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Hillary's probing Shifts into Fourth...
mikey1597 Offline
#1501 Posted:
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Wonder if Hillary is curled up in bed doing her dog today. she loses to The Donald again!
DrafterX Offline
#1502 Posted:
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A federal court on Tuesday released the search warrant documents filed by the FBI to access a laptop used by disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, revealing new details about why the bureau revisited the case just days before the presidential election.

The FBI’s investigation found “27 email chains containing classified information” on a laptop that “was never authorized for the storage or transmission of classified or national defense information,” according to the application for the warrant, which was partially redacted.

The October re-opening of the Clinton investigation sprung from an unrelated case involving Weiner allegedly sexting with an underage girl. During the course of that inquiry, agents discovered the joint laptop and later found emails addressed to and sent from Clinton.

READ THE DOCUMENTS

U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel on Monday ordered the warrant and accompanying documents released, which he said were secretly filed with the court on Oct. 30.

In the aftermath of Clinton’s Election Day defeat, many of her top supporters – including husband former President Bill Clinton – have publicly blamed FBI Director James Comey for her loss.

“James Comey cost her the election,” Bill Clinton said earlier this month during remarks which were recently published in the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review.

Just days after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Hillary Clinton also took Comey to task. “Our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum,” Clinton said during a Nov. 12 conference call with donors.

Comey was criticized not just for revisiting the case but for announcing that decision, in an Oct. 28 letter to Congress, only to confirm two days before the Nov. 8 vote that the inquiry uncovered no new evidence of wrongdoing.

The unsealed search warrant files, however, may help explain why Comey decided to revive the Clinton investigation despite the pending election.

“Out of the 27 email chains, six email chains contained information that was classified as the Secret level at the time the emails were sent, and information in four of those email chains remains classified at that level now,” the application stated.

Agents also were looking “to determine if classified information was accessed by unauthorized users or transferred to any unauthorized systems.”

The affidavit clearly states that the warrant relates to a “criminal investigation” of Clinton, terminology Clinton’s team previously had disputed.

Film at 11.... Mellow




The election unacceptors just couldn't leave it alone.... Not talking
cacman Offline
#1503 Posted:
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HUmaaaaaaaa

Huma and her Weiner are still giving it up the ass to Hilldog!
Bark like a dog beotch!
MACS Offline
#1504 Posted:
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“Out of the 27 email chains, six email chains contained information that was classified as the Secret level at the time the emails were sent, and information in four of those email chains remains classified at that level now,”...

This is an issue. Classified... could be marginalized; ships' plans of the day are classified, but don't contain anything that would hurt national security 99% of the time.

Secret, however... YUGE breach of security protocol.
DrafterX Offline
#1505 Posted:
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ya but she didn't get to be President so that's apparently punishment enough... Mellow
victor809 Offline
#1506 Posted:
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Did any of you yokels actually read the search warrant? Your "news" sources may quote the "27 emails" thing but the search warrant is actually just "we know huma and Clinton sent each other emails. We know some were found to be classified on other computers. We see clinton ando humas names here on this laptop. We want to open the emails "....

I don't see anything necessarily wrong with reopening the investigation, but as we already heard, nothing new was found. They reopened it... Probably saw mostly the same emails they had found on the other computers... and closed it. Pretending there is anything new here. Is just beating a boring horse....
DrafterX Offline
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But Hillary said there was Absolutely No Confidential e-mails on her server..... which is where these originally came from... Mellow
Brewha Offline
#1508 Posted:
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"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-******. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
teedubbya Offline
#1509 Posted:
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Fact don't matter until they do
DrafterX Offline
#1510 Posted:
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She's prolly drunk and breaking stuff again... Mellow
ZRX1200 Offline
#1511 Posted:
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Victor is busy beating off a horse.
DrafterX Offline
#1512 Posted:
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again..?? Huh
frankj1 Offline
#1513 Posted:
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see how rumors get started? All he's doing is helping Jack off a horse...for like 20 minutes.
tonygraz Offline
#1514 Posted:
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Drafter prefers beating a dead horse.
DrafterX Offline
#1515 Posted:
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I'm not an election unacceptor... Not talking
teedubbya Offline
#1516 Posted:
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That's right. Drafter accepts all erections.
cacman Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Victor is busy beating off a horse.

The horse is probably homeless, so that makes i OK.
Brewha Offline
#1518 Posted:
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teedubbya wrote:
That's right. Drafter accepts all erections.

