It was blindingly obvious that these reords contained setrious criminal activity. We all knew. Then it was sent to the FBI and here we discover a complete lack of curiosity. This is not what we expect.
No case officer appears to even be assigned. Suddenly FBI managers in the chain of command become complicit in high crimes.
We are told that Sidney Powell will get the nod to replace Christopher Wray who is now ce3rtainly complicit. Yet four years have been squandered. Was the obstruction really that bad or were simple updates to william barr exercises in obstruction. .
FBI agent who found Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop says ‘immoral’ agency bosses sat on the discovery for a month and told him to ERASE his findings until he went direct to the US Attorney
FBI agent John Robertson found the messages that led to the Hillary Clinton email investigation being reopened days before the 2016 election
He said the way the bureau handled the case was 'not ethically or morally right'
Robertson feared he would be made a 'scapegoat' when he found the emails in the wake of DailyMail.com's revelation that Anthony Weiner was sexting a minor
The disgraced congressman's wife Huma Abedin was Clinton's top aide
Robertson said the FBI did nothing for a month until he went outside the chain of command and spoke with the US Attorney's office overseeing the case
The only advice from his bosses was to erase his office computer, which meant leaving no record of his investigations, a new book says
Robertson's claims add another layer of intrigue to the investigation of Clinton's emails which has become one of the most divisive episodes of the 2016 election
PUBLISHED: 13:48 EDT, 18 September 2020 | UPDATED: 01:53 EDT, 19 September 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8748293/Hillary-Clinton-email-whistleblower-tells-frustration-FBI.html
An FBI agent who found the messages that led to the Hillary Clinton email investigation being reopened days before the 2016 election said the way the bureau handled the case was 'not ethically or morally right'.
John Robertson feared he would be made a 'scapegoat' when he found the new emails less than two months before voting day, in the wake of DailyMail.com's revelation that Anthony Weiner, whose wife Huma Abedin was Clinton's top aide, was sexting an underage girl.
Robertson watched nervously as the bureau did nothing for a month until he went outside the chain of command and spoke with the US Attorney's office overseeing the case.
The only advice from his bosses was to erase his office computer, which meant leaving no record of his investigations, a new book says.
As Robertson put it: 'To this day don't understand what the hell went wrong', the Washington Post reported.
The claims add another layer of intrigue to the investigation of Clinton's emails which has become one of the most divisive episodes of the 2016 election.
They appear in October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election, which will be published on September 22 by PublicAffairs.
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FBI agent John Robertson (pictured) found the messages that led to the Hillary Clinton email investigation being reopened days before the 2016 election
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John Robertson feared he would be made a 'scapegoat' when he found the new emails less than two months before voting day, in the wake of DailyMai.com's revelation that Anthony Weiner, whose wife Huma Abedin was Clinton's top aide, was sexting an underage girl
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October Surprise reveals Robertson's frustration and anxiety began to fester in September after he found around 600,000 emails from Abedin including many that were to or from Clinton. They were on Weiner's laptop, which he examined in his office at the FBI New York office's C-20 unit, which is tasked with investigating sex crimes against children
The book, by Washington Post Justice Department correspondent Devlin Barrett, is said to be a 'comprehensive, revealing and dramatic look inside the bureau's role in the 2016 presidential election'.
Central to the account is the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State which dogged her campaign and led to an investigation by the department's Inspector General.
The inquiry was handed over to the FBI and former director James Comey closed it with no criminal charges on July 5, 2016, and rebuked Clinton and her staff for being 'extremely careless'
But he reopened it on October 28, more than a month after DailyMail.com revealed Weiner's sexts with a high school girl.
The FBI seized Weiner's computer and the agent who was tasked with going through it was Robertson - who found yet more Clinton emails.
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They appear in October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election, which will be published on September 22 by PublicAffairs
Comey closed the investigation for a second time on November 6th but by then, Democrats argue, the FBI had handed the election to Donald Trump.
October Surprise reveals Robertson's frustration and anxiety began to fester in September after he found around 600,000 emails from Abedin including many that were to or from Clinton.
They were on Weiner's laptop, which he examined in his office at the FBI New York office's C-20 unit, which is tasked with investigating sex crimes against children.
But he couldn't examine the messages, even to determine how many were Clinton's, because the subpoena that was used to seize Weiner's laptop was too narrow and did not allow it.
Late in September Robertson notified his bosses about his discovery, but after that he heard nothing.
He later told internal investigators: 'The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come down.
'Why isn't anybody here? Like if I'm the supervisor of any (counterintelligence) squad … and I hear about this, I'm getting on with headquarters and saying ''hey some agent working child porn here may have (Hillary Clinton) emails. Get your a** on the phone, call (the case agent) and get a copy of that drive,'' because that's how it should be.
'And that nobody reached out to me within, like, that night, I still to this day don't understand what the hell went wrong'.
Robertson hoped the prosecutors in the Weiner case - Amanda Kramer and Stephanie Lake at the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York - could help him.
He hoped their bosses could 'kick some of these lazy FBI folks in the butt and get them moving', the book says.
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The inquiry was handed over to the FBI and former director James Comey closed it with no criminal charges on July 5, 2016, and rebuked Clinton and her staff for being 'extremely careless'
But Comey reopened it on October 28,
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