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| Emails show Smith team tied to blocking Clinton campaign inquiry as DOJ builds grand conspiracy case | |
| 2025-11-14 | |
| [JustTheNews] The Trump DOJ's grand conspiracy efforts likely aided by host of recently-unearthed revelations on Crossfire Hurricane, James Comey, Jack Smith and more. Justice Department officials tied to special counsel Jack Smith’s team have been linked to the blocking of an FBI inquiry into the Clinton campaign’s 2016 funding of the Steele Dossier, with this being just the latest revelation about Smith as the Trump Justice Department builds a grand conspiracy case alleging years of anti-Trump lawfare. Emails released Thursday appear to show the officials shut down a potential FBI investigation tied to possible campaign finance violations carried out by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign when it used cutouts to fund the opposition research firm Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier. Two officials tied to Smith’s anti-Trump investigation were linked to the decision by the FBI not to pursue the alleged campaign finance wrongdoing by Clinton’s campaign. The decision by the Trump DOJ and FBI to open a probe that treats the last decade of political weaponization of law enforcement and intelligence agencies as an ongoing criminal conspiracy will likely be aided by the wave of recently-released information obtained by congressional investigators. Just the News reported this summer that the FBI quietly launched an investigation into a decade of Democratic Party and "deep-state" efforts ranging from ginning up the Trump-Russia collusion to examining Smith's pursuit of Trump. The inquiry is allegedly looking into whether there was a criminal conspiracy to influence three consecutive presidential elections to the benefit of Democrats and the detriment of Trump. Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to helm the Biden Justice Department’s investigations of former President Donald Trump. Recently-declassified revelations related to the Arctic Frost inquiry chronicle the expansive lawfare efforts against Trump and MAGA world, as criminal inquiries – which would soon lead to criminal charges – spun into high gear in 2022 as Trump leaned toward running for president again. Years before Garland picked him to lead the Biden DOJ’s anti-Trump legal efforts, Smith had injected the Justice Department’s public integrity unit — which he led at the time — into what would become an IRS scandal involving Lois Lerner and the targeting of conservative non-profit groups. Smith led the Public Integrity Section in the nation’s capital from 2010 until early 2015, leading a team of 30 prosecutors in conducting public corruption cases throughout the United States. Lerner, the director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, in 2013 helped lead an agency effort targeting conservative Tea Party groups and other similar nonprofits. Smith’s push for DOJ officials to reach out to Lerner and the IRS and for the DOJ to get involved seemed to be the impetus behind the IRS soon sending the FBI reams of U.S. nonprofit tax records, although the DOJ did not ultimately pursue prosecutions against the conservative groups. Also appearing to tie many strands together is the bureau’s recent discovery of a host of secret investigative documents allegedly stashed in “burn bags” inside a classified space at FBI headquarters. The bureau said in court filings linked to its prosecution of fired FBI Director James Comey that “among the records found were many related to the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search, the January 6 Capitol breach, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and a copy of the Classified Appendix to the John Durham Special Counsel investigation.” Just the News also recently revealed that more than two dozen Russiagate-related subpoenas are in the process of being sent out, coming at the same time that the DOJ’s false statements prosecution of Comey has resulted in the release of a host of new information about the fired FBI director as well as about the bureau’s secret stashing away of details on its investigations into Donald Trump.
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-11-14 23:16 |