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   WASHINGTON – There is enough evidence now to arrest former   
   Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and send   
   her to jail, says the president of a well-known government-   
   watchdog organization.   
      
   But Americans shouldn’t hold their breath, because federal   
   authorities are too consumed with politics, Judicial Watch   
   President Tom Fitton said in an exclusive interview with WND.   
      
   “As far as I am concerned, there is enough to arrest Hillary   
   Clinton now,” Fitton said bluntly. “And I just want the Justice   
   Department to finally start enforcing the rule of law.”   
      
   Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia   
   investigation, and he also promised to recuse himself from the   
   Clinton email investigation during his Senate confirmation   
   hearings.   
      
   “The next person up is [Deputy Attorney General] Rod   
   Rosenstein,” Fitton said. “What is he doing?”   
      
   Many officials at the Justice Department want to prosecute   
   Clinton, he said, but they haven’t acted because of politics.   
      
   “It’s something they want to do now. Maybe they are waiting for   
   the IG report to come out. The Department of Justice’s Inspector   
   General is … looking into how the Clinton email investigation   
   was handled,” Fitton said. “Maybe they will expose the   
   misconduct there and use that to reopen the investigation in a   
   serious way.   
      
   “Maybe we can give them a month or two for the IG investigation   
   to come out, but people want justice.”   
      
   Still, neither Clinton nor former FBI Director James Comey – who   
   exonerated Clinton during the investigation of her private email   
   server before even interviewing her – are likely to face   
   indictment, despite their brazen disregard for the law, Fitton   
   suspects.   
      
   Indictment is “unlikely given the way that Washington is being   
   run these days, certainly out of the Justice Department and FBI   
   – they are more interested in protecting Hillary and Comey   
   rather than enforcing the rule of law,” he said.   
      
   In the meantime – while it appears Clinton, for now, will not be   
   prosecuted – President Trump is being targeted by U.S.   
   intelligence agencies “as if he doesn’t deserve protections of   
   the law,” Fitton said.   
      
   “The concern is that no one is above the law – right now, it’s   
   like the Obama-Clinton gang are above the law. On the other   
   hand, no one should be below the law or below any protection of   
   the law,” he said. “President Trump is being treated as if he   
   doesn’t deserve the protections of the law. You can do whatever   
   you want against him if you are the FBI and the Justice   
   Department, it doesn’t matter.   
      
   “That’s got to stop,” he said.   
      
   As for the whole Russia investigation, Fitton explained “it’s   
   only a problem for Donald Trump because of the abuses of power   
   by the FBI and the Justice Department, [which are] targeting him   
   illicitly.”   
      
   “It’s not a problem, because he didn’t do anything wrong. It is   
   a problem because he is a victim of misconduct by government   
   agencies.”   
      
   As WND has reported, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic   
   National Committee paid nearly $12 million for the salacious   
   anti-Trump “dossier,” commissioning former British spy   
   Christopher Steele to author the political opposition research.   
      
   To keep the Clinton campaign’s funding of the dossier secret,   
   the campaign gave the cash to the law firm Perkins Coie and   
   classified the payment as compensation for “legal services” in   
   FEC disclosures.   
      
   Two crimes may have committed in this instance. Making a payment   
   or donation, or trading anything of value with a foreign   
   national in connection with any election in America is a crime,   
   according to 52 USC 30121. It’s also a violation to file a false   
   or misleading campaign report (52 USC 30101).   
      
   In October 2017, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint   
   with the Federal Election Commission accusing the Clinton   
   campaign and the DNC of violating campaign finance laws and   
   failing to disclose payments made for the anti-Trump dossier.   
      
   A Republican memo released this month claimed the FBI based its   
   FISA court request for a warrant to spy on Trump adviser Carter   
   Page on the unverified dossier.   
      
   Fitton told WND he believes special counsel Robert Mueller   
   should end his investigation into Trump’s alleged collusion with   
   Russia, because the probe was spawned by political opposition   
   research funded by the opposing political party and its   
   candidate.   
      
   “The Russian collusion investigation – at least with its   
   targeting of President Trump – its reason for being is being   
   eliminated because the dossier we now know isn’t worth the paper   
   it was written on. It’s a Clinton, DNC document,” he said.   
   “There is no evidence of Russian collusion with Trump – but   
   [there’s] plenty of evidence that has been pointed out with   
   Hillary Clinton and the DNC in all of that.”   
      
   The Clinton- and DNC-funded dossier claims Trump worked with   
   Russia. The document states that an “ethnic Russian close   
   associate of … Trump” said there was a “conspiracy” between the   
   Trump campaign and Russia. The source claimed Russia hacked the   
   DNC server and provided the files to WikiLeaks to maintain   
   “plausible deniability.”   
      
   The FBI never actually accessed the DNC server during its   
   investigation of the alleged hack.   
      
   Federal investigators asked the DNC to surrender its allegedly   
   breached servers to the bureau in July 2016, but the DNC didn’t   
   comply. As WND reported, the DNC instead hired the cybersecurity   
   firm CrowdStrike to make a “replica” of all the information on   
   its server for the bureau.   
      
   Former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile has indicated that the DNC   
   destroyed the server, the key piece of forensic evidence in   
   Russia’s suspected interference in the election.   
      
   A January 2017 intelligence community assessment, titled   
   “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S.   
   Elections,” contends that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.   
   The report, which was ordered by former President Obama,   
   concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally   
   “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S.   
   presidential election” and sought to “denigrate” Clinton while   
   showing “a clear preference for President-elect Trump,” the New   
   York Times reported.   
      
   The intelligence report – reflecting assessments by the CIA, FBI   
   and NSA – never indicated how the agencies collected their data   
   or settled on their conclusions.   
      
   The agencies said they believe “with high confidence” that   
   Russia’s military operations generated a “persona” known as   
   Guccifer 2.0 and a site, DCLeaks.com, to dump emails from the   
   DNC and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Then, according   
   to the report, Russian operatives relayed the emails to   
   WikiLeaks.   
      
   WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange has insisted Russia wasn’t the   
   source of the emails leaked by his organization.   
      
   If the DNC had allowed the FBI to directly examine its server,   
   intelligence agencies could determine whether the DNC was   
   actually hacked and, if so, establish the source of the breach.   
      
      
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