1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,679 your support. Last hour, I gave you the latest updates 10 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:36,280 in the Epstein saga. And as I mentioned at the 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:41,439 beginning of the hour, like this is an important story, 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,039 recognize why it's important. I gave you the various angles 13 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:48,640 as to why it's important. Just because the left is 14 00:00:48,759 --> 00:00:51,000 using it to beat up Trump and to try to 15 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:57,560 divide the right, the MAGA supporters and the BASS doesn't 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,479 mean it's not important, okay. And I gave you the 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,920 reasons why you got the DOJ. They're going to talk 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,400 to Galline Maxwell and all of that, and it's so 19 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:10,519 interesting to me. I'm not gonna because I went over 20 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,599 all of that in the last hour. I'm only resetting 21 00:01:12,599 --> 00:01:14,959 the table here. As we say in the Biz I'm 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 resetting the table basically for the podcast listeners because they 23 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,439 get the podcast in three different episodes every day for 24 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,439 each hour. So if you're listening to this, you may 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,879 not have listened to our number two. So if you 26 00:01:28,879 --> 00:01:32,760 haven't listened to our number two, like you got to 27 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:35,560 get reset. So we talked about the Epstein stuff in 28 00:01:35,599 --> 00:01:37,560 the last hour. Not going to go back over it, 29 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:44,439 but there's something interesting about that story and any coverage 30 00:01:44,719 --> 00:01:47,480 that you do on that or don't do on that. 31 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,120 And on the other side, the stuff that I did 32 00:01:52,200 --> 00:02:00,920 three hours on yesterday on the Intelligence Community Assessment, and 33 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:05,680 I watch the text line, I watch my email inbox, 34 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:13,080 and I see the exact same things being said by 35 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:21,439 the different politically aligned people depending on the issue. On Epstein. 36 00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:24,919 I get, this is all a distraction. Why are you 37 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,319 covering this? You shouldn't cover it. And then I also 38 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:30,599 get you're not covering this enough. Why aren't you talking 39 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,879 about it? Who's silencing you? Even though I've done multiple 40 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,919 topics or multiple episodes on this very topic over the 41 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:47,479 last two weeks. Same thing on the Intelligence Community Assessment 42 00:02:48,039 --> 00:02:53,960 and the bombshell that went off Friday through yesterday about 43 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,919 the origins of the Russia hoax right coming from the president, 44 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,479 and the corruption of the intelligence assessment. Why are you 45 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,800 talking about this? This is old news, This doesn't matter. 46 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:10,919 This is all a deflection from Epstein. It's just it's 47 00:03:11,159 --> 00:03:17,840 just interesting. Again, I can walk and chew gum at 48 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,520 the same time. Seriously, I've done it. I have actually 49 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,439 done it, just to prove to myself that I could 50 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:24,879 do it. Because so this way I would not make 51 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:27,960 any false representations that I am able to do this thing. 52 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,879 Beware of people that present false choices to you that 53 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,520 you can't cover this story, because that's a deflection, that's 54 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,800 a distraction when you should be talking about this thing 55 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,439 that I care about. So why do I say that? Well, 56 00:03:42,439 --> 00:03:46,879 I have an email that came in from Mark, subject 57 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:53,680 line marinating Pete. Why marinate on this like a Rachel 58 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:57,719 mad Cow. I'm assuming that's a reference to Rachel Maddow 59 00:03:57,879 --> 00:04:02,400 on MSNBC. I haven't seen a program of hers in 60 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:05,599 probably a decade. I think, does she work like one 61 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:08,080 day a week? Still? Is that still the thing? I 62 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,719 don't even know. Why marinate on this? I'm sorry, Do 63 00:04:11,719 --> 00:04:15,960 you not want the information? So I present the information? 64 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,800 This is stuff moving in the news, and the reason 65 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,680 why I do it is so you are armed with 66 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,759 that information so you are not blindsided. But if you 67 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:27,720 don't know what your opponents are talking about, and you 68 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:30,680 don't know the data points, you're going to look foolish 69 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:33,560 when you get into an argument with somebody in front 70 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,720 of others. That's how I approach these debates. I don't 71 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,959 go into arguments or debates with people attempting to convince 72 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,439 them that they are wrong. Usually, if I'm in an 73 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,639 argument or a debate with somebody, there are other people around. 