FBI reopens Clinton email investigation after new messages found

[Valin]

Wall Street Journal is reporting 650,000 total emails on laptop (not all related) BUT New York Agents sent info to McCabe in early Oct. Sounds like he may have stalled, told agents to back off...

McCabe is then 2nd in command at FBI who's wife got 650K from McAuliffe for her campaign. Wonder if things heating up at lower levels when it came out last week that his wife got the money and he was slow rolling things....

 

 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957

 

 

 

 

The back-and-forth reflects how the bureau is probing several matters related, directly or indirectly, to Mrs. Clinton and her inner circle.

 

New details show that senior law-enforcement officials repeatedly voiced skepticism of the strength of the evidence in a bureau investigation of the Clinton Foundation, sought to condense what was at times a sprawling cross-country effort, and, according to some people familiar with the matter, told agents to limit their pursuit of the case. The probe of the foundation began more than a year ago to determine whether financial crimes or influence peddling occurred related to the charity.

 

Some investigators grew frustrated, viewing FBI leadership as uninterested in probing the charity, these people said. Others involved disagreed sharply, defending FBI bosses and saying Mr. McCabe in particular was caught between an increasingly acrimonious fight for control between the Justice Department and FBI agents pursuing the Clinton Foundation case.

 

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For agents who already felt uneasy about FBI leadership’s handling of the Clinton Foundation case, the moment only deepened their concerns, these people said. For those who felt the probe hadn’t yet found significant evidence of criminal conduct, the leadership’s approach was the right response.

 

In September, agents on the foundation case asked to see the emails contained on nongovernment laptops that had been searched as part of the Clinton email case, but that request was rejected by prosecutors at the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. Those emails were given to the FBI based on grants of partial immunity and limited-use agreements, meaning agents could only use them for the purpose of investigating possible mishandling of classified information.

 

Some FBI agents were dissatisfied with that answer, and asked for permission to make a similar request to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. McCabe, these people said, told them no and added that they couldn’t “go prosecutor-shopping.”

 

Not long after that discussion, FBI agents informed the bureau’s leaders about the Weiner laptop, prompting Mr. Comey’s disclosure to Congress and setting off the furor that promises to consume the final days of a tumultuous campaign.

[Valin]

Mika speaketh the truth...

 

 

What Happens IF Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential race? The President of the United States a subject of (at least one) federal criminal investigations.

[Valin]

 

Mika speaketh the truth...

 

 

What Happens IF Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential race? The President of the United States a subject of (at least one) federal criminal investigations.

 

 

 

[NCTexan]

 

Mika speaketh the truth...

 

 

What Happens IF Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential race? The President of the United States a subject of (at least one) federal criminal investigations.

 

I fully expect that Obama would pardon her for future prosecution related to anything and everything that she had ever done.

 

Whether this is possible under the law does not matter to that esteemed Constitutional lawyer... since law and the Constitution are only a temporary state of mind.

[Valin]

@NCTexan

 

Possibly....you have a better than even chance of nailing it. Thinking the chaos it would cause.

[NCTexan]

@NCTexan

 

Possibly....you have a better than even chance of nailing it. Thinking the chaos it would cause.

 

So we need to make sure that the situation that creates this does not arise. Vote her down!

 

Where is Julian Assange when you need him?

 

Paging Julian... Julian Assange... Please report to the briefing room. STAT

[clearvision]

 

@NCTexan

 

Possibly....you have a better than even chance of nailing it. Thinking the chaos it would cause.

 

So we need to make sure that the situation that creates this does not arise. Vote her down!

 

Where is Julian Assange when you need him?

 

Paging Julian... Julian Assange... Please report to the briefing room. STAT

 

 

From gatewaypundit (and other sources)

 

 

Democrat pollster Doug Schoen, who advised President Bill’s Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign and worked on Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential bid, has withdrawn his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the presidency following the renewal of the FBI investigation into Clinton and her her top aide Huma Abedin. Schoen said he fears a constitutional crisis should Clinton be elected and sworn into office while under investigation

 

[Draggingtree]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhXB0tV1PqI

 

I am "shocked"

[Draggingtree]

Clinton’s State Department: A RICO Enterprise

By Curt 1 Comment Sun, Oct, 30th, 2016 Andrew C. McCarthy: Felony mishandling of classified information, including our nation’s most closely guarded intelligence secrets; the misappropriation and destruction of tens of thousands of government records — these are serious criminal offenses. To this point, the Justice Department and FBI have found creative ways not to charge Hillary Clinton for them. Whether this will remain the case has yet to be seen. As we go to press, the stunning news has broken that the FBI’s investigation is being reopened. It appears, based on early reports, that in the course of examining communications devices in a separate “sexting” investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, the bureau stumbled on relevant e-mails — no doubt connected to Huma Abedin, Mr. Weiner’s wife and, more significantly, Mrs. Clinton’s closest confidant. According to the New York Times, the FBI has seized at least one electronic device belonging to Ms. Abedin as well. New e-mails, never before reviewed by the FBI, have been recovered.

 

The news is still emerging, and there will be many questions — particularly if it turns out that the bureau failed to obtain Ms. Abedin’s communications devices earlier in the investigation, a seemingly obvious step.

http://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/clintons-state-department-a-rico-enterprise/

[Geee]

The Cyber Threat: FBI Tries to Close Gaps in Clinton Email Probe - Bill Gertz

 

FBI reopens probe based on new emails containing secrets or evidence of foreign hacking

 

Unanswered questions are what officials call gaps—a lack of information or intelligence that render judgments incomplete. FBI Director James Comey last week took the extraordinary step of re-opening the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server in a bid to close some of those gaps—11 days before Americans go to the polls to elect the next president.

