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Funny how paperwork that got “lost” in the Obama years keeps popping up in the Trump administration, even if it takes a lawsuit to do it.
In the latest twist involving leftover investigations from the Obama administration, the conservative activist group Judicial Watch announced Friday that the FBI had located 30 pages of “documents” on its investigation of one of the most notorious aspects of the Hillary Clinton email investigation:
The clandestine meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch aboard Lynch’s government plane on June 27, 2016, at an Arizona airport.
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The FBI’s disclosure came in response to lawsuit Judicial Watch filed over the FBI’s failure to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch submitted in July of last year. That was only days after then FBI Director James Comey announced he was not recommending criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her time as secretary of state.
But even under a new president, the FBI has been less than cooperative when it comes to disclosing key parts of its controversial investigation into the Clinton affair. The new documents won’t be disclosed until Nov. 30, according to Judicial Watch.
It wasn’t just the FBI that wanted to downplay the Clinton-Lynch tryst. The Clinton corner of the mainstream media did its best to whitewash the whole affair too. Check out current White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders laying into the media on a recent episode of “The View.”
So why, even under a new adminsitration, is the FBI still holding tight to information about its Clinton investigation? Draining a swamp takes time, especially when the swamp critters keep resisting.
Comey may no longer be with the bureau, but key personnel who participated in the attempted whitewash are no doubt still drawing their fat government salaries and waiting out the time until they can retire with fat government pensions. Slow-walking information disclosure is apparently a habit that dies hard.
In a statement Friday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, one of the most relentless of critics during the Obama administration, showed he hadn’t lost any fire just because there’s a new commander in chief in the White House.
“The FBI is out of control. It is stunning that the FBI ‘found’ these Clinton-Lynch tarmac records only after we caught the agency hiding them in another lawsuit,” Fitton said.
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“Judicial Watch will continue to press for answers about the FBI’s document games in court. In the meantime, the FBI should stop the stonewall and release these new records immediately.”
While it’s unclear what is actually in the documents, they’re almost certain to shed more light on the Clinton-Lynch meeting, which would have passed in secret if a local television journalist had not been tipped off by a “trusted source.”
Even more importantly, KNXV-TV’s Christopher Sign refused to be intimidated by FBI agents guarding Lynch’s plane.
Obviously, the FBI wanted this supposedly coincidental meeting under wraps. No wonder the bureau couldn’t find the information Judicial Watch was looking for when there was still the likelihood that Hillary Clinton would be president come January 2017.
But Donald Trump is in the White House now and the walls of protection that surrounded the Clintons and their cronies in the Obama administration are going to come down.
Lynch famously claimed after the meeting was public that the two had discussed everyday items like golf and grandchildren.
But few Americans – and certainly no conservative – believed that.
When the full FBI documents are fully released, maybe we’ll all know the truth.
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via Conservative Tribune
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