{"id":2510409,"date":"2025-11-13T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-doj-partisans-killed-probe-into-clinton-dnc\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:44:43","slug":"grassley-doj-partisans-killed-probe-into-clinton-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-doj-partisans-killed-probe-into-clinton-dnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley: DOJ Partisans Killed Probe Into Clinton, DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrassley-doj-partisans-killed-probe-into-clinton-dnc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2510409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Newly released emails obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley reveal that certain Department of Justice officials, previously involved in politically motivated investigations targeting former President Donald Trump, obstructed a criminal probe into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: ... Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">campaign finance violations<\/a> by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).The correspondence from 2019 shows DOJ personnel, including top election crimes prosecutors Richard Pilger and J.P. Cooney, dismissing efforts to investigate alleged illegal payments linked to the funding of the Steele dossier-a key but discredited document used to fuel the russia collusion narrative against Trump. Grassley highlights these officials&#8217; partisan behavior, noting how they vigorously pursued investigations against Trump while blocking scrutiny of Democrats. The Federal Election Commission later fined the Clinton campaign and DNC for misreporting funds related to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the dossier. concerns are raised about the chilling effect of DOJ resistance to whistleblowers and the politicization of federal prosecutions. Pilger and Cooney, now in private practice, remain subjects of congressional inquiry as Grassley seeks full DOJ and FBI records on these matters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The same Department of Justice partisans who played key roles in the launch and cover of the FBI&rsquo;s politically driven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/rep\/releases\/grassley-johnson-press-for-full-disclosure-of-jack-smith-subpoenas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arctic Frost<\/a> investigation killed a criminal probe into the driver of the Russia collusion hoax, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/fbi_ec_-_clinton_campaign.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new emails<\/a> released Thursday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.<\/p>\n<p>The emails, dating back to 2019 at the height of the hoax, expose DOJ players freezing investigative efforts to look into campaign finance violations committed by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. As became clear over time (no thanks to the accomplice media), the failed 2016 Democrat presidential candidate&rsquo;s campaign and the DNC pushed opposition research to fuel a deep state soft coup aimed at toppling President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first term in office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the Federal Election Commission fined the Clinton campaign and the DNC for &ldquo;misreporting&rdquo; (disguising) campaign funds paid to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/05\/cbss-60-minutes-invites-russia-hoax-architect-marc-elias-to-attack-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fusion GPS <\/a>to deliver the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/23\/doc-shows-garland-wray-and-monaco-all-over-corrupt-arctic-frost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steele dossier<\/a> that falsely and maliciously accused the Trump campaign of colluding with the Kremlin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Courageous whistleblowers came to my office years ago to sound the alarm that the Justice Department inappropriately interfered in efforts to investigate potential criminal activity committed by Hillary Clinton and her campaign,&rdquo; Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/rep\/releases\/grassley-fbi-records-show-partisan-officials-killed-clinton-campaign-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These records show the same partisans who rushed to cover for Clinton rabidly pursued Arctic Frost, which was a runaway train aimed directly at President Trump and the Republican political apparatus,&rdquo; Grassley added.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Chilling Effect&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The FEC <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/30\/clinton-campaign-dnc-fined-by-fec-for-lying-about-steele-dossier-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fined<\/a> Clinton&rsquo;s 2016 campaign and the DNC a combined $113,000 years after <a href=\"https:\/\/campaignlegal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/10-25-17%20CLC%20DNC%20Clinton%20(Filed).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaints <\/a>from the Campaign Legal Center and the Coolidge Reagan Foundation raised concerns about cash distributions to Democrat Party law firm <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/16\/this-weeks-spygate-trial-is-bad-news-for-hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Perkins Coie.<\/a> The payments were noted as &ldquo;legal advice and services,&rdquo; but they ultimately went to pay for the lie-filled dossier.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FBI and other intelligence agencies used British spy Christopher Steele&rsquo;s dossier as a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/brennan-overruled-cia-experts-objections-to-include-steele-dossier-in-bogus-intel-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">predicate<\/a> for the Russia collusion hoax aimed at toppling a duly elected president and making life a living hell for Trump allies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/flashback-7-media-mouthpieces-who-repeated-the-lie-that-russia-hacked-the-2016-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times<\/a> and other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >corporate media outlets hungrily &#038;mdash<\/a>; and erroneously &mdash; covered every morsel of the bogus Russia-Trump story, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/richard-pilger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Pilger<\/a>, top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/live-updates-2020-election-results\/2020\/11\/10\/933395215\/head-of-doj-s-election-crimes-unit-steps-down-after-barr-oks-election-inquiries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election crimes<\/a> prosecutor in the DOJ&rsquo;s Public Integrity Section, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gastoncooney.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J.P. Cooney<\/a>, who then worked in the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the District of Columbia, were throwing cold water on a request to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Pilger was later intricately involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/rep\/releases\/grassley-johnson-make-public-whistleblower-records-revealing-doj-and-fbi-plot-to-pin-trump-in-jack-smith-elector-case#:~:text=Records%20further%20reveal,record%20at%20DOJ.