Source: FBI agents, DOJ lawyers unanimously agreed Clinton should have been charged

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The decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information has roiled the FBI and Department of Justice, with one person closely involved in the year-long probe telling FoxNews.com that career agents and attorneys on the case unanimously believed the Democratic presidential nominee should have been charged.

The source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity, said FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General’s office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted. More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.

“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute — it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.

A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.”

“It is safe to say the vast majority felt she should be prosecuted,” the senior FBI official told Fox News. “We were floored while listening to the FBI briefing because Comey laid it all out, and then said ‘but we are doing nothing,’ which made no sense to us.”

Andrew Napolitano, former judge and senior judicial analyst for Fox News Channel, said many law enforcement agents involved with the Clinton email investigation have similar beliefs.

“It is well known that the FBI agents on the ground, the human beings who did the investigative work, had built an extremely strong case against Hillary Clinton and were furious when the case did not move forward,” said Napolitano. “They believe the decision not to prosecute came from The White House.”

The claim also is backed up by a report in the New York Post this week, which quotes a number of veteran FBI agents saying FBI Director James Comey “has permanently damaged the bureau’s reputation for uncompromising investigations with his cowardly whitewash of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information using an unauthorized private email server.”

“The FBI has politicized itself, and its reputation will suffer for a long time. I hold Director Comey responsible,” Dennis V. Hughes, the first chief of the FBI’s computer investigations unit, told the Post. Retired FBI agent Michael M. Biasello added to the report, saying, “Comey has singlehandedly ruined the reputation of the organization.”

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Her and Obama belong in the Big House not the Whitehouse and lets throw in bill and Gore as well

My own totally reliable anonymous source says that FOX New’s anonymous source is full of sh-t.

@Greg: Actually there are more sources out there than the one Fox used. I do agree that you accurately described the source you use for all your posts is quite accurate. You finally got something right!

@Randy, #3:

Feel free to name them. The women coming forward accusing Trump all have names.

Trump brought this on himself. First, by his past behavior, and then by asserting on a presidential debate stage that Bill Clinton’s inappropriate behavior somehow reflected on his wife’s character. Apparently there are a number of credible women Trump has personally offended in the past who have taken strong exception to that view. They probably would have said nothing, but Trump took it there. As close as the polls were running, doing so was not a rational move. That might actually be more worrisome than the allegations themselves.

Four women accuse Trump of forcibly groping, kissing them

@Greg:

Below is a detailed list of noteworthy Podesta emails recently released by WikiLeaks –

Hillary Policies –

Hillary Clinton Dreams of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’
Hillary Admits Saudi Arabia and Qatar Fund ISIS – But Took Their Money Anyway
Hillary sat on Board that funded ISIS
Hillary’s own advisor blamed Hillary for Benghazi
Hillary bragged about being invited to Russia’s Putin’s ‘Inner Sanctum’

Hillary team picked Tim Kaine as VP in July 2015

Hillary and the Media –

CNBC Crank John Harwood Abused GOP Candidates at Debate – Then Trashed Them in Email to Hillary Camp
DNC Chief Donna Brazile Conspired with Hillary to Defeat Bernie; Media Assisted Hillary
The List of Reporters Were Taking Marching Orders from Hillary
Bill Clinton sex “allegations are hurting both Clintons”
Hillary Campaign thanking Univision’s owner Haim Saban for its moderators handling of Hillary against Sanders.
Hillary reads script during interview
CNN refers to Hillary as ‘Madre’
Hacks Have Exposed Journalists In Clinton’s Corner…
WASH POST bureau chief protected Podesta…
NYT Gave Hillary Veto Power On Quotes…
BRAZILE BUSTED: DNC Chief Shared CNN Town Hall Questions…
TRUMP: Hillary Wants World Government; Unlimited immigration; Rule by corporations…

(from Conservative Treehouse the emails the media won’t cover)

Corrupt Hillary and Obama –

Hillary team discussed deleting emails knowing it was against the law
Hillary Campaign Was in Touch with Obama DOJ on Email Investigation
Hillary trying to get in front of email issue
Hillary’s attorney David Kendall did not turn over thumb drive and server
Hillary accepting foreign money
Hillary’s team doesn’t know what’s in her emails and is nervous about it
Hillary gave special attention to ‘Friends of Bill’ after Haiti quake
Hillary’s 2009 Catholic liaison arrested for prostitution ring
Top Clinton donor paid $250 million for tax evasion
Clinton Staffers Discussed Which Emails To Release…
And Which to DELETE!

