<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">China is the main driver behind fentanyl being smuggled into the United States by Mexican drug cartels, according to investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Schweizer, author of “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” discussed the crisis on “</span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/fentanyl-america-s-silent-epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fentanyl: America’s Silent Epidemic</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” part of a DailyWire+ series by Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Divided States of Biden</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The author said the fentanyl trade that contributes to tens of thousands of American deaths every year begins in China. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They’re the senior partner. The drug cartels are really the junior partner in the fentanyl trade,” Schweizer told Shapiro, speaking of the Chinese regime led by President Xi Jinping.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ninety percent of fentanyl precursor chemicals shipped from China to Mexico arrive via Mexico’s Port of Manzanillo. The port is run by a Chinese company, according to Schweizer. From the port, the chemicals are taken to a town in northern Mexico close to the U.S. border. About 2,000 Chinese workers work in cartel labs to craft the precursor chemicals into fentanyl and then the fentanyl into pills resembling common drugs such as Vicodin or Adderall.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Now the drug cartels want to distribute their product in the United States. What do they do? They use Chinese apps. They use Chinese communications devices because they know that China will not share that information with U.S. law enforcement,” Schweizer said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Money from the drug trade is then laundered through the Chinese financial system.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Mexican drug cartels now launder their money in Chinese state-owned banks, and, according to our government, they use Chinese students in the United States on education visas to do this,” Schweizer said.</span></p>
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<p>China will continue to fuel the fentanyl trade in the United States until U.S. political leadership decides to make China feel real consequences from participating in it, according to Schweizer.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We need to start looking at punitive actions we can take to damage them. I’m generally a free trade guy, but do you want to have free trade with somebody who is poisoning your citizens in such a systematic way? I don’t think so,” he said. “We’ve got to get tough and we’ve got to make clear: you are going to suffer consequences and real damage until you stop doing this to our people.”</span></p>


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China Is The ‘Senior Partner’ Directing The Fentanyl Crisis Killing Americans, Author Peter Schweizer Says

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<p>Bestselling author Peter Schweizer joined The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” to explain the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and its possible links to his father, President Joe Biden.</p>
<p>Schweizer, who also serves as president of the Government Accountability Institute, spoke to “Morning Wire” for its Friday episode. The bestselling author known for his investigations into government corruption said that the FBI and IRS’s investigation into Hunter Biden consists of four parts.</p>
<p>“One is tax evasion, that he failed to pay millions of dollars in taxes from money that came overseas. There’s also allegations potentially of money laundering; that would be moving money around for maybe foreign oligarchs or other people who are trying to hide assets,” Schweizer explained. “The third thing that they&#8217;re looking at is violations of the so-called FARA Act, Foreign Agents Registration Act, which means if you lobby the U.S. government, asking them for some kind of action on behalf of a foreign actor, you are required to register with the Department of Justice. That’s something Hunter Biden didn’t do.”</p>
<p>“Finally, they’re looking at the possibility of political corruption. Was there payments being made to Hunter Biden because they wanted something from his father?” Schweizer added.</p>
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<p>Schweizer went on to explain how the fourth part of the federal probe could implicate President Biden.</p>
<p>“Hunter Biden was doing these deals precisely at the time that his father was the named point person on U.S. policy towards Ukraine. So there’s a certain, at minimum, coincidence there,” he noted. President Biden, when he was vice president, led U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine during former President Barack Obama’s second term. Biden was responsible for approving military aid for the former soviet state.</p>
<p>“The allegation is that Ukrainian oligarchs want certain favorable treatments from Joe Biden because he had so much pull on the aid dollars coming into the country and what the U.S. posture would be that they basically gave Hunter Biden this energy job of a million dollars a year, even though he had no background and experience in Ukraine or energy,” Schweizer said. “The same could be said as it relates to China policy in Russia policy as well, because Hunter Biden had dealings there while his father was also driving U.S. policy in those areas during the Obama administration.”</p>
<p>Schweizer said that Hunter Biden’s overseas dealings directly implicate President Biden in several ways, including from emails pulled from Hunter Biden’s missing laptop, which was reported on in the run-up to the 2020 election. Stories stemming from the laptop were censored at the time by social media giants Facebook and Twitter.</p>
<p>“First of all, he not only was using the family name, there’s evidence, actually in the Hunter Biden laptop, that meetings were set up and some of those meetings were off the books, meaning they did not appear on the White House visitors log,” Schweizer said. “So, there seems to have been some kind of access granted — whether that&#8217;s illegal or not, of course, is another question.”</p>
<p>“The other way it involves Joe Biden, the President of the United States, is it’s clear from the laptop that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden had intertwined finances, meaning Hunter Biden was getting money from these overseas deals,” he continued. “He was paying some of his father&#8217;s monthly bills, but he was also paying for things like renovations on his father&#8217;s home in Delaware, et cetera. That’s patently illegal in the United States. Politicians can&#8217;t be subsidized by family members. And the fact that the money came from overseas of course means that, uh, that has further implications. So this does directly involve Joe Biden.”</p>
<p>Friday’s episode of Morning Wire, and all episodes of Morning Wire, can be listened to <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/sc/podcast/morning-wire/id1576594336">here</a>.</p>


