Prepare for a jaw-dropping revelation as newly uncovered FBI documents expose a labyrinth of political interference in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s family foundation during her time as Secretary of State.
A 2017 memo and internal emails, recently brought to light by FBI Director Kash Patel, detail how career agents faced relentless obstruction from superiors, the Obama-era Justice Department, and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe while probing potential pay-to-play corruption tied to the Clinton Foundation, as Just the News reports.
The investigation kicked off in early 2015, sparked by allegations in the book Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer, with FBI field offices in New York, Little Rock, and Washington opening preliminary and full investigations by late January 2016 to scrutinize whether foreign and domestic interests funneled millions to the foundation for favorable treatment from Clinton’s State Department.
By February 2016, the Justice Department signaled that it wouldn’t back the FBI’s efforts, with personnel in Little Rock raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest among officials possibly aligned with Democratic Party causes.
On Feb. 17, McCabe, then-deputy director, took the reins, ordering no overt investigative steps without his direct approval -- a directive he reportedly hammered home repeatedly, stalling agents’ progress. Talk about a bureaucratic chokehold!
A late February meeting at FBI Headquarters saw McCabe initially push to shutter all probes, only reconsidering after pushback, while the Criminal Investigative Division doubled down, restricting even basic steps like recruiting new sources without his nod.
By March 2016, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates allegedly barked, “Shut it down!” to federal prosecutors, as chronicled in the timeline. If that’s not a neon sign of interference, what is?
Little Rock’s U.S. Attorney’s Office echoed this shutdown order, leaving agents stranded without permission to secure key documents, while the investigation languished under suffocating oversight.
Come June 27, 2016, a peculiar tarmac meeting unfolded in Phoenix between then-President Barack Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, which Lynch later admitted “went on and on” and was “just too long.” She brushed off recusal, citing a mere “misimpression” of impropriety—hardly a confidence booster.
On July 5, 2016, FBI Director James Comey cleared Hillary Clinton of criminal charges over her private email server use, labeling her actions “extremely careless” but unworthy of prosecution. Inspector General Horowitz later slammed this as “extraordinary and insubordinate,” arguing Comey overstepped the attorney general’s authority.
Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation probe hit more walls, with federal prosecutors in New York’s Southern and Eastern Districts refusing support in August 2016, offering no rationale, as if stonewalling needed no excuse.
By late October, McCabe, who leaked sensitive details to The Wall Street Journal about the foundation probe, was called out by Horowitz for lacking candor and violating FBI media policy -- a misconduct label that ultimately led to his firing in 2018.
After the November 2016 election, McCabe recused himself on Nov. 1, but not before the political damage to Clinton from the probes was largely neutralized, with DOJ officials under the Trump administration later fretting over statutes of limitation and wanting to “close this chapter.”
Fast forward to 2017, and while some DOJ personnel expressed support for Little Rock’s efforts as “the right thing to do,” they admitted hesitance, citing prior orders to stand down -- a frustrating echo of past obstruction.
Patel’s unearthing of this timeline, alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi’s approval of a strike force to probe law enforcement abuses over the past decade, signals a renewed push to uncover whether a broader conspiracy shielded prominent Democrats. If this doesn’t scream for accountability over political favoritism, nothing will.
