New Docs Reveal Shocking Lengths Obama And Biden Went To Protect Hillary Clinton, Get Trump
he Obama-Biden Administration prevented agents investigating Hillary Clinton from reviewing some eight thumb drives of intel based on purported concerns over executive and congressional privilege, newly released documents reveal. This reality renders last month’s revelation that the Biden Administration approved Special Counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenaing of congressional Republicans’ toll records even more appalling — and the Democrats’ weaponization of the criminal justice system even more obvious and outrageous.
Last week, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released another tranche of documents he obtained through his relentless efforts to expose the weaponization of the Department of Justice. With whistleblowers feeding Grassley specifics of the Deep State’s nefarious doings, the Iowa Republican knew precisely which documents to request, as shown by the details contained in the nearly 100 pages of emails and timelines released one week ago. Those documents exposed efforts by the Obama Administration and DOJ and FBI holdovers under Trump 1.0 to obstruct the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A December 31, 2020 email from the then-U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Cody Hiland, to Jonathan Ross, who served as Hiland’s first assistant under Trump 1.0, capsulizes the obstruction the duo faced while attempting to investigate the Clinton Foundation. “What a bizarre, unsettling time that was,” Hiland opened, adding that he was thankful Ross was “there to go through the fire” with him.
“We’ve done what we can about the interference by DOJ and FBI leadership at the time with the FBI’s investigation,” Hiland wrote in the email he sent as he stepped down as U.S. attorney following Biden’s election in 2020.
In addition to that email, the document cache Grassley released last week revealed extensive obstruction into the investigation into Hillary Clinton first by the Obama Administration, but also continuing into Trump’s first term. But on his final day as U.S. attorney, Hiland focused on one specific detail: the Deep State’s secreting of classified appendices.
While Hiland’s December 31, 2020 email does not identify the appendices at issue, the thread below the email from the outgoing U.S. attorney does, with then-AUSA Ross referencing the fact “that despite numerous requests, Main Justice and the FBI refused to grant us access to the sensitive law enforcement appendices to the OIG report that was issued on 6/14/2018 titled ‘A Review of Various Actions by the FBI and DOJ in Advance of the 2016 Election.’” That OIG report detailed misconduct in the FBI’s handling of its Midyear Exam investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of classified documents.
Given Hiland and Ross’s focus on those two appendices, revisiting them seemed in order.
According to the OIG Report, the first appendix discussed “highly classified information relevant to the Midyear investigation” into Clinton’s mishandling of classified information. The second appendix, the OIG Report explained, contained a more fulsome version — including Law Enforcement Sensitive information — of Chapter Thirteen’s discussion concerning whether FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe violated his recusal obligations by working on various investigative matters related to Clinton.
In July of this year, after having sought the release of the first appendix for more than six years, Grassley succeeded in securing its declassification. The Iowa senator and godfather of whistleblowers then released the appendix, calling it the Clinton Annex.
The press release Grassley issued with the Clinton Annex understandably stressed that the recently declassified appendix revealed “an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s email usage and mishandling of highly classified information.” “Under Comey’s leadership, the FBI failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces of evidence on the cutting room floor,” Grassley wrote at the time.
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