74 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:51,920 There's an audience. Whether it's over the dinner table or 75 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,360 it's on the radio, there's an audience. All I'm trying 76 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,639 to do is to present a better case for the 77 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,639 audien to convince them, Because in a one on one 78 00:05:04,639 --> 00:05:07,759 debate with somebody and you're arguing, you know, different points, 79 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,079 you're not going to get them to be like, oh, 80 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:12,920 you know what, I never thought about that. I completely 81 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,120 changed my mind. Now you've changed my mind. Pede, You're awesome. 82 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:18,879 I was wrong. That never happens, right. People get dug 83 00:05:18,879 --> 00:05:21,800 in that they don't move. So I'm trying to present 84 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,839 an argument that persuades the people who are listening who 85 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:28,639 haven't staked out a public position on something. They're just 86 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,680 there to hear how this argument goes. And so in 87 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,360 that kind of a context, knowing your opponent's arguments and 88 00:05:35,439 --> 00:05:38,600 knowing the issue is paramount. You got to know the details. 89 00:05:39,959 --> 00:05:42,480 And so when I go over the details, then I 90 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,959 get this kind of response, which is shut up. That's 91 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:47,920 essentially what this is. And I know Mark, he's well intentioned. 92 00:05:47,959 --> 00:05:49,839 I'm not trying. I'm not picking on Mark as an 93 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:52,360 emailer here a listener. I'm just saying, like, this is 94 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,720 sort of the this is the people refer to these 95 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,639 as the program director emails where people are like, I 96 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:00,839 don't like you talking about this, so talk about this 97 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:03,439 other thing. Rush used to talk about this. He called 98 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,639 them the stick to the issues crowd. Remember where whenever 99 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,519 Rush would talk about football or his Apple iPhones, like 100 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,480 whenever he would talk about anything that wasn't politics, he 101 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:15,959 would get people that were mad at him. You need 102 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,560 to stick to the issues. So anyway, he says, why 103 00:06:21,639 --> 00:06:24,879 mariting on this cover it? Sure, but it's a smaller 104 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 version of Russia. Russia Russia as Trump alluded to, which 105 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,079 I think I actually said in the last hour. Here 106 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,399 you go. It's all deflection obviously, as where was any 107 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:38,399 democrat or media I repeat myself interest in the past 108 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:41,519 four years. Mark, that's a point that I have made. 109 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,079 I think I actually made that also in the last hour, 110 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,399 and I made it last week when I gave the 111 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,600 update on what was happening with the Epstein files. Then 112 00:06:49,959 --> 00:06:53,480 the wins and next big steps are what's important, by 113 00:06:53,519 --> 00:06:59,279 the way, any criticism on Trump big things. What's up 114 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,160 with TikTok again, supposed to hear a deal two weeks 115 00:07:02,199 --> 00:07:05,399 about four weeks ago. Yeah, I don't know what the 116 00:07:05,399 --> 00:07:09,480 deal is with TikTok And yeah, I don't know what's 117 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,600 going on with that either. I saw some headlines on 118 00:07:11,639 --> 00:07:14,000 it the other day, like, to me, this is it's 119 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,120 an this is an egregious violation of law in my 120 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:21,360 view by the Trump administration. The law was passed, it 121 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:24,360 was signed into law. It was bipartisan telling TikTok it's 122 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,800 got to divest and that's it. And now he's delaying 123 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,839 the implementation of a law and you don't have the 124 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:32,199 authority to do that. Yet nobody is suing over it. 125 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:34,399 And I think I saw something where they were talking 126 00:07:34,399 --> 00:07:36,399 about like Oh well, we'll just you know, have the 127 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:39,800 government take it over. Like what, No, what are you 128 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:42,639 talking about. That wasn't part of the law. You got 129 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,480 to divest this thing to some other, some other private 130 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:51,040 ownership that's not controlled by the chi cooms, right, see 131 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:53,040 that I can. I'm talking about other issues. So here's 132 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,639 one too. The other day when I was talking about 133 00:07:54,639 --> 00:08:00,240 the ICA, I think it was the ICA and and 134 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:04,079 I was accused of, you know, trying to distract away 135 00:08:04,079 --> 00:08:09,600 from the Epstein files, and the person on the text 136 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,920 line I think they said something to the effect of, oh, 137 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,040 what's next Hillary Clinton's emails? And I said at the time, 138 00:08:16,279 --> 00:08:18,759 as a matter of fact, I do have an update 139 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,040 on the email story. I didn't get to it that day, 140 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:25,600 but I'm going to get to it up next. You know, 141 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,240 stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 142 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,680 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 143 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,039 our past while transcending generations. 