FBI Never Investigated Obama AG’s Role In Clinton Email Coverup

While much attention has focused on the Clinton plan to smear Trump, the alleged coordination between Lynch and the Clinton campaign to suppress the email server scandal has so far received less scrutiny.

The intelligence detailed in both the Clinton annex and the Durham Appendix originated from Russian sources who had hacked various government and private entities, including the Open Society Foundations, formerly the Soros Foundation. This intelligence was based on intercepted communications among senior Open Society official Leonard Benardo, fellow foundation figure Jeffrey Goldstein, and then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The intelligence was considered significant enough to be briefed directly to President Obama and credible enough that Comey regarded it as “one brick in the load,” leading him to effectively sideline his boss, Attorney General Lynch, and bypass the Justice Department when announcing that no charges would be brought against Clinton.

Durham’s report acknowledges that while some of the phrasing in the intelligence may have suffered from translation issues or conflation, intelligence officials deemed it to be authentic.

According to one of the newly released memos, in a Jan. 12, 2016 conversation with Goldstein, Wasserman Schultz revealed that the Obama White House was applying pressure on Comey via Lynch to shut down the email investigation because the scandal was damaging the Democratic Party and threatening Obama’s legacy:

“Obama has no intention to darken the final part of his presidency and ‘legacy’ by the scandal surrounding the main contender from the DP [Democratic Party]. To solve the problem, the President puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch, however, so far without concrete results.”

Wasserman Schultz also allegedly noted that the FBI lacked strong evidence against Clinton due to the “timely deletion of relevant data from mail servers.”

But it’s the March 5 alleged follow-up conversation between Benardo and Wasserman Schultz that contains the most damning allegation: “The political director of the Hillary Clinton staff Amanda Renteria regularly receives information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the plans and intentions of the FBI.”

If true, this would mean that while the FBI was actively investigating Clinton, the sitting Attorney General was secretly updating her campaign on its progress, compromising not only the DOJ’s independence, but the entire premise of equal justice under law.

The memo further claims that,“Barack Obama sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.”

Durham notes that the FBI considered taking covert steps to determine, among other things, whether Lynch had actually communicated with Renteria. In the end, the Bureau chose not to pursue those steps. That decision is hard to reconcile with what’s documented in their own records. According to Durham, on August 10, 2016, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson met with Lynch and showed her portions of the intelligence report. She denied knowing Renteria, but did not address the broader allegations.

McCabe later said he expected at least some reaction, “like, this is crazy, I never talked to that person.” Instead, Lynch was “absolutely stone-faced,” said nothing about the content of the memos, and gave no indication she found any of it disturbing or absurd.

“I don’t know how to interpret that,” McCabe told the Department of Justice Inspector General. Anderson also found it “a little bit weird” that Lynch offered no pushback. She noted that Lynch pronounced Renteria’s name in an unusual way and remembered telling McCabe during their walk back to headquarters that the attorney general’s silence was “odd,” not just because she didn’t disavow the contents, but because she didn’t even appear offended or upset that her name was linked to the Clinton campaign in such an explosive way.

Ultimately, we do not know whether the information about Lynch is accurate. But we do know that other parts of the same intelligence stream — specifically details of the Clinton plan to smear Trump with false Russia allegations — align perfectly with events as they unfolded. That leaves us with plausible intelligence suggesting the sitting attorney general may have secretly assured Clinton allies that the FBI’s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails would go nowhere. What is shocking is that no one in government ever tried to find out.

In fact, there was no investigation into Lynch’s possible coordination with the Clinton team. No phone records were subpoenaed, no texts combed through, no emails searched. There were no early morning raids and no aggressive FBI investigation treating it like a national security crisis. For eight years, the full weight of the national security state was thrown at Donald Trump and his allies based on fabricated conspiracy theories. But the possibility that the attorney general quietly gave Clinton a green light was simply ignored.

Even Lynch’s alleged insistence that Comey publicly refer to the Clinton probe as a “matter” rather than an “investigation” suggested a deliberate effort to downplay and contain the scandal, an effort further underscored by her infamous secret tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton just days before the email investigation was closed.

If the memo’s allegations are even partially true, they confirm what many have long suspected: the fix was in. The rule of law was not applied equally. Instead, it was bent to protect one side and punish the other, with corruption reaching the highest levels of the U.S. government.