Prosecutor On Special Counsel Jack Smith's Team Shut Down FBI Investigation Into Clinton Foundation In 2016

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[–]unagisongsBurn down Reddit! 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The Clintons are the worst thing to happen to the US. Everywhere they are a monstrosity follows.

There is the banality of evil which is much of the bumbling political class and then there is the sharp as knives that is the Clintons.

I fear their shadow will hang heavy over this country long after they have expired.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Clintons are indeed egregious, but my "worst thing" prize goes to Nixon. When I was a child, I was taught George Washington's "I cannot tell a lie", Abraham Lincoln's "All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my sainted mother", and JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you..." That is, a highly idealized view of presidents as statesmen who were role models for children, avoiding even the appearance of wrongdoing.

That all fell apart with Nixon, who lied, cheated, and did everything to advance himself while pulling the presidency through the mud.

Then we had Reagan, who replaced JFK's idealism and cooperation with "every man for himself".

Clinton just took advantage of the new standards set by Nixon and Reagan. I don't think he would have been possible otherwise.

I talked about the shift from JFK to Reagan in my May 2020 Reddit post Happy Days Aren't Here Again.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think you're right, their tentacles are embedded everywhere.

[–]chakokat 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As soon as Hillary lost the election the “donations” to the Clinton Foundation dropped off significantly. It was clear that the “donations” were made to purchase influence.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What a vipers nest that cabal is.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Quelle surprise!

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A top prosecutor on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team recommended that the FBI shut down an investigation into the Clinton Foundation in 2016, despite ample evidence of suspicious activity related to hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign transactions, Fox News reported.

In his May 2023 report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, Special Counsel John Durham identified Ray Hulser, the former chief of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section (PIN), as the official who “declined prosecution” of the Clinton Foundation. Hulser now serves on Smith’s team currently prosecuting former President Donald Trump for alleged crimes related to January 6.

According to Durham’s report, in late 2014, the FBI began investigating a “well-placed” confidential source’s claims that two foreign governments had attempted to make illegal donations to buy influence with Hillary ahead of her presidential campaign.

By early 2016, three different FBI field offices, in Washington, D.C., Little Rock, Arkansas, and New York, had opened investigations into the Clinton Foundation for “possible criminal activity,” but Hulser shut them down, claiming there was “insufficient predication” for opening the investigations. He reportedly declined to prosecute during a meeting on February 1, 2016.

An individual present for the meeting told Durham that the Justice Department’s reaction to the Clinton Foundation briefing was “hostile.”

Durham included the incident to show “the contrast” between how the FBI handled Clinton investigations in comparison to the Trump-Russia probe, in which members of Trump’s campaign team were improperly surveilled, legally harassed and some prosecuted for unrelated financial crimes and process crimes.