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Clinton Campaign, DNC Are Paying FEC Fines In Effort To Bury Story: Kash Patel

https://www.theepochtimes.com/clinton-campaign-dnc-are-paying-fec-fine-in-an-effort-to-bury-story-kash-patel_4375276.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/clinton-campaign-dnc-agree-to-pay-fines-for-payments-of-steele-dossier_4372807.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-fines-paid-by-clinton-campaign-dnc-show-corruption_4374089.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-clinton-campaigns-two-pronged-plan-to-create-the-trump-russia-collusion-narrative_4302443.html

The lead investigator for the House Intelligence Committee’s 2018
probe into the FBI’s investigation of alleged Trump–Russia collusion,
Kash Patel, said the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign is paying
a penalty to Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an admittance of
guilt.

Clinton and DNC are doing so to bury the narrative and prevent more
media coverage of these illegal activities, said Patel.

    “I think the public sees what that is. It’s their way of burying
the narrative, because if they contested what happens, more media
coverage, more people start looking into these things,” Patel said.

    “So the Hillary Clinton campaign is not contesting it, they’re
paying the fine. It’s basically admitting that they did this and
they’re out is: ‘we just don’t want a protracted legal deal, as if the
Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC ever shied away from taking something
or someone to court,” Patel added.

National Security Council Senior Director of Counterterrorism Kashyap
"Kash" Pramod Patel in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White
House on Oct. 27, 2019. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Clinton’s campaign and the DNC agreed to pay a combined $113,000 to
the FEC, according to documents made public on March 30, after the
commission found probable cause that the entities violated federal law
by describing payments that ultimately went to the Fusion GPS research
group as going toward legal services and consulting.

“It shows them how wrong they were to violate the law and spend
political campaign dollars on hit job, opposition research pieces for
then-candidate Trump, all of which, [to] remind the audience, was then
used intentionally by the FBI—even though they knew it was false—to go
to a federal secret court and surveil a presidential candidate and
later a president of the United States.”

The FEC, which is responsible for overseeing federal elections,
including the presidential election, found that the Hillary Clinton
campaign broke FEC rules about how donations can be used.

“What we knew when we ran the Russiagate investigation, Chairman Nunes
and I, we exposed that the Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the
Steele dossier, an opposition research hit job. We had proven that
some years ago,” said Patel.

“What the Coolidge Reagan Foundation did … based on our investigation,
said ‘wait a second FEC, you as a political campaign cannot spend
political dollars launching opposition research, false or otherwise,’”
said Patel.

Dan Backer, an attorney who lodged the complaint with the election
commission against the Clinton campaign and the DNC, told The Epoch
Times that it’s the first time Clinton “has actually been held
accountable for misconduct,” calling the fines “a great step for
accountability.”

“So they fined them, that’s the FEC’s job. And the Hillary Clinton
campaign could have said: ‘We disagree with your finding. We’re going
to go to court.’ What did the Hillary Clinton campaign do? … They
agreed to the finding of probable cause by the FEC, which means
they’re basically agreeing that it happened. … Like we’ve always said,
‘follow the money.’”

Patel said while the FEC fine is an important step toward holding the
Clinton campaign and other key players involved in the Russia
disinformation campaign accountable, the true victory, he hopes, will
be indictments made by U.S. special counsel John Durham.

In October 2020, Durham was appointed by the Dept. of Justice as
special counsel to investigate the FBI’s handling of Russiagate. His
recent filings revealed that internet traffic at Trump Tower and the
White House was accessed to fabricate ties between Trump and Russia.

The filing, which was submitted late on Feb. 11 in connection with the
indictment of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s
2016 campaign, reveals that Rodney Joffe, a tech executive who was
working with Sussmann, had exploited access to domain name system
(DNS) internet traffic pertaining to the Executive Office of the
President of the United States (EOP) as well as Trump Tower and Donald
Trump’s Central Park West apartment building.

“This FEC fine is another step towards accountability. But [for] me as
a former federal prosecutor, maybe I’m biased, but the ultimate step
of accountability which the American public is waiting for,comes in
the form of indictments, especially to those people who violated their
oath of office,” Patel said.