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FBI failed to probe key thumb drives in Clinton email probe: DOJ watchdog files

The FBI barely glanced at potentially crucial evidence in its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, according to a portion of a watchdog report made public Monday.

A confidential source gave thumb drives to the FBI that contained State Department data acquired via cyber intrusions — including emails from President Barack Obama and others, according to a declassified appendix to a June 2018 Justice Department inspector general report.

But the feds declined to “comprehensively” analyze those drives due to concerns about individual data caught up in the hack — despite an internal draft memo concluding it was necessary to “assess the national security risks” pertaining to Clinton’s private server use.

“This document shows an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s email usage and mishandling of highly classified information,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) of the appendix.

The report was penned by then-DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who currently holds the same position at the Federal Reserve Board and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

It is unclear whether the FBI has since carried out a more thorough probe of the hard drives since the 2018 watchdog report was released.

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Texts and Emails Indicate Hillary Clinton Campaign Directly Coordinated with Obama White House to Launch Trump-Russia Hoax

The Hillary Clinton campaign was directly coordinating with the Obama White House to launch the Trump-Russia hoax in July 2016.

Hillary Clinton unleashed hell on this country when she hatched the ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ plot in 2016 to distract from her email scandal.

Hillary used a bogus dossier and conspired with foreigners and the FBI to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency.

In July of 2016, then-FBI special agent Peter Strzok opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s camp dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane” on suspicions (based on no evidence) that the Russians had infiltrated Trump’s circle.

The “electronic communication” (EC) that launched Crossfire Hurricane was written by Peter Strzok and obtained by Judicial Watch as the result of a FOIA lawsuit.

The EC revealed Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane based on third-hand information that the Russian government “had been seeking prominent members of the Donald Trump campaign in which to engage to prepare for potential post-election relations should Trump be elected U.S. President.”

According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, there are texts and emails showing Hillary Clinton campaign aides were coordinating with the Obama White House to launch the Trump-Russia hoax in July 2016.

“I’m told there are texts/emails indicating Hillary Clinton campaign aides directly coordinated with the Obama White House, NSC, State Dept and Intelligence Community officials in efforts to dig up dirt tying Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin in July 2016 …developing…” Sperry said.

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Ohr Memo Confirms Clinton Team Had Early Knowledge Of Ukrainian Black Ledger

The newly released Nellie Ohr documents from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have already made waves for two major reasons. First, they show the FBI concluded Nellie Ohr lied to Congress and then failed to act on it. Second, they revealed an internal FBI “black hole” filing system designed to bury evidence that contradicted or disproved the Donald Trump-Russia narrative, shielding it not just from the public but from the FBI’s own agents.

Yet there’s more. Buried in the release is also confirmation of another key aspect of how the Russiagate smear unfolded, one that has so far escaped much attention: Clinton campaign operative Ohr appears to have had advance knowledge of the so-called “black ledger” operation by Ukrainian officials.

This operation ultimately led to the political downfall of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in 2016. This information also provides more evidence that it wasn’t Trump who colluded with foreign powers against domestic opponents — it was Democrats.

While the broad outlines of this connection between the Clinton campaign and Ukraine have been known for some time, the newly released documents reveal the FBI was aware of Ohr’s foreknowledge as early as 2019. That’s when a report on her activities was written — but the FBI took no action.

Notably, this was before the first impeachment of President Trump, which was triggered by his inquiries into corruption in Ukraine. This detail confirms the strong likelihood that the Clinton campaign was more directly involved in the Ukrainian effort to smear Trump than was previously acknowledged.

The American public didn’t learn about the ledger until August 15, 2016, when The New York Times ran a front-page story accusing Manafort of receiving off-the-books cash payments from the Party of Regions, the political party of Ukraine’s deposed president, Viktor Yanukovych. But according to Grassley’s release, Nellie Ohr had already tipped off her husband, Bruce Ohr — then a senior DOJ official — along with two prosecutors from the DOJ’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, on May 30, 2016.

Even more striking, that alert came a full day before the first known public mention of the ledger in Ukrainian press. That May 31 article, co-authored by anti-Trump activist Serhiy Leshchenko, mentioned the ledger’s existence but made no reference to Manafort or U.S. politics. In congressional testimony, Nellie Ohr later admitted that Leshchenko was one of her sources at Fusion GPS and had passed along information about Manafort.