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Bestselling Author Peter Schweizer Breaks Down FBI Probe Into Hunter Biden, Potential Links To President

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak is working with Peter Schweizer, the #1 bestselling author of Red-Handed and Clinton Cash, for a major investigation of U.S. public schools, The Daily Wire can report. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rosiak, who </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">broke the story of the Loudoun County, Virginia bathroom rape, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">is a fellow with Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute (GAI) in addition to his role as Daily Wire investigative reporter. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The arrangement between Rosiak and Schweizer brings together The Daily Wire &#8212; which has led the pack in revealing problems in K-12 schools &#8212; and GAI, one of the nation’s foremost investigative groups specializing in exposing special interests on both sides of the aisle. GAI exposed congressional insider trading, leading to a law called the STOCK Act, it brought the Clinton Foundation’s influence-peddling to the fore and discovered Hunter Biden’s overseas deals even before the 2020 election.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Schweizer’s most recent book is &#8220;Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, which documents prominent Democrats’ and Republicans’ sweetheart deals with China. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The result of the two-year collaboration is </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720/?tag=governmacco01-20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, written by Rosiak with a foreword by Schweizer. Both &#8220;Red-Handed&#8221; and &#8220;Race to the Bottom&#8221; are published by HarperCollins.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My work as an investigative journalist involves sifting our nation’s political class for evidence of corruption,&#8221; said Schweizer. &#8220;What I have seen over my decades of work is that corruption is most likely to fester where no one is looking. What Luke has found is that some of the same forms of deception, self-­dealing, and corruption that I have seen in the halls of power are also occurring behind the friendly-­seeming facades of the schools in your town. He identifies systemic rot in an area that is, somehow, simultaneously omnipresent and remarkably under-scrutinized.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The project has been underway since late 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic and before teachers&#8217; unions engaged the public by shutting down schools. The shutdown, however, inadvertently exposed what has since become known as Critical Race Theory because online classes let parents see, for the first time, what their children were actually being taught in schools.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">GAI’s decision to begin an investigation into K-12 schools years ago shows that it was ahead of the curve again.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Luke Rosiak’s exhaustive work in this book shows that while it might have been parents’ first glimpse of such issues, they did not appear in K–12 schools overnight. Through the stories of local school systems in different parts of the country—from inner cities to wealthy suburbs and rural areas—Luke shows readers how, for years, local K–12 school systems have been captured by a variety of special interests whose allegiance is to anything but the ‘three Rs,’” Schweizer said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another GAI “fellow” is former Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), who authored &#8220;They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: The Truth About Disaster Liberalism,&#8221; a book about politicians’ use of COVID-19 to ram through unrelated agendas.</span></p>


