Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a new target in his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and its not President Donald Trump.
FBI agents have begun to ask about the 2017 death of a man investigating former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons illegal email server.
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Peter Smith, a veteran Republican operative, devoted a year of his life to hunting down a trove of missing Hillary emails from Russian hackers.
Smith told The Wall Street Journal in May 2017 that hed uncovered 33,000 of Hillarys emails that were previously deleted.
He was dead just ten days later.
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Police say Smith was found with a bag over his head that was hooked to a helium tank. His reported suicide note read
NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER..
RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY 2017
LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING.
The Chicago Tribune wrote that Smiths unexpected death raised a lot of eyebrows. Conspiracy theories quickly circulated.
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Friends say the timing of Smiths death stunned them.
Retired Wall Street financier Charles Ortel said he spoke with Mr. Smith on the phone in the hours before his death about a new project to brief the Obama Foundation and warn its leaders against the mistakes they believed were made by the Clinton Foundation, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to Mr. Ortel, Mr. Smith sounded excited, and he began brainstorming who to contact and how to proceed.
I came away from that conversation saying this is great. Were going to make progress, Ortel told The Journal. He was reportedly stunned when news of Smiths death was reported days later.
Hed raised over $100,000 in private funds the investigation into Hillarys illegal email server and spent over a year of his life on the case and just days after reporting a major breakthrough, he reportedly took his own life.
Smith had previous contacts with former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is cooperating with the Mueller investigation.
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That has led investigators to start digging for the documents Smith said hed found.
Smiths estate has reportedly given documents to Muellers probe, as well as to investigations being conducted by the House and Senate intelligence committees, Newsmax reported.
What they contain is anyones guess but the American people could finally get some answers.
The Horn editorial team