So if one of his Fox articles last longer then four hours he should call a doctor?
DrafterX Offline
#1519 Posted:
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Ya know, I didn't know a four hour erection was unusual until they came out with that commercial. .. Mellow
qmech Offline
#1520 Posted:
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The question is what is Hillary probing? 🌈 On second thought I do not want to know the mental picture might cause blindness insanity possibly death...
tailgater Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
Ya know, I didn't know a four hour erection was unusual until they came out with that commercial. .. Mellow


Did you tell him to stop?
tailgater Offline
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If I were a horse named Jack, I'd owe Victor dinner.

MACS Offline
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http://tinyurl.com/zr8abbx

I know we should never wish ill on anyone... but karma needs to find this woman and cut her a YUGE slice of humble pie, then cram it down her throat. Forcefully.
burnem2 Offline
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MACS wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/zr8abbx

I know we should never wish ill on anyone... but karma needs to find this woman and cut her a YUGE slice of humble pie, then cram it down her throat. Forcefully.



This piece actually only scraped the surface of the things she's said and done. There's much worse out there and easy to find.
cacman Offline
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MACS wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/zr8abbx

Does any of it actually come as a surprise???

“No one would hire such a person to work at a McDonald’s, and yet she is being considered for president of the United States.”
DrafterX Offline
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The criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton is back front and center now that the FBI has released proof that her failure to safeguard state secrets caused the secrets to fall into the hands of foreign governments, some of which wish the United States ill.

Even though the case against her -- which was closed and then reopened and then closed again -- is old news and she obviously is no longer a candidate to become president of the United States and has been staying below the radar for the past two months, recent developments have regenerated the case.

Here is the back story.

On July 5, FBI Director James Comey announced publicly that the FBI would recommend against seeking an indictment of Clinton for espionage -- the failure to safeguard state secrets that had been entrusted to her. He argued that though the case against her was strong -- as secretary of state, she had been extremely careless with secrets; exposed hundreds of materials that were confidential, secret and top-secret; and used non-secure mobile devices while in the territory of hostile governments -- no reasonable prosecutor would take the case.

Why was the decision of whether to prosecute Clinton left to Comey?

The FBI’s job is to gather evidence of federal crimes and to present that evidence to career prosecutors in the Department of Justice for evaluation. The FBI has numerous investigative tools available to it. One of those tools is presenting evidence to a grand jury and requesting subpoenas from it. Another is presenting evidence to a federal judge and requesting search warrants from the judge. A third is obtaining the indictment of someone who is in the inner circle of the person who is the true target of the investigation and then persuading that indicted person to become a government witness.

None of those tools was used in the Clinton case.

As well, a major interference with the case occurred when Attorney General Loretta Lynch agreed to meet privately with former President Bill Clinton. He was -- and still is -- also the subject of an FBI criminal investigation. Though both Lynch and Mr. Clinton denied talking about the investigations, the attorney general took herself and senior DOJ management off the Hillary Clinton case, leaving the FBI director with the authority to decide whether to prosecute. So based on Comey’s decision that no reasonable prosecutor would take the case against Mrs. Clinton, it was closed.

The case was briefly reopened 11 days before Election Day. The FBI announced it had stumbled upon a potential treasure-trove of emails contained in a laptop jointly owned and used by Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner. The FBI believed at the time that the laptop contained nearly every email Abedin had received from Clinton. Weiner was under investigation for various sexual crimes, and the FBI had obtained the laptop in its search for evidence against him.

Then, a week later, the FBI announced that it had found nothing among the 650,000 emails in the laptop that would cause it to reopen the Clinton case, and it closed the case a second time.

Donald Trump argued during the last weeks of the presidential election campaign that Clinton had exposed state secrets to hostile foreign governments. FBI agents who disagreed with their boss’s decision not to seek the indictment of Clinton made the same arguments. Clinton denied vehemently that she had caused any state secrets to pass into the hands of hostile foreign governments.

Then Trump was elected president of the United States.

Then Clinton left the public scene.

Then, last Sunday evening, during the NFL playoff game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers, the FBI posted on its website more than 300 emails that Clinton had sent to an unnamed colleague not in the government -- no doubt her adviser Sid Blumenthal -- that had fallen into the hands of foreign powers. It turns out -- and the Sunday night release proves this -- that Blumenthal was hacked by intelligence agents from at least three foreign governments and that they obtained the emails Clinton had sent to him that contained state secrets. Sources believe that the hostile hackers were the Russians and the Chinese and the friendly hackers were the Israelis.

Last Sunday’s revelations make the case against Clinton far more serious than Comey presented it to be last summer. Indeed, Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has been nominated by Trump to be attorney general and who has been a harsh critic of Clinton's, told the Senate Judiciary Committee this week that he would step aside from any further investigation of Clinton, thereby acknowledging that the investigation will probably be opened again.

