The Federalist By: Margot Cleveland
This morning Sen. Chuck Grassley released the FBI Washington Field Office’s 12-page “electronic communication” (EC) that opened a preliminary investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Its extensive evidence of potential pay-to-play criminality among the Clinton family confirms the politicalization and weaponization of the Department of Justice.
Late last year, another trove of documents—also released by Grassley—summarized the origins of three separate FBI investigations into the Clinton Foundation, opened respectively out of the New York, Little Rock, and Washington D.C. field offices. As The Federalist reported at that time, those documents indicated that Ray Hulser, then head of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section (PIN), did not support the investigations into the Clinton Foundation and withheld information from the U.S. attorney’s office running the probe out of Little Rock.
Special Counsel John Durham would later question Hulser about the Clinton Foundation investigations, and the former PIN section chief told Durham’s team that although he had “declined prosecution on behalf of the Public Integrity Section, he told the Office he ‘made it clear, however, that his decision was not binding on the various U.S. Attorneys’ Offices or FBI field divisions…
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