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.
We can point fingers at the other party going all the way back to George Washington in the 1700’s. It’s called “Moral Relativism” – past leaders did bad things so let’s justify bad things for the future.
The biggest losers here are us, the American people by tit-for-tat finger pointing.
It’s not fair but at some point we have to offer “immunity from prosecution with mandated reforms” so it’s illegal and enforced in the future for our kids and grandkids.
For example: The USA committed war crimes and crimes against humanity justified by 9/11. Based on strong circumstantial evidence we mostly punished and destroyed the wrong people. For the past 24 years, the USA actually has a for-profit blacklisting industry – government agencies make lots and lots of money punishing the wrong people.
So why not offer every war criminal from the Bush Administration to the current administration (and their contractors) “conditional immunity from prosecution in exchange for mandatory future reforms”?
This would also require repairing and making whole those brave Americans that stood up to 21st Century war crimes like CIA agent John Kiriakou – sent to prison for essentially refusing to violate Ronald Reagan’s Torture Treaty. Over the past 24 years those that participated in war crimes (betraying their oath of office) have been promoted and rewarded, one is even a federal appeals court judge standing in judgement of defendants more law abiding than he was. Focus on future reforms!
Bill Clinton
A million Tutsis, gone
4 dead in Ohio?
No hippies mourning the children hacked to death as slick played with Monica
A few great Federales say, they could have had him any day they only let him slip away, out of kindness I suppose…
It will stop when WE decide to make it stop. If 1,000,000 citizens descended on DC calling for the arrest and prosecution of these criminals, it would happen.
#Not This Time
“Influence peddling” sounds almost trivial. “Treason” would be more accurate – she sold out her country; her ill-gotten millions probably cost the country tens or hundreds of billions. Similarly, “illegal email server” would be far more accurately described as felony destruction of evidence of treason.
“Words mean things”
Yates, Clapper, Comey, Brennan and possibly Mueller should all be rotting in Federal prison, preoccupied in researching tactics to place their various orifices off-limits to fellow prisoners’ body parts.
*. Yes, it’s a fox hunt and on its trail. Don’t forget Ms Yates and her refusal to help the Trump admin , 1st term, and Muslim ban.
This is unbelievable! How is it that no one knows anything about the massive corruption that takes place right before our eyes. These crooks, these supposed “public servants” are nothing but thugs! They steal, they lie, they are ruthless to their very cores AND nothing ever happens to them. They are protected by others just like them. Our government is ROTTEN! God love President Trump but he doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of cleaning this up.
William Ferroggiaro, of the National Security Archive, said the system had worked. “Diplomats, intelligence agencies, defense and military officials – even aid workers – provided timely information up the chain,” he said.
“That the Clinton administration decided against intervention at any level was not for lack of knowledge of what was happening in Rwanda.”
Many analysts and historians fault Washington and other western capitals not just for failing to support the token force of overwhelmed UN peacekeepers but for failing to speak out more forcefully during the slaughter.
Some of the Hutu extremists orchestrating events might have heeded such warnings, they have suggested.
Mr Clinton has apologized for those failures but the declassified documents undermine his defense of ignorance. “The level of US intelligence is really amazing,” said Mr Ferroggiaro. “A vast array of information was available.”
On a visit to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, in 1998 Mr Clinton apologized for not acting quickly enough or immediately calling the crimes genocide.
In what was widely seen as an attempt to diminish his responsibility, he said: “It may seem strange to you here, especially the many of you who lost members of your family, but all over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror.”
His lies and betrayal led to the slaughter of untold numbers of Tutsis.
Shabbat shalom everyone 🙂
Have a peaceful sabbath
I just dropped by to say I admire you greatly for your putting the Constitution and integrity of law ahead of political party!
As an avowed Democrat you spoke up, clearly and impartially (except being partial to fairness;) when it was still very unclear to many of us what the heck was really going on. And that took enormous courage, I am sure. And I wouldn’t be surprised if you got more than a few threats in the process.
As an Independent myself, I would love to see YOU on the Supreme Court!
Agree re SCOTUS appointment, but me thinks the good professor doesn’t want to get “the treatment” by the liberal media and politicos who would no doubt salivate at the opportunity to punish a liberal legal scholar who failed to toe the Party line. Prof. Turley would be an amazing SCOTUS justice for the ages.
Agreed.
OT
Two medical ethics professors authored a paper “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” published in Bioethics journal, where they justified the intentional spread of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne illness that causes an allergic reaction to meat. Why? eating red meat feeds “greenhouse gasses” from livestock and hence “climate change.”
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The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tickborne AGS is a moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat. We then defend what we call the Convergence Argument: If x-ing prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, and promotes virtuous action or character, then x-ing is strongly pro tanto obligatory; promoting tickborne AGS satisfies each of these conditions. Therefore, promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto obligatory. It is presently feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks. If this practice can be applied to ticks carrying AGS, then promoting the proliferation of tickborne AGS is morally obligatory.
Crutchfield, P. and Hereth, B., 2025. Beneficial Bloodsucking. Bioethics.
https://philarchive.org/archive/CRUBBI
Two ethics professors at Western Michigan University, promoting unethical behavior. A snapshot of liberal academia having lost its way.
Sitting atop and ivory tower with fishing hooks lowered into an empty bathtub hoping to catch something.
Yes the 2 professors are bad examples. but are conservatives any better?
I recently took whimsicalmama and lin to task for their hypocrisy in continually complaining about the state of the world, but how conservatives are no better than the left with their sin of omission
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin
Book of St James 4:17, New Testament
If so called “conservatives” had been vigilant and diligent these past 50 yrs of America’s slouching towards America, we would not be here witnessing the decline of America. It is asy to come on this forum and throw stones, belly ache, be a daily reminder of “the end is near, we are doomed” misery. Instead, go out, make fishers of men, evangelize first by deeds, less by words.