Leshchenko has been candid about his motives. Speaking to the Financial Times in 2016, he said his goal in publicizing the ledger was to intervene in the U.S. elections to damage Trump, whom he described as a pro-Russian candidate who could destabilize the global order. Notably, Leshchenko now serves as an advisor within Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle, a disturbing fact considering his history of actively promoting anti-Trump disinformation.

Ohr’s foreknowledge and contact with Leshchenko provide more evidence that the Clinton campaign, through Fusion GPS, was not only behind the fake Steele and Alfa Bank dossiers, but also acted as a conduit between Ukrainian political operatives and U.S. law enforcement. These efforts laundered foreign political propaganda into the DOJ and FBI under the guise of international criminal intelligence.

The ledger’s authenticity has long been in question. Manafort was never charged with receiving the cash payments alleged in the ledger and reported by The New York Times. Shortly after the 2016 election, Ukraine’s former domestic intelligence chief, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, expressed skepticism, pointing out it was suspicious only one fragment of the ledger had surfaced. “Where is the handwriting analysis?” he asked. “It’s crazy to open an investigation based on this kind of document.”

The orchestration also appears to go back even further. According to former Ukrainian diplomat Andrii Telizhenko, who spoke exclusively to me about the latest Ohr revelations, the operation began with a January 19, 2016 meeting at the White House.

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Declassified FBI memo sheds new light on Clinton’s fingerprints, cash on Trump-Russia probe

Anewly declassified FBI memo detailing the findings of its probe into Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr about the veracity of her testimony to Congress delivers new details about the Hillary Clinton campaign’s fingerprints on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The New York Post reported that Ohr, the wife of a former Justice Department official, gave “demonstrably false” testimony to Congress about her involvement in drafting and disseminating the since-debunked dossiers.

The memo was released on Wednesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and shows the bureau assessed that Nellie Ohr likely lied to Congress in her testimony about the genesis of the infamous Steele Dossier, her interactions with Justice Department officials, and knowledge of the Trump-Russia probe, known inside the government as “Crossfire Hurricane.” 

Ohr denied knowledge of DOJ probe under oath

Nellie Ohr was a researcher and analyst doing work for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm hired by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to conduct anti-Trump opposition research. That firm eventually hired disgraced British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who produced the infamous Steele Dossier and other fictional material that provided the ostensible basis for Biden’s Justice Department to probe Trump.

Ohr originally told congressional investigators in October 2018, that she had no knowledge of the Justice Department’s investigations into the Trump-Russia connection, but several key facts uncovered by the FBI’s probe could spell trouble. The memo shows that she shared investigative materials from her Fusion GPS work with her husband, Bruce Ohr, who worked at the Justice Department; and that she acknowledged the investigation in her own emails.

The memo also pointed out the textual similarity between her Fusion GPS research and the official investigation, and disclosed a joint meeting with her DOJ-official husband and Christopher Steele. 

Aside from Nellie Ohr’s work for Fusion GPS, which has long been the subject of congressional investigations and media attention, the declassified memo also shows more extensive Clinton campaign fingerprints on the origins of the collision investigation, with Fusion GPS being the coordinating hub of a multipronged effort to spread Russia collusion allegations to the FBI. Politico reported in 2017 that according to unnamed sources, The Democratic National Committee and Marc Elias, a lawyer for Hillary Clinton who represented the DNC and the Clinton campaign and hired Fusion GPS, helped bankroll research that led to the now-infamous dossier.

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New Docs Reveal How FBI Insiders Buried Evidence Of Spygate Crimes

Nellie Ohr isn’t a new name in the Russiagate saga, but newly released documents from Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office shatter the fiction that she was just a low-level researcher and reveal her as a key conduit between Clinton operatives, the DOJ, and the FBI. The documents also pull back the curtain on a darker truth: an internal black hole FBI system designed not just to restrict access to sensitive Russiagate documents, but to bury them so completely that even FBI agents tasked with finding them wouldn’t know they existed.

What was already known about Nellie Ohr is that she worked for Fusion GPS — an opposition research firm led by former Wall Street Journal reporters Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch — who were hired by the Clinton campaign in April 2016 to manufacture the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. At the same time, her husband, Bruce Ohr, was a senior official at the Department of Justice. It was also known that Nellie Ohr gathered open-source information on various figures, including Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, which was then twisted to fit the collusion narrative. What was not known — until now — is just how deeply involved she was in the Trump-Russia collusion smear, how brazenly she lied to cover it up, and how the FBI actively aided in the cover-up.

