{"id":18301,"date":"2023-05-17T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18301"},"modified":"2023-05-17T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:24:55","slug":"the-fbi-tried-to-veto-the-2016-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/17\/the-fbi-tried-to-veto-the-2016-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI Tried to Veto the 2016 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The FBI Tried to Veto the 2016 Presidential Election<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

On Monday, Special Counsel John Durham released his final report on the FBI and Justice Department\u2019s abuse of power during the 2016 presidential election. His 316-page report proves that federal law enforcement was weaponized to rig American politics by shielding Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign and persecuting Donald Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

Durham\u2019s report is only the latest in a long pattern of abuses by the FBI. In 1945, President Harry Truman noted in his diary, \u201cWe want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.\u201d In the 1948 presidential campaign, Hoover brazenly championed Republican candidate Thomas Dewey, leaking allegations that Truman was part of a corrupt Kansas City political machine. In 1952, Hoover sought to undermine Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson by spreading rumors that he was a closet homosexual. In 1964, the FBI illegally wiretapped Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater\u2019s presidential headquarters and plane and conducted background checks on his campaign staff seeking evidence of homosexual activity. In 1972, acting FBI chief Patrick Gray burned incriminating evidence from the White House in his fireplace shortly after the Watergate break-in by Nixon White House \u201cplumbers;\u201d he was forced to resign in 1973 for that ignition.<\/p>\n

But those interventions were child\u2019s play compared to the FBI\u2019s role in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party\u2019s presumptive nominee for years before the primary, had used an insecure private email server to handle top-secret documents while she was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. The server, located in a bathroom of Clinton\u2019s Chappaqua, New York, mansion, exposed emails with classified information to detection by foreign sources and others.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s private email server was not publicly disclosed until she received a congressional subpoena in 2015. A few months later, the FBI Counterintelligence Division opened a criminal investigation examining the \u201cpotential unauthorized storage of classified information on an unauthorized system.\u201d Attorney General Lynch swayed FBI chief Comey to mislead the public by denying that a criminal investigation involving Clinton had commenced; instead, it was referred to simply as a \u201cmatter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI treated Clinton and her coterie like royalty worthy of endless deference, according to a 2018 report by the Justice Department Inspector General. The FBI agreed to destroy the laptops of top Clinton aides after a limited examination of their contents (including a promise not to examine any post-January 31, 2015, emails or content). When BleachBit software and hammers were used to destroy email evidence under congressional subpoena, the FBI treated it as a harmless error. A 2018 Inspector General report criticized FBI investigators for relying on \u201crapport building\u201d with Team Hillary instead of using subpoenas to compel the discovery of key evidence.<\/p>\n

FBI investigators shrugged off every brazen deceit they encountered from Hillary\u2019s staffers. The 2018 Inspector General report revealed that key FBI agents in the investigations were raving partisans. \u201cWe\u2019ll stop\u201d Trump from becoming president, lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok texted his mistress\/girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, in August 2016. One FBI agent labeled Trump supporters as \u201cretarded\u201d and declared \u201cI\u2019m with her [Hillary Clinton]\u201d. Another FBI employee texted that \u201cTrump\u2019s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI delayed interviewing Clinton until the end of the investigation, after she had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and just before the Democratic National Convention. Comey decided before Clinton was interviewed by FBI agents that she would not be charged with criminal wrongdoing. FBI agents at that interview found Clinton\u2019s answers claiming she didn\u2019t realize she was handling classified documents \u201cstrained credulity;\u201d one agent said he filed her responses in the \u201cbucket of hard to impossible to believe.\u2019\u201d The FBI planned to absolve her \u201cabsent a confession from Clinton,\u201d the Inspector General noted. There was no recording or transcript of that final interview. Minimizing the evidence and disclosures maximized the arbitrary power of Comey and other FBI officials in a landmark political case.<\/p>\n

Shortly after that interview, FBI chief James Comey publicly announced that \u201cno charges are appropriate\u201d because Hillary didn\u2019t intend to violate federal law. But that law is a strict liability statute; \u201cintent\u201d is irrelevant to the criminal violation.<\/p>\n

FBI racketeering repeatedly rescued Hillary Clinton. The Clinton Foundation raked in hundreds of million dollars of squirrely foreign contributions while she was Secretary of State and revving up her presidential campaign. The Durham report found that \u201csenior FBI and Department officials placed restrictions on how [the Clinton Foundation investigation was] handled such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election.\u201d On top of that dereliction, \u201cthe FBI appears to have made no effort to investigate\u2026the Clinton campaign\u2019s purported acceptance of a [illegal] campaign contribution that was made by the FBI\u2019s own long-term [confidential human source] on behalf of Insider-I and, ultimately, Foreign Government.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few weeks after an effective whitewash, \u201cClinton allegedly approved a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to tie Trump to Russia as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server,\u201d according to the Durham report. CIA chief John Brennan briefed President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other top officials on \u201calleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal\u2026to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.\u201d There is no evidence that Obama and his policymakers had any objections to Hillary\u2019s vilification proposal (referred to as the \u201cClinton Plan\u201d in Durham\u2019s report).<\/p>\n

