The Department of Justice is requesting that the justification of an FBI raid on a reportedly recognized whistleblower’s home remain secret, according to a letter from U.S. Attorney Robert Robert Hur.
The letter was sent to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on Dec. 7 in response to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Nov. 30 request to unseal court documents that would show the FBI’s rationale for the raid.
The documents could potentially reveal whether the bureau and the magistrate who signed the court order allowing the raid, Stephanie A. Gallagher, knew that the subject was, according to his lawyer, a recognized whistleblower.
Sixteen FBI agents raided Dennis Cain’s Union Bridge, Maryland, home on Nov. 19 for six hours, even though Cain told them that he was a recognized whistleblower and handed classified documents over to the agents.
The documents Cain possessed reportedly showed that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and the Russian company that purchased Uranium One.
Cain gave the documents to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who had a senior official from his office hand-deliver them to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, according to Cain’s layer, Michael Socarras.
Cain, a former employee of an FBI contractor, has not been arrested in connection with the raid.
Whistleblower advocates and defense attorneys have condemned the raid, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley demanded that FBI Director Christopher Wray justify the raid and divulge whether the bureau knew about Cain’s reported disclosure. The Iowa Republican gave Wray until Dec. 12 to respond.
Hur did not address Cain’s reported status as a protected whistleblower in his letter to the court and instead appeared to employ boilerplate objections to keep the documents out of the public. He also did not invoke national security concerns or claim that Cain possessed classified information.
Why can’t they explain why they violated the whistle blower protections Cain was under to the Senate committee? Oh… that’s right. Because “in order to protect the Clinton’s” wouldn’t be a very suitable answer.
@Deplorable Me: Protecting themselves look where the information went and did not go.
Huber is due to give testimony to Congress any day now about Uranium One and the “investigation” into Hillary’s breaking the law with her email server. Look at the precedents- Comey laid out a rock solid case as to why Hillary should have been prosecuted and then gave her a get out of jail free card. Horowitz laid out rock solid evidence of political bias at the FBI and then said there was no bias. It wouldn’t be surprising if Huber lays out rock solid evidence of wrongdoing and lawbreaking with Uranium One and rock solid evidence that the email “investigation” was a sham only to conclude that there is nothing to see.
@another vet: There has always been a tendency to give politicians a pass from criminal punishment feeling public discredit from exposure of the crime is enough. Only when it serves a political purpose, like attacking Cheney with Libby or Trump with Flynn, Cohen or Manafort is actual punishment deemed appropriate. I hope Trump gets an Attorney General that cares about preserving the sanctity of respecting the law and can clear the deep state obstacles that have been, up till now, preventing brazenly obvious disregard for the law and Constitution by the left from being duly punished.
The whole Clinton Foundation needs to be brought down and all those involved brought to justice