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For years, 162 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,519 Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Ron Johnson 163 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,120 of Wisconsin have been seeking the release of a thing 164 00:09:49,159 --> 00:09:53,759 called the Clinton Annex. It's not a building, okay, it's 165 00:09:53,799 --> 00:09:56,840 a report. It's I don't know why they just call it. 166 00:09:56,879 --> 00:10:00,320 Don't call it an appendix or something that's not the 167 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,080 body part. But like the in a report, the stuff 168 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,799 at the end, you have this appendix. They call it 169 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,279 an annex. It's just something you tack on to the 170 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:12,759 end of a report. And much like the Steele dossier 171 00:10:13,039 --> 00:10:16,879 was added as an anex to the Intelligence Community assessment. Right, 172 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:25,039 so the Clinton annex was an appendix to a Department 173 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,600 of Justice Inspector General report from back in June of 174 00:10:29,639 --> 00:10:35,440 twenty eighteen. Right, so, two years after Trump beat Clinton, 175 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,960 DOJ and the put their Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, put 176 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:48,360 out this report about the DOJ and FBI's handling of 177 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:51,480 what they called Midyear Exam. That was the name of 178 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:56,240 the investigation Midyear Exam, which was the investigation into Hillary 179 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:01,080 Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure 180 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,720 as Secretary of State. Okay, once again, I'm going to 181 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:08,360 point this out because so many people are misled or 182 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:15,240 ignorant of the fact that this scandal, the smoking gun 183 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:18,200 in the scandal, let me say, was the existence of 184 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,879 the server in the first place. That's the scandal. That 185 00:11:23,159 --> 00:11:26,039 or that's the smoking gun of the scandal. The existence 186 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,919 of the quote homebrew server. She literally had somebody come 187 00:11:31,919 --> 00:11:35,879 in and set up a server, not an email account. 188 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,399 This isn't like you know, Hillary at Gmail, at Yahoo whatever. 189 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,960 This is a server. So she could have I forigured 190 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,840 what the extension was. It was like Clinton mail or yeah, 191 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,440 something like that dot com. And the reason why you 192 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,960 would set up your own server versus just having an 193 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,360 email account is so you can control all of the 194 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:08,240 emails and the data that is in the emails. Because 195 00:12:08,279 --> 00:12:12,200 if I use my you know, Yahoo account or my AOL, 196 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:17,440 I'm just getting nobody uses that. Actually some people still 197 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:24,279 do use it. But if I use those email servers, Gmail, Yahoo, whatever, 198 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,080 and I delete all of my emails and then I had, 199 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,399 you know, stuff in there that the Department of Justice 200 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,039 wants to see, they can go to Google or Yahoo 201 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:36,480 and they can say, hey, give us all of the 202 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,200 server info on all of Pete's emails, and if they 203 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,120 have a subpoena, they can go and get them. So 204 00:12:46,159 --> 00:12:48,720 the reason you would have the server is so you 205 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:51,759 can delete all of that and then there's no way 206 00:12:51,799 --> 00:12:56,240 to retrieve it. Right, That's the point. There's no other 207 00:12:56,279 --> 00:13:00,279 reason why you would go through the hassle and the 208 00:13:00,399 --> 00:13:06,440 expense of building and maintaining and using a private server, 209 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:10,799 except to control the data, so you can then delete 210 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:15,679 it all and avoid Freedom of Information Act requests, right, 211 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:21,840 avoid subpoenas, avoid incriminating information or data, stuff that you're 212 00:13:21,919 --> 00:13:25,080 not supposed to be sending yourself or passing along to 213 00:13:25,159 --> 00:13:28,679 other people, or talking with people about certain things like. 214 00:13:28,759 --> 00:13:31,039 All of that stuff then gets deleted and nobody can 215 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,879 go back and get it if they have a subpoena. 