Racist, Elitist, Bernie Fan Hating Hillary –
Hillary’s Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri TRASHES CATHOLICS
Hillary Advisors Admit She “HATES EVERYDAY AMERICANS”
Racist Hillary Trashes African Americans – Calls Them Losers
Hillary Calls Bernie Fans and Millennials “Bucket of Losers” in Goldman Sachs Speech
Hillary Clinton: “I’m Kind of Far Removed from Struggles of Middle Class”
Hillary should stop attacking Bernie, especially when she says things that are untrue, which candidly she often does.
Hillary too afraid to ask for Bernie’s medical records. Knowing Hillary’s medical records are much worse
Massive Clinton ‘hits’ file on Bernie
Hillary says ignorant voters are the key to the win
Hillary wants unaware and compliant citizenry
Dems planned to fool Sanders supporters at convention…
‘His people will think they’ve won something’…
‘Bitching’ Bernie Voters…
Biden Aide Sabotaged His Presidential Aspirations?

Hillary and Catholics

Podesta and Left-Wing Activist Plot ‘Catholic Spring’
Hillary’s Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri TRASHES CATHOLICS…

WikiLeaks – Podesta emails –

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=6

Other –

DC Leaks Website Releases Hacked Clinton State Department Documents

But apparently no one in the FBI felt so strongly about this that they would resign in protest.
Should anonymous sources (to Fox News) be trusted?

@July 4th American:
Bookies have reduced the odds on Trump to about 10-1

OMG.
Locker Room Talk.
Needed: a safe space.
Solution: cancel MSM, NYT, WaPo, etc.
Then you will be safe.

Have I got this right? It was OK when Trump was a Democrat.
But as a Republican this speech makes him unqualified.
If it weren’t for double standards, the Dems would have no standards at all.

Ahh Mathman when he was a Democrat he was not their party’s nominee to be POTUS
Trump would never have received the nomination for the Democratic Party.
Also my “highly placed (but anonymous) source in the FBI says that every FBI agent hearts Clinton.
Anonymous and Fox News go hand in hand. Please compare this to the former nuclear launch officers that were willing to sign their names saying Trump is unfit to control the nuke codes

The FBI is a large organization. Most are responsible people who are proud of their record. I expect more and more leaks from dissatisfied FBI agents.

@john:

Also my “highly placed (but anonymous) source in the FBI says that every FBI agent hearts Clinton.

I find that little nugget somewhat hard to believe, my guess is there are more that despise her than “heart” her. The ones who heart her just want a promotion and to get one, and job security, they play the political game.

@john:

Also my “highly placed (but anonymous) source in the FBI says that every FBI agent hearts Clinton.

FBI and State Department Officials Speak Out on E-Mail Investigation

On October 13, Fox News’s Zimmerman and Housley reported the following:

“The decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information has roiled the FBI and Department of Justice, with one person closely involved in the year-long probe telling FoxNews.com that career agents and attorneys on the case unanimously believed the Democratic presidential nominee should have been charged.

The source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity, said FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General’s office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted. More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.

“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute — it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com. A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.” “It is safe to say the vast majority felt she should be prosecuted,” the senior FBI official told Fox News. “We were floored while listening to the FBI briefing because Comey laid it all out, and then said ‘but we are doing nothing,’ which made no sense to us.”

