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FBI Reviewing New Evidence in Hillary Email Scandal
Bad news for Hillary from the FBI:
Published in GeneralThe FBI on Friday dropped a bombshell on Hillary Clinton’s campaign less than two weeks before Election Day, announcing that it is reviewing new evidence in its investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
In a letter to several congressional committee chairmen, FBI Director James Comey wrote that, “In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to this investigation.”
Comey said he was briefed on those emails on Thursday and that he “agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”
He did not specify where the additional emails came from.
Comey wrote that the FBI does not yet know if the new material is “significant” and did not provide a timeframe for investigating.
I would settle for her being ‘sentenced’ to private life, away from government and power . That’s not going to happen either. Powerful people are above the law in this country, apparently. Most sad for our kids and their future.
Please. Sean Davis has this one nailed. They discovered more people they need to recklessly immunize and more evidence they need to destroy so that the corruption will never come inarguably to light.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/792054458972774400
I don’t know this for sure, but I would think that Constitutionally, a President’s office trumps any laws on security clearances—at least for material held by the Executive Branch. The Constitution holds that the executive power resides in the President. And he or she has the inherent authority of the office to carry it out.
I think that any attempt to put a restriction on the President’s power to see Executive Branch classified material would be overturned by the Supreme Court, no matter who is on it.
TK,
I’ll take your analysis as is. However, just for the fun of it because we won’t see it till after the election anyway, let’s speculate. Comey already showed plenty of evidence of crimes committed in his original press conference. He then claimed he couldn’t do anything because he couldn’t prove intent. By that logic, the only thing that could shed new light on this issue is something that would prove intent! It wouldn’t take more than a few smoking gun emails that showed she was knowingly breaking the law and intended to.
Maybe Mr. Assange has the goods and would give us a peek before Nov. 8?
Regards,
Jim
I have to wonder what could possibly result – a grand jury investigation? – that wasn’t justified the first time around.
Don’t be defeatist. See my suggestion on Member Feed. GOP brain dead if it doesn’t do it. Oh, wait.
My guess is that Wikileaks has the 33k “deleted” emails and the FBI has been tipped off that they are going to be released soon. And since the FBI either knows or strongly suspects what is in those emails, they are trying to get ahead of it — not sure if it is to indict or exonerate HRC though.
Well, I agree on 2, on 1 we should see in a day or two…
Ha! Though frankly I’m skeptical if this will really lead to anything specific in the sense of a recommendation to prosecute, much less convening a grand jury. But, I guess we just don’t know. If Hillary can somehow be taken down by all of this nothing would make me happier.
I expect though that within 24-48 hours Trump will find the itch for more media attention and will do or say something that will draw all the attention away from this, because that is just how that man rolls.
Yup. Obama was not qualified for a security clearance due to his association with known terrorists, and admitted history of drug use.
William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn.
Ha!
The boy who cried wolf.
The boy who cried wolf + Lucy and the football.
There should be some type of German, Hebrew, or French phrase to describe properly the meaning of “The boy who cried wolf + Lucy and the football.”
Maybe the term is simply Republican.
Now that did bring a chuckle.
I think this one is up to Trump and his surrogates to use and use hard. Congress is a side show, this one has to go right at the voters to have impact.
While it is damage control, and very good, the damage is still a goldarng big frickin hole in the SS Hillary. What it ells me is Comey is being used by the Clinton campaign because the hole is big and leaking water.
That means they are scared to have to do this. The WikiLeaks is killing them.
It is all a big witch hunt . . .
and hopefully someone finds the courage to arrest the big witch this time around.
Moments ago the NYT reported that the new emails uncovered in the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server were discovered after the F.B.I. seized electronic devices belonging to Huma Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner.
The F.B.I. told Congress that it had uncovered new emails related to the closed investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton or her aides had mishandled classified information.
Weiner’s weiner penetrates the Hillary campaign.
Mark,
The GOP isn’t brain dead. Ryan & McConnell just don’t have the balls. If Assange has got the intent proving emails let everybody connect the dots. Personally, I don’t see how anybody could possibly believe that she didn’t intend to break the law. At this point, I’d trust Assange before I’d trust Comey.
Regards,
Jim
Yep :(
I’d also force her to live with Bill.
Punishment for both.
#Weinerleaks
So apparently the Emails were found during a search of Anthony Weiner’s Sexting investigation.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……
There’s a pill for that.
So there we go–it may be a different investigation, but, if it involves Abedin, it’s not unrelated. Words have meaning.
As reported by the NYT:
Tough to see the spin angle here, the NYT may actually be just reporting it straight for once. Tying HRC to the Weiner mess again in the press hardly helps her.
Yes, we all know that there was “intent” to break the law. Hillary lied. Again. Repeatedly.
Maybe … there is clear “intent” shown, obvious to even Director Comey, in the next batch of emails.
Kozak,
You get extra points for this comment.
Regards,
Jim
Dang, scooped by Viator.
That’s why I’m suggesting a different tack per my post
Also scooped by @Viator. This is going to be, well, interesting.