216 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:37,559 That's the problem with having your own server. That's why 217 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,519 that's the smoking gun, and it always was. It's not 218 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,519 about put her emails. It's not her emails. I mean, yes, 219 00:13:44,519 --> 00:13:46,360 it's about the content in the emails, but that's not 220 00:13:46,399 --> 00:13:48,279 the smoking gun. The smoking gun was all the stuff 221 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:50,759 that she deleted, the thirty three thousand emails. The reason 222 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,039 she was able to do that was because she owned 223 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:56,200 the server and wiped it like with a cloth, ha 224 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,879 ha ha, as she said, with a cloth, and then 225 00:13:58,919 --> 00:14:04,559 of course went and bashed the phones with hammers to 226 00:14:04,759 --> 00:14:08,679 destroy any ability to retrieve information off of the phones 227 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:13,480 as well. These are not the behaviors of somebody who 228 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:19,159 is not trying to hide something. Okay, So Chuck Grassley 229 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,279 and Ron Johnson have been trying to get this thing 230 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,960 called the Clinton annex this appendix that was part of 231 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,679 the DOJ Inspector General report, and Grassley announced finally that 232 00:14:30,759 --> 00:14:35,159 Attorney General Pambondi and FBI Director Cash Pttel have finally 233 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,240 released it. They released the thirty one page document to 234 00:14:38,279 --> 00:14:43,759 the public this week. They did this on Monday. The FBI. 235 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,960 Here's the Washington Examiner piece by Kaylin Deese. The FBI, 236 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:54,080 under former President Barack Obama failed to examine fully several 237 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:59,960 thumb drives containing hacked State Department data, including messages link 238 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,279 to Obama, during the twenty sixteen investigation of Hillary Clinton's 239 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,519 use of a private email server. So not only did 240 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,159 she have the server that was then you know, bleach 241 00:15:12,279 --> 00:15:15,679 bit cleansed, wiped with a cloth, not only was the 242 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:21,399 server uh compromised and you know, cleaned up, but apparently 243 00:15:21,399 --> 00:15:24,639 there were thumb drives and I guess they didn't get 244 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:29,759 to those, but the FBI got them. The thumb drives 245 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:35,000 were actually supplied by a confidential source, but they were 246 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,639 deemed too sensitive to be reviewed fully at the time 247 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,960 due to concerns about the privileged victim data they could contain. 248 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:53,320 Victim data m A draft memo within the FBI recommended 249 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,600 analyzing the material to quote, assess the national security risks 250 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,639 tied to Clinton's server, a stick that the bureau ultimately 251 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:09,000 declined to take. So you have these thumb drives, they've 252 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,840 got information on it. Somebody, some confidential source, gave these 253 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:20,799 thumb drives to the authorities, to the DJ and the 254 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:25,879 FBI said, hey, we should like look at the analysts. 255 00:16:25,879 --> 00:16:27,559 We're like, hey, we should analyze this stuff, see if 256 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,600 there's any national security threats. And the FBI said, leadership 257 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:34,240 said no, we're not going to look at this stuff. 258 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,000 The revelations have renewed scrutiny of former FBI Director James Comey, 259 00:16:39,159 --> 00:16:43,559 whose team limited the scope of the Clinton investigation while 260 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,759 aggressively pursuing allegations of collusion by then candidate Donald Trump 261 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:54,559 and Russia. I am completely shocked at this development. This 262 00:16:54,639 --> 00:16:58,279 is why no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges. 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Going over this latest update 288 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:33,200 in the Hillary Clinton server scandal from Yes what at 289 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,480 twenty sixteen, nine years ago, eight years ago, we just 290 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:41,440 finally got the Clinton annex published thirty one page document 291 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:48,599 where it describes the existence of thumb drives, and the 292 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,319 FBI did not use the thumb drives, did not review 293 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,240 the thumb drives as part of its investigation into whether 294 00:18:56,319 --> 00:19:01,880 or not Hillary Clinton was using this server to transmit 295 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,559 top secret sensitive information all around, which, by the way, 296 00:19:05,599 --> 00:19:09,720 she was. And remember the assessment came out afterwards by 297 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:15,440 the Inspector General that near one hundred percent certainty that 298 00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:19,880 foreign entities adversaries hacked into this and were able to 299 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,400 get all of this because she did not encrypt the server, 300 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,880 she did not take safeguards to keep this stuff from 301 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:33,839 being pilford. So this report shows that the FBI Cyber 302 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,599 Division had tried to obtain access to these thumb drives 303 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:45,640 in twenty sixteen, but there were internal objections inside the 304 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:50,240 FBI about privilege. I'm not sure if we can look 305 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:52,359 at that. There may be attorney client privilege or something 306 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,400 in there, or there could be privileged I guess from 307 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,279 the President to the Secretary of State, and so they 308 00:19:58,319 --> 00:20:02,559 blocked the effort. The deputy director of the FBI at 309 00:20:02,599 --> 00:20:04,839 the time was a guide. You probably have never heard 310 00:20:04,839 --> 00:20:09,160 this guy's name, but it was Andrew McCabe. He sought 311 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:14,279 to use the drives in No, No, no, not the 312 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,720 not Hillary's server investigation. No. McCabe sought to use the 313 00:20:19,759 --> 00:20:25,240 thumb drives in the Russia investigation, but he was also denied. 