{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-fbi-records-show-partisan-officials-killed-clinton-campaign-investigation", "Grassley: FBI Records Show Partisan Officials Killed Clinton Campaign Investigation", "2025-11-13", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA \u2013 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is making public internal emails and a Federal Bureau of Investigation Electronic Communication (FBI EC) exposing Department of Justice (DOJ) officials\u2019 refusal to open a criminal investigation into potential campaign finance violations committed by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), despite FBI agents\u2019 demonstration of a fact-pattern showing Clinton and the DNC intentionally concealed payments to inappropriately target then-candidate Donald Trump.\n\nThe Federal Election Commission in 2022 fined Clinton and the DNC for disguising campaign expenditures to pay Fusion GPS, a political opposition research firm, to craft the debunked Steele Dossier, which falsely alleged that Trump was colluding with Russia.\n\nThe decision to decline the investigation was made by Richard Pilger, of the DOJ\u2019s Public Integrity Section (DOJ-PIN), and J.P. Cooney, who at the time worked in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Columbia (USADC). Pilger was later pivotal in reviewing and approving the opening of Jack Smith\u2019s Arctic Frost investigation. Cooney served as Smith\u2019s Deputy Special Counsel for that investigation.\n\nThe FBI EC was provided to Grassley by the DOJ and FBI, pursuant to his oversight request.\n\n\u201cCourageous whistleblowers came to my office years ago to sound the alarm that the Justice Department inappropriately interfered in efforts to investigate potential criminal activity committed by Hillary Clinton and her campaign,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cThese records show the same partisans who rushed to cover for Clinton rabidly pursued Arctic Frost, which was a runaway train aimed directly at President Trump and the Republican political apparatus. I appreciate Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel\u2019s efforts to turn over the information I requested, and I\u2019ll continue investigating this matter.\u201d\n\nThe FBI EC and accompanying email communications can be found HERE. Grassley sent a follow up letter to DOJ and FBI, HERE.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-fbi-records-show-partisan-officials-killed-clinton-campaign-investigation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6492921859025955, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}