Radio Recap: Time for Accountability at the FBI

Even with two senior FBI officials reportedly under criminal investigation, more irregular activities at the FBI continue to come light.

Today on the broadcast, we discussed the mass amount of leaking coming out of the FBI.

One of the latest revelations is that the FBI continued to receive information, through DOJ official Bruce Ohr, from former spy Christopher Steele – author of the infamous “Steele Dossier” – after formerly ending its relationship with him in late 2016 due to leaking classified information.

Right now two FBI officials – former FBI agent Andrew McCabe and former FBI General Counsel James Baker –  are reportedly under criminal investigation for leaking.

And we know former FBI Director James Comey purposely leaked sensitive information – including conversations with the President of the United States – to the media.

Now we’ve learned the FBI reportedly wanted to “re-engage” Christopher Steele – even though he was fired for leaking to the media – after the firing of Comey.

These leaks are a threat to national security. The FBI needs to come clean and remove the leakers.

Remember we’re not just talking about the irregularities and unjustified investigations within the FBI, we’re litigating to get to the bottom of what has really been going on in multiple case.

As we explained earlier this week:

At the ACLJ, we’ve had experience with FBI investigative irregularities. We previously filed a FOIA request asking the government to comply with federal law to produce documents about potential corruption at both the DOJ and FBI in a high-profile investigation of a political candidate.

First the FBI said it found absolutely no documents pertinent to our FOIA request. We then received documents from the DOJ in a similar FOIA showing communications between FBI officials about the very issue.

When faced with the truth, the FBI did conduct another search, after we had to file a lawsuit to force them to produce documents. They then produced a few documents and we had to take them back to court to challenge their search. Finally, on its third attempt – after the FBI admitted it hadn’t searched its own Central Records System – it produced several more documents, including texts, but many were so heavily redacted, they were practically just blank pages.

It’s a sad commentary when you can’t trust the FBI to follow the rule of law.

Next week, we’re heading back to court against the FBI Deep State, and we’re preparing a major appeal in our case. We are getting to the bottom of this.

You can listen to the episode here.