As the Trump Administration finally releases the underlying documents related to prior scandals and investigations, the public has learned a great deal about the origins of the Russian collusion investigation and other subjects. This week, another document was released explaining why the investigation into the Clinton Foundation seemed to go nowhere. What is less surprising are the characters involved in shutting down the investigation. It is, as Claude Rains would say, “the usual suspects” from former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
Many of us had written about the allegations of influence peddling by the Clintons. While Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the Clintons raked in hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign sources. Clinton Foundation officials were shown to have intervened for donors at the State Department. Those funds were used not only for the Clinton Foundation programs but also for travel and support for the Clinton family members. (Tellingly, donations reportedly plummeted after Clinton left office).
What is striking is that officials who relentlessly pursued Trump and his associates on little evidence were reportedly opposed to aggressive efforts involving the Clintons.I was one of the loudest critics of Sally Yates, who ordered the entire Justice Department not to assist Trump on immigration efforts after his inauguration. In my view, Yates’s conduct (just days before she was scheduled to leave the department) was a raw political move that shattered standards of professional conduct. It would also make her a heroine on the left and in the media.
Ultimately, Trump prevailed on the underlying claims of authority raised in the immigration orders before the Supreme Court.In these documents, Yates is shown in an email shutting down the investigation into the Clintons. Despite findings of good cause for further investigation into these allegations of pay-to-play corruption, Yates (then-Deputy Attorney General) is quoted as saying, “Shut it down!”
FBI Director Kash Patel released a memo showing a timeline of the interference, including the message from Sally Yates, whom Trump fired as acting attorney general. McCabe, who is now a CNN contributor, is again shown intervening in a crushingly predictable way.
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.
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The timeline detailed how Yates ordered one of the federal prosecutors to “shut it down,” likely in the March 2016 timeframe. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and Eastern District of New York (EDNY) purportedly said in August 2016 that they “would not support the investigation” into the Clinton Foundation, according to the timeline, and that “no explanation was given.”
Special Counsel John Durham found that the FBI’s Little Rock and New York investigations “included predication based on source reporting that identified foreign governments that had made, or offered to make, contributions to the Foundation in exchange for favorable or preferential treatment from Clinton.” Nevertheless, the FBI timeline stated that DOJ “indicated they would not be supportive of an FBI investigation” on February 1, 2016.
For those of us who closely followed these investigations and wrote about them, this is hardly surprising but still very valuable for historical purposes. The consistent efforts of figures like McCabe only magnify concerns over the role of key figures in pushing investigations of Trump while discouraging investigations of top Democrats.
Once again, the media is largely ignoring the disclosures. The same reporters who exhaustively pushed the false Russian collusion claims have little interest in these countervailing disclosures. As with the conduct of Yates and McCabe, that is also an all-too-familiar pattern.
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Currently, these conspirators are huddling with their expensive thousand-dollar-an-hour defense attorneys, trying to find and engage ones who are former DOJ bigwigs with some clout that might earn them a walk or a reduced penalty. Washington white-shoe law firms are full of former government counsels with robust Rolodexes. Unlike a bunch of greedy but unsuspecting businessmen, the Russiagate clowns grew up in the very system that now threatens to end their professional lives and take away their freedom and wealth. That background is valuable when it comes to rat recruitment by the good guys.
The ethical lawyers, no doubt, will listen and advise their hapless clients to cooperate and spill their guts (a legal expression) in hopes of getting a reduced term in the slammer. It’s also a lot cheaper than preparing for and launching a full defense to the charges, especially since it can be expected that some, perhaps many, of one’s coconspirators already have concluded that becoming a rat is the only way to spend future time with the family. Look at Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. He confessed to committing 19 murders, turned rat, and helped the FBI put away John Gotti and the Gambino and Colombo crime families. After a short stint in the Witness Protection Program, Sammy was once again a free man. Today, he is alive and well and living his life as a successful businessman and born-again Christian in Arizona.
My guess is that cementheads like McCabe may try to fight this to the end because he is not a smart man to begin with, but the big-time conspirators will quickly assess their situation and conclude spilling one’s guts is the best of all defenses and one that may leave them with a shred of savings when all is said and done. Don’t forget, John Dean spilled his guts on his boss, Richard M. Nixon, and today John is a successful banker and talking head on CNN.
I would guess that Comey, McCabe, Clapper, and Brennan will do time, whether they spill their guts or not. If I were looking to recruit one of the better all-around rats, I would focus on Sally Yates, who was there from the beginning and knows how this scheme was hatched and by whom. Unlike the others, Yates doesn’t have the “institutional” connections that they have. She was an “outsider” that they had to bring in because she was acting AG when this plot was fomented. Now, it comes down to whether Yates can temporarily overcome her TDS by confessing and doing a bit of gut spilling, or doing hard time in the slammer. The federal sentencing guidelines are extra tough on lawyers and other professionals who use their skills to violate the law. This looks to me like a possible RICO case, meaning these folks may be facing life or its equivalent in the joint. All things considered, this is not really a hard choice to make.
