It's Been Revealed Why Hillary Clinton Wasn't Charged With A Crime
this FBI agent Peter struck who is now at the center of a new investigation was
on the ground floor of the Clinton email counterintelligence referral from the
intelligence community Inspector General to the FBI in 2015 after highly
classified information passed through Clinton's unsecured server used
exclusively for government business and according to a lengthy New York Times
profile an FBI director James Comey just two weeks before he was fired a profile
done with the full cooperation of the FBI media office this FBI agent struck
was central to discussions about intent in whether to prosecute Clinton under
the gross negligence statute the intent is not required he was also a key player
in drafting of the July statement by director Comey that recommended against
criminal charges now referred to as the exoneration statement and he was in the
lead on the review of classified emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer that
belonged to his estranged wife of Clinton 8 Huma Abedin this review
reopened and closed the Clinton email case just days before the election the
fired FBI director took issue with the president's statements saying in a tweet
that he wants the American public to know the FBI is honest strong and
independent this morning as senior presidential adviser to mr. Trump said
he is on solid ground this revelation that a decidedly definitively anti-trump
FBI investigator was involved in the Hillary Clinton interviews as the
president says is now starting to make a lot of sense it's very frustrating to
many many law-abiding Americans who look up and always see a double standard
always sees special exceptions for Hillary Clinton Comey and his old boss
the Attorney General Loretta Lynch are also the subject of a Justice Department
inspector general investigation for their actions during the Clinton email
case and how it was handled specifically with Comey going outside the chain of
command with that statement in July of last year Sandra and Catherine are we
seeing strong congressional reaction to all of this well in the sunday talk
shows a senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham cautioned the president
against speaking out too heavily I would just say this is president there's no
going criminal investigation coming maybe part of it you tweet and comment
regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril I'd be
careful if I were you mr. president I've watched this and with the big
development Friday that former national security advisor Mike Flynn has pled
guilty to lying to the FBI that's a violation of 18 USC a thousand and one
over his conversations with the Russian ambassador and a plea agreement that
stipulates a full cooperation in the possible prosecution of other
individuals a senior Senate Democrat is predicting a more fallout for the White
House Sandra an FBI probe begun to find corruption in government may simply have
exposed corruption within the FBI itself in the last few days we've learned a
great deal about a man called Peter struck until recently struck was deputy
head of counterintelligence at the FBI for the past two years he was central to
investigations into both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump last summer Strock was
abruptly pulled off Robert Muller's team of investigators didn't become public
for months but it happened the FBI won't explained why it happened even when
asked directly by the Congress now we know it happened because Strock was
sending highly political text messages to his mistress who also worked at the
FBI messages praising Hillary Clinton and denigrating Donald Trump now why
does this matter exactly well because everything about Peter Struck's job was
essentially political Strock was the man who signed off on starting the current
Russia investigation the one that has totally overtaken the federal government
Shrock was also the official who altered James Comey statement to avoid
criminally implicating Hillary Clinton in her now famous server investigation
in other words stalks political opinions mattered in fact they may have changed
American history and illustrate it consider this consider how agent
Sturrock handled two different series of interviews in criminal investigations
according to a new piece by Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller Strock was the agent
who personally interviewed Hillary Clinton's top aides Cheryl Mills and
Huma Abedin during the server investigation government notes from
those interviews show that Abidine told the FBI she had no idea that Hillary
Clinton was maintaining a private email server in fact only learned about
it in the media mills for her part went even further than that she claimed that
not only did she not know about Hillary's server she had no clue what an
email server was here's the problem it looks like both Mills and Aberdeen lied
in a 2010 email to Aberdeen Cheryl Mills wrote this quote HRC email coming back
is server ok and quote so it turns out Cheryl Mills knew exactly what a server
was a year later Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper emailed Huma Abedin to say
he had shut down Hillary's server in response to a hacking attempt Cooper
also explicitly told the FBI in his own interview that he discussed Clinton's
email server with whom in Aberdeen in 2009 while that server was being set up
any reasonable person would conclude that both Mills and Aberdeen were lying
baldly when they told the FBI they knew nothing about Clinton's email server
lying to the FBI as we've all just been reminded is a felony
yet neither Mills nor Aberdeen was charged or prosecuted for that former
