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your support. Last hour, I gave you the latest updates
in the Epstein saga. And as I mentioned at the
beginning of the hour, like this is an important story,
recognize why it's important. I gave you the various angles
as to why it's important. Just because the left is
using it to beat up Trump and to try to
divide the right, the MAGA supporters and the BASS doesn't
mean it's not important, okay. And I gave you the
reasons why you got the DOJ. They're going to talk
to Galline Maxwell and all of that, and it's so
interesting to me. I'm not gonna because I went over
all of that in the last hour. I'm only resetting
the table here. As we say in the Biz I'm
resetting the table basically for the podcast listeners because they
get the podcast in three different episodes every day for
each hour. So if you're listening to this, you may
not have listened to our number two. So if you
haven't listened to our number two, like you got to
get reset. So we talked about the Epstein stuff in
the last hour. Not going to go back over it,
but there's something interesting about that story and any coverage
that you do on that or don't do on that.
And on the other side, the stuff that I did
three hours on yesterday on the Intelligence Community Assessment, and
I watch the text line, I watch my email inbox,
and I see the exact same things being said by
the different politically aligned people depending on the issue. On Epstein.
I get, this is all a distraction. Why are you
covering this? You shouldn't cover it. And then I also
get you're not covering this enough. Why aren't you talking
about it? Who's silencing you? Even though I've done multiple
topics or multiple episodes on this very topic over the
last two weeks. Same thing on the Intelligence Community Assessment
and the bombshell that went off Friday through yesterday about
the origins of the Russia hoax right coming from the president,
and the corruption of the intelligence assessment. Why are you
talking about this? This is old news, This doesn't matter.
This is all a deflection from Epstein. It's just it's
just interesting. Again, I can walk and chew gum at
the same time. Seriously, I've done it. I have actually
done it, just to prove to myself that I could
do it. Because so this way I would not make
any false representations that I am able to do this thing.
Beware of people that present false choices to you that
you can't cover this story, because that's a deflection, that's
a distraction when you should be talking about this thing
that I care about. So why do I say that? Well,
I have an email that came in from Mark, subject
line marinating Pete. Why marinate on this like a Rachel
mad Cow. I'm assuming that's a reference to Rachel Maddow
on MSNBC. I haven't seen a program of hers in
probably a decade. I think, does she work like one
day a week? Still? Is that still the thing? I
don't even know. Why marinate on this? I'm sorry, Do
you not want the information? So I present the information?
This is stuff moving in the news, and the reason
why I do it is so you are armed with
that information so you are not blindsided. But if you
don't know what your opponents are talking about, and you
don't know the data points, you're going to look foolish
when you get into an argument with somebody in front
of others. That's how I approach these debates. I don't
go into arguments or debates with people attempting to convince
them that they are wrong. Usually, if I'm in an
argument or a debate with somebody, there are other people around.
There's an audience. Whether it's over the dinner table or
it's on the radio, there's an audience. All I'm trying
to do is to present a better case for the
audien to convince them, Because in a one on one
debate with somebody and you're arguing, you know, different points,
you're not going to get them to be like, oh,
you know what, I never thought about that. I completely
changed my mind. Now you've changed my mind. Pede, You're awesome.
I was wrong. That never happens, right. People get dug
in that they don't move. So I'm trying to present
an argument that persuades the people who are listening who
haven't staked out a public position on something. They're just
there to hear how this argument goes. And so in
that kind of a context, knowing your opponent's arguments and
knowing the issue is paramount. You got to know the details.
And so when I go over the details, then I
get this kind of response, which is shut up. That's
essentially what this is. And I know Mark, he's well intentioned.
I'm not trying. I'm not picking on Mark as an
emailer here a listener. I'm just saying, like, this is
sort of the this is the people refer to these
as the program director emails where people are like, I
don't like you talking about this, so talk about this
other thing. Rush used to talk about this. He called
them the stick to the issues crowd. Remember where whenever
Rush would talk about football or his Apple iPhones, like
whenever he would talk about anything that wasn't politics, he
would get people that were mad at him. You need
to stick to the issues. So anyway, he says, why
mariting on this cover it? Sure, but it's a smaller
version of Russia. Russia Russia as Trump alluded to, which
I think I actually said in the last hour. Here
you go. It's all deflection obviously, as where was any
democrat or media I repeat myself interest in the past
four years. Mark, that's a point that I have made.
I think I actually made that also in the last hour,
and I made it last week when I gave the
update on what was happening with the Epstein files. Then
the wins and next big steps are what's important, by
the way, any criticism on Trump big things. What's up
with TikTok again, supposed to hear a deal two weeks
about four weeks ago. Yeah, I don't know what the
deal is with TikTok And yeah, I don't know what's
going on with that either. I saw some headlines on
it the other day, like, to me, this is it's
an this is an egregious violation of law in my
view by the Trump administration. The law was passed, it
was signed into law. It was bipartisan telling TikTok it's
got to divest and that's it. And now he's delaying
the implementation of a law and you don't have the
authority to do that. Yet nobody is suing over it.