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<p>In a recent discussion with Glenn Beck, bestselling author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) successful, decades-long attempt to turn socialism &#8220;into a profession&#8221; that has ultimately &#8220;generated a lot of money&#8221; for his family.</p>
<p>Sanders, Beck said on his show Friday, is &#8220;the model&#8221; every politician &#8220;in every corrupt communist country&#8221; is seeking to emulate. &#8220;Here&#8217;s a guy who&#8217;s only worked in public service, or as a &#8216;public servant&#8217; &#8230; and yet he&#8217;s a millionaire that owns three different houses.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont at age 39,&#8221; said Schweizer, whose new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006289790X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_thcv_p1_i0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America&#8217;s Political Elite</a>,&#8221; includes a section on Sanders. &#8220;Up until that point, he&#8217;d never actually held a steady job for very long. Some of his friends at the time recount when he was in his 20s and 30s, he sort of dismissed regular jobs as &#8216;moron jobs.&#8217; And he was not going to take a moron job. When he ran for the U.S. Senate in the 1970s, he ran twice, he actually collected unemployment insurance.&#8221;</p>
<p>After having a laugh at Sanders&#8217; disdain for the private sector and willingness to milk the public, Schweizer got to the more serious allegations.</p>
<p>&#8220;When he gets elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, one of the first things he does &#8230; he puts Jane — his girlfriend, later his wife — on the city payroll,&#8221; Schweizer told Beck. The action prompted protestations from the city counsel, who were mostly Democrats, who complained that he wasn&#8217;t even giving her an existing job and didn&#8217;t take applications for the position, said Schweizer, but &#8220;Bernie just kind of blew them off, and they accepted it. And that began this pattern of him using taxpayer money or campaign money and steering it to his family members.&#8221;</p>
<p>That &#8220;pattern,&#8221; Schweizer said, played out in Sanders&#8217; decision when he ran for national office that he would appoint his wife to be his media buyer for his campaigns. &#8220;Media buying is one of those dirty little secrets in D.C. that a lot of people don&#8217;t know about,&#8221; Schweizer explained, &#8220;but it&#8217;s highly lucrative and you can steer money to people without anybody knowing it.&#8221;</p>
<p>A media buyer, he noted, often receives between a 10 to 15 percent commission on all media campaigns, according to industry standards, without having to disclose it with the Federal Elections Commission. A million-dollar ad campaign would net a media buyer $100,000 to $150,000, Schweizer noted as an example.</p>
<p>&#8220;So what does Bernie Sanders do? He says I&#8217;m going to make my wife my media buyer,&#8221; said Schweizer. &#8220;So she gets the commissions, it&#8217;s not recorded anywhere — never mind that Jane had no background in being a media buyer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schweizer then said that his research had found that Sanders appeared to withhold his endorsement from other candidates until they agreed to use Jane as their media buyer, thus directing more money her way. &#8220;This has become a mechanism for wealth for Bernie Sanders,&#8221; said Schweizer.</p>
<p>&#8220;And then you have the whole mystery about the 2016 presidential campaign, where $83 million in media buyers goes through this company called <a href="https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/peter-schweizer-bernie-sanders-rails-about-common-good-but-public-service-has-made-him-and-his-family-rich/">Old Towne Media</a> that doesn&#8217;t have a website, doesn&#8217;t have other clients, it doesn&#8217;t have an office, it&#8217;s registered to a home in suburban Virginia, that&#8217;s run by Jane&#8217;s two friends that she worked with back in the day,&#8221; said Schweizer. When Jane was asked about it by a progressive reporter in Vermont, said Schweizer, she reportedly &#8220;hung up the phone.&#8221; How much money they made, he said, is still unclear.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a major problem for Bernie Sanders,&#8221; Schweizer said. &#8220;He&#8217;s turned socialism into a profession that has generated a lot of money to his family.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t that what happens?&#8221; Glenn responded. &#8220;Everybody in charge of a socialist country, they walk away with billions, in some cases, and the people are left starving.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It is a racket for Bernie Sanders,&#8221; said Schweizer. &#8220;And the sort of austere image that he presents — he&#8217;s kind of the John the Baptist of the progressive movement — is simply not true.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schweizer went on to point out that, while he slams big business and capitalism, Sanders has a financial portfolio that&#8217;s &#8220;quite sizable&#8221; and suggests an ideological hypocrisy. While he&#8217;s seen by the Left as the &#8220;authentic guy,&#8221; said Schweizer, he encouraged people not to listen to what he&#8217;s telling people but to look at what he&#8217;s actually doing.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GlennBeck/videos/623412585127325/">Watch video of the interview here</a>.</p>


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Schweizer Explains How Bernie Sanders ‘Turned Socialism Into A Profession’ That Has Profited His Family

