When Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden faced a severe scrutiny to deal with them for classified materials, senior officials of the Trump Ministry of Justice and FBI (FBI) demanded criminal investigations and severe sanctions.
However, these same numbers – including Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi, FBI director Cash Patel, Deputy Director of the FBI Dan Bonjino, and the interim American lawyer, all refused to criticize the senior Trump officials publicly Those who used a signal to exchange military attack plans In a chat that included inadvertently a journalist.
The Trump administration denied any secret information discussed in the text messages issued by the Atlantic Ocean on plans to bomb the rebels in Yemen, but CNN reported that joint information in the chat It was widely classified as it was sent.
Bondi, who is now the country’s highest law enforcement official, strongly defended the officials who participated in the sign chat, including Vice Vice President JD Vance and Defense Minister Pete Hegsth, and suggested that Their actions are unlikely to be investigated. But in the past, Bondi argued that Clinton and her assistant, Hema Abdin, needed to face the charges after that Email messages containing secret information She was found on the computer from her ex -husband, former Democratic Deputy Anthony Winner.
“This has a relationship with our country’s security,” Bondi said in January 2018. “When you have a security permit from the highest that Hima Abdin had-you know when to send emails that are violated by the law, and there is no objective law enforcement officer in this country that does not receive this accordingly. Well? No one.”
Bondi has repeatedly framing the investigation of Clinton via e -mail as a clear legal issue in its appearance on the Fox News that KFILE reviewed from CNN, saying, “We live in a nation of laws” and that Clinton “has been subjected to our national security.”
On Thursday, Bondi defended the officials ’chat officials, saying that the chat included” sensitive, not classified information. “
“What we should talk about is that it was a very successful task,” she told reporters. “If you want to talk about the classified information, talk about what was at Hillary Clinton’s house, the documents classified in the Joe Biden garage.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said that Bondi’s public comments last week “speak for itself.”
Likewise, Patel previously called for a harsh prison sentence to leak confidential information.
“A leakage of classified information – this is a federal crime that is punishable, as I think, over a decade, from the top of my head,” Patel, Patel, He said in 2021 When discussing leaks to the media while investigating Russian intervention in the 2016 elections. “It is a very dangerous issue. But no one has been sued for the leakage of the classified information.”
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In another interview In September 2024Patel criticized the decision of Special Counselor Robert Hor not to impose fees on Biden due to abuse of classified documents.
“They left the man from the hook.” “They only said that it does not matter … I have set a new legal standard that applies to his acquittal and will not be charged.”
Bongino, a former secret service agent and now Democrats have often accused the FBI, and the Biden Administration of diarrhea of secret information Using encrypted applications To avoid accountability, including the application signal.
“This was a farce of justice, and there is no other way to look at it,” Bongino He said Regarding the recommendation of former FBI director James Komey not to charge Hillary Clinton in 2016. I worked as a 12 -year federal agent of my life and a local police officer before that, I am fully aware of the elements of crimes, investigation elements, and good federal cases.
“What Jim Comey put yesterday that for 15 minutes, what Ms. Clinton did – in the federal system, you can provide information in a complaint or indictment. If this goes before the judge and the jury, he could only condemn Mrs. Clinton about this information alone.”
In the tweets that have been deleted since then, Bongino also took the goal of Abdeen and wondered whether former FBI deputy director Andrew Mcabi has used unsafe communications to deal with classified information.
“Either Hima knew that she was sending secret email messages to Winner, and she was doing it illegally, so she committed a crime. Or, Hima did not know that sending classified emails was a crime and had no work at all to reach the Clinton political machine and those familiar with our government,” He said in a deleted tweet from late 2017.
in February 2018 Tweet Bongino wrote, “Here’s the next shoe that must be dropped -> Was Andy Maccabi using a safe com to send/receive secret information? Someone must check this.” Maccabi, a long -standing goal in Bongino, was part of the FBI’s investigation of Russian intervention in the 2016 elections.
Patel and Bongino publicly did not publicly criticize the officials participating in the sign chat. The FBI declined to comment on CNN.
Ed Martin, the Acting American Lawyer, Acting County of Colombia and the official who can oversee any prosecution related to the signal chat, had previously taken a solid position on dealing with classified materials.
“When he started them, he could not do anything but break the law, the period,” Martin, Martin He said In his radio program in 2023, in reference to Biden’s possession of classified documents.
In 2018 tweetMartin wrote that “almost anyone” swarm secret information “go to prison.” and in 2024, he asked: “Was it not from the crime of the Vice President to remove secret documents and the higher classification of the White House and their storage is not guaranteed in his garage … If not the case, it should be so.”
Martin has not publicly commented on whether the chat signal required the investigation.
A spokesman for the US Public Prosecutor’s Office in the County of Colombia refused to comment on CNN.
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