#5
All Comey did is report to Congress that his previous report on the Clinton e-mails MAY have been incomplete, because of POSSIBLE new information in the recently-obtained Abedin-Wiener documents. This is not necessarily a shocking new development, it is just keeping Congress informed as he is required to do - THAT is the break with recent DoJ tradition.
#6
It is said to be quite common for government officials to keep material that compromises important figures, as protection for their own jobs and bonuses.
Wiener kept his wife's emails, perhaps for that same purpose.
When she dumped him, and he kept doing his demented email things, the FBI got to look at her emails.
They were so incriminating that FBI agents viewing them insisted that something be done about them, or else.
Comey did something.
Had Secretary Clinton turned over all her official emails upon leaving office, as required by law, there would have been no issue to consider. She broke the law and had delayed and destroyed, and that is the cause of the present situation.
Notice that there is no mention by the New Yorker of the party of the politicians that the government has protected.
I seem to remember a Republican Senator from Alaska who was indicted on a charge (that later fizzled) just before an election. He lost the election.
But there is no precedent of having such things happen to a Democrat!
#7
It is said to be quite common for government officials to keep material that compromises important figures, as protection for their own jobs and bonuses.
Hmmmm. J Edgar Hoover comes to mind.
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10/29/2016 17:51 Comments ||
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I must say I find this problematic and Comey is interfering with the elections. Just because it's about Hillary doesn't justify his actions.
Comey said: "The FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant."
Sorry, but first assess this and then go public.
Imagine the FBI was investigating some serious business fraud and Trump is mentioned in the material and the FBI goes public and says: The FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant in relation to Trump.
A candidate would be a victim of speculations, would have no proper way to respond, and after the elections the FBI determines that the material is indeed not significant?
Something is not right here.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
10/29/2016 17:52 Comments ||
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panem et circenses
Posted by: Si vis pacem ||
10/29/2016 18:01 Comments ||
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Darth, I had to go get more floss for all the kernels stuck in my teeth the last two days
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/29/2016 18:26 Comments ||
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EC, it wasn't right for NBC to hold that tape of Trump in his locker room conversation with Bush. It wasn't right when Comey refused to prosecute in July. It wasn't right for hackers to hack Podesta's email account and it wasn't right for Weiner to send those text messages to a 15 year old girl. None of this stuff is right. But it is amusing to see it happening to Hillary.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
10/29/2016 19:17 Comments ||
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remember Cap Weinberger's indictment (later dismissed) right before the election, or how about W's DUI right before the election?
Suck it,Dems. Karma bitches
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/29/2016 20:44 Comments ||
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#13
I wonder if he drives his own car? Or does he own a single shot, bolt action .22 weapon? Maybe he takes long walks in dangerous areas of town?
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/29/2016 10:49 ||
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Any guesses who stripped the confidential labels off emails to fwd to Hildabeest's private email? Could it rhyme with Numa Babedin?
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/29/2016 10:53 Comments ||
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#2
For crying-out-loud, this stuff could have been hacked by anyone and everyone. No wonder the FBI reopened this investigation. These people had so sense of security or the damage it might do by not heeding it--or they just did not care or they were selling secrets for a price.
Earl voters ought to go back to the polls and demand a do-over because of this corrupt witch.
#4
....You know, not that ol' Carlos has shown this kind of smarts so far, but I am tempted to wonder if those emails weren't collected on that laptop as a 'Get Out Of Jail Free'card - consider that right now, he's on the receiving end of an FBI investigation that could end up with him as a FEDERAL level sex offender. If he could hand a pi$$ed-off Bureau the greatest prize it's ever had, he might just walk.
On the other hand, he should REALLY stay away from Fort Marcy Park after that...
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
10/29/2016 11:46 Comments ||
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In her April interview with the FBI, Abedin incredulously maintained that she “did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago, when it became public knowledge.” The clintonemail.com server was set up in the basement of the Clinton family residence in Chappaqua.
However, another witness told agents that he and another Clinton aide with computer skills built the new server system “at the recommendation of Huma Abedin,” who first broached the idea of an off-the-grid email server as early as the “fall (of) 2008.”
Paging Martha Stewart.... is lying to the FBI still a crime? Huma's going down, but that's nothing new for her, is it?
Posted by: Frank G ||
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I think the conspiracy has become unmanageably large, and people are eyeing the lifeboats nervously...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/29/2016 13:19 Comments ||
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The entire multiheaded dragon of the emails, the Clinton Foundation and Bengahzi is finally sinking in with even the MSM...now they realize that even if they get her elected, she'd get impeached...
#14
A) Huma was sending classified messages to (at least) her Yahoo email account. Supposedly to print them at home.
B) Emails in cloud accounts (such as Yahoo or gmail) are not stored on a laptop. If FBI agents found thousands of emails on that computer, Huma was using a mail application to download and read messages (e.g. Microsoft Outlook).
C) Huma probably had access to Hillary's mailbox (for "convenience"; Outlook has delegation features). She probably used Outlook at home for her @clinton mailbox, and she may very well have enabled access to Hillary's mailbox as well (remember: "convenience").
D) Huma's "husband" may have stumbled on those, and figured that was his ticket out of jail.