Zimmerman and Housley’s piece also included those willing to go on the record:

The claim also is backed up by a report in the New York Post this week, which quotes a number of veteran FBI agents saying FBI Director James Comey “has permanently damaged the bureau’s reputation for uncompromising investigations with his cowardly whitewash of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information using an unauthorized private email server.”

“The FBI has politicized itself, and its reputation will suffer for a long time. I hold Director Comey responsible,” Dennis V. Hughes, the first chief of the FBI’s computer investigations unit, told the Post. Retired FBI agent Michael M. Biasello added to the report, saying, “Comey has singlehandedly ruined the reputation of the organization.” Especially angering the team, which painstakingly pieced together deleted emails and interviewed witnesses to prove that sensitive information was left unprotected, was the fact that Comey based his decision on a conclusion that a recommendation to charge would not be followed by DOJ prosecutors, even though the bureau’s role was merely to advise, Fox News was told.

“Basically, James Comey hijacked the DOJ’s role by saying ‘no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case,’” the Fox News source said. “The FBI does not decide who to prosecute and when, that is the sole province of a prosecutor — that never happens. “I know zero prosecutors in the DOJ’s National Security Division who would not have taken the case to a grand jury,” the source added. “One was never even convened.”

Big Three network coverage: 0 seconds

But, john how would you know, the big three media gave it zero coverage…

Not as big a news story as creating news about trump and women…..

@Greg:

The female smear orchestrated by the Clinton smear team is meaningless you fool…..

Hillary Clinton’s $500,000 Bribe to the FBI Came Through Virginia – CONFIRMED!

With more than 50 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents assigned to investigate Hillary Clinton’s criminal use of a private email server, how did she avoid charges?

Now, the smoking gun has emerged.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a long-time Clinton insider and former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, steered at least $675,000 to the election of the wife of an FBI official involved in the Clinton probe. McAuliffe’s political action committee gave $467,500 to the state senate campaign for FBI agent Andrew McCabe’s wife. He is now the deputy director of the FBI.

More money came to her through the Democratic Party of Virginia:

Jill McCabe received an additional $207,788 from the Virginia Democratic Party, the report states, which is heavily influenced by McAuliffe.

The money directed by McAuliffe began flowing two months after the FBI investigation into Clinton began in July 2015. Around that time, the candidate’s husband was promoted from running the Washington field office for the FBI to the No. 3 position at the FBI.

Within a year, McCabe was promoted to deputy director, the second-highest position in the bureau.[…]

Oh, my. CONFIRMED! In all capital letters, followed by an exclamation point!

“Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a long-time Clinton insider and former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, steered at least $675,000 to the election of the wife of an FBI official involved in the Clinton probe.”

Of course for this argument not be be utterly nonsensical, we’ll have to overlook the fact that the FBI official in question had no involvement with the Clinton investigation until the year after the Senate race ended. Up to and through the time of the election, Andrew McCabe was not a Deputy Director. He was involved in counter-terrorism. He wasn’t promoted to Deputy Director until February 1, 2016, upon the retirement of Deputy Director Mark Giuliano.

We’ll also need to overlook the fact that political action committees raise and provide funds to support the election campaigns of candidates that represent the party that they favor. Funds previously raised by the Virginia democratic PAC to support the election of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a democrat, were used to support the 2015 state senate bid of Jill McCabe, also a democrat. That’s perfectly normal. That’s what they all do. That’s the entire point of political action committees.

This is pretty much a textbook example of the right’s willingness to ignore facts and logic. It’s unfortunate that Political Insider isn’t printed on paper. It would make a wonderful garbage wrapper or birdcage liner.

@Greg:

The coverup to hide all of the laws broken by that nasty woman, mrs clinton, flies in the face of decency. That nasty woman, mrs clinton, is an unindicted felon.

Should that nasty woman, mrs clinton, become elected, articles of impeachment should be introduced upon inauguration.

She hasn’t been charged with breaking any laws, let alone convicted.

Why does Vladimir Putin want Trump in the White House?

Because the Obama administration has been an obstacle to his expansionist ambitions in Eastern Europe, and because a Clinton administration would also be an obstacle to his expansionist ambitions in Eastern Europe.

