Obama administration officials in the DOJ and FBI saw the cases as inseparably linked.
FBI lawyer Lisa Page was texting her paramour, FBI counterespionage agent Peter Strzok, about the most stunning development to date in the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump was now the inevitable Republican nominee.
MYE. That's Mid-Year Exam, the code-word the FBI had given to the Hillary Clinton emails probe.
FBI officials are as entitled as anyone else to their political opinions, we're told; and if they found Trump loathsome, they were no different from half the country.
Manifestly, the FBI saw them as inseparably linked: Trump's victory in the primaries, the opening of his path to the Oval Office, meant - first and foremost - that the Hillary investigation had to be brought to a close.
There are, after all, reasons unrelated to Donald Trump that explain the outcome: Obama was implicated in Clinton's use of a non-secure email system; Obama had endorsed Clinton; many high-ranking Obama Justice Department officials stood to keep their coveted positions, and even advance, in a Hillary Clinton administration; the Obama Justice Department was hyper-political and Clinton was the Democratic nominee.
To accomplish this, he effectively rewrites the classified-information statute Clinton violated; barely mentions the tens of thousands of official government business emails that she destroyed; claims without any elaboration that the FBI can see no evidence of obstruction; and omits mention of her just-concluded interview in which - among other things - she pretended not to know what the markings on classified documents meant.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-russia-investigation-clinton-email-fbi-linked-cases/
FBI lawyer Lisa Page was texting her paramour, FBI counterespionage agent Peter Strzok, about the most stunning development to date in the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump was now the inevitable Republican nominee.
MYE. That's Mid-Year Exam, the code-word the FBI had given to the Hillary Clinton emails probe.
FBI officials are as entitled as anyone else to their political opinions, we're told; and if they found Trump loathsome, they were no different from half the country.
Manifestly, the FBI saw them as inseparably linked: Trump's victory in the primaries, the opening of his path to the Oval Office, meant - first and foremost - that the Hillary investigation had to be brought to a close.
There are, after all, reasons unrelated to Donald Trump that explain the outcome: Obama was implicated in Clinton's use of a non-secure email system; Obama had endorsed Clinton; many high-ranking Obama Justice Department officials stood to keep their coveted positions, and even advance, in a Hillary Clinton administration; the Obama Justice Department was hyper-political and Clinton was the Democratic nominee.
To accomplish this, he effectively rewrites the classified-information statute Clinton violated; barely mentions the tens of thousands of official government business emails that she destroyed; claims without any elaboration that the FBI can see no evidence of obstruction; and omits mention of her just-concluded interview in which - among other things - she pretended not to know what the markings on classified documents meant.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-russia-investigation-clinton-email-fbi-linked-cases/
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