A lot of guessing here. How about you get facts first. Any fool can guess.
“A lot of guessing here. How about you get facts first. Any fool can guess.”
I don’t see how your criticism has any bearing on the content of the comment. It sounds like you just want to whine.
JJC,
Thank you for your legal analysis and insight.
Analysis – hardly, it was outright guessing. Actually it smells like AI.
“Analysis – hardly, it was outright guessing. Actually it smells like AI.”
The same could be said about you.
The Seth Rich killing may be as significant as the Epstein honeypot in that it highlights the extreme nature of the Democrats inner circle just as the Epstein mess exposes Mossad and the USIC. Time to open the kimono.
now find out who funds McCabe, Comey, etc CHARGE those Money men with treason as well!
I want every root ripped out and jailed!
Funds them? The taxpayer of course. Then sue yourself.
“Funds them? The taxpayer of course. Then sue yourself.”
Real deep, Gigi. Just like how your johns like it, right?
STFU
and still no one is in jail?
I want 3am raids…and people’s lives destroyed!
This is TREASON of the highest level…I want EXECUTIONS!
It doesn’t take much time to shine a light on what really happened by declassifying and releasing documents and so on. But it does take a lot of time to go through the legal process to get cases to juries – investigations, grand juries, indictments, trials and all the rest. A lot of care and attention to detail is involved and it just takes time, a lot of time, so be patient.
However, a few early morning raids would be nice to see.
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“. . . contributions to the Foundation in exchange for favorable or preferential treatment from Clinton.”
I am getting the impression that selling your soul and your country is a job requirement for D’s.
Can I marry my penis?
YES you can, however be aware it is the Divorce ‘Severance’ that can land you in Trans territory.
Might be worth the risk if you can’t be forced to testify… against yourself?
While Trump was a victim of Yates and McCabe, McCabe is the victim of himself and his vaunting self-image as a power broker at the FBI. It was for him the ultimate life, a puppeteer able to make life shattering decisions, and with the title of director coming soon. Now, he is just another hack contributing at CNN, spewing out his usual garbage, but broken from his lofty position in “power heaven.” Sometimes, good happens.
AND A BIG PAYDAY. THE GOVERNMENT PAID HIM BIG ********$$$$$$$$
More “unsurprising” violations exposed.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/15/bombshell-dni-emails-expose-fraud-that-sabotaged-2018-trump-putin-summit/
Olly,
I read that Federalist article too. I wish it were shocking but it isn’t; I have come to recognize the usual suspects are mainsprings in a giant, continuing criminal conspiracy that seems to edge into treason and a coup.
Fortunately it came out just in time for the Alaska summit so we will be skeptical of any last minute NYT type of sabotage.
Olly and Young:
I dreamed a dream in time gone by…
. …
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.
But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
-Les Miserables
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Chin up. With good people like you, we’ll make it.
(Actually, I can see Alaska from my house,
from lin palin 🙂
Wide-eyed about a lot of things these days lin. 😎
Yes Young, I thought the timing was spot on.
Follow the money as money equals power. The dollars for influence pedaling were the same with the Clintons and Bidens. We next need an investigation into Obama and where his fortune sources.
Congress needs to address passing legislation that eliminates the statute of limitations for actions that violate the oath of office. There should never be a “get out of jail free card” for actions that have harmed, or have the potential to harm national security.
There is no Statute of Limitation if someone commits tax fraud. Fraud and making a mistake are two different things. I guess based on knowing intent in proceeding on something. I thought I read about fraud extending the statute in other cases. f you cannot do that, I would be just as happy ruining the lives of these perps. Let them try to get by on social security and working as a wal-mart greeter.
After all, no one is above the law, right?
“There is no Statute of Limitation if someone commits tax fraud.”
Is that true? I thought they only looked back seven years no matter what. You’re only required to keep records that long, so how you possibly defend yourself if you destroyed your old records, as the government explicitly said was permitted?
Today somewhere in America an average citizen will be charged with a crime, somewhere in America an average citizen will be indicted, somewhere in America an average citizen will stand before a judge and be sentenced but nowhere in America do politicians and their cronies ever face justice.
First I thought you were making … then thought some rap dirge, then I thought what bunk. Somewhere? Avg Citizen? Crime? What utter nonsense.
“First I thought you were making … then thought some rap dirge, then I thought what bunk. Somewhere? Avg Citizen? Crime? What utter nonsense.”