Maybe somebody needs to draw the right a picture, since words don’t seem to be an effective way of pointing out the obvious.

Britain, U.S. sending planes, troops to deter Russia in the east

@Greg:

The day after Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi last October, John Podesta, the Democrat’s campaign chairman, met for dinner with a small group of well-connected friends, including Peter Kadzik, a top official at the Justice Department.
The dinner arrangement, revealed in hacked Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks, is just the latest example of an apparent conflict of interest between the Clinton campaign and the federal agency charged with investigating the former secretary of state’s email practices.
Podesta and Kadzik, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, were in frequent contact, other emails show. In one email from January, Kadzik and Podesta, who were classmates at Georgetown Law School in the 1970s, discussed plans to celebrate Podesta’s birthday. And in another sent last May, Kadzik’s son emailed Podesta asking for a job on the Clinton campaign.
The post-Benghazi dinner was attended by Podesta, Kadzik, superlobbyist Vincent Roberti and other well-placed Beltway fixtures.
The exchanges are another example of the Clinton campaign’s “cozy relationship” with the Obama Justice Department, one former U.S. Attorney tells The Daily Caller.
“The political appointees in the Obama administration, especially in the Department of Justice, appear to be very partisan in nature and I don’t think had clean hands when it comes to the investigation of the private email server,” says Matthew Whitaker, the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a government watchdog group.
“It’s the kind of thing the American people are frustrated about is that the politically powerful have insider access and have these kind of relationships that ultimately appear to always break to the benefit of Hillary Clinton,” he added, comparing the Podesta-Kadzik meetings to the revelation that Attorney General Loretta Lynch met in private with Bill Clinton at the airport in Phoenix days before the FBI and DOJ investigating Hillary Clinton.
Kadzik, who started at the DOJ in 2013, helped spearhead the effort to nominate Lynch, who was heavily criticized for her secret meeting with the former president.
Podesta and Kadzik have a long history — one which has largely gone unnoticed during the ongoing Clinton email scandal.
Kadzik represented Podesta during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. And in the waning days of the Bill Clinton administration, Kadzik lobbied Podesta on behalf of Marc Rich, the fugitive who Bill Clinton controversially pardoned on his last day in office.
That history is cited by Podesta in another email hacked from his Gmail account.
In a Sept. 2008 email, which the Washington Free Beacon flagged last week, Podesta emailed an Obama campaign official to recommend Kadzik for a supportive role in the campaign.
Podesta, who would later head up the Obama White House transition effort, wrote that Kadzik was a “fantastic lawyer” who “kept me out of jail.”

More and more evidence keeps appearing. Others would have been prosecuted if the system was not rigged.

The day after Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi last October, John Podesta, the Democrat’s campaign chairman, met for dinner with a small group of well-connected friends, including Peter Kadzik, a top official at the Justice Department.

The dinner arrangement, revealed in hacked Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks, is just the latest example of an apparent conflict of interest between the Clinton campaign and the federal agency charged with investigating the former secretary of state’s email practices.

Somebody should explain to Michelle Jesse, Associate Editor for
Allen B West, that having dinner with a friend is not itself evidence of a conflict of interest.

What does the right not understand about the fact that people at the upper levels of government, corporate America, the media, or any other category of importance you care to name have social and professional connections with one another? That’s how the world works, how it has always worked, and how it always will work. It’s how societies are organized.

Do you imagine conservatives are an exception? Do you think Donald Trump is an exception?

@Greg:

Robert Creamer Says He Was on Calls With Clinton Campaign ‘Every Morning’

Report: 97 Percent of DOJ Employee Political Donations Went to Hillary Clinton

Clinton Campaign Chairman Had Multiple Dinners With Top DOJ Official During Clinton Email Investigation

Not a BOR fan, but he nails it here:

Bill O’Reilly EXPLODES While Discussing James Comey, New Emails “HE DIDN’T BLANKING MENTION IT”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=m8muhZF9G6g