Posted on 10/28/2016 5:23:03 PM PDT by randita
The Democratic presidential nominee is again under criminal investigation less than two weeks before the election. On Friday afternoon, the FBI uncorked the mother of all October surprises, announcing in a letter to Congress that it has re-opened its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s “personal email server.” The reason? During an “unrelated investigation”* it uncovered e-mails that “appear to be pertinent” to Clinton’s case. It is seeking to determine whether the e-mails contain classified information and can’t yet determine their significance.
Stripped of the legalese, it means that Hillary is back in legal jeopardy. The FBI doesn’t investigate and recommend enforcement actions against computer servers. It holds people accountable, and Hillary is the person most responsible for her own e-mail. I have three initial thoughts.
First, these e-mails must be prima facie problematic. There is no way the FBI publicly re-opens this investigation on the eve of a presidential election if the new e-mails contained information about yoga routines or wedding plans. Moreover, the very fact that the FBI is trying to determine whether the e-mails contain classified information indicates that their content is setting off alarm bells in the Bureau. In other words, this is serious.
Second, the e-mails could have an impact on the decision whether to charge Hillary or her aides either under the Espionage Act or for obstructing the initial investigation, perhaps by lying to the FBI. Recall that Comey previously exonerated Clinton under a made-up legal standard, but if there are more e-mails — and if Clinton or her aides worked to conceal their existence from the FBI — then their conduct may even rise to the FBI’s arbitrary, higher threshold of lawlessness. At the very least, it renders the FBI’s previous decision not to prosecute even more suspect.
Third, unless the FBI announces the investigation and clears her within the span of basically one work week (an action that would be deeply problematic on its own terms), Hillary’s closing argument to the American people is going to be that Donald Trump is so dangerous that it’s worth gambling your vote on a woman under current criminal investigation.
Will there be any Democrats who will urge Clinton to step aside? Exactly three weeks ago, the Washington Post released tapes showing Donald Trump bragging about committing actions that easily meet the legal test for sexual battery. In the aftermath, a number of Republicans asked him to step aside for the good of the country. Now it’s the Democrats’ turn. Their candidate is back under criminal investigation.
Millions of people have already cast votes for her believing she’d been “cleared.” Is her personal ambition worth this national pain? *Update: It turns out the “unrelated investigation” that triggered the FBI’s decision was its investigation into Anthony Weiner’s serial sexting.
Maybe Assange has something on Comey....It was either him or Hillary tossed under the bus..This could have been buried until after the election...
Somewhere, the ghost of Richard Nixon is laughing his ass off........
“I 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,” Comey wrote.
That, to me, sounds like it’s all going to be a nothing burger. Read it word for word. Comey is letting Hillary know that it will go no further. If it’s up to him. And the fact that ALL media is covering it, it very well may be that Comey knows he can’t hide it this time.
This jerk French and the other fools at National Review have been doing everything they can to deliver the presidency to Hillary Clinton, even to promoting a ridiculous Mormon ringer to try to deny Utah’s electoral votes to Trump.
David! This is your chance to jump into the race! Maybe someone credible like Bill Kristof will promote you!! Oh, wait .... that really didn’t work out so great last time, now did it?....
This article is from a HARDCORE Never-Trumper.
Weiner had classified information that he sent to one of his sexting partners... my guess
Weiner had classified information that he sent to one of his sexting partners... my guess
The author was Bill Kristol’s candidate for president. For a couple of days. Last June.
The other beautiful thing here is that the media can’t blame Russian hackers for this one.
What if NR is slightly wrong? What if the emails do not contain Classified information but evidence of another crime?
Perhaps, conspiracy to circumvent campaign finance laws. Evidence that they were going to attempt to rig an election.
The murder of Seth Rich?
This Wiener thing is Yuuuge
Yes, so interesting. Remember how Donald Trump is a the master tactician? I'm betting he's known for months or even years that Hillary, many democrats and many republicans are dirty. And before he even began the race got all his ducks in a row. And both the GOP and Dems knew it. The GOP put 17 people against him to take him out. He beat them all. Then he waited and waited until he knew the corruption couldn't be talked away or ignored.
As corrupt as Clinton is Trump has certainly proven that he's in it to win it. And it's got the establishment scared out of its wits.
4 smart phones. 1 Weiner, 1 huma, 2 unknown.
Likely Huma has an e-mail from Hillary showing intent to conceal communication between SOS and Foundation.
That’s why Comey linked this to the re-open of Hillary’s server investigation. Couldn’t prove intent before. Now he has a bingo.
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