Secret society in the FBI? Yes, why isn't there an investigation into how TRUMP used the FBI and supposed anti-Hillary FBI leaks to get elected. Here is what really needs to be investigated: Trump and his surrogates used the FBI, Kallstrom's FBI credentials, FBI contacts, and supposed FBI leaks to push false stories about Hillary to get himself elected. They improperly used the FBI to rig the election in favor of Trump.
The two weeks before the election, Trump's campaign surrogates, including Giuliani and Kallstrom (former head of NY FBI and Trump campaign member), spent their time on Fox News, right wing media, and CNN bragging and boasting about their FBI contacts and using their former law enforcement and FBI credentials to cast Hillary as a criminal and get Trump elected. They claimed that their FBI contacts were telling them how guilty Hillary was and how angry they were with the Comey decision and all of the leaks they were hearing from the FBI about what a crook Hillary was.
These were LIES based upon supposed FBI leaks. And if these were actual leaks, this would have been against FBI guidelines of discussing an active case, let alone discussing one with a public partisan surrogate. This would have been actionable impropriety. Federal law (The Hatch Act) and longstanding FBI policy prohibit employees from trying to influence elections. www.justice.gov/...
The Improper Use of the FBI to Swing the Election
Here is one of the "leaks" that came very close to the election:
Fox News reported that indictments were “likely” in the Clinton Foundation case. “We talked to two separate sources with intimate knowledge of what's going on with the FBI investigations,” Fox News anchor Bret Baier said on air to his colleague Brit Hume. “The investigations will continue, there is a lot of evidence. And barring some obstruction in some way, they believe they will continue to likely an indictment."
Who were the two separate sources? My guess is Kallstrom and Giuliani. Also, see how they set this up to use the FBI to cast Clinton as a crook and then cover themselves because she will not be indicted by saying “barring some obstruction.” Here, they are casting the Justice Department and Obama as being engaged in obstruction if Hillary was not indicted. This goes beyond just regular political claims. A news organization saying this relying on two FBI sources carries weight and credibility. Even though Fox later retracted this, the damage had been done.
Kallstrom kept playing up his ties to the FBI and used his former FBI credentials to spend his time on Fox and right wing media leading up to the election to call the Clintons a "crime family," the Clinton Foundation a "cesspool," and Hillary a "pathological liar." This goes beyond normal partisan claims. He used his credentials as a former head of an FBI office and his supposed contacts at the FBI to give weight and credibility to these claims.
Even more, he made claims that FBI agents were going to revolt over Comey's decision not to charge Hillary Clinton. Megan Kelly asked him, "You know a lot of the agents involved in this investigation," she said. "How angry must they be tonight?" "I know some of the agents," said Kallstrom. "I know some of the supervisors and I know the senior staff. And they're P.O.'d, I mean no question. This is like someone driving another nail in the coffin of the criminal justice system." Kallstrom declared that "if it's pushed under the rug," the agents "won't take that sitting down." Kelly confirmed: "That's going to get leaked."
Giuliani likewise spent his time on Fox and right wing media talking about all of his contacts at the FBI and how they all thought Hillary was guilty. “The other rumor that I get is that there’s a kind of revolution going on inside the FBI about the original conclusion [not to charge Clinton] being completely unjustified and almost a slap in the face to the FBI’s integrity,” said Giuliani. “I know that from former agents. I know that even from a few active agents.” Again, they were using the FBI to push that Hillary was guilty of all sorts of crimes and implying that the only reason she wasn’t was obstruction of justice.
Giuliani also went on CNN talking about his promoting his illicit FBI sources (against FBI guidelines against discussing a case with a public partisan), “The decision perplexes me. It perplexes Jim Kallstrom, who worked for him. It perplexes numerous FBI agents who talk to me all the time. And it embarrasses some FBI agents.” He claimed that his FBI sources were telling him that the Justice Department was "obstructing" the FBI into looking into Hillary's wrongdoings. Giuliani said that there was “tremendous anger within the FBI about...Comey’s conclusion [to not recommend criminal charges against Clinton in July] and...the way they [the FBI rank-and-file] believed they were being obstructed by what they regard as a pretty corrupt Obama Justice Department.”
“You have outraged F.B.I. agents that talk to me,” Mr. Giuliani said in an interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News. “They are outraged at the injustice. They are outraged at being turned down by the Justice Department to open a grand jury. They are convinced that Loretta Lynch has corrupted the Justice Department.” Giuliani said, “This is worse than Watergate.”
Giuliani said that agents tell him they are “outraged” that they have not been able to bring Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to justice. And that FBI agents were telling him that it was reaching a "boiling point" in the FBI. Giuliani claimed that “former FBI agents telling me that there's a revolution going on inside the FBI, and it's now at a boiling point," on "Fox and Friends" when asked what he knew before Comey's decision to reopen the investigation into Clinton's private email server. "I think they kept getting stymied looking for subpoenas, looking for records," he added. "It perplexes numerous FBI agents who talk to me all the time," Giuliani said in an with CNN's Chris Cuomo. "And it embarrasses some FBI agents."