One of the metrics that the DOJ examines in deciding whether to prosecute is an analysis of harm caused by the potential defendant. I have examined the newly released emails, and the state secrets have been whited out. Yet it is clear from the FBI analysis of them that real secrets were exposed by the nation’s chief diplomat -- meaning she violated an agreement she signed right after she took office, in which she essentially promised that she would not do what she eventually did.

The essence of the American justice system is the rule of law. The rule of law means that no one is beneath the law’s protections or above its obligations.

Should Clinton skate free so the Trump administration can turn the page? Should the new DOJ be compassionate toward Clinton because of her humiliating election loss and likely retirement from public life? Of course not. She should be prosecuted as would anyone else who let loose secrets to our enemies and then lied about it.


Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey


Film at 11.... Think
ZRX1200 Offline
#1527 Posted:
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Burn the witch
zitotczito Offline
#1528 Posted:
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Now it would seem that President Obama to protect himself will be forced to pardon her. The question is will she accept guilt to receive the pardon?
DrafterX Offline
#1529 Posted:
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This is prolly why she was crying uncontrollably and throwin chit after the election... Mellow
Burner02 Offline
#1530 Posted:
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BuzzFeed or CNN?
burnem2 Offline
#1531 Posted:
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Had I made the mistakes she made with regard to classified documents while I was still military, I would probably be doing 10-20 and losing all retirement benefits. Bring her to trial and let a jury decide. It's the right thing to do!
SteveS Offline
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I've been saying since October that Barry would pardon her ... I still think that's gonna be the case ...
teedubbya Offline
#1533 Posted:
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Remember when Varry was going to suspend the constitution and get a third term and stuff?

Could that still happen?
mikey1597 Offline
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SteveS wrote:
I've been saying since October that Barry would pardon her ... I still think that's gonna be the case ...



But don't you have to be convicted of a crime before you are pardoned? Wouldn't that be an admission of guilt??
SteveS Offline
#1535 Posted:
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mikey1597 wrote:
But don't you have to be convicted of a crime before you are pardoned? Wouldn't that be an admission of guilt??


Nope .. Fords pardon of Nixon included wording of any possible crimes ... Barry could have done the same for her.
mikey1597 Offline
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Well isn't that just messed up
tonygraz Offline
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teedubbya wrote:
Remember when Varry was going to suspend the constitution and get a third term and stuff?

Could that still happen?



No, but it sure sounds better than what has happened.
Burner02 Offline
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tonygraz wrote:
No, but it sure sounds better than what has happened.




Just blame Hillary, all her fault.
DrafterX Offline
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President Trump’s decision to fire James Comey touched off widespread speculation in Washington over what will happen to the FBI’s Russia meddling probe – but the prospect of new leadership at the bureau also could hold implications for the ‘closed’ Hillary Clinton email case.

Brian Weidner, a veteran former FBI agent, suggested both the case and the immunity deals struck during that investigation could be revisited.

"I would be surprised if they did not review all the investigations regarding HRC and come up with [a] conclusion regarding prosecution. The statute of limitations hasn't come into play yet," he said in an email to Fox News.

As for the immunity deals struck with key players in the Clinton orbit, he noted those deals are “with the government, so in theory it wouldn't change.”

However, he wrote, “a new AG and new director may take a good look at the entire case, and if anyone who received immunity did not live up to their agreement, like Huma [Abedin] with the classified documents on her computer, the deal is off and they are potential targets again.”


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Speyside Offline
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Maybe her Teflon is finally gone.
DrafterX Offline
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Trump fired him the other day... Mellow
DrafterX Offline
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So, Lynch gave some sort of memo to Hillary saying she won't be prosecuted and Comey found it.. more leaks... but If Lynch put the kibosh on the investigation or 'matter' then it should be reopened right..?? what else did they bury..?? and Lynch used her power to sway an investigation for political purposes.. that's got to be illegal right..?? So who tampered with the election more, the Democrats or the Russians..?? Think Think
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Former FBI Director James Comey reportedly told members of Congress that he had a “frosty” exchange with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year when he discussed her possible interference in the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Circa reported that in a closed session following Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last Thursday, the fired FBI director told lawmakers he confronted Lynch over a sensitive document reportedly suggesting she had agreed to stop any Clinton prosecution.

During the closed-door conversation, Comey reportedly told lawmakers Lynch looked at the document and then looked up with a “steely silence” -- and directed Comey to leave her office.

