Former FBI Official At Field Office That Allegedly Leaked Clinton Email Info Arrested

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This FBI agent helped elect TFG

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https://www.politicususa.com/2023/01/23/fbi-official-arrested-russian-oligarch.html

Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions.

McGonigal and Shestakov, who worked for the FBI investigating oligarchs, allegedly agreed in 2021 to investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for payments from Deripaska, according to the Justice Department. McGonigal and Shestakov are accused of receiving payments through shell companies and forging signatures in order to keep it a secret that Deripaska was paying them.

In 2016, Reuters reported that then FBI Director James Comey made his infamous announcement that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails was being reopened because the FBI feared leaks by an anti-Clinton faction within the New York field office:

Two law enforcement sources familiar with the FBI’s New York Field Office, which initially discovered the emails, said a faction of investigators based in the office is known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton. A spokeswoman for the FBI’s New York office said she had no knowledge about this.

Rudy Giuliani claimed that agents in the NY field office leaked to him about Clinton’s emails. An investigation was opened in 2019, but that investigation quietly vanished during the Trump presidency.

The suspicion that there was something wrong at the FBI New York field office has been confirmed.

[PortTack]

1. It just sucking f..ks!!

[AllaN01Bear]

2. the agents involved in this besides this one should be purged and i feel that

there may be many more in the bearu.

[Mr. Steve]

16. Agreed

And throughout the entire agency.

[Cerridwen]

3. Kick and already recommended. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "Rudy Giuliani claimed that agents in the NY field office leaked to him about Clinton's emails."

IIRC, this was all over DU when this happened and Rachel did a whole thing on it - Ghouliani got on some Faux Snooze show and bragged about it...

[Captain Zero]

5. Rudy's been a Russian asset a long time &

I bet McGonigal is not the only one in the NY office if the FBI.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Exactly, Putin doesn't own just one FBI agent.

[Cha]

6. TY, LMPV

[rubbersole]

7. faux news will probably make him an anchor in prime time.

[certainot]

8. like for 'climategate', then they feed talk radio and create another alternate reality

americans really should not keep expecting real democracy until they democratize rw radio - an easy fix merely by using the MIT prototype for digitizing and analyzing huge amts of radio talk (2.8 bil)

otherwise our analysts and media will keep doing the equivalemnt of studying fish without water.

the new police beating horror will do about qs much as sandy hook just because we ignore the radio

[orangecrush]

9. Traitors

Go to prison

This dirtbag swore an oath

[Mister Ed]

12. And probably considers himself an "Oath Keeper"...

...or at least a fellow traveler of theirs.

[LisaM]

10. Russia and the FBI colluded to make sure Hillary didn't win.

Imagine how different things would be if she had, starting with Ukraine and the Supreme Court.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/

[triron]

11. I can't, I would get too angry and depressed.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Yes. How much of the US government does Putin own?

How many elections has he stolen?

[Blue Owl]

13. K&R for viz

[Evolve Dammit]

17. How many more? FBI, SS, DHS, etc. Huge national security threat. It is a civil war..

[edisdead]

18. A war on top of a civil war

We are in a propaganda war on top of a civil war

[Evolve Dammit]

22. sounds right

[NullTuples]

20. As well as local & state cops

see: Constitutional Sheriffs And Peace Officers Association (+ ties to white nationalist groups)
see: Racist cops *everywhere* beating and killing black men & boys
see: Conservative Christians taking over the armed services unhindered

I don't get why more Democratic leaders aren't freaked out about this. If Republicans ever successfully do stage a coup that goes beyond what they did on January 6th 2021, they will be backed by the nation's law enforcement. Nobody seems to be taking this seriously at any level of government. Worse still, they rarely acknowledge it & when they do it's only momentarily.

I just don't understand how this isn't anyone's priority to fix. They've known about the Dominionists for decades & tracked their advancement. Then the Tea Party took over the GOP and folded those American conservative Christians into the party as well. Soon all the other white nationalist & Christian Nation groups joined in, too.

This problem has been growing since at least 2000, yet only individual bits and pieces are ever mentioned by leaders & news media, and only in the moment. But step back and see that there's now a substantial alliance of groups that very much want to burn America as we know it down to the ground so they can take over.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Good post. Wouldn't disagree with a word.

[Farmer-Rick]

19. Looks like Putin has double agents all over our government

Putin is piss poor at most government functions except espionage. Propaganda and espionage are his skill set.

So, Republicons and the filthy rich let Putin's rats into the house. That group of filthy rich traitors awere perfectly happy with betraying our country for more profits.

Capitalism has made wealth more important than patriotism or honor or even common decency. Wealth and money is what's really controlling our country and Putin and his rats are using it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Putin stole the 2016 election for TFG

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

The combination of the NYT and crooked FBI agents got TFG elected. I canceled my subscription to the NYT back in 2016 due to the biased coverage. The NYT is not a real news organization and actually worked with the NYC office of the FBI to elect TFG

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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html

It was arguably the most consequential “October Surprise” in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters’ ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed a budding scandal around her GOP rival.

Except the “October Surprise” was no surprise to one key player: Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-New York mayor and Trump insider who later became the 45th president’s attorney. Late that month, Giuliani told Fox News that the trailing Republican nominee had “a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.”

Just two days later, then-FBI director James Comey revealed the bureau had reopened its probe into Clinton’s emails, based on the possible discovery of new communications on a laptop belonging to disgraced New York politico Anthony Weiner. The news jolted the campaign with a particularly strong boost from the New York Times, which devoted two-thirds of its front page to the story — and the notion it was a major blow to Clinton’s prospects.

It was later reported that Comey was motivated to make the unusual announcement about the laptop because he feared leaks from the FBI’s New York field office, which, according to Reuters, had “a faction of investigators based in the office known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton.” Indeed, Giuliani bragged immediately after that he had sources in the FBI, including current agents.

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......The government allegations against the former G-man Charles McGonigal (also accused of taking a large foreign payment while still on the FBI payroll) and the outsized American influence of the sanctioned-and-later-indicted Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska — also tied to U.S. pols from Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell — should make us also look again at what was really up with the FBI in 2016.

How coordinated was the effort in that New York field office to pump up the ultimate nothingburger about Clinton’s emails while poo-pooing the very real evidence of Russian interference on Trump’s behalf, and who were the agents behind it? What was the role, if any, of McGonigal and his international web of intrigue? Was the now-tainted McGonigal a source who told the New York Times that fateful October that Russia was not trying to help Trump win the election — before the U.S. intelligence community determined the exact opposite? If not McGonigal, just who was intentionally misleading America’s most influential news org, and why?......

It’s not only that America’s so-called paper of record has never apologized for its over-the-top coverage of the Clinton emails or the deeply flawed story about the FBI Trump-Russia probe. It’s that the Times has shown a stunning lack of curiosity about finding out what went wrong. In May 2017, or just seven months after Trump’s election, then-Times executive editor Dean Baquet ended the position of public editor, an independent journalist who was embedded in the newsroom to cover controversies exactly like these.