{"id":148719,"date":"2025-08-14T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148719"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:10:27","slug":"report-as-trump-russia-hoax-marched-on-obama-doj-shut-down-clinton-foundation-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/report-as-trump-russia-hoax-marched-on-obama-doj-shut-down-clinton-foundation-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: As Trump-Russia hoax marched on, Obama DOJ shut down Clinton Foundation investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, August 14, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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A 2017 memo uncovered by FBI Director Kash Patel details how investigators in three cities looking into possible Clinton Foundation crimes during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State were shut down by top officials in the Obama Justice Department.<\/p>\n

The Obama DOJ, the memo shows, was intent on stopping the investigation until the 2016 election was decided. At the same time, Obama operatives were going full steam ahead on the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n

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Then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe played a key role in shutting down the Clinton Foundation investigation. \/ C-SPAN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The agents investigating the Clinton Foundation had sought the help of federal prosecutors to determine whether or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton headed up the State Department, most notably, because at that time, the foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and U.S. interests with business before her department.<\/p>\n

“Shut it down!” then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is quoted as telling investigators in New York City, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

The timeline<\/a> written by a Justice Department lawyer assigned to the FBI under then-Director James Comey was secured by top aides to Patel along with several corroborating internal emails and was obtained by Just the News.<\/p>\n

“Together, they make clear that both the DOJ and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe placed significant impediments in front of agents who believed they had evidence to justify a public integrity criminal case,” Just the News reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As early as February 2016, the Justice Department \u201cindicated they would not be supportive of an FBI investigation.\u201d In mid-February 2016, McCabe ordered that \u201cno overt investigative steps\u201d were allowed to be taken in the Clinton Foundation investigation \u201cwithout his approval.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timeline detailed how Yates ordered one of the federal prosecutors to \u201cshut it down\u201d 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 \u201cwould not support the investigation\u201d into the Clinton Foundation, according to the timeline, and that \u201cno explanation was given.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigators were thwarted at every step, the memo uncovered by Patel reveals.<\/p>\n

The timeline stated that, in July or August 2015, an FBI supervisory special agent at the Washington Field Office \u201chad a brief discussion\u201d with a member of the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Columbia \u201cregarding the Clinton Foundation allegations\u201d which had been focused on by the book Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer. At the time, an investigator whose name remains redacted \u201cwas in the process of attempting to predicate an investigation based on the allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

An unnamed investigator \u201cmay have had one or two brief discussions\u201d in the fall of 2015 with an assistant U.S. attorney in the nation\u2019s capital and with a member of DOJ\u2019s Public Integrity Section, according to the timeline, where the Clinton Foundation was \u201clikely ancillary\u201d and \u201cwith the intention of informing\u201d the redacted DOJ officials that an investigator \u201cwas continuing to study the matter to possibly predicate an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

A meeting between multiple FBI agents and DOJ officials whose names are redacted, including staff from the Criminal Investigative Division and the Office of General Counsel, was held \u201cto discuss the opening of the Clinton Foundation investigation.\u201d An unnamed official whose identity was redacted \u201cauthorized all three field offices to open investigations but to not take any investigative steps until the matter was discussed with DOJ.\u201d The FBI\u2019s Criminal Investigative Division \u201cadvised the search\/access parameters for their investigation were limited in scope\u201d and that the Criminal Investigative Division \u201cwould not be able to share\u201d certain redacted information \u201cwith the CF investigative team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timeline stated that the FBI\u2019s New York field office \u201cinitiated a Preliminary Investigation\u201d on January 22, the Little Rock field office \u201cinitiated a Full Field Investigation\u201d on January 27, and the Washington field office \u201cinitiated a Preliminary Investigation” on January 29, 2016.<\/p>\n

Despite that evidence, the FBI timeline stated that DOJ \u201cindicated they would not be supportive of an FBI investigation\u201d on February 1, 2016.<\/p>\n

The timeline said that personnel from the FBI\u2019s Little Rock office raised concerns that a redacted official \u201cmay not want to be a party to the briefing because of conflicts of interest\u201d during an early February 2016 meeting. A redacted Little Rock official \u201cexpressed these concerns due to the possibility that\u201d another redacted official \u201cwas believed to be a supporter of the Democratic Party and possibly the Clintons.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a meeting between officials from the New York and Washington field offices, and possibly the Little Rock field office, on February 17, 2016 according to the timeline. McCabe \u201cled the meeting\u201d and \u201cwas advised\u201d by the New York field office about a confidential human source (CHS) \u201cwho possibly had information on the matter.\u201d During this meeting, McCabe \u201cdirected that no overt investigative steps were to be taken on the CF investigation without his approval.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timeline stated that the FBI\u2019s Criminal Investigative Division reiterated that \u201call overt investigative steps related to the CF investigation\u201d would \u201crequire\u201d McCabe\u2019s approval, \u201cwith the exception of speaking to open CHSs\u201d during a February 22, 2016 meeting. The inquiry was further hobbled during the meeting when the FBI offices were \u201cdirected not to open or recruit any new CHSs, and no additional overt investigative steps were authorized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Counsel John Durham’s report said \u201cMcCabe initially directed the field offices to close their cases, but following objections, agreed to reconsider the final disposition of the cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Abbate, then the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office, described McCabe as “negative,” “annoyed,” and “angry” about the Clinton Foundation cases, with McCabe saying that “they [the DOJ] say there’s nothing here” and with McCabe asking “why are we even doing this?”<\/p>\n

The declassified timeline showed that the FBI\u2019s Little Rock office \u201csent an email\u201d to the Criminal Investigative Division \u201crequesting concurrence\u201d to \u201cobtain supporting documents\u201d for the investigation on March 1, 2016, but the Little Rock investigators \u201cnever received permission to seek the documents.\u201d The timeline also said that, possibly in March 2016, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas informed the FBI\u2019s Little Rock investigators that Yates \u201cordered\u201d the federal prosecutors to \u201cshut it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timeline said the FBI field offices in Little Rock and the nation\u2019s capital were \u201cdirected to close their investigations\u201d while the New York office \u201cwas advised no overt investigative action was to take place\u201d unless McCabe authorized it.<\/p>\n

Just the News noted:<\/p>\n

The differences in how the Justice Department and FBI handled cases related to Clinton and Trump were stark \u2014 publicly exonerating Clinton for her mishandling of classified information when using a private email server as secretary of state and not even allowing the Clinton Foundation investigation to get off the ground, while launching a sprawling and baseless Russia collusion inquiry into the Trump campaign and the candidate (and then the president) himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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