In the open session before the Intelligence Committee, Comey said that Lynch directed him to describe the Clinton email probe as a “matter” and not an “investigation.” Comey also said that the directive, combined with Lynch’s unusual Arizona tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton, led him to make his independent announcement regarding the Clinton email probe last July.

Comey testified that the tarmac meeting was a “deciding factor” in his decision to act alone to update the public on the Clinton email probe—and protect the bureau’s reputation.

“There were other things, significant items,” he added, citing how “the Attorney General directed me not to call it an investigation and call it a matter—which confused me.”

“That was one of the bricks in the load that I needed to step away from the department,” Comey said, later adding he was concerned Lynch was trying to align the DOJ’s comments with the way the campaign was talking about the probe. “That gave me a queasy feeling,” he said.

On Wednesday, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter to committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and said the committee will pursue investigations into any efforts to influence FBI investigations.



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The State Department has opened a formal inquiry into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while she was the nation’s top diplomat, Fox News has learned. Despite being under investigation, Clinton and her staffers still have security clearances to access sensitive government information.

The department’s investigation aims to determine whether Clinton and her closest aides violated government protocols by using her private server to receive, hold and transmit classified and top-secret government documents. The department declined to say when its inquiry began, but it follows the conclusion of the FBI’s probe into the matter, which did not result in any actions being taken against Clinton or any of her aides.

Depending on the outcome of the current State Department inquiry, Clinton and her aides could have their access to sensitive government documents terminated.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, confirmed to Fox News the department’s formal inquiry.

Meanwhile, Grassley’s committee launched its own inquiry into Clinton’s handling of emails, an inquiry that began in March. Grassley cited among his concerns the July 5 statement of former FBI Director James Comey that the agency found Clinton and her staff members were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” Grassley also contended there is “evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information...”

During the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of top-secret and classified information on her private server, Comey said there were seven email chains on Clinton’s computer that were classified at the “Top Secret/Special Access Program level.” Another 2,000 emails on her private server were found to have contained information deemed classified now, though not marked classified when sent. In addition, the server also contained 22 top-secret emails deemed too damaging to national security to be released.

Clinton’s spokesperson, Nick Merrill, told Fox News that the investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of classified information is done.

“Nothing's been more thoroughly dissected. It's over. Case closed. Literally,” said Merrill.

That's not a universally held view.

Chris Farrell, of Judicial Watch, a conservative Washington-based government watchdog that has filed a number of lawsuits related to the Clinton email scandal, said he believes Clinton and her “circle of national security criminals” should not have access to any classified information for any reason.

“Their conduct has cost them that privileged position of special trust and confidence,” Farrell said.

Any other government employee would have been prosecuted under 18 USC Sec. 793(f) (“Mishandling National Defense Information”) and be subject to a long prison sentence and large fines, Farrell added.

“This flagrant double standard for the gang that exposed Top Secret Codeword material to the Russians, Chinese and others is both offensive and deeply corrosive to the intelligence community,” Farrell said. “There is no better evidence that when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her côtèrie — laws are for the little people.”

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DrMaddVibe Offline
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I hope she goes to prison.
SteveS Offline
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
I hope she goes to prison.


that would be truly heart-warming if it were to happen ... I fully expected Barry to issue her a pardon on his way out the door, but it didn't happen so now, if the law is to be even-handedly applied, there's a damn fine chance that's exactly where she's gonna go ...
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SteveS wrote:
that would be truly heart-warming if it were to happen ... I fully expected Barry to issue her a pardon on his way out the door, but it didn't happen so now, if the law is to be even-handedly applied, there's a damn fine chance that's exactly where she's gonna go ...



I would have to throw some kind of celebratory party should that come to pass. Imagine even for a moment the effect that would have on the countries belief that perhaps the Law DOES APPLY TO EVERYONE!!!!! And Skeletor ( Huma ) should have to join her...
DrMaddVibe Offline
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TMCTLT wrote:
I would have to throe some kind of celebratory party should that come to pass. Imagine even for a moment the effect that would have on the countries belief that perhaps the Law DOES APPLY TO EVERYONE!!!!! And Skeletor ( Huma ) should have to join her...



I'd expect the low hanging fruit to go first before Clinton. With no backstop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGIsyxv0NEU


Watch the above for emphasis...if one needs to...Crooked Hillary needs to wear orange a JUMPsuit not a PANTsuit!

http://16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/hillary-fraud.jpg
DrafterX Offline
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Interesting that she blames Comey and da Russians but never blamed the Weiner... Think
dstieger Offline
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doesn't have to...she's one of them....they all blame the weiner
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