The Democrats thought they got away with a major scandal. Not so fast.
Because Hillary Clinton’s email scandal just got blown wide open with new FBI revelations.
Comey’s Inner Circle Caught Plotting Media Leaks Via Personal Emails
Freshly declassified memos expose a shocking scheme where former FBI Director James Comey’s top aides used personal email accounts to push an “unauthorized disclosure” to the press, just months after he let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her reckless handling of classified info on a private server during the 2016 race. This bombshell comes as patriotic Americans demand accountability for the entrenched Washington insiders who weaponized federal agencies against outsiders like Donald Trump.
In 2019, agents digging into a criminal case dubbed “TROPIC VORTEX” pushed for access to those shady private emails, but federal prosecutors in D.C. slammed the door shut, according to the documents unearthed by current FBI Director Kash Patel and cleared for Congress by Attorney General Pam Bondi. These memos lay bare how the system protects its own, blocking probes that could have nailed high-level corruption.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington DC “issued a prosecutorial declination decision for TROPIC VORTEX,” as stated in the FBI memo that effectively k*lled the investigation. This stonewalling fits a pattern of elite immunity that real Americans are fed up with, where rules apply to everyone except the liberal establishment.
These disclosures add fuel to the fire, showing frontline FBI agents raised red flags about illegal leaks and mishandling of secrets by big names like Comey, now-Senator Adam Schiff from California, and Clinton herself. Yet time and again, efforts to hold them accountable got sabotaged by higher-ups loyal to the old guard.
Agents collected direct testimony from Comey’s key deputies, including ex-chief of staff James Rybicki and former FBI General Counsel James Baker, pointing to Comey greenlighting classified leaks to reporters right before the 2016 vote. Despite this d*mning evidence, no one faced charges in that probe run by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham.
That investigation zeroed in on classified info dumped to The New York Times in October 2016, just ahead of Trump’s stunning victory over Clinton. While the memos don’t spell out exactly what secrets got spilled or if anyone had declassification authority, they scream of an insider plot to sway the election against the people’s choice.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, declared these latest exposes prove Trump was right to boot Comey in 2017. “Time and again, the curtain has been pulled back to reveal Comey’s self-serving, ‘rules for thee and not for me’ attitude,” Grassley said. “That’s no way to run an institution, especially not the top law enforcement agency in the nation.”
“I stood by President Trump’s decision to dismiss Comey in 2017 and I support his move all the more with each passing day,” he added. Grassley’s words echo the frustration of hardworking folks tired of two-tiered justice that shields Democrats while targeting conservatives.
The memos detail how in March 2017, Rybicki shuttled a message to his personal email to advance Comey’s directed leak of classified material to journalists. Prosecutors initially froze the account after FBI’s Washington Field Office flagged it as part of a media dump scheme, but they backed off, claiming the message wasn’t classified itself.
Comey has repeatedly denied under oath that he ever fed stories to the press about FBI probes into Trump or Clinton, or okayed anyone else to do it. He claims he’s just a victim of political hits for defying Trump, but these memos paint a different picture of a man dodging scrutiny.
It all kicked off from Trump’s early March 2017 tweet blasting Obama for spying on his campaign: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” The very next day, the Times ran a piece saying Comey wanted the DOJ to smack down Trump’s claims publicly.
“The March 2017 NYT Article reported a USG official indicated Comey asked the DOJ to publicly reject the assertions in President Trump’s tweets, but the DOJ had not released any such statement. The tweets and article occurred shortly after the initiation of the USPIS Investigation,” the FBI memo explained. Investigators grilled DOJ and FBI brass about their reactions but couldn’t pin the leaker definitively.
By late October 2019, the Washington Field Office pieced together that “the findings revealed Rybicki forwarded an email containing a proposed statement to the news media regarding the tweets to his (Rybicki’s) presumed personal email account.” They assessed this as pushing an unauthorized media reveal, likely at Comey’s unspoken command, though the statement seemed unclassified.
Prosecutors preserved the emails but ditched further pursuit, even skipping materials prepped for Rybicki’s interview. The field office wrapped up the leak hunt, marking another dead end in exposing the rot. This echoes the FBI’s half-dozen probes into leaks fueling the bogus Trump-Russia hoax, where no one got held responsible.
Rybicki and Baker were central to the Clinton email fiasco too, where leads went cold and no charges stuck. Comey’s infamous July 2016 speech cleared her despite evidence of violations, a move blasted as insubordinate by watchdogs.
A fresh declassified appendix to the 2018 DOJ inspector general report on Clinton’s server shows Comey bowed to dubious classified intel pushing him to wrap the probe early. It also reveals ignored thumb drives with potential server dirt, highlighting how Obama-era officials allegedly meddled to shield Clinton.
The report cited intel alleging “the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy,” with claims of interference by then-AG Loretta Lynch and Comey to aid candidates. Though officials denied pressure, it reeks of favoritism that everyday Americans never get.
These abandoned probes into Comey, Clinton’s foundation, Schiff, Hunter Biden, and others mark a dark chapter where Trump’s first term saw slow-walking and outright blocking of justice against political foes. But Trump fought back hard, appointing John Durham in 2019 to dissect the FBI’s flawed Russia investigation, which his report slammed for relying on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” while treating Clinton’s camp differently. Durham’s four-year dig exposed the bureau’s negligence in launching Crossfire Hurricane without solid evidence, vindicating Trump’s claims of a witch hunt.
Trump also unleashed declassifications, authorizing the release of all Russia collusion and Clinton email docs in 2020, with DNI John Ratcliffe dropping bombshells on Obama admin actions like unmasking Trump allies in foreign surveillance. Acting DNI Richard Grenell declassified lists of Obama officials who sought identities of Trump associates swept up in intel, fueling Obamagate fury.
