Published by Front Page Mag
By Daniel Greenfield
But lying to the FBI is only a crime when it’s committed by a Trump associate. Not by a Clinton associate.
That’s one of the details in another of John Solomon’s blockbuster Hill stories (you may remember his recent Uranium One story).
The FBI also confirmed that a key witness, a computer technician who deleted Clinton emails from her server in March 2015 after a congressional subpoena had been issued for them, originally lied to the FBI during his interviews, memos show. The witness’s name was redacted from documents released by the FBI but he was identified as an employee of a computer firm that helped maintained Clinton’s email server.
His admission of false statements came one day after the Comey statement was already being drafted, investigators told The Hill.
The computer employee originally told the FBI in a February 2016 interview that he did not recall making any deletions from Clinton’s server in March 2015, FBI records show.
But then on May 3, 2016, the same employee in a subsequent FBI interview told agents he had an “oh shit moment” and in late March 2015 deleted Clinton’s email archive from the server, according to FBI documents reviewed by The Hill.
Lying to the FBI is a federal felony, a crime that former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn recently pleaded guilty to. But the FBI decided not to pursue criminal charges against the witness, and instead gave the technician an immunity deal so he could correct his story, congressional investigators said.
Comey’s FBI had been handing out immunity deals like candy. But this one is particularly striking.
You lie to the FBI and then get an immunity deal so you can “correct” the story. I don’t recall Flynn getting that deal.
But this was the usual pattern. The FBI handed out immunity deals for the benefit of the investigation even though the letter exonerating Hillary was already in the works. Instead the investigations just existed to immunize Hillary and her people from legal consequences.
That’s the gloriously corrupt way things worked under Obama.
January 3, 2018
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