More Evidence Reveals Obama Influenced Clinton’s FBI Investigation
In an interview with Fox News this past April, President Obama asserted that he did not put pressure on the FBI’s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. “I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI—not just in this case but in any case,” he said. There is now mounting evidence suggesting Obama’s claim was false.
“Newly disclosed emails show top Obama Administration officials were in close contact with Hillary Clinton’s nascent presidential campaign in early 2015 about the potential fallout from revelations that the former secretary of state used a private email server,”
Obama’s administration has intervened to delay several FOIA requests until after Election Day to shield Clinton from further scrutiny.
In October 2015, the White House stopped the release of emails between Clinton and Obama, citing the need to keep presidential communications confidential.
In June, the Obama administration stepped in to delay the State Department fulfilling an FOIA request from International Business Times
“The delay was issued in the same week the Obama administration filed a court motion to try to kill a lawsuit aimed at forcing the federal government to more quickly comply with open records requests for Clinton-era State Department documents,” reported David Sirota.
President Obama has also repeatedly defended Clinton when questioned about her private server, blaming the controversy on politics. But while the FBI was conducting an investigation, Obama should have refrained from making his own judgment on the case.