The FBI is investigating evidence found in “prohibited access” case files to determine whether bureau officials obstructed criminal or congressional probes involving political figures including Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and their associates, according to officials who spoke to Just the News.
The review has been under way for months and has uncovered documents suggesting FBI employees occasionally wrote “memos to file” to protect themselves in politically sensitive cases. Some of the evidence is now before a federal grand jury, while other findings are being prepared for notification to Congress.
The files span nearly a decade and touch on multiple controversies, including Russiagate, Clinton and Biden family corruption allegations, and the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol. Among the discoveries was a November 7, 2016 memo written by then-Executive Assistant Director Randall Coleman, documenting delays in handling new Clinton email evidence found on former congressman Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Coleman wrote that Andrew McCabe was briefed on the discovery in September 2016, but FBI headquarters slow-walked action until days before the election. Inspector General reports later criticized Comey and McCabe for their handling of the case.
Other documents reviewed by FBI Director Kash Patel’s team suggest similar interference in pay-to-play probes of the Clinton Foundation, with three field offices stalled. A timeline uncovered by Patel’s team indicates that McCabe intervened and then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates ordered the investigations stopped, allegedly instructing agents to “shut it down.”
A separate body of evidence involves former FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal, who was convicted of corruption charges in 2023 and 2024. A Justice Department watchdog report found McGonigal leaked information about an FBI probe of the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC while Hunter Biden was pursuing multimillion-dollar deals with the firm. CEFC later collapsed after its chairman, Ye Jianming, was tied to corruption in China. Hunter Biden and his associates received millions in payments, and CEFC executive Patrick Ho—later convicted of bribery—had hired Biden with a $1 million legal retainer. Ho’s first call after his 2017 arrest was to Joe Biden’s brother, James.
The “prohibited access” files also contain extensive records from the discredited Russiagate probe targeting President Trump.
