FBI scandal

The FBI scandal began as a series of abuses within the Obama administration.

Uranium One

Main article: Uranium One bribery scandal

Clinton email server

Main article: Hillary Clinton email scandal

On May 2, 2016 FBI Dir. James Comey wrote an internal memorandum saying Hillary Clinton and others were guilty of gross negligence punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.

On July 5 FBI Dir. James Comey revised his findings at the behest of Peter Strzok from felonious gross negligence when he publicly announced that Sec. Clinton and staff were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," and "there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information…There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation." Comey referred the matter to the Justice Dept. for a prosecutorial decision. In the absence of prosecution, security or administrative sanctions are the norm. Comey's decision to by-pass DoJ rules and take matters into his own hands may have been part of a counterintelligence ooeration.

Russian meddling

Main article: Trump-Russia

Steele dossier

In early June FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele to begin working on the Steele dossier. On June 9 Rinat Akhmetshin and Natalia Veselnitskaya, working for FusionGPS and Ike Kaveladze, meet with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. On June 20 Christopher Steele filed his first report entitled Company Intelligence Report.

See also

• 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign
• Deep state coup timeline 2016-2017
• Deep state coup