314 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:31,519 Although the drives were queried, so searches were conducted, like, hey, 315 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,200 you know what's in the thumb drives? Where are these 316 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,240 thumb drives? What's the information in there? Because the FBI 317 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:43,319 has its own internal like file management system. The drives 318 00:20:43,319 --> 00:20:47,519 were queried at least three different times, including once by 319 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:53,720 the Special Council Robert Mueller's office, so they knew they existed, 320 00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:57,039 apparently looked, they searched for them, but there was no 321 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:03,160 comprehensive review of their contents. The appendix also highlighted foreign 322 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:08,359 intelligence that the FBI encountered during the investigation, including Russian 323 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:14,039 language documents that alleged political interference by Komy and then 324 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,759 Attorney General Loretta Lynch Oh, Well, I think I know 325 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:21,079 why they didn't want the thumb drives to be queried 326 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:28,279 or to be investigated and reviewed. Right, If Komi's name 327 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:33,440 is in there, think about the timing on this, by 328 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:39,799 the way the Clinton campaign had built or paid for 329 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,480 the Steele dossier, and if they were trying to inject 330 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:49,960 this into the intelligence community bloodstream in order to secure 331 00:21:50,039 --> 00:21:56,440 her victory. If there was proof in these thumb drives 332 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,559 or on the server, I don't think think the people 333 00:22:00,559 --> 00:22:03,039 that were helping her inject it into the bloodstream would 334 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:08,039 want that to be divulged. Right. The documents also included 335 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:14,359 claims about Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was the chairwoman of 336 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:20,000 the DNC at the time, right claims about Wi Wasserman 337 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:27,519 Schultz and George Soros linked operatives. They were reviewed and dismissed, 338 00:22:27,519 --> 00:22:31,039 though as unreliable according to FBI agents that were cited 339 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:35,240 in the Inspector General report at the time. Komi defended 340 00:22:35,279 --> 00:22:40,079 his July fifth, twenty sixteen decision to exonerate Clinton publicly 341 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:47,240 before interviewing several key witnesses. He cited concerns about internal leaks. 342 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,079 We can't possibly bring her in because people will talk. 343 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,119 He had no problem about all the leaks that he 344 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:58,839 was doing against Trump. Obviously, his decision made. His decision 345 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,400 was made without even notifying Loretta Lynch, who was the 346 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,960 attorney general. That has remained a point of controversy, particularly 347 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,680 because the FBI soon launched its Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which 348 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,240 targeted Trump's twenty sixteen campaign. The revelation also comes as 349 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:19,759 the FBI under the Trump administration is now actively investigating 350 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:24,119 Komy and XCIA director John Brennan over their roles in 351 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,440 the origins of the Trump Russia investigation and possible misconduct 352 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:33,880 tied to intelligence handling. That's all from the Washington Examiner. 353 00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:37,200 Back to Legal Insurrection, They've got a quote here from 354 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:43,480 Chuck Grassley's memo. He said, under Komey's leadership, the FBI 355 00:23:43,599 --> 00:23:47,799 failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces 356 00:23:47,839 --> 00:23:51,119 of evidence on the cutting room floor. The Komy FBI's 357 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,720 negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the 358 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,960 Clinton investigation is a stark contrast to its full throated 359 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,920 investigation of the true from Russia collusion hoax, which was 360 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:07,000 based on the uncorroborated, discredited Steele dossier. Komi's decision making 361 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:11,480 process smacks of political infection. Okay, hang on, there is 362 00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:16,759 a perfectly reasonable explanation for why it would seem that 363 00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:22,839 his decision making process smacks of political infection. It's because 364 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,839 it's politically infected. Okay, Like that's the reason why it 365 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,559 seems like that is because it obviously was the FBI's 366 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:34,720 failure to examine eight thumb drives that were obtained from 367 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,119 a confidential source that contained a large volume of emails 368 00:24:38,559 --> 00:24:43,759 obtained through redacted cyber intrusions into the Department of State. 