Former State Department official Mike Benz and television host Grant Stinchfield accused the FBI of longstanding misconduct and political favoritism during a recent on-air exchange, arguing that alleged cover-ups tied to the Clinton Foundation, the Uranium One deal, and the January 6 pipe bomb investigation demonstrate a systemic failure that Congress must address immediately.

Benz argued that multiple controversies often treated as separate scandals are, in his view, interconnected and rooted in institutional protection of powerful political figures.

He pointed to testimony involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged role in the early formation of the Clinton Foundation.

“Well, my reaction to this is, these things are all related,” Benz said.

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“It was actually Jeffrey Epstein who whose lawyer testified in court that Jeffrey Epstein helped establish the Clinton Foundation in the early 2000s right when Bill Clinton was leaving office and Hillary Clinton was beginning her Senate career and then into into the White House.”

Benz said Epstein’s access to the Clinton White House raised unresolved questions.

“This Jeffrey Epstein visited the Clinton White House 17 times during the Clinton presidency,” he said.

He then turned to the Uranium One controversy, referencing reporting and declassified materials tied to Sen. Chuck Grassley.

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Benz said the FBI had an active criminal investigation into the deal involving the sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Russian interests during the Obama administration’s “reset” with Russia.

“According to the New York Post the there's a pay for play relationship that the Clintons evidently had surprise to no one what's happening right now with the uranium? One scandal breaking open again with these newly declassified memos from Chuck Grassley that the FBI had an active criminal investigation into the Uranium One scandal that was 20% of all US uranium being sold off to Russia,” Benz said.

He noted that the transaction occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State and sat on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which approved the deal.

Benz said donors connected to Uranium One subsequently contributed millions to the Clinton Foundation.

“It looked like a direct payoff of the foundation associated with the Secretary of State, so that the Secretary of State would bless the the sale of Uranium One since she sat on the CFIUS review board that authorized the sale,” Benz said.

Benz further alleged that the FBI investigation was halted internally.

“The FBI tried to investigate it, but was shut down by by Andy McCabe, the Deputy Director of the FBI, who would go on to play a significant role in russiagate, no less,” he said.

Stinchfield responded by linking those claims to other controversies involving federal law enforcement, including the raid on Mar-a-Lago and the lack of prosecutions tied to past investigations.

“So take the whole beginning of the show. We've got the FBI basically knew. FBI agent knew that the raid on Mar a Lago was bogus,” Stinchfield said.

“More evidence as you lay out that there was wrongdoing at every level. And I believe you could make an argument for criminal wrongdoing.”

He expressed frustration over the absence of consequences.

“And yet, here we are today, you and me talking again as we've been doing for two years or more, and we have no charges really to speak of,” Stinchfield said.

“We've got nothing. No one's arrested, no no penalties, no retribution, nothing.”

Benz argued the issue stems from weak ethics enforcement within the bureau and cited the January 6 pipe bomb investigation as another example. He said the case was stalled for months despite available evidence.

“You know that that case was solved simply by retrieving the data that the FBI testified was corrupted,” Benz said, adding that phone carriers later told the House Judiciary Committee the data had not been corrupted when initially provided.

He questioned what consequences exist for agents who interfere with investigations.

“What are you going to do to ensure that the ethics rules around malfeasance is tampering with evidence?” Benz asked.

“What is the penalty? The criminal penalty for FBI agents who willfully sabotage criminal investigations to protect their friends?”

Stinchfield was skeptical Congress would act.

“I doubt they will get on it, because this just isn't what they do,” he said.

“They don't have the cojones to do it.”

Benz said the political moment is critical, citing unified Republican control across multiple branches of government.

“I think that there has to be a sense of urgency right now,” Benz said.

“If it's not done in the next 10 months, it'll never get done. And frankly, if you want to lose the midterms, this is how you do it.”

Stinchfield agreed, closing the segment by reiterating his frustration over the lack of accountability and thanking Benz for his analysis.

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Covering the FBI cover-ups for the Clinton Foundation in today's new declassified memos, tonight with @stinchfield1776 pic.twitter.com/FH8GPivphI

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) December 17, 2025

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