And I think I saw something where they were talking
about like Oh well, we'll just you know, have the
government take it over. Like what, No, what are you
talking about. That wasn't part of the law. You got
to divest this thing to some other, some other private
ownership that's not controlled by the chi cooms, right, see
that I can. I'm talking about other issues. So here's
one too. The other day when I was talking about
the ICA, I think it was the ICA and and
I was accused of, you know, trying to distract away
from the Epstein files, and the person on the text
line I think they said something to the effect of, oh,
what's next Hillary Clinton's emails? And I said at the time,
as a matter of fact, I do have an update
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a piece by Elizabeth Stouffer. No relation to the stuffing
as I understand it, the frozen foods either. For years,
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Ron Johnson
of Wisconsin have been seeking the release of a thing
called the Clinton Annex. It's not a building, okay, it's
a report. It's I don't know why they just call it.
Don't call it an appendix or something that's not the
body part. But like the in a report, the stuff
at the end, you have this appendix. They call it
an annex. It's just something you tack on to the
end of a report. And much like the Steele dossier
was added as an anex to the Intelligence Community assessment. Right,
so the Clinton annex was an appendix to a Department
of Justice Inspector General report from back in June of
twenty eighteen. Right, so, two years after Trump beat Clinton,
DOJ and the put their Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, put
out this report about the DOJ and FBI's handling of
what they called Midyear Exam. That was the name of
the investigation Midyear Exam, which was the investigation into Hillary
Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure
as Secretary of State. Okay, once again, I'm going to
point this out because so many people are misled or
ignorant of the fact that this scandal, the smoking gun
in the scandal, let me say, was the existence of
the server in the first place. That's the scandal. That
or that's the smoking gun of the scandal. The existence
of the quote homebrew server. She literally had somebody come
in and set up a server, not an email account.
This isn't like you know, Hillary at Gmail, at Yahoo whatever.
This is a server. So she could have I forigured
what the extension was. It was like Clinton mail or yeah,
something like that dot com. And the reason why you
would set up your own server versus just having an
email account is so you can control all of the
emails and the data that is in the emails. Because
if I use my you know, Yahoo account or my AOL,
I'm just getting nobody uses that. Actually some people still
do use it. But if I use those email servers, Gmail, Yahoo, whatever,
and I delete all of my emails and then I had,
you know, stuff in there that the Department of Justice
wants to see, they can go to Google or Yahoo
and they can say, hey, give us all of the
server info on all of Pete's emails, and if they
have a subpoena, they can go and get them. So
the reason you would have the server is so you
can delete all of that and then there's no way
to retrieve it. Right, That's the point. There's no other
reason why you would go through the hassle and the
expense of building and maintaining and using a private server,
except to control the data, so you can then delete
it all and avoid Freedom of Information Act requests, right,
avoid subpoenas, avoid incriminating information or data, stuff that you're
not supposed to be sending yourself or passing along to
other people, or talking with people about certain things like.
All of that stuff then gets deleted and nobody can
go back and get it if they have a subpoena.
That's the problem with having your own server. That's why
that's the smoking gun, and it always was. It's not
about put her emails. It's not her emails. I mean, yes,
it's about the content in the emails, but that's not
the smoking gun. The smoking gun was all the stuff
that she deleted, the thirty three thousand emails. The reason
she was able to do that was because she owned
the server and wiped it like with a cloth, ha
ha ha, as she said, with a cloth, and then
of course went and bashed the phones with hammers to
destroy any ability to retrieve information off of the phones
as well. These are not the behaviors of somebody who
is not trying to hide something. Okay, So Chuck Grassley
and Ron Johnson have been trying to get this thing
called the Clinton annex this appendix that was part of
the DOJ Inspector General report, and Grassley announced finally that
Attorney General Pambondi and FBI Director Cash Pttel have finally
released it. They released the thirty one page document to
the public this week. They did this on Monday. The FBI.
Here's the Washington Examiner piece by Kaylin Deese. The FBI,
under former President Barack Obama failed to examine fully several
thumb drives containing hacked State Department data, including messages link
to Obama, during the twenty sixteen investigation of Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server. So not only did
she have the server that was then you know, bleach
bit cleansed, wiped with a cloth, not only was the
server uh compromised and you know, cleaned up, but apparently
there were thumb drives and I guess they didn't get
to those, but the FBI got them. The thumb drives
were actually supplied by a confidential source, but they were
deemed too sensitive to be reviewed fully at the time
due to concerns about the privileged victim data they could contain.