369 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,920 So that's where the info came from. Cyber intrusions by somebody, 370 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,039 some entity something into the Department of State. That's how 371 00:24:53,039 --> 00:24:56,000 they got the emails. So they didn't get it from 372 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,920 her server. The report states that, but at the vast majority. 373 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,160 So that tells me that maybe we hacked somebody who 374 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,319 had hacked her. Right if the Russians, let's say, hacked 375 00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:10,960 into her emails through her server and got this stuff, 376 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,240 and then then we hacked into Russia and we got 377 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:17,240 them back. Basically, we saw what they saw and put 378 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,319 them all on thumb drives and then the FBI has 379 00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:20,839 got it, and they're like, yeah, we can't use this. 380 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,839 Oh my gosh, the boss's name is in here. Let's 381 00:25:24,839 --> 00:25:27,319 not look at that. Let's not look at that. All right. 382 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,160 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 383 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,960 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 384 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,079 I know you do too. And you've probably heard me 385 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,319 say get your news from multiple sources. 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The blind spot feature 396 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:11,519 shows you which stories get ignored by the left and 397 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,640 the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news 398 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,079 slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 399 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,200 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 400 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,680 get unlimited access to every feature your subscription then not 401 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,720 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news 402 00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:33,559 as they make the media landscape more transparent. Stan texts 403 00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:37,200 When Jim Comey said no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges 404 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,920 in this case regarding the Hillary investigation, was he aware 405 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,640 of the thumb drives and the information they contained? So 406 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,400 I got it, So I would say like ninety nine 407 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,119 percent with certainty. Yes, he was aware that the thumb 408 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,799 drives existed. Was he aware of everything on there? Probably not? 409 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,720 Maybe so because they shut down. I guess they started 410 00:26:58,759 --> 00:27:00,599 looking at some of it and then they were like, no, 411 00:27:00,839 --> 00:27:02,119 we're not going to look at any of this, and 412 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,039 then they just buried this stuff. And Grassley has been 413 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:09,559 trying to get this released for eight years, and now 414 00:27:10,519 --> 00:27:14,000 now he got the annex that talks about the thumb 415 00:27:14,079 --> 00:27:16,799 drives because he was obviously tipped off from a whistleblower 416 00:27:16,839 --> 00:27:22,960 that these thumb drives existed. They had eight of them. 417 00:27:23,799 --> 00:27:26,000 The report stated that the vast majority of the data 418 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,640 was never reviewed by the FBI, including the for counter 419 00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:34,720 intelligence purposes, so it may not so Comy may not 420 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:36,640 have even known about some of the stuff that was 421 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,000 in there. But somebody obviously saw enough where they were like, 422 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,519 stop looking. The FBI stated reason for not pursuing it 423 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:47,720 was their concern that information from certain US victims may 424 00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:53,200 be privileged. The OIG Office of Inspector General noted that 425 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,640 they had obtained a copy of a draft of an 426 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:00,359 FBI memo from late May twenty sixteen, which said that 427 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,680 an examination of the thumb drives was essential in conducting 428 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:09,799 a thorough and complete investigation and to assess the national 429 00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:14,519 security risks associated with Clinton's use of a private email server. 430 00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:20,960 But quote, the FBI never finalized the memo or submitted 431 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,640 a request to the State Department. Although the source, date 432 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,039 and nature of one of the documents cited in the 433 00:28:28,079 --> 00:28:33,000 report are redacted, it states, quote Obama is not in 434 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:37,319 the mood to mar the very final segment of his presidency, 435 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,880 his legacy with a scandal around a leading nominee for 436 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,000 the Democratic Party. To deal with this, he is using 437 00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:49,400 Attorney General Loretto Lynch to mount pressure on FBI Director 438 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:58,200 James comy alas so far with no concrete results. End quote. 