Posted on 11/05/2016 9:53:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
If FBI Director James Comey is the honorable and principled man that he has in the past shown himself to be, then delaying the announcement of a further investigation into Clinton related emails until after the election may just have been a bridge too far; and informing Congress may have been more than just disagreeing with the advice given him by Attorney General Loretta Lynch to sit on the info until after the election.
Comey is not afraid of a fight. When he was Acting AG, during AG John Ashcroft's hospitalization, he stood up to Bush regarding NSA domestic surveillance data collection. Comey's refusal to certify major parts of the program led to changes being made.
It would appear that there is more to his sending a letter to Congress than just correcting a previous statement made to a Committee in July.
The timing of an urgent Friday letter to Congress, and then not getting a search warrant until Sunday, is nothing less than odd. Announcing that you are continuing with an investigation without first having access to your potential evidence makes no sense.
Usual procedure for a high profile or sensitive case, as described to me by someone who has experience with "highfalutin" cases, is for DOJ to assign to the investigation one or more local US Attorneys and a prosecutor from the DOJ Main Office, those particularly suited to the case or whichever AUSA's happen to "draw the short straws." While the case is worked out of the DC Field Office, supervision of the case will come from FBI Headquarters. The prosecutors will establish physical space at the FBI Field Office so that Justice and the FBI can work shoulder to shoulder and stay on top of events.
Whatever delay there was in obtaining the Weiner email warrant would logically, as a matter of procedure, be attributable to DOJ. The fact that the FBI went to a magistrate on a Sunday is not in and of itself noteworthy. What is noteworthy is that Director Comey sent his letter to Congress and posted a letter to his staff on the previous Friday. In the letter to his staff, referring to the emails on Weiner's laptop, he made it clear that they needed more investigation and review of the emails - ergo a search warrant. The application for a search warrant could have been completed in as little as three hours after the FBI Squad Supervisor asked for one, which, according to the letter, was the day before. That is three full days before the warrant was received.
A WikiLeaks' posting shows that President Obama knew about Clinton's use of a private server much earlier than he said he did, and that he used an alias when communicating with her. The question immediately becomes Watergate clear - what did the President know and when did he know it? In fact, there should be new questions about the President himself sharing information over unsecured devices to protect his own questionable doings - not only with Clinton, but with many other people.
Just before Comey's October 28th letter to Congress, Loretta Lynch stated that she was leaving the decision to prosecute completely up to Comey. The Attorney General's 'hands off' policy was announced just after Lynch had a secret meeting with Bill Clinton in a plane sitting on the tarmac of an airport a few days before Comey's July 5h Congressional appearance.
We don't yet know with certainty why there was a three day delay in applying for a warrant, just as we don't yet know what actually transpired in the plane between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch. But, the secret rendezvous on a runway is odd, and has the appearance of something illicit. And, so is the timing of the warrant odd, indicative of something happening behind the scenes.
From what we know, the FBI must have gone to Loretta Lynch or one of the Federal Prosecutors working with the Clinton case, and requested a search warrant for Abedin's emails. At the time, Lynch was telling Comey to "follow policy" not to inform Congress about the new emails until after the elections. Because all Federal Prosecutors work under the Attorney General, it seems logical that the delay in obtaining the warrant was a result of the disagreement between Attorney General Lynch and FBI Director Comey.
Prior to the decision not to prosecute Clinton, Comey had been lauded as an honorable public servant. After the decision not to prosecute, many were calling him a political weasel. Which, then, is the real James Comey? If he is in fact an honorable person, and if there was as much backlash within the FBI as has been suggested, and because the insecure communications scandal reaches into the White House, Comey may have begun to question the possibility that he would be left to hang out to dry.
As a result of the Watergate scandal, Attorney General John Mitchell and several of President Nixon's top aides went to jail on obstruction charges. It appears that people in the Obama administration have been guilty of the same crime. With information being garnered from WikiLeaks, and whatever is in Weiner's computer, and whoever within the administration might decide to talk, there is no foreseeable limit as to how high and wide this scandal could reach.
It is very unusual to make a public statement about an investigation and then get a warrant after the fact. It makes no sense unless Lynch's delay in getting the warrant led Comey to feel that he'd had enough of the Administration's political games. He may have felt that his only move was to go around Lynch and inform Congress of the discovery of the new information. By going "public" with the information, he put Lynch and the entire Administration on the spot, leaving them little or no wiggle room, forcing Lynch's hand to get the warrant as soon as possible.
CORRUPT COMEY vs. CORRUPT LYNCH...WHO will be the winner?
“FBI Director James Comey is the honorable and principled man that he has in the past shown himself to be”
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
I don’t think Comey is corrupt, just the opposite. I think he regretted what he did in July and got the opportunity to make up for it at the end - like a dime-store novel. Hopefully, the elderly skank doesn’t win on Tuesday.
“I don’t think Comey is corrupt”
WOW! Holy Crap! are you serious??
Comey is just another corruptocrat trying to save his own skin.
A lot of speculation there, but most of it makes sense. Great article. Thanks for posting it.
Comey’s hand was forced by the NYPD’s investigation of Weiner.
Not because he was fighting the DOJ.
His "bombshell" announcement about re-opening the investigation had one purpose... to hold back the flood of doubt about Hillary for 8 days. Wikileaks was revealing a ton of evidence and honest law enforcement people were revolting. By "re-opening" the investigation he was able to calm them down and buy time.
If Hillary wins, Comey's next statement will be "What investigation? We took another look and there's nothing there... case closed...forever".
If Hillary wins, that's game, set, match. We're done... next stop Venezuela-ville. Obama has laid the groundwork so Hillary inherits an already corrupted DOJ, IRS, FBI, Judiciary and Congress. She doesn't have to waste time corrupting the government... she can hit the ground running and get anything that she wants.
Looks like the FR James Comey fanboys feel safe to come out from hiding
Andy McCarthy has a piece up in today’s NRO about this case that includes a sort of semi-defense of Comey:
McCarthy: “Here’s a parting thought, an intriguing one that those of us who’ve been so critical of FBI director James Comey would do well to mull over. The FBI didn’t shut down its validly predicated Clinton Foundation investigation.”
Actually, I recall from reading some of the press reports that the field agents DID feel they were told to stand down. They went ahead working what they had anyway but without the tools that a cooperative DOJ could have given.
By the sounds of it, if it hadn’t have been for the corrupt comey and lynch, Hillary might have been indicted by now. They bought her time.
They all have ties to HSBC.
I think I mostly understand the article, I’m having trouble seeing the point however.
He could have went to lynch requested a grand jury she would have denied it and he hands her his resignation. This puts it all on lynch and he saves himself. With the Clinton goon second in command at the FBI there is no doubt this will all be shuved under the rug. Here is how we get the indictments, WE ELECT TRUMP!
Look at his history which is intermingled closely with the criminal clintoons. He’s their boy. He’s not corrupt? Up your meds!!!
I don’t think Comey is corrupt, just the opposite.
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I really hope you meant this in jest. The man laid out a clear case for indictment and then stunned everyone by doing nothing to her. We are talking about national security here. What could possibly be more important to act on than that? Comey put politics above our national security. That in my book is corruption.
Comey
Just Arrest huma and her husband now , then I will give you a pass
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