 

Comey wrote to congressional leaders on October 28 to “supplement” earlier testimony in which he said the FBI had completed its investigation of Clinton.

 

An unrelated FBI sex crime investigation into former congressman Anthony Weiner, husband of Clinton campaign vice chair Huma Abedin, produced new emails “that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,” Comey said.

 

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cyber-threat-fbi-tries-close-gaps-clinton-email-probe/

[Geee]

'Phase three' of Wikileaks election coverage imminent

 

WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that it would soon launch “phase three of [its] election coverage.”

 

The anti-secrecy site put politicians on notice Sunday evening in a tweet that also included a plea for donations.

 

“We commence phase 3 of our US election coverage next week. You can contribute: https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate @WLTaskForce,” wrote the site.

 

It did not provide information about what the third phase entails or if there are still more revelations to come.

 

WikiLeaks supporters, now including a number of supporters of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, immediately replied with tweets expressing hope that phase three would ultimately damage Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign.

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/303522-wikileaks-announces-imminent-launch-phase-three-of-election-coverage

[Draggingtree]

History Repeats: A Nixonian Cover-up in the Home...

by John Fund October 30, 2016 7:06 PM

 

Someday, we might learn the truth, but not if Hillary can help it. Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign for president involved trying to conceal the truth about Watergate until after voters went to the polls. “The early part of the Watergate cover-up was actually successful,” noted a report from the National Constitution Center. Running against a gaffe-ridden, disorganized challenger whom he was able to vastly outspend, Nixon pulled out a victory, but the cover-up unraveled and the country went through two years of turmoil. If Hillary wins, will her cover-up unravel and leave her a weakened president hounded by critics? No one is suggesting that Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal is exactly like Watergate, but the parallels are certainly there. Indeed, Hillary began her public career as a House staffer on the committee that voted to impeach Nixon. Sam Tanenhaus, former editor of the New York Times Book Review, recently noted in Bloomberg: If Hillary’s armor seems plated with Nixonian grievance, it is because, just like him, she feels outnumbered and defenseless. Nixon drew up lists of liberal “enemies,” Hillary closely tracks the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” . . .

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441590/hillary-clinton-richard-nixon-cover-ups-lying-enemies-list

[Geee]

Trey Gowdy: Harry Reid's attacks on FBI Director James Comey are 'laughable'

 

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said Monday that it's "laughable" for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid to argue that FBI Director James Comey may have illegally interfered the presidential election when it reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.

 

Gowdy said on MSNBC Monday that Reid didn't make a similar charge after Attorney General Loretta Lynch's private meeting with former President Bill Clinton while the investigation was ongoing, or when President Obama "prejudged" the outcome of the investigation before it had been closed.

 

"President Obama is actively campaigning, right now, for a candidate for president, and that doesn't violate the Hatch Act," Gowdy said. "So how Jim Comey supplementing his record before Congress violated the Hatch Act is just laughable."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trey-gowdy-harry-reids-attacks-on-fbis-james-comey-are-laughable/article/2606045

[Valin]

Eric Holder Explains It All To You Eric is DEEPLY concerned.

[Draggingtree]

[SrWoodchuck]

[clearvision]

So now FOX is reporting the FBI has an "inquiry" into Paul Manafort's connection to Russia. Of course Reid says he sent a letter months ago asking for an investigation into Manafort's ties to Russia. So sort of a self fulling thing. Top Senator sends a letter, FBI is likely to at least look at it. Manafort says he has not been contacted about it.

[Valin]

‘There is No Case Here’ — Hillary Clinton Defensive Over Renewed Email Investigation

 

@WestVirginiaRebel

 

Moverd.

[Valin]

 

How One Retired Federal Prosecutor With 23 Years As An AUSA Sees It

 

How To Read The Clinton Email Explosion

 

Different life experiences make different people see the same set of facts and conclude very different z

Based on my time in the Reagan DOJ –reviewing applications for warrants submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court over the Attorney General’s signature– plus tours in the White House Counsel’s Office and as General Counsel and Deputy Director of the OPM, I have always viewed the server as a disqualifying issue for Secretary Clinton. The recklessness of the actions, the indifference to security and the cover-up telegraphed to me that her server was compromised by foreign intelligence agencies, an opinion former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell confirmed on the record on my show, a conclusion confirmed even more forcefully off-the-record by another senior Agency retiree whose stellar career there ended recently. That’s my experience and those are my sources. Folks with different experiences see it differently.

How does a veteran, fairly recently retired DOJ prosecutor view the developments of the past 72 hours? The prosecutor, whom I have known for more than a decade both while the prosecutor was an Assistant United States Attorney (for more than 2 decades) and now in private practice (not with me) is always serious and professional in the assessments of the complex cases I ask for an opinion on. Here are the 6 emails the veteran DOJer sent me in the past 24 hours as facts emerged on the Huma Episode:

 

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[Valin]

‘Comey asked whether he was being explicitly directed not to do so’
Rich Lowry
November 1, 2016

Another extraordinary story about the struggle between the FBI and the DOJ:

 

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch did not order FBI Director James Comey to withhold from Congress the discovery of emails potentially related to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, but she made it known that she thought his decision violated department policy, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.

 

As Comey and Lynch aides debated last Thursday whether alerting Congress about the emails would comply with longstanding Justice Department policy against announcing overt investigative steps that would influence an upcoming election, Comey asked whether he was being explicitly directed not to do so.

 

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