Progressives/the Left are dangerous parties to the works of Satan. However, pride, sloth/acedia, gluttony and wrath are Cardinal Sins in Catholicism for a reason.
Conservatives are to blame for watching idly as the Left destroyed out nation by abandoning their religious precepts and YHWH’s commands to be witnesses of His power, mercy, faithfulness and to encourage people to adopt the covenants.
“doesn’t violate anyone’s rights”
Things that occur naturally do not violate peoples rights – death comes naturally – all deaths are not violations of rights.
Nut when humans aid nature to take from a person something that is already theirs – that is a violation of rights.
QED their ethical argument trivially fails by its own terms.
Working to increase the frequency of tick bites is a violation of individual rights.
“. . . efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible.”
So if you wish to be a “moral” person: Don’t use tick repellent. Don’t check yourself (or your children) for ticks. Don’t remove ticks from your body. Let the parasites feast on you and don’t dare seek treatment. After all, that tick might be a “moral bioenhancer.”
Those rabid environmentalists have a single, wicked goal: To make man suffer.
Darren
Can you please do something about this Gigi troll
Free speech is all well and good, but everyone here knows that it really only applies to right-thinking people like us, and not the leftist libtards.
I agree.
These leftists seem to think they have the same rights as us.
I know.
It’s really absurd when you think about it.
The Founders made it quite clear that the Constitution does not apply to leftists.
Where did they even get that idea from ?????
Probably, from that Kenyan guy.
What was his name again ??????
Thankfully Trump, Bondi and Patel are on the case.
They will soon put an end to any ideas of Constitutional rights for leftists.
I agree.
They need to get that done sooner rather than later.
They also need to get on the job of cancelling the voter registrations of all the leftists.
What makes them think they have a right to vote in our elections.
It’s absurd what these leftists believe.
I agree.
Better yet, they need to cancel elections altogether.
Who needs them ???
Trump can simply pass the Presidency on to Don Jr, and then to the rest of the family.
Just like the good old days.
inmate #0ICU812, no soap on a rope dope!
Rabble:
jesus christ. I know this place is supposed to be 1A, but this kind of tripe actually does need to go. This is actually detrimental to anything approaching coherent conversation. And, it’s all from one person, up until people respond with “Gigi”
Rabble
So glad you agree with me.
This leftist tripe is beyond the pale.
I don’t know where these leftists get the idea that they are entitled to the same 1A rights as us.
They are OUR rights, not theirs.
Something needs to be done about it NOW.
“ Rabble
So glad you agree with me.
This leftist tripe is beyond the pale.
I don’t know where these leftists get the idea that they are entitled to the same 1A rights as us.
They are OUR rights, not theirs.
Something needs to be done about it NOW.”
Gigi you’d better hurry up and finish your lube work, we’ve got a great big convoy on its way.
Hey morons.
This is NOT a government run site. The 1A rights do not apply here.
Jezzzzzzzzzz!
OT, iconic: Trump and Putin walk down the red carpet together, and lo and behold, a B-2 with four fighter jets flies over at low altitude. Boss!
https://x.com/Scavino47/status/1956435635818070211
And that somehow makes you, a decrepit geriatric, empowered? Explain?
Because it’s a sign of force towards Russia, demwitted Gigi. That what we did to Iran, we can do it again against Russia. Especially given that all of the defense capabilities Iran (missile defense systems, radar detection systems, etc) had came from either China or Russia. 😊
“a B-2 with four fighter jets flies over at low altitude”
I’m certain that Putin doesn’t require any education on US weaponry; the message was intended for others.
*. Yes, the State Dept was a clearinghouse for Clinton Foundation donors and return a favor. That’s all it did and Bill as pres same? Epstein was a donor and return was? It’s money laundering. It’s global.
Hunter has a Foundation? Epstein has a Foundation. It’s about money. It’s irksome when the government runs the State dept like a casino. DJT had it investigated while on hiatus and know straight where to go but will they find reason to prosecute, prosecute, fine and jail? Epstein took a fall and died?
Well, anyway, what’s new.
“Historical purposes.” That’s all we’ve got, as to my understanding, the Statute of Limitations has passed. There are never any consequences for the Democrats, yet they had Republicans up to microscopic scrutiny, sometimes manufacturing new laws to prosecute just for Trump (see the 34 felonies.)
Since academia is entrenched far Left, discriminates against conservatives, and writes those history textbooks, I doubt we’ll have any vindication for posterity that gets into the public consciousness, either.
The mainstream media will not cover this, so voters will remain uninformed.
Only a good guy with a sandwich can protect us from a bad guy with a sandwich!!!
If they go sandwich we need to go soup!
Gotta teach them Libtards a lesson
All public schools should be armed with sandwiches !!!!
Oh wait ………..
QUIT REPLYING TO YOURSELF- BOZO!
Kirk
Just trying to raise the discussion to a higher and more appropriate intellectual level.
Unfortunately, the slow-witted regulars here do not appreciate my efforts, and are not up to the intellectual challenge.
SLOW -WITTED ANON!!! Take your sandwich and shove….your …!
The problem with Government and especially federal government is that tantalizing sweet smelling lure of its largess, and the capability to direct that largess!
Wholly unconstitutional communism—Article 1, Section 8—Congress may tax for and fund only debt, defense, and general welfare, which is security and basic infrastructure benefiting all or the whole, such as police, fire, roads, water, post office, etc., and excluding individual welfare, specific welfare, particular welfare, charity, and favor. Social Security and Medicare, for example, provide for merely 18.7% of the population and are immutably unconstitutional.
*. True, temptation. So far perjury? Hillary emails …
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
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