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Clintons have history of using FBI to target opposition



Clintons Have Been Using the FBI Against Their Enemies for Years
Remember in 1993 when 400 FBI confidential files on Reagan and Bush appointees turned up in the White House?

It has all the elements of a polarizing scandal, with none other than Hillary Clinton at center stage — plus highly sensitive confidential documents, unexplained actions involving the FBI, and allegations that federal investigators were weaponized for partisan political purposes.

No, this is not the infamous Christopher Steele dossier containing multiple allegations about Donald Trump’s relationships with shadowy Russian business tycoons and spies. Nor is it about the Steele dossier’s deceitful use by rogue FBI executives to put campaign operatives for the 2016 Republican presidential nominee under official surveillance.

That Hillary Clinton/FBI scandal began just last year.

The Hillary Clinton/FBI scandal described in the lead paragraph above began in 1993, only months after she and husband Bill began what turned out to be an eight-year residency in the White House. You see, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s use of the FBI for political gain is nothing new.

Here’s how the Weekly Standard summarized the Clintons’ 1993 “Filegate” scandal when it became the focus of a special counsel investigation in 1996:

The good news is that Whitewater special counsel Kenneth Starr is now looking into the circumstances under which the Clinton White House improperly secured and reviewed highly confidential background information from the FBI on more than 400 Reagan- and Bush-administration employees. A full accounting of this atrocious invasion of privacy may eventually become public.

But the bad news is that, in the meantime, the whole story is being set up to disappear. A separate FBI analysis of the “Filegate” caper has now been released. It is highly critical of the entire enterprise — which seems to have victimized 71 more individuals than had previously been identified.

But the FBI inquiry does not address the question of White House conduct. Were Clinton’s aides on a dirt-digging expedition? Those aides continue to maintain, in the president’s words, that ‘it was just an innocent bureaucratic snafu’: computer glitches and procedural carelessness, with no malign intent and no disclosure of personal information.

In short: no harm, no foul.

That’s long been the Clinton pattern — laws bent, broken or ignored, political opponents smeared, self-righteous protests of innocence when exposed, trusting supporters used and abused, and endless obfuscations, often punctuated by artless evasions, such as Hillary’s bemused response when asked by a reporter if she wiped her server cl

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Your theory that the FBI is a branch of the Democrat Party is indicative of mental health issues.

According to the Republicans, the media, academia and now law enforcement are all corrupt and biased against them. Everybody who discovers any negative facts about the Republicans is corrupt and biased. What a strange coincidence.

Side: no
NomsGremlin(79) Disputed
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We know the media, academia and parts of the Obama era FBI are all corrupt and biased against the right

Side: yes
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"reality has a well-known liberal bias"

-Colbert

Side: no
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The Clintons are GONE! Trump WON! Why can't you cons accept the facts!

I know,..... because you have NO legitimate arguments to excuse the things you do! Like in any battle, a smoke screen can be effective to cover what you're REALLY doing!

Side: no
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The Clintons are GONE! Trump WON!

They are? Her fake dossier is still there glowing in the dark from her toxicity as we speak, and not but a few weeks ago she was still on her book tour. Just last week she was on a rewards show reading from the trash Trump book.

Why can't you cons accept the facts!

We've fully accepted that he is President. A year later and libs still have not.

Side: yes
AlofRI(3294) Clarified
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"Her fake dossier was originally started BY THE REPUBLICANS. I guess when they found out where it was going they gave it up! Others saw that it should not be. The toxicity is now drifting around DC (which must mean Dodge City because so many conservatives are "getting the hell out" before the fecal matter hits the rotary air mover!

We Democrats accept the fact that he is President, by way of Gerrymandering and Russian/conservative propaganda. A year later we "libs" are still trying to get our elections FAIR again! (While "HE does Putin's work for him")!, as McCain said!

Side: yes