By
Michael Walsh
November 3, 2016
Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption prosecutors who viewed the statements as worthless hearsay, people familiar with the matter said.
Agents, using informants and recordings from unrelated corruption investigations, thought they had found enough material to merit aggressively pursuing the investigation into the foundation that started in summer 2015 based on claims made in a book by a conservative author called “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” these people said.
The account of the case and resulting dispute comes from interviews with officials at multiple agencies.
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Amid the internal finger-pointing on the Clinton Foundation matter, some have blamed the FBI’s No. 2 official, deputy director Andrew McCabe, claiming he sought to stop agents from pursuing the case this summer. His defenders deny that, and say it was the Justice Department that kept pushing back on the investigation.
Who's Andrew McCabe, you ask? Just a senior official at the FBI, to whom the Clintons funneled -- via family bagman and current Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe -- the tidy sum of $675,000 for McCabe's wife's losing campaign for a Virginia state senate campaign. McCage is the same guy who recently urged FBI agents to "stand down" from their Foundation investigation.
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