Huh? It’s pretty straightforward to understand what Margot was saying.
LOL, thought that too. MAGA really has infected small minds.
“LOL, thought that too. MAGA really has infected small minds.”
Gigi, only dimwits like you could have a problem understanding what she wrote. Maybe if you spent more time reading literature and less time servicing truckers behind the Flying J, you’d have better reading comprehension.
Oh oh, here we go again, Lady Liberty screeching her MAGAites.
“Oh oh, here we go again, Lady Liberty screeching her MAGAites.”
Gigi, have you called President Harris yet and asked her how well the MAGA rhetoric worked out last year? 202-456-1414. Please let us know how it goes, thanks a bunch sweetie.
Bob Menendez takes exception to your ill-informed claim.
Didn’t these corrupt clowns get fired and then sue to make sure they all got their pensions or $1M compensation bribes to remain silent.
STOP ANSWERING THE ANONYMOUS , THEY MAY GO AWAY
Yep and look who gave them the cash.. typical dems
These “events” in the last 10+ years have shown a serious need to address the Statute of Limitation Laws on the books!!!!!!!!! The furtherance clauses are not enough to overcome a Judiciary that is involved in the cover-up (see Judge Boseberg and Judge Emmitt Sullivan conduct).
Everyone is all up in arms, rightfully so, over the joke that is Boasberg. But few remember the antics of Sullivan, trying to stage a mini trial to “convict” Flynn even after the government withdrew the case. If I’m not mistaken, didn’t he even threaten to appoint his own prosecutor? What is wrong with these people?
Great call back about Sullivan! His actions were about as egregious as any seen on a bench.
I’ll argue that the failure to censure Sullivan back then directly led to the ridiculousness that we’re seeing now with the district judges.
Okay, argue it then….
I just did. Thanks for playing.
Yeah, argue it. Attitude isn’t argumentation.
“Yeah, argue it. Attitude isn’t argumentation.”
You might need to update your English/Mandarin dictionary if this is giving you trouble. Have a nice day.
Hopefully the SOL won’t be an issue because the conspiracy is ongoing and therefore the SOL is alive and well.
The dust old Pancho bit down South, it ended up in Lefty’s mouth, and now he’s growing old…
It’s by design
As I stated earlier, if the House investigates and requests files. It those files are not provided, the clock stops. The clock starts when the files are processed. How can you provide oversight if being obstructed? In the meantime try them all as current waiving all limitations. Who killed Seth Rich?
@Madman – Excellent question about Rich murder. Maybe the kid was going to kick the can on the whole crew? Have you also noticed how the Dems have gone quiet about Epstein? Could someone on the list tell them to knock it off? Today madame Hillary said she would nominate Trump for the Noble if he brings peace to the Ukraine?
Just remember that if fraud is involved, there is no statute of limitations on an IRS audit
Except if you’re a democrat
or a MAGA.
“or a MAGA.”
Honestly Gigi, did that even make sense to you? Do you think that just throwing around the word “MAGA” is somehow an argument winner? Can you be even more pathetic?
Did Durham reveal that Yates ordered the FBI to shut it down, and that DOJ refused to support the investigation? If not, why not?
Our problems are not our laws but cultural and political ones. Though I am not a Republican or a conservative, they are mostly just weak and ineffective (except Trump and his team), not institutionally corrupt and power hungry. The left has been on a roughly 20 year course of sorry tricks, actual treason, hate for our country and even mental illness.
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you 🙀🙀🙀…(Rolls Eyes 😲)
not surprising, but still very disheartening
The useful idiots still watch/read cnn, msnbc, washington post, new york times,…
“The useful idiots still watch/read cnn, msnbc, washington post, new york times,…”
Not nearly as much as before. Cooking show re-runs get better numbers than CNN and MSDNC in prime time. The Post is a dying newspaper only being kept afloat indirectly by your Amazon purchases. The Times, well, people still pay for the crossword, I suppose.
The crossword is the only thing worth purchasing from the Times. Fortunately, a friend sends me the puzzle for free. And lately IT has been absurd. And I cringe every time I have to fill in a woke clue and it angers me that I know the answer.
I’ll do the Post’s crossword often, because it’s free. At least two times in the last week “HRT” (hormone replacement therapy) was the answer, and both times the clue was relating to trans garbage. I mean, that doesn’t even make sense. If you’re trans, you’re not replacing anything, you’re supplementing hormones that you body never produced in the first place. Woke is destroying our language.
I get the WAPO crossword for free and it is decent although way too woke. I get the Sunday Times crossword in my local rag and it is a great puzzle but I gave up buying the Times about 30 years ago.