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<p>Peter Schweizer, Government Accountability Institute president and author of bestselling book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296">Clinton Cash</a>&#8221; &#8212; a book that played a pivotal role in the 2016 election &#8212; has a new investigative book on government corruption that involves a series of accusations involving billions of dollars against some major political players, including former Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State John Kerry, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.</p>
<p>Over the last week, Schweizer has spoken with Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity a few times about some of the key claims in the book, particularly claims against the current Democratic presidential <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">frontrunner</a> in the polls: Biden. As Schweizer explained in an interview with Hannity last week, his new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Empires-American-Political-Corruption/dp/0062569368">Secret Empires</a>: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,&#8221; contains details about what he says is a corruption scandal involving Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the new corruption, Sean, and it&#8217;s not the corruption of $90,000 in your freezer. This is major amounts of money,&#8221; Schweizer told Hannity, noting at times the deals include &#8220;billions&#8221; of dollars. &#8220;It involves foreign governments who want to influence our leaders, and they way they get around disclosures. The way they get around the law is they don&#8217;t give the money to the politician, they don&#8217;t even give it to their spouse &#8212; they give it to their kids or they give it to a sibling. And that&#8217;s a way that it avoids detection. The amounts of money are massive.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schweizer then got into some specifics related to Biden and his son Hunter: &#8220;For example, there are three major deals involving the Chinese government and family members, close aides of the Secretary of State John Kerry and the Vice President Joe Biden. &#8230; Basically, what happens is in 2013, Joe Biden flies to China to talk to them about very sensitive issues, the South China Sea, talking about trade issues, economic issues. Hunter Biden, his son, is with him on Air Force Two. Okay, that&#8217;s fine, that&#8217;s great. Here&#8217;s the problem: Ten days after they come back, after Joe Biden takes a pretty soft position towards the Chinese, Hunter Biden inks &#8230; what becomes a $1.5 billion [private equity] deal.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the first of three deals,&#8221; Schweizer explains. Along with the two other deals, they&#8217;re talking about &#8220;multiple billion-dollar&#8221; deals, none of which had to be disclosed, said Schweizer. Video below via <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/03/20/cinton_cash_author_peter_schweizer.html">Real Clear Politics</a>:</p>
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<p>&#8220;Stuffing tens of thousands of dollars into a freezer has morphed into multibillion-dollar equity deals done in the dark corners of the world,&#8221; the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Empires-American-Political-Corruption/dp/0062569368">summary</a> of Schweizer&#8217;s book reads. &#8220;An American bank opening in China would be prohibited by US law from hiring a slew of family members of top Chinese politicians. However, a Chinese bank opening in America can hire anyone it wants. It can even invite the friends and families of American politicians to invest in can&#8217;t-lose deals. President Donald Trump&#8217;s children have made front pages across the world for their dicey transactions. However, the media has barely looked into questionable deals made by those close to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Mitch McConnell, and lesser-known politicians who have been in the game longer.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45181/watch-biden-rips-white-mans-culture-mistreatment-hank-berrien">WATCH: Biden Rips &#8216;White Man&#8217;s Culture&#8217; For Mistreatment Of Women</a></strong></p></p>


