The FBI launched more than half a dozen wide-ranging investigations into leaks to the media as numerous legacy outlets deployed the classified information to push false claims of Trump-Russia collusion, but the bureau failed to hold anyone accountable for the classified leaking, a Just the News investigation shows.
The newly-declassified FBI memos detail a host of failed or botched classified leaks inquiries, with revelations from at least seven leak inquiries contained within the bombshell documents first obtained and now released by Just the News. The FBI concluded that numerous news stories which contributed to the false Russiagate narrative contained illegally leaked classified intelligence, but bureau investigators repeatedly failed — perhaps willingly — to definitively identify the leakers.
The problems that FBI investigators said they faced included large pools of potential leakers within the federal government sometimes numbering in the dozens or into the hundreds due to the wide dissemination of the intelligence, uncooperative Justice Department partners, restrictions on the use of data from the spy agencies which were victims of the leaks, investigations being launched only many months after the leaks occurred, congressional staffers invoking speech or debate privilege to stymie inquiries, DOJ declining to pursue prosecutions, and more.
Comey manipulated The New York Times into carrying water
Despite the failures of all of these FBI leak investigations, Just the News revealed this week that FBI agents did force a stunning admission that ex-FBI Director James Comey used a special conduit to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times in his bid to polish his image and push for a special prosecutor to take down Trump.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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