"1) A federal judge supervising a grand jury has now made a finding, based on FBI affidavits which present evidence gathered during the preliminary Hillary inquiry (the one which the FBI director stated had been closed back in July), that there's probable cause to believe that a federal crime was committed in connection with Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server.
We still, however, don't know what crime(s) are suspected to have been committed. Or by whom.
2) The FBI can use this new grant of grand jury authority to investigate Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server for the first time to issues subpoenaes to obtain testimony from witnesses and compel the production of documents and things. The Bureau and DOJ can, furthermore, use the judge's probable cause finding to support further warrant applications.
3) The liberal media's reporting that the Hillarygate email server investigation has not, in fact, been "reopened" is totally false. "Because, not only is the probe reopened, it has been upgraded and expanded. It has been upgraded from a preliminary inquiry to a formal criminal investigation with grand jury power."
4) This weekend's development potentially escalates the threat to Mrs. Clinton. While several other procedural steps and processes are necessary, it is a federal grand jury, not the FBI, which issues indictments. The FBI -- using the the grand jury to obtain testimony, conduct searches and compel the production of documents and things - investigates crimes. The U.S. Attorneys, acting though the grand jury, charge and prosecute those persons whom the grand jury finds probable cause to believe have committed those crimes.
5) This weekend's development also means that, for the first time in American history, a candidate for President of the United States is likely now a subject/target of a federal grand jury investigation."
Right. The FBI doesn’t do “security reviews”.
They do criminal investigations.
Once this is all done, Comey and the entire senior FBI leadership structure needs to be investigated to the nth as well.
Either the corruption gets cut out with a red hot blade, or we, the people, need to start thinking on a replacement for the FBI.
Abedin’s lawyer is former counsel in Obama’s administration and she is the former director of communications for HRC when was in the Senate. This sounds like a blatant conflict of interest for this lawyer. Clinton is trying to insure Abedin doesn’t go rogue and burn her.
Won’t change a thing: Clinton loyalists are running the USAG office, and their toadies are still running the FBI.
This is a really good point. The press is reporting that the FBI “got” a warrant. But yes, of course, as this author points out, you can’t just get a warrant to search something. You must specifically allege “probable cause” that a crime has been committed. Which raises two fascinating points:
1. It’s demonstrably false that the FBI is just curious about the emails and they’re probably all duplicates anyway. No, they are PROBABLY evidence of a crime, in the opinion of the FBI and the judge who granted the warrant.
2. Huma did not give them permission to search the files. If she did, they wouldn’t need a warrant. So either Huma and Hillary have finally split or it’s demonstrably false that Hillary wants all the information to come out.
3. Even if Huma did think there was bad stuff in her email, why make them get a warrant? It blows Hillary’s cover story that they just want the truth to come out. Unless they’re split OR they both relied on Justice to block the warrant. Which it didn’t. Why not?
“”1) A federal judge supervising a grand jury...”
A grand jury? Really? I’m not sure I believe that.
650,000 emails...
If you worked 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, and sent an email a minute, it would take almost 2 years to send that many emails.
That’s a lot of yoga.
Do you think Clinton does that much yoga?
Do you think anybody does that much yoga?
No wonder Clinton is panicking.