OpenCdA readers may remember former FBI Director James Comey’s public statement on July 5, 2016, regarding Hillary Clinton’s criminal culpability for using her illegal and unsecured private email server to handle and unlawfully disclose national security information.
In that statement, Comey said, “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.” [emphasis OpenCdA’s]
Why did former FBI Director James Comey say, “… our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case [prosecute Hillary Clinton for jeopardizing national security with her private email server]”?
Listening to Comey when he made the statement, we immediately picked up on the exact phrases we’ve highlighted. OpenCdA’s thought upon hearing Comey’s statement was that the FBI may have been running an offensive counterintelligence operation (OFCO) against the Russians. We alluded to that in our July 14, 2016, OpenCdA post entitled It’s a ‘Bigot List’.
Our suspicions about an FBI OFCO seems to have been confirmed publicly for the first time in The Hill reporter John Solomon’s November 20, 2017, article entitled FBI informant gathered years of evidence on Russian push for US nuclear fuel deals, including Uranium One, memos show. The article identifies the FBI’s confidential source publicly as ‘William Campbell.’
There is additional information in another Solomon article on the same day. It was entitled Five new revelations in the Russian uranium case.
One question historians will ask is, What did Hillary Clinton know about ‘William Campbell’ and when did she know it? It is doubtful we will ever know the complete answer.
Your suggestion that “the FBI may have been running an offensive counterintelligence operation” immediately triggered my memory of two political satire commic strips. (1) Mad Magazine’s early 1960’s “Spy vs. Spy” comic strip, and (2) the astute observation in the April 1970 “Pogo” comic strip: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Comment by Tributary — November 22, 2017 @ 7:58 am
Tributary,
Have no fear, our intrepid Fools on the Hill will have it all sorted out in no time at all.
Comment by Bill — November 22, 2017 @ 11:10 am