Victim data m A draft memo within the FBI recommended
analyzing the material to quote, assess the national security risks
tied to Clinton's server, a stick that the bureau ultimately
declined to take. So you have these thumb drives, they've
got information on it. Somebody, some confidential source, gave these
thumb drives to the authorities, to the DJ and the
FBI said, hey, we should like look at the analysts.
We're like, hey, we should analyze this stuff, see if
there's any national security threats. And the FBI said, leadership
said no, we're not going to look at this stuff.
The revelations have renewed scrutiny of former FBI Director James Comey,
whose team limited the scope of the Clinton investigation while
aggressively pursuing allegations of collusion by then candidate Donald Trump
and Russia. I am completely shocked at this development. This
is why no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges. Member call
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in the Hillary Clinton server scandal from Yes what at
twenty sixteen, nine years ago, eight years ago, we just
finally got the Clinton annex published thirty one page document
where it describes the existence of thumb drives, and the
FBI did not use the thumb drives, did not review
the thumb drives as part of its investigation into whether
or not Hillary Clinton was using this server to transmit
top secret sensitive information all around, which, by the way,
she was. And remember the assessment came out afterwards by
the Inspector General that near one hundred percent certainty that
foreign entities adversaries hacked into this and were able to
get all of this because she did not encrypt the server,
she did not take safeguards to keep this stuff from
being pilford. So this report shows that the FBI Cyber
Division had tried to obtain access to these thumb drives
in twenty sixteen, but there were internal objections inside the
FBI about privilege. I'm not sure if we can look
at that. There may be attorney client privilege or something
in there, or there could be privileged I guess from
the President to the Secretary of State, and so they
blocked the effort. The deputy director of the FBI at
the time was a guide. You probably have never heard
this guy's name, but it was Andrew McCabe. He sought
to use the drives in No, No, no, not the
not Hillary's server investigation. No. McCabe sought to use the
thumb drives in the Russia investigation, but he was also denied.
Although the drives were queried, so searches were conducted, like, hey,
you know what's in the thumb drives? Where are these
thumb drives? What's the information in there? Because the FBI
has its own internal like file management system. The drives
were queried at least three different times, including once by
the Special Council Robert Mueller's office, so they knew they existed,
apparently looked, they searched for them, but there was no
comprehensive review of their contents. The appendix also highlighted foreign
intelligence that the FBI encountered during the investigation, including Russian
language documents that alleged political interference by Komy and then
Attorney General Loretta Lynch Oh, Well, I think I know
why they didn't want the thumb drives to be queried
or to be investigated and reviewed. Right, If Komi's name
is in there, think about the timing on this, by
the way the Clinton campaign had built or paid for
the Steele dossier, and if they were trying to inject
this into the intelligence community bloodstream in order to secure
her victory. If there was proof in these thumb drives
or on the server, I don't think think the people
that were helping her inject it into the bloodstream would
want that to be divulged. Right. The documents also included
claims about Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was the chairwoman of
the DNC at the time, right claims about Wi Wasserman
Schultz and George Soros linked operatives. They were reviewed and dismissed,
though as unreliable according to FBI agents that were cited
in the Inspector General report at the time. Komi defended
his July fifth, twenty sixteen decision to exonerate Clinton publicly
before interviewing several key witnesses. He cited concerns about internal leaks.
We can't possibly bring her in because people will talk.
He had no problem about all the leaks that he
was doing against Trump. Obviously, his decision made. His decision
was made without even notifying Loretta Lynch, who was the
attorney general. That has remained a point of controversy, particularly
because the FBI soon launched its Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which
targeted Trump's twenty sixteen campaign. The revelation also comes as
the FBI under the Trump administration is now actively investigating
Komy and XCIA director John Brennan over their roles in
the origins of the Trump Russia investigation and possible misconduct
tied to intelligence handling. That's all from the Washington Examiner.
Back to Legal Insurrection, They've got a quote here from
Chuck Grassley's memo. He said, under Komey's leadership, the FBI
failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces
of evidence on the cutting room floor. The Komy FBI's
negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the
Clinton investigation is a stark contrast to its full throated
investigation of the true from Russia collusion hoax, which was
based on the uncorroborated, discredited Steele dossier. Komi's decision making
process smacks of political infection. Okay, hang on, there is
a perfectly reasonable explanation for why it would seem that
his decision making process smacks of political infection. It's because
it's politically infected. Okay, Like that's the reason why it
seems like that is because it obviously was the FBI's
failure to examine eight thumb drives that were obtained from
a confidential source that contained a large volume of emails
obtained through redacted cyber intrusions into the Department of State.
So that's where the info came from. Cyber intrusions by somebody,
some entity something into the Department of State. That's how
they got the emails. So they didn't get it from
her server. The report states that, but at the vast majority.