E) The FBI, if they had conducted a proper investigation of the Clinton-basement-server scandal, should have confiscated Huma's computer months ago. The only reason they did not is that they deliberately avoided using any warrants or powers of subpoena.
Only D is firmly in the realm of hypothesis.
Posted by: Si vis pacem ||
10/29/2016 16:44 Comments ||
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F) The Mills-directed purge of incriminating emails failed to wipe Huma's computer -- or Weiner had already made a copy, for his own "convenience" and safety.
G) The newly found emails, previously unseen by the FBI, include evidence of Clinton corruption, classified or top-secret messages, as well as messages from Obama's alias.
F+G would be a good reason FBI agents with a modicum of integrity would have been able to hold a (metaphorical) knife to Comey's throat and force his hand.
Posted by: Si vis pacem ||
10/29/2016 17:07 Comments ||
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I'm hoping for evidence of a conspiracy to obstruct an investigation.
#2
The hackers have to get inside somehow. The three best ways are to have a human being such as a vendor or a mole gain actual physical access to the server, social engineering and phishing. IMO, all three methods rely on sloppiness and stupidity on the part of the victim which once again raises the question: If these people are so stupid that they fall for a lame ass phishing scheme how are they gonna run the country?
I mean, if Podesta is such a smart guy who will most likely be entrusted with a senior position in the Clinton administration why didn't he know enough to check the link before he clicked?
One more thing, blaming it on the Russians is a red herring, a squirrel if you will. It doesn't take a state actor to gin up an official looking spoof of an email from someone you trust. Copying their logo from one of their own sites is about all it takes. Some kid in his mother's basement could do it.
Once again in case you never heard: You gotta check the link before you click.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
10/29/2016 13:13 Comments ||
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real businesses don't TinyURL their links
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/29/2016 13:56 Comments ||
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if Podesta is such a smart guy...why didn't he know enough to check the link before he clicked?
He left it to underlings and wanted an immediate decision, at a time when the proper assets to determine that answer weren't available.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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I have to say the investigations on the right were very good against these people.
Judicial Watch bulldogs went after emails.
The Veritus Project knew there were people in the Clinton group who were smart enough to stay away from the internet. So they went after them with hidden cameras and recorders in coffee shops and conference rooms posing as big $$$ donors.
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But I just can't help myself: Let’s say Anthony Weiner knew they had the goods on him and, because HRC doesn’t forget speed bumps that pop up on her highway to greatness, knew he was looking at hard time in a hard place (although he would, I’m sure, be quite, er, “popular.”) so he played his Get Out Of Jail (for a while) card in the form of electronic devices, passwords, etc.
“Carlos” pleas to a reduced charge, is found guilty and goes to a “Club Med” rehab facility. He later (after the smoke clears) discreetly qualifies for a reduced sentence and disappears to his orbit of obscurity, pining endlessly for what was once so near and is now so far.
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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 Outstanding analysis - very, very plausible. Wife leaves him - ultimate screw all of y'all from ole Anthony in response.
Since Huma controlled Hillary's SCIF, and classified info ended up on the low side...I would be very curious what is on her computer - we always suspected someone was transferring information and stripping markings...that, or someone was sharing information with friends...
#10
The plan was always that HRC would get coronated. She would move into the WH with Huma. Both would dump "difficult" spouses. HRC and Human would get married in the WH. The celebration would include the WH being bathed in rainbow colors for the duration of her reign. The U.S. flag would be replaced with a rainbow flag. All this time HRC would be plotting revenge against all those who dared to question her or those who kept putting speedbumps in her way--conservative groups who only wanted to preserve cultural customs such as Groundhog's Day up there in Punxsutawney, PA., Pubs who dared oppose her, James Comey and the FBI, the T-Party, people who didn't cough up all their money to the IRS (they only wanted to hang onto some of their money and try to send their kids to college), and all others who didn't bow in her presence, etc. She would have to think of a special punishment for those who hacked into her personal servers. Would it be a public beheading, boiling in oil or a trip to Ft. Marcy Park in the middle for the night for them. Maybe, a couple of bullets in the back in a staged robbery in some tony neighborhood in the early a.m.
The current dialogue might go something like this: "That perverted &*%$@ upset everything with his sexting and obsession with his schlong. That should have been taken care of--now there are only 10 days left to clean up this gO$@%$m friggin mess. Where can we get some lime? Get Podesta in here--we needs some polls on how people feel about all this. We need focus groups. Get those fuc*%## MSM in here to figure out how the the hell to spin this mess. We bought and paid for those fu@!&*3s. Get Loretta and Comey in here. The fix was supposed to be in. What the (*&&%$ hell went wrong....more to come.
#13
BTW, I don't give a flip whether she is gay or straight or something else. The imaginary scenario is about the danger to our freedoms for all of us from such a presidency.
#15
American Thinker notes there was a Grand Jury empaneled over his hi-jinx. They subpoenaed the devices and there was no way they could "unfind" the evidence found, hence Comey had to get ahead of it
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10/29/2016 8:55 Comments ||
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Huma is being set up to take the fall for Hillary. Its pretty obvious at this point if you follow the breadcrumbs. She becomes Hillary's first commutation or pardon.
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