FBI officials relied on the \u201cClinton Plan\u201d to target the Trump campaign<\/strong> even though \u201cNo FBI personnel who were interviewed by the Office recalled Crossfire Hurricane personnel taking any action to vet the Clinton Plan intelligence,\u201d the report noted. The Clinton campaign helped bankroll the notorious Steele dossier, which made sweeping, unsubstantiated, and salacious accusations against Trump. The FBI, which was apparently willing to pay any price to defeat Trump, offered former British spy Christopher Steele $1 million in cash if he could prove the charges in that dossier before the 2016 election. There was no proof\u2014but that didn\u2019t stop the FBI from using the dossier to get warrants to spy on Trump campaign officials from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. \u201cThe FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia,\u201d the report noted. As FBI analysts began to recognize that the Steele dossier was a hoax, FBI bosses ordered \u201cno more memorandums were to be written\u201d analyzing its claims.<\/p>\n

After the election, FBI officials devoted themselves to crippling Trump\u2019s presidency with fabricated evidence that Russia massively intervened to help him win. Kevin Clinesmith, a top FBI lawyer, was convicted for falsifying evidence to secure a FISA warrant to unjustifiably target Trump campaign officials. A federal prosecutor declared that the \u201cresulting harm is immeasurable\u201d from Clinesmith\u2019s action. But federal judge James Boasberg conducted a \u201cpity party\u201d at the sentencing, noting that Clinesmith \u201cwent from being an obscure government lawyer to standing in the eye of a media hurricane\u2026Clinesmith has lost his job in government service\u2014what has given his life much of its meaning.\u201d Scorning the prosecutor\u2019s recommendation for jail time, the judge gave Clinesmith a wrist slap\u2014400 hours of community service and 12 months of probation.<\/p>\n

Though the Durham report vivifies the extent of FBI meddling in the 2016 election, Americans remain in the dark about the full extent of the FBI\u2019s efforts to rig the 2020 election<\/strong>. In December 2019, FBI agents came into possession of a laptop that Hunter Biden, the drug-addicted son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, had abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. That laptop\u2019s hard drive was a treasure trove of crimes, including evidence that Hunter and other family members had collected millions in payments from foreign sources for providing access in Washington and other favors. That laptop provided ample warnings of how Joe Biden could be compromised by foreign powers. But FBI bosses blocked their agents from investigating its contents until after the 2020 election. Senator<\/span>\u00a0Charles Grassley (R-IA) reported that FBI agents examining the evidence on Hunter Biden \u201copened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.\u201d<\/p>\n

When news finally leaked out about the Hunter Biden laptop in October 2020, 51 former intelligence officials effectively torpedoed the story by claiming that the laptop was a Russian disinformation ploy. Their letter was orchestrated by Biden presidential campaign advisor\u2014and current Secretary of State\u2014Anthony Blinken. The FBI knew that the laptop was bona fide<\/em> but said nothing to undercut the falsehoods made by the former spooks. Twitter and other social media outlets suppressed information on the Hunter Biden laptop until after the election. Matt Taibbi and other Twitter Files investigators have provided a torrent of evidence of how the FBI censored Americans prior to the 2020 election, almost always muzzling conservative voices.<\/p>\n

Special Counsel John Durham asserted that the FBI\u2019s abuses in the Clinton and Trump investigations caused the agency \u201csevere reputational harm.\u201d But Congress just awarded the FBI a record budget, and that is the only \u201creputation\u201d that matters inside the Beltway.<\/p>\n

Democrats and other Biden allies are treating the Durham report as a nothing-burger. The Washington Post<\/em> fretted that the Durham report \u201cmay fuel rather than end partisan debate about politicization within the Justice Department and FBI.\u201d The FBI announced that it had taken \u201cdozens of corrective actions\u201d to prevent similar \u201cmissteps\u201d in the future. Law professor Jonathan Turley scoffed that the FBI\u2019s statement \u201cis ample evidence of a lack of remorse by the FBI like a habitual offender giving a shrug in his court \u2018allocution\u2019 before a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

When getting caught trying to steal an election is a mere \u201cmisstep,\u201d it will happen again. How many years will it take until we learn all the details of how the FBI tampered with the 2020 election?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unless Congress and federal courts rein in the FBI, there needs to be a change in inaugural festivities. Instead of invoking \u201cthe will of the people,\u201d will future presidents candidly tout \u201cthe will of the FBI\u201d? If that happened, a big swath of the Washington press corps would probably stand up and cheer for their favorite agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \"the roving inspector general of the modern state\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \"one-man truth squad.\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism & Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. 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