know where Horowitz is now, but he, like
he did in his findings say that McCabe Andy McCabe
did not fully comply with his own refusal when he
finally recused himself from the from the case. I mean,
he did point out some of the stuff. I don't
know where he is now, if he's still a DJ.
I kind of feel like I thought he had been
moved to somewhere else, But I don't recall, and I
don't know if he's even still employed. He may have
retired by now, I don't know. But yeah, it's the call,
and I appreciate the call, Jeff. These like it's good
to get the information, but people now want some action
taken right and we know there are some criminal referrals,
grand jury indictment referrals, so we'll see. But that's why
this is important, because if we don't keep this front
and center, it's very easy for the people to ignore it.
So McCabe was the assistant director. He rose to deputy
director under Jim Comey, and the Inspector General said that
McCabe had an active role in the supervision of the
Clinton email investigation called the Midyear Investigation, and he had
oversight of the Clinton Foundation investigation until he recused himself
from those investigations November one, twenty sixteen, just days before
the election. But by that time, most political fallout against
Hillary Clinton from the FBI probes had already been neutralized.
Speaker 1: Let me skip.
Speaker 2: Ahead here because I want to make sure I get
to all of this. So you had the New York
Field office, they initiated a preliminary investigation, the Little Rock
Field office they did as well. The Washington Field Office
they did as well. All in January of twenty sixteen.
The Durham Report previously said that the FBI's Little Rock
investigation 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 nonprofit under both
direct and indirect control of that federal public official in
exchange for favorable government action and or influence. That was
from the Durham Report, which indicates that this is the
Clinton probe. This was what the agents were working on.
The Durham Report does not identify the public official or
the industry, but that they had intelligence and they had
corroborating financial reporting, so they followed the money and it
led to the Clinton Foundation. Durham also said that the
FBI's Little Rock and New York investigations quote 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 Hillary Clinton, and
he does name her and the Clinton Foundation. Despite this evidence,
the FBI timeline stated that DOJ indicated they would not
be supportive of an FBI investigation on February one, twenty sixteen,
so they had the evidence. There was a meeting between
officials from the New York and Washington Field offices. It's
not clear whether the Little Rock Field office was there also,
but this was on February seventeenth, twenty sixteen. According to
this timeline, again compiled by a DOJ lawyer, Andy McCabe
led the meeting and was advised by the New York
Field office about a confidential human source who quote possibly
had information on this matter. During the meeting, McCabe directed
that no overt investigative steps were to be taken on
the Clinton Foundation investigation without his approval. All overt investigative
steps related to the Clinton Foundation would re acquire his approval,
with the exception of speaking to open.
Speaker 1: Confidential human sources.
Speaker 2: In other words, if you already had a file opened
on some source, you had already been talking to them
McCabe was like, you can talk to them, but anything
else has to get my approval. But then they hobbled
the investigators when the FBI offices were then directed not
to open or recruit any new confidential human sources, and
no additional overt investigative steps were authorized. Back to the
Durham Report, it says mccab initially directed the field offices
to close their cases, but following objections, he agreed to
reconsider the final disposition of the cases. So he tried
to shut it down, but the field officers were like, no,
they objected. Paul A Body, then the assistant director in
charge of the World Washington Field Office, described McCabe as negative, annoyed,
and angry about these cases, with McCabe saying that the
DOJ is saying there's nothing here, There's no there there,
Why are we even doing this. In March, the US
Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas informed the
FBI's Little Rock investigators that Saliates, Assistant US Attorney or sorry,
Assistant Attorney General, that Sallyates ordered the federal prosecutors to
quote shut it down, which brings us to the meeting
on the tarmac between Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General, and
former President Bill Clinton, where they just happened to be
coincidentally at the same airport in Phoenix on June twenty seventh,
twenty sixteen. They both claim to the DOJ watchdog that
they did not discuss the midyear in investigation or any
other DOJ investigations during their lengthy but private conversation. Remember,
they kicked all of the security, all their staffers, kicked
everybody off the planes, and they met on Clinton's plane
for like an hour. Lynch later admitted to the DOJ
Inspector General that the meeting went on and on and
that it was just too long a conversation to have had.
But they were talking about grandkids. Remember that was their
cover story, that former President Bill Clinton was just showing
her pictures of his grand babies and she was showing
him pictures of the grand babies or something. After the meeting,
the DOJ's ethics office concluded that Loretta Lynch did not
have to recuse herself, and Lynch decided not to voluntarily
recuse herself either. She claimed to the Inspector General Horowitz
that stepping aside would have created a misimpression that she
and Bill had discussed inappropriate topics, or that her role
in the mid year investigation some how was greater than
it was.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: So that's why she did not recuse herself, because she
didn't want to give the impression she was doing anything unethical,
even though the mere meeting itself appeared unethical. It's a
convenient excuse if you're going to engage in unethical behavior
and illegal activity and then you say, no, I'm not
going to recuse myself because I'll give the impression that
I was giving that I was engaged in illegal or
unethical activity. Like that's a very convenient excuse, right, It
would give that impression because.