WATCH: Schweizer Details New Corruption Claims Against Joe Biden

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<p>Left-wing CNN&#8217;s Pamela Brown and Evan Perez <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/politics/james-comey-fbi-reputation/">report</a> that their sources describe the Department of Justice (DoJ) as engaging in &#8220;politically driven&#8221; obstruction of the FBI&#8217;s investigations into corruption allegations relating to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton&#8217;s negligent handling of state secrets via her unauthorized private email server during her capacity as secretary of state.</p>
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<p>Joining colleague Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday, Brown shared what she and Perez had learned from their sources.</p>
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<p>&#8220;My colleague, Evan Perez and I, have spoken to more than a dozen officials and agents, and have learned that agents in the FBI wanted to aggressively investigate the Clinton Foundation several months ago. Earlier in the year, the Department of Justice told the FBI, essentially, &#8216;You don&#8217;t have enough evidence here for predication to get more tools, such as warrants and subpoenas. Go back and see what else you can dig up. We were told that after the Clinton email probe, initially wrapped up back in July, that those agents wanted to continue their work on the case, and again DoJ said, &#8216;You don&#8217;t have enough evidence here to really investigate.&#8217; And so things are sort of on hold, but this has just sort of caused tensions to flare, and the FBI and Department of Justice, some of those agents feel like the roadblocks are politically driven.&#8221;</p>
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<div>On CNN&#8217;s website, Brown and Perez reported that &#8220;some rank-and-file agents interpreted cautious steps taken by the Justice Department and FBI headquarters as being done for political reasons or to protect a powerful political figure.&#8221;</div>
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<div>The Wall Street Journal has also <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518">released</a> a <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957?tesla=y">series</a> of <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-comey-acted-independently-in-sending-letter-about-clinton-emails-1477788552?tesla=y">reports</a> based on unnamed government sources of growing tensions within and between the FBI and DoJ. Investigative agents are apparently being stifled by politically partisan senior officials at both the FBI and DoJ, presumably seeking to shield Clinton from criminal prosecution.</div>
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<div>Larry Kudlow and Fox Nes Channel&#8217;s Bill O&#8217;Reilly have both said that their sources &#8211; both current and former FBI employees &#8211; have described inner tensions at the FBI as nearing &#8220;revolt&#8221; and &#8220;mutiny,&#8221; respectively.</div>
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<p>H/T Matthew Boyle at <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/02/validly-predicated-investigation-reports-prove-fbi-aggressively-investigating-clinton-foundation-potential-pay-play-crimes/">Breitbart</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXvV8QvxS1w">GOP War Room</a></p>
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<p><em>The Wall Street Journal</em> (WSJ) <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518">published a report</a> on Wednesday night describing more internal conflicts at the FBI and Department of Justice (DoJ) regarding investigations into the Clinton Foundation. According to unnamed &#8220;people familiar with the matter,&#8221; the WSJ claims that agents&#8217; wishes to aggressively pursue an investigation into government corruptions related to the ostensibly charitable philanthropic enterprise were stymied by DoJ prosecutors.</p>
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<p>The investigation into the Clinton Foundation was apparently prompted by Peter Schweizer&#8217;s book, &#8220;Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The US attorney for Brooklyn, Robert Capers &#8211; an appointee of President Barack Obama &#8211; is described as being at &#8220;the center of the tension&#8221; between the FBI and DOJ. Some at the FBI are said to view him as misleadingly placating both sides of the interagency dispute.</p>
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<p>FBI agents and DOJ corruption prosecutors are said to have disagreed over the strength of the evidence regarding allegations that contributors to the Clinton Foundation received favorable political treatment from the State Department during Hillary Clinton&#8217;s tenure as its head.</p>
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<p>Senior officials in both the FBI and DOJ thought little of the evidence, according to the WSJ&#8217;s sources, while the FBI&#8217;s agents viewed their investigatory efforts as being suppressed by higher-ups.</p>
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<p>The WSJ&#8217;s sources claim that some blame is being directed at the FBI&#8217;s second-in-command, deputy director Andrew McCabe. McCabe&#8217;s wife is a Democrat senatorial candidate in Virginia who <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10343/wsj-fbi-preparing-scour-abedins-emails-weiners-robert-kraychik">received nearly $500,000</a> from Virginia Governor and Clinton loyalist Terry McAuliffe.</p>
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<p>With the aforementioned tensions beginning in February and continuing today, the DoJ instructed investigators to &#8220;stand down&#8221; in their investigation of possible corruption related to the Clinton Foundation, according to the WSJ&#8217;s sources.</p>
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<p>Also claimed by the WSJ&#8217;s sources is that the FBI had &#8220;secretly recorded conversations of a suspect in a public-corruption case talking about alleged deals the Clintons made.&#8221; Corruption prosecutors were uninterested in the information, claimed the WSJ&#8217;s sources, dismissing it as hearsay and viewing it as weak evidence to present to a grand jury for the purposes of an indictment.</p>
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<p>DoJ officials are said to &#8220;have become annoyed&#8221; with FBI investigators who continued their investigations despite their efforts being rebuffed. Capers is said to have told officials in Washington that the involved FBI agents &#8220;won&#8217;t let it go.&#8221;</p>
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<p>A senior DoJ official is said to have called McCabe on August 12 over the matter, concerned that FBI agents were disregarding or disobeying instructions to cease their investigation of possible corruption related to the Clinton Foundation.</p>
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<p>H/T Devlin Barrett and Christopher M. Matthews at <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518">The Wall Street Journal</a></p>
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WSJ: DoJ Told FBI To ‘Stand Down’ On Clinton Foundation Investigation

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