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.
Sounds to me like Comey’s subordinates told him, in no uncertain terms, that they would expose the cover-up if he did not allow the new investigation to continue.
“Somewhere, the ghost of Richard Nixon is laughing his ass off........”
Yes, he is.
Probably not. All of her bottom feeding freeloaders have each already cast 4 or 5 ballots.
Comey has until next Friday. Assange’s pertinent jail Hillary Emails will be released then. The ones Comey is ‘investigating’
Excellent point.
Nasty!
Comey trying to save his a..
I think this is a ploy to help explain the “tightening of the polls” in order to create enough believability in the polls to substantiate their getting away with stealing the election.
Obama's lying low.
...or Scalia in some form or another.
But still Never Trump, right, NR pissants?
I believe we’re talking about computers....and yes, phones, too.
Well then the dirtbags at NR will just have to find another Democrat they can support.
The FBI needs to arrest Hillary now if it wants to find out anything new. She will be a flight risk for sure, if she doesn’t win on November 8.
This is what the FBI found a Wienerville.
Several “servers” full of Clinton emails, huma and Wieners smart phones and the missing laptop that was supposedly was send to the State Dept. that the FBI was told was lost in the mail.
Not only is Huma and Illary on the hook for the transmission of classified material and most likely contained communication from Hillary instructing huma to destroy evidence, but also lieing to the FBI and hiding evidence.
Huma is now in a bind. She is gonna loose her immunity.
That’s my best guess.
I hope Comey has Huma on suicide watch. Those multiple gun shot cases seem to plague the Clinton circle of friends.
I don’t know if Trump had anything to do with this. I think a lot of people don’t like the Clintons. Including insiders.
Weiner’s phone is in custody of the NYPD. Somebody there found it and turned it over to the FBI. Comey wants to save his but when The Donald raises his right hand, and there you go.
LOL! Thank you for that! I just told a friend at work today that I was waiting for a house to fall on that old witch!
I’m starting to wonder if Clinton won’t flee before the election. Then again, it’s hard to believe she would give up a chance for absolute power.
Nah, they didn't need to do this to help with that. They were already blaming wikileaks for the exact same thing. But you have a point that this is being reported big time by outlets that normally would just suppress it. Somebody really wanted to make this an issue for the Clinton campaign.
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