According to the newly released document from Sen. Grassley’s office, a previously unseen 43-page FBI analysis from 2019, Nellie Ohr was involved in many aspects of the Russia collusion hoax, including in the drafting of the Steele Dossier. The FBI analysis was initiated after then-Congressman Mark Meadows filed a criminal referral, alleging that Ohr had lied to Congress during her 2018 testimony about her role in producing supposed research that helped trigger the Trump-Russia investigation. Meadows had good reason to be suspicious.

As the analysis concluded, Nellie Ohr repeatedly lied under oath. The FBI found that despite her denials, she contributed directly to the writing of the Steele Dossier. One telling clue was an identical analytical error that appeared both in her research and in the dossier itself. Even more damning, the FBI recovered a deleted “FSB report” from a thumb drive which Fusion owner Simpson had given to Bruce Ohr to give to the FBI in December 2016. That same fictitious report had already appeared as part of the dossier given to the FBI by Steele two months earlier, in October 2016. The FSB report bore all the hallmarks of Nellie Ohr’s work, which likely explains why Simpson, or whoever created the thumb drive, deleted the report just four minutes after uploading it, before eventually giving it to Bruce Ohr to pass to the FBI. What they didn’t realize was that what they tried to hide was still recoverable.

It’s long been suspected that former British intelligence agent turned Clinton operative Christopher Steele’s role wasn’t to generate the dossier’s content himself but to act as a cutout, lending British intelligence credibility to stories manufactured by Fusion GPS operatives and Clinton campaign affiliates. That part of the operation was wildly successful. To this day, many still believe it was Steele who wrote the dossier’s stories, when in reality, he was just the frontman.

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After Major Backlash, Hillary Clinton Tries to Walk Back Divisive Memorial Day Weekend Message in Remarks to Media at Chappaqua Parade

Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tried to walk back her divisive Memorial Day Weekend message in remarks to the press at the annual Chappaqua parade on Monday.

Bill and Hillary Clinton participated in the Chappaqua Memorial Day parade on Monday.

Hillary Clinton told the press that Memorial Day is a day people need to come together and honor our fallen soldiers.

Hillary’s message of unity is much different than her call to liberals to ruin Memorial Day gatherings by bashing Trump to friends at the cookout.

Rather than honoring the US Servicemembers who have made the ultimate sacrifice, Hillary called on her supporters to bash Trump at barbecues and gatherings this weekend.

“I’m giving you a mission for this Memorial Day holiday weekend,” Hillary said on X.

“I want you to talk to two people—friends, neighbors, cookout attendees—about why Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids,” she said.

“We owe the next generation every chance, and this isn’t it,” she said.

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Hillary Clinton Calls on Liberals to Ruin Memorial Day Gatherings by Bashing Trump to “Friends, Neighbors, Cookout Attendees”

“Boy, this burger is great, Roy! What’s your secret?”

“Tom, don’t you know Hillary Clinton says Trump’s new budget is going to increase food insecurity?”

“*&%$ it Roy! I just wanted to enjoy Memorial Day with friends. Shove your burger! C’mon Betty, we’re leaving!”

Rather than honoring the military men and women who gave their lives defending their fellow Americans’ right to live in freedom, two-time failed Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling on her supporters to bash President Donald Trump and his One Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House this week when they get together with friends and neighbors at Memorial Day gatherings this weekend:

I’m giving you a mission for this Memorial Day holiday weekend.

I want you to talk to two people—friends, neighbors, cookout attendees—about why Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids.

We owe the next generation every chance, and this isn’t it.

How the Trump budget bill would impact kids. (It would be a disaster.)

* Drastically cut health care. 15 million Americans, including millions of children, could lose access through Medicaid cuts and ACA marketplace changes.
* Increase food insecurity. Nearly 11 million people—including 4 million kids—could lose SNAP food assistance.
* Make families poorer. The bill would kick 4.5 million American kids off the child tax credit.
* Leave AI dangers unchecked. The bill would freeze state-level AI regulation for 10 years, stripping states of the ability to protect kids from deep fakes, exploitation, and more.

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White House: Bondi to Release Files on Alleged Clinton ‘Conspiracy’ Deaths

The White House has announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to release files concerning deaths linked to the Clintons. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Bondi’s commitment to this decision, highlighting her history of keeping promises. The announcement follows a recent video shared by Donald Trump on Truth Social, which delves into the “Clinton Body Count” conspiracy theory.