439 00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:03,880 What does that mean? Obama was mad at the server scandal, 440 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,200 he was mad at Hillary. He did not want this 441 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,839 to mar his very final segment of his presidency, his 442 00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:19,680 legacy with this scandal, and so he is using his 443 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:28,640 ag Loretta Lynch to pressure the FBI director. Do you remember. 444 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,559 I'm old enough to remember this. Maybe you're not, but 445 00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:35,079 do you remember there were all these concerns about Donald 446 00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:38,519 Trump politicizing the Department of Justice. Do you remember that? 447 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,839 I mean it was a while ago. Oh, that's right, 448 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,079 it was after this. This is like the iron law 449 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,200 of woke projection, right, like they are guilty of that 450 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:56,079 which they accuse you. They were pressuring the FBI director 451 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,720 on this to make this go away, and lo and behold, 452 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,839 it did Loretta Lynch she had no idea. Oh my gosh, 453 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,400 she wasn't even told about this. That was the line. 454 00:30:04,519 --> 00:30:07,440 I just read that line in another story that Loretta 455 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:10,359 Lynch was blindsided by Comey's announcement. She had no idea. 456 00:30:10,799 --> 00:30:14,960 That's horse hockey. Obviously, she was pressuring him to make 457 00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:19,799 this thing go away. That's according to whatever this email 458 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,799 was that was picked up off of the thumb drive, 459 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,359 which is completely relevant to this investigation that the FBI 460 00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:30,119 was supposed to be conducting. The same document references media 461 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,000 reports suggesting possible corruption within the Clinton State Department, including 462 00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:39,160 claims that the Secretary of State gave preferential treatment to 463 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:49,680 Clinton Foundation donors. I am shocked, shocked that there is 464 00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:54,680 gambling occurring here. You're winning, sir, thank you. Oh yeah, 465 00:30:54,759 --> 00:30:57,559 this is exactly what we all suspected was the case, 466 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,599 it states. Quote according to Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, so far, 467 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,440 the FBI does not have any hard evidence against Hillary 468 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,880 Clinton because data was removed from the mail servers just 469 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,000 in time. End quote. Well, which mail servers would that 470 00:31:18,079 --> 00:31:23,200 be the ones Hillary controlled? See? Because you can't delete 471 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,359 them from the servers if it's on the State Department servers, 472 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,039 because those don't get deleted, those get saved. Those get 473 00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:33,319 saved because you might need them for Freedom of Information 474 00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:37,880 Act requests. But when you control the server, you get 475 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,559 to wipe them, which is what Hillary did, and Wasserman 476 00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:47,680 Schultz was aware of why she wiped him. So far, 477 00:31:47,759 --> 00:31:50,519 the FBI doesn't have any hard evidence because Hillary Clinton 478 00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:54,640 against Hillary Clinton because data was removed from the mail 479 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,559 servers just in time. Again. She was the Democrat National 480 00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:04,200 Committee Chair from twenty eleven through July of twenty sixteen. 481 00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:09,519 In the end, the OIG report largely confirmed what many 482 00:32:09,559 --> 00:32:13,480 had previously suspected, that the government was merely going through 483 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:21,640 the motions when it came to investigating Hillary Clinton. From 484 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,640 the text line, Joey says, of course, Comy knew what 485 00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:27,359 was in there. Yeah, Like, if I had to bet, 486 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,200 I would say, yes, he did know what was in there, 487 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,519 unless you want plausible deniability, right, which is possible, Like 488 00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:37,200 he could say, don't tell me what's in there. So 489 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,759 this way, if anybody asks, I can simply say I 490 00:32:41,799 --> 00:32:43,720 don't know. I've not seen it. I was unaware of 491 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,839 what was in there, Right he could, He would have 492 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:53,240 believability when he denies this stuff. Somebody says on the 493 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,880 text line, nothing is ever deleted. Get some brainiac it 494 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,440 wizard to have a look under the hood. I believe 495 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,799 they did, but it was she used a program called 496 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:05,079 bleach bit, I believe, which would be a fantastic advertisement 497 00:33:05,079 --> 00:33:06,720 for bleach bit if they ever wanted to use that. 498 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,519 Like we wipe the Secretary of State server, we can 499 00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:14,119 do yours too. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 500 00:33:14,119 --> 00:33:16,200 Thank you so much for listening. 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