‘Shut it down’: Bombshell FBI timeline exposes political interference in Clinton

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/shut-it-down-bombshell-fbi-timeline-chronicles-political-interference

FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered a bombshell memo written in 2017 chronicling the extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation.
"Shut it down!" then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is quoted as demanding in the detailed timeline of political impediments that agents in New York City, Little Rock, Ark., and Washington D.C. reported.

The agents tried to get the help of federal prosecutors to determine whether or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, most notably, because at that time, her family foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and U.S. interests with business before her department.

The timeline -- written by a DOJ lawyer assigned to the FBI under former bureau Director James Comey -- was recently secured by top aides to Patel along with several corroborating internal emails and was obtained by Just the News. Together, they make clear that both the DOJ and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe placed significant impediments in front of agents who believed they had evidence to justify a public integrity criminal case.

The declassified timeline revealed that as early as February 2016, the Justice Department "indicated they would not be supportive of an FBI investigation." The timeline also shows that, in mid-February 2016, McCabe ordered that "no overt investigative steps" were allowed to be taken in the Clinton Foundation investigation "without his approval" -- a command he allegedly repeated numerous times over the coming months.

[SVPete]

My long held opinion is that one of GWB's greatest domestic mistakes was not cleaning Clinton operatives out of the FBI (and intelligence agencies). The multi-layered crap Trump faced 2017-2021 was a consequence.

[DefiantSix]

My long held opinion is that one of GWB's greatest domestic mistakes was not cleaning Clinton operatives out of the FBI (and intelligence agencies). The multi-layered crap Trump faced 2017-2021 was a consequence.

It would have never happened.

The more I look back on that time and track what did and did not change under Dubya, the more I'm convinced that he's just as much a puppet of the UniParty political caste as his dad, Comrade Billy Jeff or his milquetoast brother Jebby ever were. The only point of the (D) or (R) after their names was to keep the filthy proles divided and conquered by their betters.