Then, on October 26th, two days before Comey was about to reopen the email investigation, Giuliani went on Fox news and gleefully said that the Trump campaign had “a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days.” “We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeve that should turn this thing around,” he added. Giuliani went on "Fox & Friends" and admitted that he knew about FBI Director James Comey's Oct. 28 letter to Congress before it was sent. "Did I hear about it? You're darn right I heard about it, and I can't even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents," he said.
Instead of the case being reopened just to determine if the emails were duplicates, Giuliani and Kallstrom used their alleged FBI contacts and credentials to lie and say that it was reopened because “the pressure of a group of FBI agents who don’t look at it politically.” “The other rumor that I get is that there’s a kind of revolution going on inside the FBI about the original conclusion [not to charge Clinton] being completely unjustified and almost a slap in the face to the FBI’s integrity,” said Giuliani.
Even more, during the 2016 campaign, “Giuliani raised eyebrows by seeming to predict key moves by Wikileaks before they occurred. The mayor has yet to clarify on the record how he knew in advance what the hacker collective was about to publish.”
The Truth about Giuliani, Kallstom, and the NY FBI
1. James Kallstrom was the former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI office in New York.
2. Kallstrom is a friend of Trump and a Trump supporter endorsing and campaigning for Trump.
3. Kallstrom is a good friend of Rudy Giuliani.
4. Rudy Giuliani was one of Trump’s main campaign surrogates.
5. Kallstrom was an often Trump Surrogate on Fox News.
6. Trump gave $1.3 million to Kallstrom’s Foundation (much of it was given last year).
7. Kallstrom was a member of the Trump campaign team.
8. Kallestrom’s Foundation has not been rated or reviewed by Charity Watch or Charity Navigator for whether it is a legitimate charity Foundation.
9. Trump allegedly raised an additional $6 million for Kallstrom’s Foundation from wealthy donors.
10. Kallstrom’s Foundation gave Trump the “Commandant’s Leadership Award” at a Gala in New York last year.
11. Rush Limbaugh is one of the Director’s of Kallstrom’s Foundation as well as a donor.
12. Trump skipped the GOP debate in Iowa to attend Kallstrom’s fundraiser for his Foundation in New York last year.
13. Kallstrom and Giuliani were on an anti-Comey attack on Fox News for months.
14. Giuliani’s security firms employ the former head of the New York FBI office as well as another former FBI official from the New York office.
15. The Trump campaign, Kallstrom, and Giuliani were purportedly pushing the New York FBI to investigate Clinton based on alt-right wing conspiracy theories and The Clinton Cash book which its own author has said it was not meant to withstand legal scrutiny.
16. The so-called FBI leaks appear to be all coming out of the New York office and through Giuliani and Kallstrom who were trying to rig the election with false FBI reports.
17. It appears that Trump, Giuliani and Kallstrom were using their ties to the New York FBI office to have them go after their political opponent.
18. In 1988, “Tony Lombardi, the federal agent closest to then-U.S. Attorney Giuliani, opened a probe of Trump's role in the suspect sale of two Trump Tower apartments to Robert Hopkins, the mob-connected head of the city's largest gambling ring.” Trump was interviewed in the case and within weeks of the interview, Trump announced that if Rudy would run for mayor, Trump would raise $2 million in a half an hour for him. The investigation of Trump was dropped. “Donald became a co-chair of Giuliani's first fundraiser for his 1989 mayoral campaign.” Here is a story on the Trump/Giuliani connection: www.nydailynews.com/…
19. Here is a story that details some of the ties between Giuliani, Roger Ailes, and Murdoch. www.salon.com/...
They Used their Credentials, the FBI’s Name, and Purported Contacts at the FBI to Spread Lies about Clinton & Rig the Election
Trump and his surrogates with ties to the FBI were attempting to use the FBI to sway the election in favor of Trump and their efforts appeared to have worked. They improperly used the FBI as a partisan tool to make false claims about Hillary. They improperly used their law enforcement credential’s, the FBI’s name, and purported ties to the FBI to claim that Hillary was a crook and that the FBI had evidence of her wrongdoings, etc.
The problem with this is that they were using the credibility of the FBI to push false stories and no one stopped them. This had a HUGE impact on the election. Because of their improper use of the FBI, their claims came with a level of credibility even though they were FALSE. They rigged the election by using the FBI and have damaged the credibility of the FBI.
The FBI should not be politicized. No one should ever use their credentials and supposed FBI contacts for political gain and to give credibility to fake claims about a political opponent. Trump had his surrogates improperly use the FBI and alternatively attack the FBI for whatever political gain suits Trump at the moment.
Why is this not being investigated?