Trump’s video suggests that over 50 individuals tied to the Clintons have died under suspicious circumstances. While conspiracy theorists have long speculated on this topic, the claims remain largely unproven. Trump’s decision to share such inflammatory content raises questions, but his actions are often unpredictable.

The video even speculates that Hillary Clinton was involved in JFK Jr.’s plane crash, allegedly to clear her path to the New York Senate seat. While such claims might seem outlandish, the high number of deaths surrounding the Clintons raises eyebrows. Some of the deceased were reportedly poised to testify against the Clintons, which adds a layer of suspicion.

Psychology Today has noted that conspiracy theories often stem from cognitive biases, like confirmation bias. This means people tend to believe narratives that align with their existing beliefs. Given Trump’s longstanding disdain for the Clintons, it’s not surprising that he would entertain such theories.

A common factor in believing conspiracy theories is a deep mistrust of authorities. Trump, having faced significant scrutiny from the left, might find it easy to mistrust those in power. However, airing these accusations without concrete evidence can be problematic.

While Trump has every right to voice his opinions, making unsubstantiated claims during his presidency is contentious. If he presents solid evidence supporting his claims, the narrative could shift dramatically. Until then, the theory remains speculative.

In the realm of politics, distrust and skepticism are not uncommon. Trump’s supporters may see his actions as a brave challenge to a system they feel is biased. However, critics argue that such statements without proof are reckless.

The Clintons have been a focal point for various conspiracy theories over the years. This latest wave of allegations is just another chapter in a long history of speculation. The promised release of files by Attorney General Bondi might shed light on these mysterious deaths.

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Ex-Air Force Aide Reveals Harsh Atmosphere in Clinton White House, Labeled Hillary Clinton as ‘Nazi Schoolmarm’

A former Air Force officer who once held one of the most critical jobs in the U.S. government is now speaking out about the chaos and fear that allegedly surrounded Hillary Clinton during her husband’s presidency — offering a rare, unfiltered glimpse behind closed doors.

Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, who served as the Senior Military Aide to former President Bill Clinton from 1996 to 1998, said his time inside the White House was shaped less by the commander-in-chief and more by his wife’s commanding presence. 

Patterson, who carried the “nuclear football” during Clinton’s administration, described a toxic culture shaped by Hillary Clinton’s unpredictable and allegedly hostile behavior.

“When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me: ‘You can get away with pissing off Bill but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out,’” Patterson wrote in a post on X.

 “I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications.”

According to Patterson, the military and White House staff went to great lengths to avoid even being seen by the then-first lady. 

“She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us,” he wrote.

“Many a time, I’d see mature, professional adults, working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight.”

Patterson claimed the first lady earned a notorious nickname among staff: the “Nazi schoolmarm.” 

He added, “She was the Nazi schoolmarm and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble.”

He also alleged that Hillary made efforts to restrict the presence of military uniforms in the White House, interpreting it as part of an agenda to diminish the visibility of the armed forces under the Clinton administration. 

“The Clintons are corrupt beyond words,” Patterson concluded in his final post.

Patterson’s online comments, which have amassed over five million views, painted a stark contrast in atmosphere depending on Hillary’s presence. 

“We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was Schindler’s List,” he wrote.

He added that Clinton staffers and even military personnel viewed the administration as deeply unprofessional.

“Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke about it,” Patterson noted.

“But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone.”

When asked by an X user what had caused friction between him and the former president, Patterson shared an incident where he refused Clinton’s request to visit a restaurant because the location hadn’t been cleared by the Secret Service, per Trending Politics.

The president was reportedly furious — but Patterson said even that paled in comparison to the consequences of upsetting Hillary.

Now a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, Patterson’s candid recollections offer a window into what he describes as the behind-the-scenes dysfunction of one of America’s most powerful political families.

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Hillary Clinton blasts Vance, Musk for encouraging higher birthrates, says immigrants can do that instead

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk are pushing America to boost its birthrate to “return to being a Christian nation.”

On May 1, Clinton spoke at the Newmark Civic Life Series in Manhattan at the 92nd Street Y, New York. She argued that there is a “very blatant effort to basically send a message, most exemplified by Vance and Musk, and others, that, you know, what we really need from you women are more children… and what that really means is ‘You should go back to doing what you were born to do, which is to produce more children.’”

Musk, who has fathered 10 children with three women, has repeatedly voiced his concerns about the threat posed by a declining population, often advocating for policies that encourage childbearing. 

Vance also encouraged building families during his speech at the March for Life in January, declaring, “I want more babies in the United States of America. I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them.” 

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