{"id":60266,"date":"2025-07-23T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60266"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:52:05","slug":"when-the-keystone-cops-do-an-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60266","title":{"rendered":"When The Keystone Cops Do An Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/07\/21\/fbi-brushed-over-thumb-drives-in-clinton-email-investigation-report-finds\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLsfXtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiGYPF6UC6dr8Rq3z61PgcnRTsGP3-bjHlmerKSiwwQvAY-83lhJeepddA_e_aem_CbV-oPIdwcz-rFvMsvimfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s private email server. Evidently, it was not a very thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>An FBI draft memo from May 2016 stated reviewing the thumb drives would be necessary to conduct a \u201cthorough and complete investigation,\u201d including assessing national security risks associated with the private server. Yet the agency \u201cnever finalized the memorandum or submitted this request to the department,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/horowitz_2018_midyear_appendix_released_by_chairman_grassley.pdf\">according<\/a> to the document released Monday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/21\/us-news\/fbi-failed-to-probe-key-thumb-drives-in-clinton-email-probe-doj-watchdog-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But the feds declined to \u201ccomprehensively\u201d analyze those drives due to concerns about individual data caught up in the hack \u2014 despite an internal draft memo concluding it was necessary to \u201cassess the national security risks\u201d pertaining to Clinton\u2019s private server use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThis document shows an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI\u2019s investigation of former Secretary Clinton\u2019s email usage and mishandling of highly classified information,\u201d said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) of the appendix.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investigation carefully avoided getting anywhere near the truth. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton met with <span class=\"_97w2Z3njlMm7Og_zyqu4\">Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the tarmac at Phoenix Airport on June 27, 2016, while Attorney General Lynch was overseeing the investigation, but it was just a coincidence that they happened to meet. I truly hope that the people who lied and ignored the law will be brought to justice at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s private email server. Evidently, it was not a very thorough investigation. The article reports: An FBI draft memo from May 2016 stated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3174,12874,9683,8436,18306,7015,8321,18307],"class_list":["post-60266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-clinton","tag-department-of-justice-inspector-general-michael-horowitz","tag-hillary-clintons-private-server","tag-loretta-lynch","tag-senate-judiciary-committee-chairman-chuck-grassley","tag-the-daily-caller","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-thumb-drives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60267,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266\/revisions\/60267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}