The same FBI players who led the Russian collusion hoax against President Donald Trump had intelligence implicating former Attorney General Loretta Lynch as a potential player in Russiagate, but declined to follow through because of how an investigation would look to the public.
Durham annex documents declassified and released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley show that in March 2016, high-level FBI officials, including FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, informed Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis that they found two Russian-languange memos and emails purportedly hacked by “individuals affiliated with Russian intelligence services” to “likely not be credible.” One of the memos indicated that the Clinton campaign “regularly receives information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the plans and intentions of the FBI,” adding that then-President Barack Obama was using Lynch to “pressure” then-FBI Director James Comey to bury Hillary Clinton’s election-year scandals.
An August 12, 2016, memorandum confirmed the FBI believed that the information was “hearsay,” tainted with suspected “exaggeration” and “editorialization,” and even “unreliable because of translation errors.”
The FBI allegedly tried to seek “additional related information” from a source dubbed “T1,” but received “no responsive information.” Despite having what is described as “a number of covert investigative steps” available to further determine the truth about whether Lynch had talked with Clinton’s top campaign staffer, the FBI stopped short.
Comey later claimed to the Inspector General’s office that the report indicating Lynch may have coordinated with the Clinton camp “not credible on its face.” FBI Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson, however, revealed to investigators that Comey’s decision to drop the probe into Lynch was influenced by Margolis’ concerns about investigating someone as high profile as the country’s principal legal officer.
Margolis specifically warned that looking into Lynch’s alleged communication could “take us down the path [where] we’re investigating the Attorney General of the United States.” Margolis allegedly told Comey that he “ought to have more of a reason to go forward with it than what you have.”
The irony, of course, is that the same people worrying about the implications of examining Lynch’s actions based on what they believed to be a low-to-no credibility report were more than happy to run a years-long failed presidential takedown masquerading as an investigation based on a debunked dossier.
There’s no denying that the Steele dossier, which was the spark that lit the Russia collusion hoax on fire, was based on bogus intelligence. Yet big intelligence players such as McCabe and Comey were more than happy to green-light a soft coup against Trump based on the dossier’s outlandish claims.
The disparate treatment the FBI gave Trump compared to Lynch is unsurprising, given everything we know about Russiagate and its partisan origins. Nearly 10 years after the FBI wrongfully determined that Trump deserved more scrutiny, it’s clear that the lawfare and two-tier system of justice that the corrupt hoaxers started only continued.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
