Disgraced former FBI director Jim Comey slow-walked a FISA warrant that most likely would have found the Clinton campaign accepted foreign donations against FEC regulations, John Solomon reports.
Field agents with the FBI had an open investigation in 2014 focused of foreign finances flowing into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But instead of receiving the FISA warrant they requested, FBI executive leadership briefed the candidate on the issue.
Declassified memos reveal that FBI field agents became frustrated and sent their request outside the chain of command to then-FBI Director James Comey.
“The FISA application has remained in limbo for the last four months, even though subsequent investigative activity by [redacted] provided additional probable cause for the FISA application,” one FBI operative wrote to Comey in April of 2015.
That communication stated the FBI field office leading the probe and requesting the FISA warrant was “still uncertain as to why the application has not been sent to DOJ for final approval although several reasons have been put forth by CD [Criminal Division], most recently that the decision to put the application on hold originated ‘on the seventh floor.’”
FBI leadership decided to provide Clinton’s team with a “defensive briefing” in October of 2015, just as her presidential campaign was gearing up.
According to the declassified memos, the briefing was delivered to Clinton’s legal team led by David Kendall and Katherine Turner.
“Kendall and Turner were advised the FBI was providing them with this briefing for awareness and so Ms. Clinton could take appropriate action to protect herself,” a summary memo stated. “They were also told the FBI was seeking their assistance to identify other appropriate recipients of the brief, if any.”
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Clinton’s lawyers were told, “the campaign should increase its vigilance of contributions related to any of the matters discussed above.”
The name of the foreign country was redacted, but there was “foreign aid money that might be contributed to her campaign should/when she announce(s) her run for POTUS.”
The memos offer no evidence Clinton herself was aware of the plot.
This is one of the recently-released memos declassified by Donald Trump on his last day in office.
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