Vincent J. Curtis
27 Oct 2016
When news broke of Hillary Clinton’s secret server, the
Clinton campaign sought to protect Hillary from the worst of the
disclosures. The biggest problem was
that she had sent and received material classified at the highest level. She was protected in part by the fact that
President Barack Obama had been one of her correspondents, and his knowledge
and tacit consent gave him good reason to lean on law enforcement doing the
investigation, protecting Hillary at the same time.
But one can never be too careful. Therefore Clinton may have sought a second
method for corrupting the law enforcement process and keeping herself out of the
hoosegow.
It seems such an odd coincidence, then, that the wife of the
FBI official leading the investigation into Hillary’s possible criminal
violations of the law - for keeping state secrets not in their proper place - should
have received such flattering and helpful attention from a major Clinton friend. Terry McAuliffe was and is a close confidant
of the Clintons. He saw them through the
Starr investigation, the Lewinsky and Paula Jones scandals, and secured the $1.35
million mortgage for the purchase of the new Clinton home in Chappaqua, NY,
when Bill and Hillary left the White House.
Terry McAuliffe is now governor of Virginia and is himself
under investigation for possible violation of campaign finance laws. It just so happened that the governor
recruited Dr. Jill McCabe to run as the Democratic nominee for a state senator’s
position, and the husband of Dr. McCabe is one Andrew McCabe, presently Deputy
Director of the FBI.
In March of 2015, the month that the scandal broke and the
Hillary campaign got a little panicked. The secret server was revealed on March 2nd. McAuliffe first met Dr. McCabe on March 7, 2015, according to McAuliffe
himself. It was there and then, he says,
that he decided she was the best candidate to put forward for a state senate
seat. Next day, March 8th, Obama denied knowing about the
server to Bill Plante, sending the Clinton camp into panic mode. The day after that, March 9th,
Josh Earnest is having to clean up the mess Obama’s denial left behind. Then on March 10th, Hillary held
her infamous news conference at the U.N. where she said, “there is no
classified material.”
McAuliffe arranged for $675,000 to be contributed to Dr.
McCabe’s campaign, which had a total expenditure of approximately $1.8
million. More than a third of her
campaign budget came from McAuliffe controlled sources. Dr. McCabe ultimately lost to the incumbent
Republican.
I suppose that Andrew McCabe could not have been more proud
of his wife for her attempt at public office. But when the FBI launched the official investigation
into Mrs. Clinton’s server in July, 2015,
Andrew McCabe was running the bureau’s D.C. field office, which allocated
resources and personnel to the email scandal. This was at the beginning of the Virginia
election campaign, and the election was held Nov 3, 2015. He was promoted deputy director in February,
2016. His promotion to deputy director
clearly had no bearing on how he conducted Hillary’s investigation, but he was
the one in charge of the investigation at the ground level while his memories
of the kindnesses of Terry McAuliffe to his wife were fresh in his mind, and
ongoing. That same office is also
investigating Terry McAuliffe for having accepted campaign contributions from a
Chinese businessman.
At the end of July 2015, Mr. McCabe was promoted to FBI
headquarters and assumed the No. 3 position at the agency. In February 2016, he
became FBI Director James Comey’s second-in-command.
As deputy director, Mr. McCabe was part of the leadership
team overseeing the Clinton email investigation.
Nobody is saying that there was a quid pro quo between Terry
McAuliffe and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Nobody is alleging that the recruitment of his wife for state senate
with full party backing and $675,000 in financial help in any way influenced
the way in which Andrew McCabe did his job investigating the Clinton email
scandal, or the final outcome of that investigation – which was the decision
not to indict Hillary and to grant immunity to everybody in sight. Nobody is alleging any connivance between
Hillary, her campaign, and Terry McAuliffe in respect of trying to corrupt an
FBI investigation. In respect of
Hillary, we put all that down to the handiwork of Barack Hussein Obama and the
pressure applied to FBI Director James Comey by the president of the United
States.
Nobody is alleging that, for all the things Terry McAuliffe
did for the wife of the Deputy FBI Director, it was going to influence the
investigation into his own legal problem
What people are noticing, however, is how closely
McAuliffe’s actions track with the real attempt to do so.
If Obama played the role of suspenders keeping Hillary’s
legal pants up, McAuliffe has the appearance of playing the role of a secondary
belt.
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