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a message from Sean who says Trump didn't drop the
case and say she's a good person.
Speaker 1: After he won.
Speaker 2: He said he decided not to go after her because
it would be bad for the country, which I agreed
with at the time. But after all the legal stuff
they tried to railroad him with, I have changed my mind.
Speaker 1: Lock her up. So just as a point of clarification.
Speaker 2: November twenty second, twenty sixteen, CBS News a quote from
Donald Trump during an interview with CBS quote, I don't
want to hurt them. I don't want to hurt them.
They are They're good people. I don't want to hurt them.
That was his explanation for why he did not want
to go after them. First, he was saying, I'm going
to think about it, and then he at one point
claimed that he never said lock her up. So Jim comey,
you'll recall, cleared Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing for transmitting
classified information on an insecure and private email server in
a speech he gave on July fifth, twenty sixteen, just
weeks before green lighting the Crossfire hurricane investigation later that
same month against Donald Trump, and a message from the
text line also that the NYPD sex crimes investigation into
then Uma Abadeen's husband, Anthony Wiener, helped prompt some of
this disclosure. Investigating detective discovered Hillary clinton emails and the
server when they seized with a search warrant computers from
the Wiener residents. That is correct, right, If these Democrats
with their laptops weren't so careless, like we wouldn't know
anything about the Hunter Biden and stuff. By the way,
Hunter Biden apparently was wearing an Antifa hat during that
interview last month with that YouTuber didn't even realize it anyway.
The key here is note the difference in approach, Right,
the difference in approach with the Hillary investigation versus Crossfire Hurricane. Right,
they obstructed, they slow walked it, they impeded it, they
shut it down when it was Hillary Clinton and the
Clinton Foundation, when it was her email server, when it
was transmitting classified information over an unsecured server, mishandling classified information. Right,
that approach sort of kid glove treatment versus dropping the
hammer on Trump in Crossfire Hurricane. But also, as we
went over yesterday, with the leaking of the classified information,
passing it along to people that shouldn't be getting it
and seeing it. Note the difference in approach. Right, you
get these whistleblowers that are telling the DOJ, hey we
got leaks targeting Trump. These are unethical, it's illegal, and
it's coming from these congressmen Shift and Swallwell and their
staffers on the House Select Intelligence Committee. And what happens nothing,
It all gets shut down. But Donald Trump takes some
documents to his house in mar A Lago and it's
a pre dawn raid. It's searching through you know, the
underwear drawer. Right, It's this full blown guns drawn, drop
the hammer approach. That's what we're talking about with regard
to the weaponization of the government against political enemies. And
this was perfected from the Obama administration when all of
this started against Trump, and it persists even to this day.
There are people still in GOVC. There are people still
at the federal level working for the Trump administration in
his agencies that were part of the quote unquote deep
state efforts.
Speaker 1: Let's see here.
Speaker 2: Horowitz's twenty eighteen report concluded that Jim Comey's actions that
seemingly exonerated Hillary Clinton were quote extraordinary and insubordinate when
he announced Clinton would not be charged, saying we concluded
that Comy's unilateral announcement was inconsistent with Department policy and
violated longstanding DOJ practice and protocol by, among other things,
criticizing Clinton's uncharged conduct. We also found Comy usurped the
authority of the Attorney General and inadequately and then completely
describe the legal position of prosecutors. It's like, why did
he do that? This is still one of the unexplained questions.
Why did Comy do this? He could have done it
in order to insulate Loretta Lynch, which at that point
was under fire because of her meeting on the airplane
with Bill Clinton, and so it was like, I'm going
to take this from her, and I'm going to do
this myself, right, and then I'm going to put this
all to bed. Could be a god complex, right, that
could be it? He like, that's very possible. With Jim Comy,
Peter Struck, remember him, disgraced fired FBI special agent. He
testified that in twenty eighteen that the FBI quote did
not have access to Clinton Foundation emails that were on
her private server because of a consent agreement negotiated between
the Department of Justice attorneys and Council for Clinton. So
they entered into an agreement knowing that the investigators were
looking at the Clinton Foundation, and they said, we'll enter
a consent agreement and we won't take any of your
emails to help our own investigators. Struck wrote that of
course he prioritized the Crossfire hurricane investigation over the Clinton
email investigation because quote, there was simply no equivalence between
the two, which is what somebody who is making decisions
based on partisan motives would say, All right, that'll do
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