national security adviser Michael Flynn must be looking on at all this in
bewilderment agent struck it turns out interviewed him too but unlike Hillary
Clinton's aides Michael Flynn didn't get a pass Flynn just pled guilty to a
serious federal crime his life has been destroyed he said to sell his house to
pay his legal bills two cases same crime wildly different outcomes one that you
have in common well one highly political FBI agent all
of this raises the question what other cases has agent struck influenced in
recent years the public has a right to know the answer to that immediately the
FBI belongs to voters not to Peter struck and his friends the FBI doesn't
see it that way of course from their perspective you've got a right to shut
up and do what you're told and by the way you'll stop asking so many questions
if you know what's good for you this is exactly how the secret police start when
law enforcement agencies decide to do the bidding of politicians rather than
pursue impartial justice on behalf of the public we've got to nip this
nightmare in the bud right now dan Vaughn Gino is a former NYPD officer and
he joins us tonight so Dan obviously I don't most America
don't want to think badly of the FBI or to suspect that politics are behind key
decisions in investigations but I am sincerely baffled as to how human
Abidine and Cheryl Mills could apparently lie in their interviews to
the FBI and escape any kind of penalty and Michael Flynn lies and pleads to a
felony charge how can that be because Tucker this is the weaponization
of your government and mine you know as a former federal agent and someone who
worked inside the White House if you're not scared of your government tonight
this case should at least tickle you a little bit and wake you up Donald
Trump's crime make no mistake at this point was winning this presidential
election Tucker let's walk through just quickly
how this started this was all based on a crime a crime using the air could the
dreaded air quotes here of a violation of the Logan Act an act that has never
been successfully prosecuted in the history of the constitutional republic
which says that private citizens can't negotiate with foreign governments
really why isn't Jimmy Carter in jail for going to visit the Palestinians why
isn't Jesse Jackson in jail for going to North Korea
the answer is because nobody took over the rock Obama who's abroad negotiating
global warming and it's in effect all the time or Bill Clinton or any former
president you know including Ronald Reagan I mean you're right it's
ridiculous Obama who was just overseas doing that by the way this and and who
started this whole thing with the Logan act according to multiple reports
they've seen out there now Sally Yates who then used the premise of violating
the Logan act a largely fictitious crime no one's ever been prosecuted with use
that as a premise to go to the White House and say well Mike Flynn is now
subjected and could potentially be bribed because he violated a crime no
one's ever been prosecuted for the Tucker this is a frightening case and
then double that down with Andrew Weissman and Jim Comey Jim Comey who
acknowledged starting the special counsel after he was fired by leaking
sensitive data to the press this case stinks it's a scam it's a sham and it
should scare every American regardless of your political stripes so I guess
what confuses me is the lack of oversight for whatever reason and
honestly I'm confused by it the executive branch the White House
leadership the DOJ haven't done a lot to rein them in but the Congress also has
oversight over the FBI and it's not clear to me why FBI officials who refuse
to answer basic questions like what's in stocks texts why they're not being held
in contempt of Congress yeah what's what's doubly frightening about this
Tucker is they're stonewalling on congressional requests for information
and they're looking at potentially by Devin unions being held in contempt of
court think about we're talking about here Tucker the the branch of government
most intimately related to the people the House of Representatives elected
every two years they represent the smallest number of people at the federal
level these are the accountable Anthony's they have said the
representatives of the people the FBI give us this information now there is
something going on and we demand as representative people to know it and the
FBI not a knock on the men and women I'll be crystal clear they're wonderful
I've worked with them they're great FBI management someone there who's been
infected with the political bug has said nah we're just not going to abide by
that I mean what are you operating a shadow government are you are you
serious can Congress as demanded answers and
you're just saying no we're not gonna do it I don't understand why everyone seems
so passive in the face of this I mean this is a perversion one of one of the
institutions that most Americans respect and wanna respect the FBI but also it's
the most powerful federal agency I mean they can destroy your life in an
afternoon why is no one stepping forward to rein them in you know that's a great
point Tucker I mean if you're a Democrat in Congress watching this show right now
I know we've got them aren't you worried the government is so powerful right now
that the most powerful man in the world Donald Trump the president is still can
do nothing to stop this investigation this sham investigation for coming after
him if you're a Democrat aren't you a little worried right now that made
boomerang back on you conservatives been worried about this for years it's time
for liberals to wake up and shut this disaster down this is a political witch
