Yesterday, Daily Beast reporter Wayne Barrett laid out the ties between the FBI “bombshells” about the Clintons, Fox News regular, Rudy Giuliani and the former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom. Their helpmate in the effort has been Fox News.
In a must-read Daily Beast article, Barrett explains that before becoming mayor of New York, Giuliani was a federal prosecutor who worked closely with the FBI in New York. It’s that FBI office, Barrett notes, that is investigating Anthony Weiner’s alleged sexting with a minor and “who pressed [FBI Director James] Comey to authorize the review of possible Hillary Clinton-related emails on a Weiner device that led to the explosive letter the director wrote Congress.”
Barrett further notes:
Back in August, during a contentious CNN interview about Comey’s July announcement clearing Hillary Clinton of criminal charges, Giuliani advertised his illicit FBI sources, who circumvented bureau guidelines to discuss a case with a public partisan. “The decision perplexes me. It perplexes Jim Kallstrom, who worked for him. It perplexes numerous FBI agents who talk to me all the time. And it embarrasses some FBI agents.”
Kallstrom is the former head of the New York FBI office, installed in that post in the ’90s by then-FBI director Louis Freeh, one of Giuliani’s longtime friends. Kallstrom has, like Giuliani, been on an anti-Comey romp for months, most often on Fox, where he’s called the Clintons as a “crime family.” He has been invoking unnamed FBI agents who contact him to complain about Comey’s exoneration of Clinton in one interview after another, positioning himself as an apolitical champion of FBI values.
And guess who Kallstrom supports for president? He announced his endorsement for Trump on the Fox Business Network. The appreciation is mutual, it turns out. Barrett reveals that Kallstrom’s charity was the biggest beneficiary of funds from Trump’s fundraiser for veterans that he did in lieu of the Iowa primary debate.
Barrett concludes with this:
It’s clear enough, though, why when Comey sent a note to FBI staff on Friday explaining his decision to inform Congress about the renewed Clinton probe, the scoop about that internal memo went to Fox News. Why Kallstrom gets booked to talked about the Clintons a “crime family.” Why Clinton Cash author Peter Schweitzer, caught in a web of Breitbart and Trump conflicts, would announce on Fox that he was asked in August to sit down with New York office FBI agents investigating the Clinton Foundation (with The New York Times reporting this week that the agents were relying largely on his discredited work when they pitched a fullscale probe).
Fox is the pipeline for the fifth column inside the bureau, a battalion that says it’s doing God’s work, chasing justice against those who are obstructing it, while, in fact, it’s doing GOP work, even on the eve of a presidential election.
Watch Megyn Kelly try to prod Kallstrom into suggesting that President Obama was unfairly pressuring the FBI into letting Clinton off the hook in this October 16 2015 interview with him below. I’ll have more on her role in this in a later post.