Thanks to the tireless efforts of Judicial Watch, newly released FBI emails show the agency’s top officials working in concert with Hillary Clinton’s lawyer just days before the presidential election of 2016.
Many of these redacted emails concern a flurry of activity on and just before then-FBI Director James Comey informed Congress that hundreds of thousands of potentially classified emails had been discovered on now disgraced former Democrat Representative Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
The treasure trove of emails the FBI turned over last week came in response to a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a transparency in government group.
Most damaging are messages that show former FBI lawyer Lisa Page discussing a possible quid pro quo arrangement between Hillary Clinton’s team and the FBI. The agreement involved the FBI agreeing to conceal the fact that Hillary Clinton sent numerous classified emails over her home server while working for the State Department in exchange for more resources for the FBI. The arrangement would have allowed the Bureau to send more agents to countries where its access is limited.
The proposition involved the FBI offering a public explanation for why some emails were not disclosed because of their classification level despite a Freedom of Information Act request.
Fox News reports the FBI did not respond to requests for a comment on the released emails.
It is not known if the quid pro agreement was ever enacted, but there is a mountain of evidence high government officers ensured Hillary Clinton was exonerated and no time was left to sift through the multiple thousands of emails never examined before that decision.
On October 28, 2016, with the November Presidential election looming, Comey informed Congress that Weiner’s laptop was to be quickly reviewed. Before that Judicial Watch had been faulting the FBI for months for not giving Congress what it had requested.
Several conservatives suggest now-fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok slow-walked the laptop analysis before other federal prosecutors pressured the FBI into revealing its contents.
When Clinton lawyer David Kendall demanded answers from the FBI on the same day of Comey’s announcement, the emails Republicans in Congress has been seeking without success appeared almost overnight.
Two days before the November 6 election, Comey informed Congress that his agents had concluded their inspection of “all of the communications” that appeared on the laptop to or from Clinton while she was Secretary of State. His determination was the review did not alter his assessment that Clinton should not be prosecuted.
Judicial Watch has unearthed an email sent on the day of the election from Peter Strzok wrote to the FBI’s leadership: “[Redacted], Jon and I completed our review of all of the potential HRC work emails on the [Anthony Weiner] laptop. We found no previously unknown, potentially classified emails on the media.”
Despite Strzok’s claims in that email, the FBI later conceded that almost 700,000 emails on that laptop had not been manually screened like they suggested. With less than two weeks to accomplish their task, agents had used computer technology to prioritize which emails to screen. It was later revealed that 18 classified emails were among the hundreds of thousands of emails that were not manually reviewed.
Since Comey’s rush to bury the email scandal, FBI agent Strzok and FBI lawyer Page were shown to be in an extramarital affair and sharing back and forth several text messages using government phones deriding the President.
One of the newly released emails shows Page discussing a State Department attempt to pressure the FBI to downgrade the classification level of Clinton’s emails.
During that same time period, the FBI acknowledged it had been “in touch” with the State Department about overseas liaison positions but denied those conversations had anything to do with the classification of a Clinton email.
Earlier in September 2016, Comey wrote to Strzok and other subordinates, “Outstanding. … I should have added that I’m proud of the way we have handled this release [of unclassified information]. Thanks for the work on it. Just another reminder that Emerson was right when he said, ‘To be great is to be misunderstood…’”
These emails prove the “Deep State” did all it could to enable Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election was in the bag. The mainstream media may remain silent, but we will not.