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reviewing and approving<\/a> the opening of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/rep\/releases\/grassley-johnson-press-for-full-disclosure-of-jack-smith-subpoenas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arctic Frost<\/a> investigation that special prosecutor Jack Smith used to go after Trump, while Cooney served as the partisan prosecutor&rsquo;s deputy special counsel for the Biden Department of Justice&rsquo;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/qanda-arctic-frost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> political vendetta<\/a> against Trump on dubious allegations that the then-former president attempted to overturn Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-voters-will-decide-the-virginia-gubernatorial-election\/\" title=\"These Voters Will Decide The Virginia Gubernatorial Election\">2020 presidential election victory<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In email exchanges spanning more than two weeks in 2019, an unnamed FBI agent attempted to sell the DOJ officials on opening an investigation into suspect campaign finance reports from the Clinton campaign and the DNC. It appeared to be an &ldquo;unambiguous concealment,&rdquo; wrote the agent, whose name is redacted in the emails.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At every turn, Pilger and Cooney shrugged off the agent&rsquo;s arguments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I do not, however, think this is a good candidate to open for a false reporting case,&rdquo; Cooney wrote in an email, dated June 14. He seemed to jump to a judgment, referencing Marc Elias, Perkins Coie&rsquo;s Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2018\/vukmir-campaign-baldwin-paid-hillary-clintons-lawyer-to-fix-tomah-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political &ldquo;fixer&rdquo;<\/a> at the time, who has gone on to be the left&rsquo;s go-to lawfare attorney. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although I have not looked at the FEC report, any money paid to Fusion GPS for the dossier through PC was probably reported as legal services or something like that. &hellip; I think that we would have an exceedingly difficult time proving it was a willfully false report. This is particularly so given that Elias, when questioned, disclosed the existence of the PC-Fusion GPS contract,&rdquo; Cooney wrote in popping the agent&rsquo;s balloon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI agent later wrote that the debate eventually devolved into veiled threats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Rich[ard] [Pilger]  has finally acknowledged my questions, his answers usually contain some veiled threat I believe is intended to have a chilling [effect] and stop me from asking questions. &hellip; I have never been met with such suspicion or responses intended to have me go away,&rdquo; the frustrated agent wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;The Most Dangerous Man in the Federal Government&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_to_doj_fbi_-_pilger-cooney_emails.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> letter<\/a> to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Grassley asserts the communications &ldquo;raise serious questions about Pilger and Cooney&rsquo;s decision-making.&rdquo; The Judiciary Committee chairman said this &ldquo;is not the first time&rdquo; his investigation has cast &ldquo;light on Pilger&rsquo;s work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On October 7, 2021, as Ranking Member of this Committee, I released a Staff Report of which Section VI in that report is about Pilger and his efforts to undermine the DOJ&rsquo;s election related efforts during 2020,&rdquo; he wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pilger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2020\/11\/10\/barr-voter-fraud-investigation-doj-official-resigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left his voting crimes leadership position <\/a>in a huff following the 2020 election, ticked off that then-Attorney General Bill Barr had authorized U.S. attorneys to look into election fraud allegations. He took a demotion, a &ldquo;nonsupervisory role working on corruption prosecutions,&rdquo; before he ultimately helped move the corrupt Arctic Frost investigation along. He left the government for private practice in 2022. Pilger was also tied to the Obama-era IRS scandal involving the political targeting of conservative nonprofits, working with disgraced Exempt Organizations Unit director<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/irss-lois-lerner-database-tax-exempt-organizations-sent-fbi-weeks-2010-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Lois Lerner.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, campaign finance attorney Paul H. Jossey <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/08\/13\/conservatives-beware-the-speech-police-are-coming-for-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in The Federalist that Pilger may be &ldquo;the most dangerous man in the federal government that no one has ever heard of.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pilger heads the DOJ&rsquo;s Election Crimes Branch and was intimately involved in the initial DOJ interest in political-speech crimes in 2010,&rdquo; Jossey asserted in his column. &ldquo;According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/eric-holders-speech-police-1425944124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Pilger is now strenuously lobbying the DOJ to criminally police political speech &mdash; just in time for the presidential election. In practical effect, this means any left-wing agitprop group that fundraises off publicizing its political complaints and letters may have a willing partner in the federal government&rsquo;s criminal prosecution arm.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cooney was fired after Trump began his second term. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-flaunts-power-jack-smith-top-deputies-step-back-spotlight-rcna239629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opened a law firm<\/a> last month with fellow Jack Smith comrade Molly Gaston. The firm will &ldquo;represent the targets of criminal and congressional investigations&rdquo; as the administration and the Republican-controlled Congress move to hold accountable Biden and deep state players who weaponized the Justice Department against their political enemies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grassley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_to_doj_fbi_-_pilger-cooney_emails.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is now seeking<\/a> from the DOJ and the FBI all (unredacted) records involving &ldquo;DNC and Fusion GPS FEC violations&rdquo; and all related communications to, from, or copying Pilger, Cooney, and\/or AnnaLou Tirol, former acting chief of the DOJ&rsquo;s Public Integrity Section.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"... Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top ... Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ partisans halted probe into Russia collusion hoax driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2510410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-at-7.29.49-PM-1024x580.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5855,7705,7076,52583,3976],"class_list":["post-2510409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-clinton","tag-dnc","tag-doj","tag-grassley-2","tag-investigation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-at-7.29.49-PM-1024x580.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510413,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510409\/revisions\/2510413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}