hunt at its worst it's an international disgrace right now
what's going on we're being embarrassed on the global stage this is not an
investigation this is a scam liberals used to worry about things like
that before they took power now they just benefit from them dan thanks very
much for that yes sir penis track not the only political
concern for Muller's team as you just heard Dan allude newly released emails
show that a man called Andrew Weissman whose Mahler's deputy on the Russia
probe praised acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to defend
president Trump's travel ban using his work email Weissman sent you an email
after Trump fired her saying and I'm quoting I am so proud and in awe thank
you so much all my deepest respects in other words Weissman despises Trump
so much that he supports politically motivated bureaucratic defiance of the
president nevertheless he remains on Muller's team and it raises a bunch of
obvious questions about the fairness of this process Brit Hume is Fox's senior
political analyst and he joins us now Brit I don't think I mean I've held back
for months now criticizing the Muller investigation because I I want it to be
on the level and I think Americans have a right to believe that justice can be
done in this country and so they're all been all these stories about the number
of Muller deputies who were big Democratic donors ignored them but at
some point you got to wonder how could a team comprised almost exclusively of
people who hate the subject of the investigation conduct an impartial
investigation a fair one I think that's the question Tucker and
it's one that I've been asking myself in the last several days given what we
learned about mr. Strock and now mr. Andrew Weissman and you know for the I
don't first of all I don't like Special Counsel investigations or special
prosecutors or independent counsel or any of the lot I think it's always and
everywhere a terrible idea because it sets up what amounts to an unaccountable
unit using the Justice Department resources but really as a practical
matter outside the Justice Department's control and it puts this creates a
situation in which a prosecutor appointed to do an investigation feels
that it is he is called upon or she is called upon to prosecute so it creates I
think a bias in favor of action even where none may be warranted and it's
been only a handful of these appointed special prosecutors who have ever backed
off and said nothing - nothing to see here
so I think that's a problem now you enter into it this possibility that's
that important figures within the investigation may be harboring serious
bias against the subject of the investigation and I think you have a
problem that is made even worse I this Weissman thing particularly bothers me
after all what was at stake here Tucker with an order that was issued by the
president controversial though it was I don't think it was good policy but I
think he had the legal right to do it and I think the Supreme Court has
signaled in recent days and before that it also thinks he had the legal right to
do it and here was the acting Attorney General in the Justice Department saying
I'm not going to use I'm not going to support you in this I'm not going to
make the case for what you've done here that is a dereliction of duty she was
fired for it she should have been fired for it it was a huge grandstand play she
was widely applauded on the left for doing that but and for this Wiseman guy
to weigh in with this with this this cringing Lee Christmas this email this
suck-up email to her raises I think serious questions about his impartiality
at whether he can be impartial so I think we have some serious questions on
the table here no question about it so the basic question is does this have
anything to do with collusion with Russia and Russia's effect on the 2016
election outcome which was as you know the original pretext for the
investigation that seems to have been abandoned
seems to have noticed its disappearance will this investigation wind up in the
end bearing directly on the question of Russian involvement in the 2016 election
my guess is it will remember tucker this started this investigation which which
which Muller took over started under Comey way back in 2016 and was a
counterintelligence investigation that is to say it was an investigation by the
FBI acting as an intelligence agency to determine the extent of Russia's efforts
to penetrate and influence the election and it was not at that times thought to
be or to be a criminal investigation and in the course of that you'll remember
tucker we now know that James Comey told the president told now president then
candidate Trump that he was not the subject of the investigation or a
subject of the investigation now we have progressed to the point where that it's
taken over by Muller and and in his charge the question of any collaboration
between the Trump campaign and the Russians is certainly part of it but
it's not all there is to it so at some point we're going to get I think from
Muller's team a report on what the Russian side did what they tried to do
and we will find out presumably in the course of that whether they think there
was there was some kind of collaboration between the Trump camp and the Russians
that had any some significant effect on the election I continue to hold out hope
that in the end Muller a man of considerable reputation will have the
integrity if he finds nothing really worthy of prosecution to pass it to say
so but I'm getting less confident of that
by the day I'm afraid I am too I don't want to feel that way but the evidence
is mounting Brit Hume thank you
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