So that tells me that maybe we hacked somebody who
had hacked her. Right if the Russians, let's say, hacked
into her emails through her server and got this stuff,
and then then we hacked into Russia and we got
them back. Basically, we saw what they saw and put
them all on thumb drives and then the FBI has
got it, and they're like, yeah, we can't use this.
Oh my gosh, the boss's name is in here. Let's
not look at that. Let's not look at that. All right.
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When Jim Comey said no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges
in this case regarding the Hillary investigation, was he aware
of the thumb drives and the information they contained? So
I got it, So I would say like ninety nine
percent with certainty. Yes, he was aware that the thumb
drives existed. Was he aware of everything on there? Probably not?
Maybe so because they shut down. I guess they started
looking at some of it and then they were like, no,
we're not going to look at any of this, and
then they just buried this stuff. And Grassley has been
trying to get this released for eight years, and now
now he got the annex that talks about the thumb
drives because he was obviously tipped off from a whistleblower
that these thumb drives existed. They had eight of them.
The report stated that the vast majority of the data
was never reviewed by the FBI, including the for counter
intelligence purposes, so it may not so Comy may not
have even known about some of the stuff that was
in there. But somebody obviously saw enough where they were like,
stop looking. The FBI stated reason for not pursuing it
was their concern that information from certain US victims may
be privileged. The OIG Office of Inspector General noted that
they had obtained a copy of a draft of an
FBI memo from late May twenty sixteen, which said that
an examination of the thumb drives was essential in conducting
a thorough and complete investigation and to assess the national
security risks associated with Clinton's use of a private email server.
But quote, the FBI never finalized the memo or submitted
a request to the State Department. Although the source, date
and nature of one of the documents cited in the
report are redacted, it states, quote Obama is not in
the mood to mar the very final segment of his presidency,
his legacy with a scandal around a leading nominee for
the Democratic Party. To deal with this, he is using
Attorney General Loretto Lynch to mount pressure on FBI Director
James comy alas so far with no concrete results. End quote.
What does that mean? Obama was mad at the server scandal,
he was mad at Hillary. He did not want this
to mar his very final segment of his presidency, his
legacy with this scandal, and so he is using his
ag Loretta Lynch to pressure the FBI director. Do you remember.
I'm old enough to remember this. Maybe you're not, but
do you remember there were all these concerns about Donald
Trump politicizing the Department of Justice. Do you remember that?
I mean it was a while ago. Oh, that's right,
it was after this. This is like the iron law
of woke projection, right, like they are guilty of that
which they accuse you. They were pressuring the FBI director
on this to make this go away, and lo and behold,
it did Loretta Lynch she had no idea. Oh my gosh,
she wasn't even told about this. That was the line.
I just read that line in another story that Loretta
Lynch was blindsided by Comey's announcement. She had no idea.
That's horse hockey. Obviously, she was pressuring him to make
this thing go away. That's according to whatever this email
was that was picked up off of the thumb drive,
which is completely relevant to this investigation that the FBI
was supposed to be conducting. The same document references media
reports suggesting possible corruption within the Clinton State Department, including
claims that the Secretary of State gave preferential treatment to
Clinton Foundation donors. I am shocked, shocked that there is
gambling occurring here. You're winning, sir, thank you. Oh yeah,
this is exactly what we all suspected was the case,
it states. Quote according to Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, so far,
the FBI does not have any hard evidence against Hillary
Clinton because data was removed from the mail servers just
in time. End quote. Well, which mail servers would that
be the ones Hillary controlled? See? Because you can't delete
them from the servers if it's on the State Department servers,
because those don't get deleted, those get saved. Those get
saved because you might need them for Freedom of Information
Act requests. But when you control the server, you get
to wipe them, which is what Hillary did, and Wasserman
Schultz was aware of why she wiped him. So far,
the FBI doesn't have any hard evidence because Hillary Clinton
against Hillary Clinton because data was removed from the mail
servers just in time. Again. She was the Democrat National
Committee Chair from twenty eleven through July of twenty sixteen.
In the end, the OIG report largely confirmed what many
had previously suspected, that the government was merely going through
the motions when it came to investigating Hillary Clinton. From
the text line, Joey says, of course, Comy knew what
was in there. Yeah, Like, if I had to bet,
I would say, yes, he did know what was in there,
unless you want plausible deniability, right, which is possible, Like
he could say, don't tell me what's in there. So
this way, if anybody asks, I can simply say I
don't know. I've not seen it. I was unaware of
what was in there, Right he could, He would have
believability when he denies this stuff. Somebody says on the
text line, nothing is ever deleted. Get some brainiac it
wizard to have a look under the hood. I believe
they did, but it was she used a program called
bleach bit, I believe, which would be a fantastic advertisement
for bleach bit if they ever wanted to use that.
Like we wipe the Secretary of State server, we can
do yours too. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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