NYT: Right-Wing Book Was A Source For FBI Inquiry Into Clinton Foundation

[DonViejo]

A preliminary FBI inquiry into the Clinton Foundation initiated this summer was based in part on Peter Schweizer’s book “Clinton Cash,” the New York Times reported Tuesday.

“Clinton Cash” was funded by the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative nonprofit co-founded by Steve Bannon and was heavily promoted by Breitbart News, where Bannon was executive chairman before taking leave to become Donald Trump’s campaign CEO.

In the book, Schweizer alleges that foreign governments paid the Clinton Foundation large sums in exchange for favors from the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. He wrote that Bill Clinton also accepted speaking fees and donations from foreign entities while the State Department was weighing whether to award contracts to groups or people affiliated with those benefactors.

According to the Times and other outlets, the FBI in August launched an inquiry into the claims surfaced in Schweizer’s book and news reports. At the time, FBI and Justice Department officials agreed that going public with the investigation, which was then in its early stages, could unduly influence the presidential election.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/times-fbi-clinton-foundation-investigation-clinton-cash

[BainsBane]

1. Figures.

[geek tragedy]

2. Steve Bannon, a white supremacist, has his own sleeper cell of operatives inside the NYC FBI office

COINTELPRO never disappeared, it just went off the books.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. +1 nt

[HipChick]

3. K&R

[Thinkingabout]

4. Again it is the Trump Foundation which is used for Pay for Play, he has not

Contributed for years but uses the funds to buy his way into everything he wants, what a fraud.

[SHRED]

5. The FBI needs a deep cleaning...

...to take out the trash.

[emulatorloo]

6. A discredited RW book that the NYT had no problem pimping day after day

Even though it was discredited before it was even published.

[lapucelle]

10. Much of the FBI manipulation of a the presidential election is coming from the NY field office

where Giuliani is very well connected with like-minded agents.

A rogue element in the FBI is trying to tip the scales in a presidential election. They're helping the same candidate that Putin and the alt-right are aiding. They're feeding propagandized leaks to the Murdoch-owned WSJ and sympathetic ears at the NYT.

The press's role in a well functioning democracy is so important that its protection is enshrined in the Bill of Rights.

Where are the journalists?

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Something sure smells about this whole

Comey deal. One real troubling aspect,who the heck is in charge? Were is Ms.Lynch? Dems on the Judicial Committee suddenly quite,what gives? Hunch says,something other than these e-mails going down. Or is the Garner Case in NYC the real story and Comey is blowing smoke to cover his ignorance or bias.

[applegrove]

12. BANNON. Now where have I heard that name?